HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

571.

Should you wash your solar panels? (incoherency.co.uk)

244 points by surprisetalk 2 weeks ago | 247 comments

572.

Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM (blog.yaelwrites.com)

244 points by theorchid 1 month ago | 139 comments

573.

Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data (globaloilnetwork.staffinganalytics.io)

244 points by eliotho 3 weeks ago | 128 comments

574.

Magnolias are so old that they're pollinated by beetles, not bees (2025) (mymodernmet.com)

244 points by speckx 3 weeks ago | 91 comments

575.

How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks (unslop.run)

243 points by dopamine_daddy 3 weeks ago | 171 comments

576.

Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)

241 points by simonebrunozzi 1 month ago | 171 comments

577.

I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned (en.andros.dev)

241 points by andros 3 weeks ago | 159 comments

578.

Should DayQuil Be Legal? (theargumentmag.com)

240 points by paulpauper 1 month ago | 302 comments

579.

MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH (microsoft.ai)

240 points by migmartri 2 weeks ago | 110 comments

580.

We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)

240 points by saisrirampur 1 month ago | 60 comments

581.

Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1 (hashcloak.com)

240 points by badcryptobitch 3 weeks ago | 52 comments

582.

The most official water costs $120k a gallon (signoregalilei.com)

239 points by surprisetalk 2 weeks ago | 187 comments

583.

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations (openai.com)

239 points by sk4rekr0w 1 month ago | 94 comments

584.

Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply (tomshardware.com)

238 points by sensanaty 1 month ago | 81 comments

585.

An agent in 100 lines of Lisp (thebeach.dev)

238 points by jamiebeach 1 month ago | 76 comments

586.

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

238 points by archargelod 1 month ago | 60 comments

587.

JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master (github.com)

237 points by mfiguiere 2 weeks ago | 175 comments

588.

Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (mixfont.com)

237 points by justswim 1 month ago | 173 comments

589.

Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line (yamanote.fun)

237 points by madebymagnolia 1 month ago | 52 comments

590.

Never Enough (dark.ronacher.eu)

236 points by reasonableklout 3 weeks ago | 100 comments

591.

GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday (twitter.com)

235 points by jfrbfbreudh 1 month ago | 208 comments

592.

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (quantamagazine.org)

235 points by ibobev 2 weeks ago | 179 comments

593.

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud (404media.co)

235 points by Jimmc414 3 weeks ago | 148 comments

594.

UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (timeseriesofindia.com)

235 points by prtk25 1 month ago | 122 comments

595.

Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't (goughlui.com)

235 points by speckx 1 month ago | 105 comments

596.

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years (github.com)

235 points by BadChemical 4 weeks ago | 88 comments

597.

After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell (avi.press)

234 points by aviaviavi 1 month ago | 309 comments

598.

Vite+ Beta (voidzero.dev)

234 points by Erenay09 1 month ago | 152 comments

599.

Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro? (amateurphotographer.com)

233 points by aanet 1 month ago | 558 comments

600.

Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries (weaverobotics.com)

233 points by ryanmerket 1 month ago | 381 comments