HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

151.

How the cochlea computes (2024) (dissonances.blog)

484 points by izhak 5 months ago | 150 comments

152.

Surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking (lighthousereports.com)

482 points by _tk_ 6 months ago | 162 comments

153.

The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel (0xkato.xyz)

482 points by 0xkato 6 months ago | 89 comments

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Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture (unkey.com)

480 points by vednig 6 months ago | 260 comments

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Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware (blog.google)

480 points by AbhishekParmar 6 months ago | 258 comments

156.

Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)

480 points by atlintots 6 months ago | 229 comments

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Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time (adventofcode.com)

480 points by vismit2000 6 months ago | 219 comments

158.

Downloadable movie posters from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s (hrc.contentdm.oclc.org)

480 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | 89 comments

159.

Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud (news.itsfoss.com)

479 points by buyucu 5 months ago | 109 comments

160.

KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices (community.kde.org)

476 points by snthd 6 months ago | 198 comments

161.

Ripgrep 15.0 (github.com)

476 points by robin_reala 6 months ago | 113 comments

162.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 (nobelprize.org)

476 points by luisb 6 months ago | 99 comments

163.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules (apnews.com)

473 points by pjmlp 6 months ago | 485 comments

164.

LLMs can get "brain rot" (llm-brain-rot.github.io)

473 points by tamnd 6 months ago | 293 comments

165.

GNU Health (gnuhealth.org)

471 points by smartmic 6 months ago | 133 comments

166.

Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste (seated.ro)

470 points by jxmorris12 5 months ago | 381 comments

167.

Apps SDK (developers.openai.com)

468 points by alvis 6 months ago | 382 comments

168.

Programming with Less Than Nothing (joshmoody.org)

468 points by signa11 6 months ago | 153 comments

169.

4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence (alecmuffett.com)

467 points by alecmuffett 6 months ago | 775 comments

170.

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend (arstechnica.com)

466 points by gloxkiqcza 6 months ago | 322 comments

171.

Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users (sqliteonline.com)

465 points by sqliteonline 6 months ago | 142 comments

172.

A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it (elanapearl.github.io)

465 points by bblcla 6 months ago | 80 comments

173.

Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking (arstechnica.com)

464 points by akyuu 5 months ago | 355 comments

174.

Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report (theguardian.com)

464 points by fforflo 6 months ago | 230 comments

175.

Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles (daiz.moe)

461 points by Daiz 5 months ago | 163 comments

176.

Dithering – Part 1 (visualrambling.space)

461 points by Bogdanp 5 months ago | 96 comments

177.

BERT is just a single text diffusion step (nathan.rs)

455 points by nathan-barry 6 months ago | 110 comments

178.

Examples are the best documentation (rakhim.exotext.com)

454 points by Bogdanp 6 months ago | 173 comments

179.

Indefinite Backpack Travel (jeremymaluf.com)

449 points by renjieliu 6 months ago | 411 comments

180.

Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust (rfd.shared.oxide.computer)

449 points by bcantrill 5 months ago | 245 comments