HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car (cardinalnews.org)

551 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 436 comments

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xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B (twitter.com)

533 points by rvz 9 hours ago | 670 comments

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We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some) (landh.tech)

475 points by topsycatt 12 hours ago | 97 comments

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How to write blog posts that developers read (refactoringenglish.com)

383 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 125 comments

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How Kerala got rich (aeon.co)

341 points by lordleft 14 hours ago | 217 comments

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Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust (blog.startifact.com)

310 points by robin_reala 23 hours ago | 172 comments

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7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand (twitter.com)

262 points by testrun 21 hours ago | 95 comments

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Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL (ditto.com)

192 points by stusmall 17 hours ago | 118 comments

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Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight (newatlas.com)

163 points by bentobean 16 hours ago | 103 comments

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2025 Tariff Impacts at Puget Systems (pugetsystems.com)

161 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 121 comments

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Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account (theverge.com)

149 points by nickthegreek 6 hours ago | 135 comments

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Learn to code, ignore AI, then use AI to code even better (kyrylo.org)

148 points by kyrylo 20 hours ago | 140 comments

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Swiftly 1.0 (swift.org)

146 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 50 comments

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Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's? (nymag.com)

142 points by randycupertino 18 hours ago | 131 comments

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Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees (caryinstitute.org)

128 points by sohkamyung 16 hours ago | 61 comments

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iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured? (mail-tester.com)

121 points by wildekek 6 hours ago | 38 comments

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Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent

119 points by ebenezerdon 19 hours ago | 75 comments

18.

Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds (chrbutler.com)

112 points by delaugust 10 hours ago | 64 comments

19.

Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig (calabro.io)

112 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago | 16 comments

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Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design (theverge.com)

108 points by helloworld 6 hours ago | 36 comments

21.

Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors (terrytao.wordpress.com)

106 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 24 comments

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MilliForth-6502: The smallest Forth real programming language for 6502 (github.com)

105 points by rbanffy 19 hours ago | 30 comments

23.

The Biology of a Large Language Model (transformer-circuits.pub)

103 points by frozenseven 16 hours ago | 18 comments

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Despite Ukraine war, Europe imported even more Russian gas last year (e360.yale.edu)

102 points by YaleE360 16 hours ago | 124 comments

25.

The Real Book (2021) (99percentinvisible.org)

102 points by Tomte 13 hours ago | 24 comments

26.

Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions (depot.dev)

98 points by jacobwg 15 hours ago | 68 comments

27.

Doge Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months (wired.com)

97 points by danso 16 hours ago | 108 comments

28.

Show HN: Cursor IDE now remembers your coding prefs using MCP

89 points by roseway4 15 hours ago | 33 comments

29.

The Art of DJing: Avalon Emerson (2019) (it.ra.co)

84 points by easyThrowaway 11 hours ago | 42 comments

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Show HN: An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server (github.com)

83 points by cookie_monsta 7 hours ago | 34 comments