HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)

699 points by senko 16 hours ago | 417 comments

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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)

561 points by theanonymousone 13 hours ago | 252 comments

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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)

411 points by bhavansig 22 hours ago | 123 comments

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Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)

385 points by 882542F3884314B 20 hours ago | 371 comments

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_for-sale DNS records (specification.website)

383 points by shaunpud 17 hours ago | 141 comments

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Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)

382 points by groomlake 15 hours ago | 192 comments

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US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)

281 points by rbanffy 21 hours ago | 429 comments

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My server is a phone now (seg6.space)

265 points by seg6 8 hours ago | 100 comments

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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)

221 points by sbulaev 21 hours ago | 294 comments

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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)

221 points by geox 13 hours ago | 146 comments

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Don't use your phone while you poop (nate.spot)

190 points by ExMachina73 17 hours ago | 205 comments

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Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)

186 points by gumby 15 hours ago | 144 comments

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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)

183 points by eternalreturn 21 hours ago | 177 comments

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LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)

173 points by andrewpollack 14 hours ago | 100 comments

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)

164 points by electricant 17 hours ago | 31 comments

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Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)

160 points by happosai 17 hours ago | 106 comments

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)

157 points by adletbalzhanov 8 hours ago | 88 comments

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Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)

156 points by 01-_- 21 hours ago | 13 comments

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Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)

140 points by jmusall 8 hours ago | 15 comments

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Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)

134 points by minimaxir 3 hours ago | 10 comments

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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)

131 points by jggonz 7 hours ago | 55 comments

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Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)

131 points by MarcoDewey 11 hours ago | 28 comments

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Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)

110 points by rfarley04 18 hours ago | 93 comments

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Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)

109 points by mfiguiere 15 hours ago | 44 comments

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The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)

106 points by doubletwoyou 2 hours ago | 26 comments

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Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)

104 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 63 comments

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Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (academic.oup.com)