HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)

898 points by milkglass 11 hours ago | 563 comments

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Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)

614 points by pr337h4m 23 hours ago | 431 comments

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Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org)

488 points by skullone 18 hours ago | 261 comments

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Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

437 points by _-x-_ 16 hours ago | 165 comments

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USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)

429 points by gwerbret 19 hours ago | 79 comments

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Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)

407 points by elisaado 6 hours ago | 172 comments

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Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)

340 points by chiefalchemist 17 hours ago | 229 comments

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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (juraj.bednar.io)

299 points by gasull 13 hours ago | 157 comments

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The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it (newrepublic.com)

254 points by chirau 20 hours ago | 335 comments

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Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)

202 points by sph 7 hours ago | 58 comments

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Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (seriouseats.com)

151 points by jstrieb 21 hours ago | 125 comments

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America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)

144 points by sleepyguy 21 hours ago | 156 comments

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GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (lists.gnupg.org)

136 points by zdkaster 14 hours ago | 39 comments

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The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)

132 points by offbyone42 16 hours ago | 19 comments

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Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)

123 points by terminalbraid 18 hours ago | 49 comments

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Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)

114 points by varjag 23 hours ago | 52 comments

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Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter (edenai.co)

109 points by muzzy19 9 hours ago | 57 comments

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At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared (cnn.com)

106 points by acdanger 4 hours ago | 72 comments

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GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup (github.com)

99 points by luckman212 3 hours ago | 42 comments

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Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)

95 points by kmdupree 3 hours ago | 70 comments

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AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)

89 points by pabs3 12 hours ago | 21 comments

22.

Clay PCB Tutorial (feministhackerspaces.cargo.site)

71 points by j0r0b0 1 hour ago | 36 comments

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DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)

71 points by mji 17 hours ago | 6 comments

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Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch (nytimes.com)

66 points by danso 17 hours ago | 58 comments

25.

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)

62 points by subset 10 hours ago | 9 comments

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Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets (getkloak.io)

54 points by neo2006 22 hours ago | 48 comments

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Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software (feldera.com)

48 points by gz09 17 hours ago | 20 comments

28.

AI Might Be Lying to Your Boss (williamoconnell.me)

43 points by annjose 21 hours ago | 5 comments

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Turkey to Ban Anonymous VPNs (reclaimthenet.org)

39 points by Cider9986 22 hours ago | 15 comments

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APL is more French than English (jsoftware.com)

39 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 14 comments