HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (spectrum.ieee.org)

1236 points by oldnetguy 12 hours ago | 981 comments

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Ladybird adopts Rust (ladybird.org)

1093 points by adius 15 hours ago | 602 comments

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Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)

600 points by mikece 8 hours ago | 406 comments

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Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)

535 points by qsi 18 hours ago | 95 comments

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Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)

528 points by josephcsible 19 hours ago | 420 comments

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Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)

439 points by boplicity 7 hours ago | 196 comments

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Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (old.reddit.com)

434 points by doener 15 hours ago | 387 comments

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Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)

365 points by microflash 19 hours ago | 120 comments

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FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me (vladimir.varank.in)

279 points by varankinv 5 hours ago | 226 comments

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ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)

277 points by pieterr 9 hours ago | 81 comments

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Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)

257 points by con 23 hours ago | 70 comments

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Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight (thenevadaindependent.com)

234 points by rurp 5 hours ago | 94 comments

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The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)

229 points by montenegrohugo 12 hours ago | 111 comments

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AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says (gizmodo.com)

204 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago | 195 comments

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Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love (hackernews.love)

204 points by ohong 17 hours ago | 143 comments

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Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com)

197 points by levkk 11 hours ago | 45 comments

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A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)

188 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 130 comments

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Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% (docs.hetzner.com)

169 points by williausrohr 17 hours ago | 120 comments

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Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)

165 points by pseudolus 23 hours ago | 55 comments

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UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025) (forums.atariage.com)

152 points by marcodiego 7 hours ago | 50 comments

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Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)

144 points by ai_bot 18 hours ago | 52 comments

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Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)

129 points by Sabrees 11 hours ago | 40 comments

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femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com)

125 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 15 comments

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You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer (twitter.com)

119 points by bundie 5 hours ago | 80 comments

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Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot (twitter.com)

117 points by Jimmc414 8 hours ago | 114 comments

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Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives (old.reddit.com)

111 points by HelloUsername 10 hours ago | 80 comments

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VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf] (pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev)