HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

3631.

What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014) (unix.stackexchange.com)

232 points by tosh 3 weeks ago | 88 comments

3632.

The age of Pump and Dump software (tautvilas.medium.com)

232 points by brisky 4 months ago | 75 comments

3633.

Harold and George Destroy the World (tomclancy.info)

231 points by tclancy 3 months ago | 311 comments

3634.

The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025) (freedomnews.org.uk)

231 points by robtherobber 5 months ago | 309 comments

3635.

Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs (tomshardware.com)

231 points by GavinAnderegg 1 month ago | 276 comments

3636.

AI may be making us think and write more alike (dornsife.usc.edu)

231 points by giuliomagnifico 2 months ago | 248 comments

3637.

Elastic lays off 7% of employees (elastic.co)

231 points by dakrone 2 days ago | 229 comments

3638.

XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com)

231 points by ingve 2 months ago | 216 comments

3639.

The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen (github.com)

231 points by Splizard 5 months ago | 206 comments

3640.

Everything old is new again: memory optimization (nibblestew.blogspot.com)

231 points by ibobev 3 months ago | 163 comments

3641.

LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions (github.com)

231 points by phreddypharkus 2 days ago | 156 comments

3642.

Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising (citadelsecurities.com)

231 points by delichon 1 month ago | 153 comments

3643.

New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK (bigbrotherwatch.org.uk)

231 points by josephcsible 2 months ago | 144 comments

3644.

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages (theregister.com)

231 points by jjgreen 5 months ago | 105 comments

3645.

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors (coe.gatech.edu)

231 points by gnabgib 1 month ago | 96 comments

3646.

Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed (static.stepfun.com)

231 points by kristianp 4 months ago | 91 comments

3647.

What Is OAuth? (leaflet.pub)

231 points by cratermoon 4 months ago | 83 comments

3648.

Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model (arcee.ai)

231 points by linolevan 4 months ago | 82 comments

3649.

VisiCalc Reconstructed (zserge.com)

231 points by ingve 3 months ago | 80 comments

3650.

Generative art over the years (blog.veitheller.de)

231 points by evakhoury 2 months ago | 70 comments

3651.

Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork (github.com)

231 points by ben_talent 5 months ago | 60 comments

3652.

Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia (discourse.julialang.org)

231 points by fons-p 3 weeks ago | 39 comments

3653.

New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker (randalolson.com)

230 points by davidbarker 2 weeks ago | 305 comments

3654.

Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills (qu8n.com)

230 points by quanwinn 5 months ago | 286 comments

3655.

AI-assisted cognition endangers human development? (heidenstedt.org)

230 points by i5heu 2 months ago | 189 comments

3656.

How Madrid built its metro cheaply (2024) (worksinprogress.co)

230 points by trymas 1 week ago | 183 comments

3657.

Use boring languages with LLMs (jry.io)

230 points by evakhoury 1 month ago | 170 comments

3658.

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) (apenwarr.ca)

230 points by signa11 2 months ago | 165 comments

3659.

A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison (thedrive.com)

230 points by mauvehaus 4 days ago | 157 comments

3660.

Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline (nytimes.com)

230 points by marojejian 2 months ago | 149 comments