HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame (monogame.net)

488 points by haunter 6 hours ago | 205 comments

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Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. (exopriors.com)

275 points by Xyra 14 hours ago | 101 comments

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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design [pdf] (2011) (ece.uvic.ca)

242 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 66 comments

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Tell HN: Happy New Year

240 points by schappim 9 hours ago | 135 comments

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I canceled my book deal (austinhenley.com)

238 points by azhenley 3 hours ago | 154 comments

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NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives (blog.adafruit.com)

235 points by ptorrone 23 hours ago | 219 comments

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Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (helsinki.fi)

232 points by lrasinen 8 hours ago | 251 comments

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Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming (codecrafters.io)

217 points by vitaelabitur 23 hours ago | 76 comments

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LLVM AI tool policy: human in the loop (discourse.llvm.org)

211 points by pertymcpert 19 hours ago | 108 comments

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The rise of industrial software (chrisloy.dev)

194 points by chrisloy 13 hours ago | 150 comments

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Google Opal (opal.google)

172 points by gmays 18 hours ago | 119 comments

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2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 (windowscentral.com)

169 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 226 comments

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Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers (reuters.com)

165 points by lossolo 3 hours ago | 81 comments

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France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year (theguardian.com)

150 points by belter 7 hours ago | 189 comments

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Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline (foodmedcenter.org)

145 points by azinman2 22 hours ago | 126 comments

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Readings in Database Systems (5th Edition) (2015) (redbook.io)

139 points by teleforce 20 hours ago | 16 comments

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Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died (obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com)

123 points by spankibalt 4 hours ago | 39 comments

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The most famous transcendental numbers (sprott.physics.wisc.edu)

121 points by vismit2000 9 hours ago | 65 comments

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The compiler is your best friend (blog.daniel-beskin.com)

118 points by based2 6 hours ago | 77 comments

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Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)

111 points by Mgtyalx 3 hours ago | 97 comments

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Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris (kywch.github.io)

99 points by a1k0n 6 hours ago | 21 comments

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Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure (reuters.com)

94 points by JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | 102 comments

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Privacy and control. My tech setup (toidiu.com)

93 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | 46 comments

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When square pixels aren't square (alexwlchan.net)

91 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | 41 comments

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2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal? (xam.dk)

88 points by based2 6 hours ago | 130 comments

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How AI labs are solving the power problem (newsletter.semianalysis.com)

84 points by Symmetry 8 hours ago | 163 comments

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Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system (mod.gov.il)

75 points by fork-bomber 8 hours ago | 100 comments

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OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history (wsj.com)