HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

5281.

A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity (lithub.com)

252 points by sharkweek 10 months ago | 227 comments

5282.

Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014) (mako.cc)

252 points by pabs3 on May 6, 2025 | 205 comments

5283.

Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies (resobscura.substack.com)

252 points by benbreen on Jan 22, 2025 | 203 comments

5284.

Go subtleties (harrisoncramer.me)

252 points by darccio 6 months ago | 185 comments

5285.

Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?

252 points by meander_water 11 months ago | 173 comments

5286.

How ancient people saw themselves (worldhistory.substack.com)

252 points by crescit_eundo 6 months ago | 170 comments

5287.

Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste (patio.so)

252 points by GouacheApp 11 months ago | 162 comments

5288.

Arizona resident dies from the plague (independent.co.uk)

252 points by Anon84 9 months ago | 149 comments

5289.

Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming (github.com)

252 points by weebst on Mar 18, 2025 | 127 comments

5290.

How to sequence your DNA for <$2k (maxlangenkamp.substack.com)

252 points by yichab0d 6 months ago | 120 comments

5291.

How friction is being redistributed in today's economy (kyla.substack.com)

252 points by walterbell on May 9, 2025 | 117 comments

5292.

Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards (victorpoughon.github.io)

252 points by fouronnes3 4 months ago | 116 comments

5293.

Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview (developers.googleblog.com)

252 points by meetpateltech on May 7, 2025 | 100 comments

5294.

Gemini CLI GitHub Actions (blog.google)

252 points by michael-sumner 9 months ago | 96 comments

5295.

An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform (betterexplained.com)

252 points by pykello 5 months ago | 60 comments

5296.

Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++ (planetscale.com)

252 points by ksec on Apr 5, 2025 | 56 comments

5297.

PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance (github.com)

252 points by justinclift on Feb 12, 2025 | 54 comments

5298.

Fall Foliage Map 2025 (explorefall.com)

252 points by rappatic 7 months ago | 37 comments

5299.

A practical guide to building agents [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)

252 points by tosh 11 months ago | 35 comments

5300.

An opinionated critique of Duolingo (isomorphism.xyz)

251 points by agnishom 7 months ago | 310 comments

5301.

Ask HN: Do US tech firms realize the backlash growing in Europe?

251 points by julianpye on Feb 22, 2025 | 296 comments

5302.

Standard Thermal: Energy Storage 500x Cheaper Than Batteries (austinvernon.site)

251 points by pfdietz 8 months ago | 280 comments

5303.

Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

251 points by m3h on Feb 21, 2025 | 268 comments

5304.

Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014) (dezeen.com)

251 points by delaugust on Feb 3, 2025 | 265 comments

5305.

Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag? (blog.jgc.org)

251 points by jgrahamc 7 months ago | 255 comments

5306.

DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC (codeforces.com)

251 points by notemap 7 months ago | 248 comments

5307.

Modern Linux tools (ikrima.dev)

251 points by randomint64 6 months ago | 210 comments

5308.

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 (anildash.com)

251 points by freediver 11 months ago | 191 comments

5309.

US to rewrite its past national climate reports (france24.com)

251 points by mdhb 9 months ago | 190 comments

5310.

Sleep is essential – researchers are trying to work out why (nature.com)

251 points by sohkamyung on Apr 10, 2025 | 177 comments