HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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CSSQuake (cssquake.com)

497 points by msalsas 21 hours ago | 102 comments

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The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows (waxy.org)

365 points by ridesisapis 13 hours ago | 146 comments

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VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate' (birminghammail.co.uk)

295 points by iamnothere 17 hours ago | 335 comments

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Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (extremetech.com)

276 points by tcp_handshaker 17 hours ago | 153 comments

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SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (smpte.org)

249 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 75 comments

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DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (neuviemeporte.github.io)

236 points by LowLevelMahn 16 hours ago | 62 comments

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Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see (github.com)

230 points by Cider9986 19 hours ago | 64 comments

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Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents (blog.cloudflare.com)

203 points by farhadhf 20 hours ago | 106 comments

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Renting a sewing machine from the library (bbc.com)

203 points by sohkamyung 8 hours ago | 103 comments

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UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (lispm.net)

193 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 37 comments

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Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase (startupwiki.tech)

192 points by shpran 15 hours ago | 59 comments

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Pre-2022 Books (notes.lorenzogravina.com)

188 points by trms 9 hours ago | 119 comments

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Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World (esquire.com)

181 points by throwaway81523 9 hours ago | 76 comments

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Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches (phoronix.com)

179 points by simonpure 10 hours ago | 153 comments

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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash (reuters.com)

168 points by drayfield 17 hours ago | 108 comments

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The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost (sciencedaily.com)

167 points by nryoo 14 hours ago | 57 comments

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Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior (cell.com)

167 points by croes 9 hours ago | 36 comments

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When I reject AI code even if it works (vinibrasil.com)

157 points by vnbrs 6 hours ago | 85 comments

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Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (townsquare.cauenapier.com)

153 points by cauenapier 19 hours ago | 79 comments

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From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone (techcrunch.com)

149 points by Brajeshwar 18 hours ago | 67 comments

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AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July (tomshardware.com)

147 points by roboror 12 hours ago | 35 comments

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Developers don't understand CORS (2019) (fosterelli.co)

144 points by toilet 6 hours ago | 57 comments

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The rise of South Korea’s weapons business (politico.com)

137 points by JumpCrisscross 20 hours ago | 49 comments

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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (sciencedaily.com)

134 points by colinprince 3 hours ago | 87 comments

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Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux (sibexi.co)

134 points by Sibexico 8 hours ago | 36 comments

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Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore (github.com)

130 points by gr4vityWall 14 hours ago | 261 comments

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Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025) (theregister.com)

125 points by wglb 10 hours ago | 33 comments

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Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones (lrt.lt)