HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1801.

Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure (rosalux.de)

474 points by robtherobber 5 months ago | 463 comments

1802.

Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided (digitalcourage.social)

474 points by nickslaughter02 9 months ago | 356 comments

1803.

Japan Post launches 'digital address' system (japantimes.co.jp)

474 points by jmsflknr 11 months ago | 295 comments

1804.

Nevada court shuts down police use of federal loophole for civil forfeiture (ij.org)

474 points by greyface- on Jan 15, 2025 | 276 comments

1805.

The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf] (ml-site.cdn-apple.com)

474 points by amrrs 10 months ago | 269 comments

1806.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is back (old.reddit.com)

474 points by keithoffer 4 months ago | 202 comments

1807.

At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery (quantamagazine.org)

474 points by baruchel 9 months ago | 178 comments

1808.

Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

474 points by nishilpatel 4 months ago | 141 comments

1809.

I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf (jeffgeerling.com)

473 points by calcifer 7 months ago | 672 comments

1810.

OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems (openai.com)

473 points by meetpateltech 7 months ago | 632 comments

1811.

In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution (e360.yale.edu)

473 points by Brajeshwar 4 months ago | 499 comments

1812.

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

473 points by pjmlp 6 months ago | 485 comments

1813.

Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity (elliotcsmith.com)

473 points by smitec 8 months ago | 389 comments

1814.

Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)

473 points by bundie 9 months ago | 326 comments

1815.

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

473 points by tamnd 6 months ago | 293 comments

1816.

Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99 (github.com)

473 points by simonpure 7 months ago | 240 comments

1817.

Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet (nlnet.nl)

473 points by edent on Apr 23, 2025 | 228 comments

1818.

Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography (words.filippo.io)

473 points by Bogdanp 6 months ago | 208 comments

1819.

Understanding Reasoning LLMs (magazine.sebastianraschka.com)

473 points by sebg on Feb 6, 2025 | 187 comments

1820.

Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 (telegraph.co.uk)

472 points by wslh 11 months ago | 1248 comments

1821.

How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment (electrospaces.net)

472 points by Harvesterify on Apr 30, 2025 | 433 comments

1822.

Unifi Travel Router (blog.ui.com)

472 points by flurdy 4 months ago | 430 comments

1823.

Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex) (tech.slashdot.org)

472 points by miles 10 months ago | 328 comments

1824.

Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news (app.fluentsubs.com)

472 points by ph4evers on Apr 1, 2025 | 184 comments

1825.

How to build a coding agent (ghuntley.com)

472 points by ghuntley 8 months ago | 122 comments

1826.

Ditching Obsidian and building my own (amberwilliams.io)

471 points by williamsss 11 months ago | 559 comments

1827.

Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?

471 points by lemonlime227 4 months ago | 469 comments

1828.

You can't cURL a Border (drobinin.com)

471 points by valzevul 6 months ago | 278 comments

1829.

Apple Exclaves (randomaugustine.medium.com)

471 points by todsacerdoti on Mar 9, 2025 | 217 comments

1830.

Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation (flightaware.engineering)

471 points by cratermoon 10 months ago | 199 comments