HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)

560 points by systima 13 hours ago | 315 comments

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Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

545 points by levkk 6 hours ago | 260 comments

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Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (terrytao.wordpress.com)

428 points by subset 20 hours ago | 126 comments

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I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)

410 points by therepanic 13 hours ago | 256 comments

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Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)

393 points by joahnn_s 10 hours ago | 186 comments

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How to read more books (scotto.me)

322 points by silcoon 16 hours ago | 171 comments

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Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)

275 points by signa11 22 hours ago | 57 comments

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The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (economist.com)

235 points by saikatsg 16 hours ago | 194 comments

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Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity (theregister.com)

229 points by Bender 11 hours ago | 245 comments

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Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)

229 points by naves 11 hours ago | 14 comments

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LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)

228 points by BerislavLopac 14 hours ago | 46 comments

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Count Binface (countbinface.com)

219 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 103 comments

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Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)

196 points by brryant 14 hours ago | 85 comments

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Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)

194 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 123 comments

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Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (shellzine.net)

169 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 46 comments

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Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family (english.elpais.com)

152 points by RetroTechie 20 hours ago | 214 comments

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Understanding the Odin programming language (odinbook.com)

152 points by AlexeyBrin 19 hours ago | 96 comments

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AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study (spectrum.ieee.org)

144 points by zaikunzhang 18 hours ago | 103 comments

19.

Why Vanilla JavaScript (guseyn.com)

138 points by guseyn 8 hours ago | 85 comments

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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

135 points by david927 10 hours ago | 432 comments

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I Learned to Read Again (substack.magazinenongrata.com)

134 points by georgex7 13 hours ago | 50 comments

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Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (ca.pcmag.com)

130 points by thunderbong 21 hours ago | 151 comments

23.

How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)

124 points by raahelb 16 hours ago | 165 comments

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Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)

112 points by root-parent 14 hours ago | 50 comments

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Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams (app.ilograph.com)

104 points by billyp-rva 20 hours ago | 31 comments

26.

Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)

102 points by supo 14 hours ago | 30 comments

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Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)

102 points by alexpls 18 hours ago | 1 comments

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Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (cacm.acm.org)