HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

When did Google get so weird? (sancho.bearblog.dev)

1746 points by sancho-panza 23 hours ago | 956 comments

2.

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)

1022 points by Eric_Gullichsen 17 hours ago | 430 comments

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AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity (thecivilian.co.nz)

415 points by ljewalsh 10 hours ago | 375 comments

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Coding Is Not Solved (blog.alexewerlof.com)

356 points by firstSpeaker 5 hours ago | 370 comments

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Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (david.alvarezrosa.com)

329 points by mooreds 23 hours ago | 106 comments

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The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent (ssp.sh)

300 points by zazuke 3 hours ago | 199 comments

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SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today (space.com)

284 points by geox 10 hours ago | 293 comments

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Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic.com)

250 points by D2OQZG8l5BI1S06 1 hour ago | 168 comments

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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC (git.mills.io)

249 points by davidcollantes 8 hours ago | 124 comments

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Windows 11½ (definitelynotwindows.com)

219 points by jjbinx007 1 hour ago | 63 comments

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Pirating the Pirates (mubi.com)

215 points by piotrgrabowski 3 hours ago | 69 comments

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MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta (reuters.com)

213 points by diek 4 hours ago | 193 comments

13.

Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 (platform.claude.com)

189 points by Michelangelo11 11 hours ago | 215 comments

14.

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”? (quora.com)

182 points by midnightfish 23 hours ago | 63 comments

15.

Musk, the Movie (bleeckerstreetmedia.com)

181 points by yablak 17 hours ago | 139 comments

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Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021) (arxiv.org)

166 points by teleforce 16 hours ago | 72 comments

17.

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (thisamericanlife.org)

156 points by simonpure 3 hours ago | 102 comments

18.

37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it (habibicode.org)

149 points by nicocarsui 10 hours ago | 31 comments

19.

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain (nissan-global.com)

147 points by mroche 16 hours ago | 343 comments

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As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?' (nytimes.com)

142 points by mooreds 17 hours ago | 155 comments

21.

Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? (theeducatorsroom.com)

126 points by obscurette 5 hours ago | 279 comments

22.

Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr) (soapbox.pub)

121 points by long____cat 16 hours ago | 13 comments

23.

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream (yashgarg.dev)

108 points by ibobev 3 hours ago | 27 comments

24.

Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show (nytimes.com)

102 points by ceejayoz 5 hours ago | 31 comments

25.

Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News (github.com)

100 points by ahmd-sh 7 hours ago | 64 comments

26.

Lunar Terminator Paradox (notes.secretsauce.net)

99 points by dima55 22 hours ago | 64 comments

27.

Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page (github.com)

99 points by seamus_c 9 hours ago | 50 comments

28.

So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes (lecaro.me)

98 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 34 comments

29.

Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer (theguardian.com)

91 points by Teever 18 hours ago | 26 comments

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Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts (hn.watch)

89 points by mrborgen 4 hours ago | 25 comments