HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

12901.

Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2 (gautiersblog.blogspot.com)

121 points by ajdude 9 months ago | 8 comments

12902.

TikTok disallows DMs with the word "Epstein" (twitter.com)

121 points by crishoj 3 months ago | 5 comments

12903.

The Geometry Behind Normal Maps (shlom.dev)

121 points by betamark 6 months ago | 5 comments

12904.

A Rust shaped hole (mnvr.in)

120 points by vishnumohandas 10 months ago | 314 comments

12905.

Hiroshima (1946) (newyorker.com)

120 points by pseudolus 9 months ago | 266 comments

12906.

The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy (ceodinner.substack.com)

120 points by LordAtlas 5 months ago | 208 comments

12907.

Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off (ft.com)

120 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 months ago | 190 comments

12908.

Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements (apnews.com)

120 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 187 comments

12909.

The abandoned war: Why no one is stopping the genocide in Sudan (respublica.media)

120 points by ResPublica 4 weeks ago | 181 comments

12910.

Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide (iqair.com)

120 points by madjam002 4 months ago | 154 comments

12911.

Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. (spectrum.ieee.org)

120 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 152 comments

12912.

Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management (businessinsider.com)

120 points by cl42 8 months ago | 146 comments

12913.

WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward (github.com)

120 points by whatever3 6 days ago | 141 comments

12914.

Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders (nytimes.com)

120 points by lordleft 4 months ago | 137 comments

12915.

Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz (cnn.com)

120 points by ck2 2 days ago | 136 comments

12916.

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video] (youtube.com)

120 points by written-beyond 3 months ago | 134 comments

12917.

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors (theregister.com)

120 points by beardyw 4 days ago | 132 comments

12918.

Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026 (carbonbrief.org)

120 points by mindracer 1 month ago | 130 comments

12919.

The Era of the Business Idiot (wheresyoured.at)

120 points by dvt 11 months ago | 127 comments

12920.

NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference (discourse.nixos.org)

120 points by TheFreim 7 months ago | 121 comments

12921.

Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf] (drops.dagstuhl.de)

120 points by pulisse 11 months ago | 117 comments

12922.

Semicolons bring the drama; that's why I love them (ft.com)

120 points by bishopsmother 11 months ago | 116 comments

12923.

What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (bbc.com)

120 points by BiraIgnacio 1 week ago | 110 comments

12924.

Antislop: A framework for eliminating repetitive patterns in language models (arxiv.org)

120 points by Der_Einzige 6 months ago | 110 comments

12925.

Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices? (optimizedbyotto.com)

120 points by ottoke 7 months ago | 110 comments

12926.

Trump designates anti-fascist Antifa movement as a terrorist organization (reuters.com)

120 points by hypeatei 8 months ago | 107 comments

12927.

OpenAI's hunger for computing power (wsj.com)

120 points by doener 7 months ago | 105 comments

12928.

Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers? (thenation.com)

120 points by ZunarJ5 1 month ago | 104 comments

12929.

Talk Python in Production (talkpython.fm)

120 points by mikeckennedy 7 months ago | 104 comments

12930.

French villages have no more drinking water. The reason? PFAS pollution (lemonde.fr)

120 points by rawgabbit 10 months ago | 104 comments