HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)

1039 points by john-doe 13 hours ago | 710 comments

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Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com)

693 points by SergeAx 20 hours ago | 513 comments

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AI didn't delete your database, you did (idiallo.com)

463 points by Brajeshwar 7 hours ago | 249 comments

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Train Your Own LLM from Scratch (github.com)

407 points by kristianpaul 17 hours ago | 49 comments

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Async Rust never left the MVP state (tweedegolf.nl)

406 points by pjmlp 13 hours ago | 218 comments

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Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?) (daringfireball.net)

367 points by gyomu 21 hours ago | 67 comments

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Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)

359 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 23 hours ago | 190 comments

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iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (walletwallet.alen.ro)

345 points by alentodorov 8 hours ago | 264 comments

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Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)

335 points by amrrs 4 hours ago | 146 comments

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Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold (walzr.com)

301 points by MrBuddyCasino 16 hours ago | 249 comments

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The fun has been optimized out of the Internet (muddy.jprs.me)

290 points by jprs 6 hours ago | 250 comments

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Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)

287 points by blenderob 5 hours ago | 194 comments

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When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing (robert-glaser.de)

268 points by youngbrioche 11 hours ago | 182 comments

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AI Product Graveyard (tooldirectory.ai)

236 points by StriverGuy 8 hours ago | 83 comments

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Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache (theregister.com)

232 points by dreadsword 16 hours ago | 162 comments

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IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com)

223 points by SeenNotHeard 3 hours ago | 132 comments

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Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)

215 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 210 comments

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What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) (margaretstorey.com)

213 points by raphaelcosta 19 hours ago | 136 comments

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Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)

204 points by palashawas 4 hours ago | 115 comments

20.

Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)

196 points by jollyjerry 17 hours ago | 42 comments

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.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? (dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com)

185 points by warpspin 55 minutes ago | 47 comments

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CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers (dragonsreach.it)

175 points by averi 17 hours ago | 102 comments

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Agents for financial services and insurance (anthropic.com)

164 points by louiereederson 6 hours ago | 115 comments

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'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level (theguardian.com)

163 points by dmm 23 hours ago | 203 comments

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EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)

162 points by brudgers 5 hours ago | 37 comments

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California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy (sfgate.com)

155 points by littlexsparkee 2 hours ago | 181 comments

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Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes (smmt.co.uk)

152 points by kieranmaine 5 hours ago | 222 comments

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Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% (twitter.com)