HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

511.

Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers? (blog.mozilla.org)

120 points by Vinnl 1 day ago | 129 comments

512.

I've seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI (twitter.com)

120 points by fortran77 5 days ago | 91 comments

513.

Where to find ideas (howtogrow.substack.com)

120 points by kiyanwang 1 week ago | 41 comments

514.

Chris Simpkins, creator of Hack font, has died (typo.social)

120 points by laqq3 5 days ago | 9 comments

515.

A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it (tomkranz.com)

119 points by prestelpirate 3 days ago | 94 comments

516.

The Whispering Earring (croissanthology.com)

119 points by ZeljkoS 1 week ago | 91 comments

517.

Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

119 points by paulwilsonn 2 weeks ago | 86 comments

518.

How Potatoes Evolved (nhm.ac.uk)

119 points by gmays 1 week ago | 54 comments

519.

A Carnival Attraction That Saved Premature Babies (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)

119 points by pr337h4m 2 weeks ago | 19 comments

520.

Engineer restores pay phones for free public use (npr.org)

118 points by andsoitis 1 week ago | 46 comments

521.

A candidate giant planet imaged in the habitable zone of α Cen A (arxiv.org)

118 points by pinewurst 1 week ago | 44 comments

522.

FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs (wiki.freebsd.org)

118 points by fntlnz 1 week ago | 33 comments

523.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)

117 points by whoishiring 2 weeks ago | 373 comments

524.

Self-Signed JWTs (selfref.com)

117 points by danscan 2 weeks ago | 83 comments

525.

Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures (entropicthoughts.com)

117 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 69 comments

526.

The new science of “emergent misalignment” (quantamagazine.org)

117 points by nsoonhui 2 days ago | 67 comments

527.

Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer (enda.sh)

117 points by dduplex 3 days ago | 48 comments

528.

April Fools 2014: The *Real* Test Driven Development (2014) (testing.googleblog.com)

117 points by omot 3 days ago | 26 comments

529.

QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo (archive.org)

116 points by sugarpimpdorsey 6 days ago | 53 comments

530.

One person was able to claim 20M IPs, or 9% of all IPv4 hosts (lists.nanog.org)

116 points by speckx 10 hours ago | 46 comments

531.

ForgeFed: ActivityPub-based forge federation protocol (forgefed.org)

116 points by rapnie 4 days ago | 42 comments

532.

Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative (luxpdf.com)

116 points by PseudoComputer 2 weeks ago | 41 comments

533.

Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in the Browser (abacusnoir.com)

116 points by reikonomusha 3 days ago | 39 comments

534.

The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf] (sas.upenn.edu)

115 points by akyuu 5 days ago | 400 comments

535.

19% of California houses are owned by investors (ocregister.com)

115 points by milleramp 1 week ago | 175 comments

536.

Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna (latimes.com)

115 points by MBCook 1 week ago | 137 comments

537.

Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, more than expected (cnbc.com)

115 points by belter 2 days ago | 109 comments

538.

Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization (theconversation.com)