HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

6121.

Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

245 points by _false 9 months ago | 189 comments

6122.

Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update (iverify.io)

245 points by transpute 6 months ago | 186 comments

6123.

AI-generated “workslop” is destroying productivity? (hbr.org)

245 points by McScrooge 7 months ago | 171 comments

6124.

Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 (blog.google)

245 points by Anon84 4 months ago | 168 comments

6125.

An incoherent Rust (boxyuwu.blog)

245 points by emschwartz 1 month ago | 166 comments

6126.

Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games (thinkygames.com)

245 points by tobr 3 weeks ago | 136 comments

6127.

Learning from context is harder than we thought (hy.tencent.com)

245 points by limoce 3 months ago | 136 comments

6128.

Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs (github.com)

245 points by Maciej-roboblog 10 months ago | 135 comments

6129.

The day my smart vacuum turned against me (codetiger.github.io)

245 points by codetiger 7 months ago | 133 comments

6130.

Microsoft Office is using an artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool (blog.documentfoundation.org)

245 points by firexcy 9 months ago | 128 comments

6131.

I can't recommend Grafana anymore (henrikgerdes.me)

245 points by gpi 5 months ago | 124 comments

6132.

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)

245 points by ColinWright 3 months ago | 122 comments

6133.

The demo scene is dying, but that's alright (datagubbe.se)

245 points by zdw 8 months ago | 121 comments

6134.

An off-grid, flat-packable washing machine (positive.news)

245 points by ohjeez 4 months ago | 120 comments

6135.

Mixpanel Security Breach (mixpanel.com)

245 points by jaredwiener 5 months ago | 113 comments

6136.

We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them (quesma.com)

245 points by jakozaur 2 months ago | 98 comments

6137.

Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in Rust (grafeo.dev)

245 points by 0x1997 1 month ago | 97 comments

6138.

How to stop Linux threads cleanly (mazzo.li)

245 points by signa11 6 months ago | 85 comments

6139.

Messing with scraper bots (herman.bearblog.dev)

245 points by HermanMartinus 5 months ago | 84 comments

6140.

Butterflies are in decline across North America, a look at the Western Monarch (smithsonianmag.com)

245 points by 1659447091 2 weeks ago | 83 comments

6141.

Basic Math Textbook: The Napkin Project (web.evanchen.cc)

245 points by eapriv 7 months ago | 73 comments

6142.

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals (bbc.com)

245 points by dxs 9 months ago | 70 comments

6143.

A Theory of Deep Learning (elonlit.com)

245 points by elonlit 6 days ago | 62 comments

6144.

Zotero 8 (zotero.org)

245 points by bouchard 3 months ago | 58 comments

6145.

Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps (bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com)

245 points by sgottit 3 months ago | 33 comments

6146.

Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses (craigmod.com)

244 points by speckx 10 months ago | 479 comments

6147.

AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart (showbiz411.com)

244 points by flinner 1 month ago | 376 comments

6148.

Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018) (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

244 points by b-man 8 months ago | 307 comments

6149.

Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin (usmint.gov)

244 points by maguay 6 months ago | 278 comments

6150.

Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops (coindesk.com)

244 points by PaulHoule 1 month ago | 229 comments