HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1921.

How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999) (doc.ic.ac.uk)

55 points by downbad_ 2 months ago | 17 comments

1922.

Demonstrating Real Time AV2 Decoding on Consumer Laptops (aomedia.org)

55 points by breve 2 months ago | 17 comments

1923.

'Cognitive Surrender' Is a New and Useful Term for How AI Melts Brains (gizmodo.com)

55 points by mikhael 2 months ago | 16 comments

1924.

Metatextual Literacy (jenn.site)

55 points by dado3212 1 month ago | 12 comments

1925.

Samsung Raises DRAM Prices Another ~30% for Q2 2026 (old.reddit.com)

55 points by jeffufl 2 months ago | 11 comments

1926.

HEALPix (en.wikipedia.org)

55 points by hyperific 1 month ago | 8 comments

1927.

Approximating Hyperbolic Tangent (jtomschroeder.com)

55 points by jtomschroeder 1 month ago | 6 comments

1928.

Police officer uses Flock database to track mistress (ktla.com)

55 points by hentrep 1 month ago | 4 comments

1929.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma dissolves after judge approves criminal sentence (apnews.com)

55 points by embedding-shape 1 month ago | 3 comments

1930.

The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought (wired.com)

54 points by smurda 1 month ago | 144 comments

1931.

Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI (github.com)

54 points by steveharing1 2 months ago | 121 comments

1932.

Do you want the US to "win" AI? (geohot.github.io)

54 points by mefengl 1 month ago | 104 comments

1933.

Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members (theguardian.com)

54 points by azalemeth 2 months ago | 89 comments

1934.

We sped up bun by 100x (vers.sh)

54 points by sdan 2 months ago | 62 comments

1935.

Will you heed my warnings now? (scottaaronson.blog)

54 points by bwesterb 1 month ago | 50 comments

1936.

AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers (zdnet.com)

54 points by CrankyBear 2 months ago | 47 comments

1937.

Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache (vinyl-cache.org)

54 points by Foxboron 2 months ago | 26 comments

1938.

Tiny Corp's Exabox (twitter.com)

54 points by macleginn 2 months ago | 17 comments

1939.

Show HN: Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours (hormuz-havoc.com)

54 points by kupadapuku 2 months ago | 17 comments

1940.

Lessons from building multiplayer browsers (alejandro.pe)

54 points by alejandrohacks 1 month ago | 17 comments

1941.

Hugo's New CSS Powers (brycewray.com)

54 points by speckx 2 months ago | 16 comments

1942.

The Art of Risk Management (2017) (bcg.com)

54 points by walterbell 2 months ago | 15 comments

1943.

The German state (Schleswig-Holstein) trying to break free from Microsoft (ft.com)

54 points by throwaway2037 2 months ago | 14 comments

1944.

Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said? (floss.social)

54 points by pabs3 1 month ago | 12 comments

1945.

Cells for NetBSD: kernel-enforced, jail-like isolation (netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de)

54 points by akagusu 2 months ago | 12 comments

1946.

Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra (theconsensus.dev)

54 points by eatonphil 1 month ago | 12 comments

1947.

Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary (opensource.microsoft.com)

54 points by hackthemack 1 month ago | 12 comments

1948.

Claude Code may be burning your limits with invisible tokens (efficienist.com)

54 points by jenic_ 1 month ago | 10 comments

1949.

Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs (blogs.newardassociates.com)

54 points by zdw 2 months ago | 9 comments

1950.

Group Pushing Age Verification for AI Turns Out to Be Backed by OpenAI (gizmodo.com)

54 points by SilverElfin 2 months ago | 6 comments