HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)

624 points by laurentiurad 13 hours ago | 377 comments

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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (blog.terrygodier.com)

581 points by satvikpendem 19 hours ago | 267 comments

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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)

531 points by akyuu 18 hours ago | 436 comments

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Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)

297 points by ike_usawa 21 hours ago | 242 comments

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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)

282 points by jader201 17 hours ago | 196 comments

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Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)

264 points by evo_9 17 hours ago | 221 comments

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Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)

247 points by Thorondor 18 hours ago | 86 comments

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

238 points by david927 15 hours ago | 839 comments

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)

236 points by Klaster_1 18 hours ago | 59 comments

10.

What Happened to HackerOne? (blog.teknogeek.io)

212 points by hipparchus 6 hours ago | 89 comments

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code (claude.com)

196 points by sbehere 5 hours ago | 182 comments

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Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (pubsonline.informs.org)

192 points by iamnothere 17 hours ago | 93 comments

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Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (docker.com)

170 points by etoxin 3 hours ago | 111 comments

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John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)

144 points by Kiboneu 19 hours ago | 107 comments

15.

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)

142 points by oskrim 21 hours ago | 97 comments

16.

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)

140 points by hexomancer 15 hours ago | 74 comments

17.

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)

132 points by gregsadetsky 14 hours ago | 105 comments

18.

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (economist.com)

122 points by simonpure 13 hours ago | 79 comments

19.

Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (wtoc.com)

121 points by chirau 11 hours ago | 113 comments

20.

Saying No (rozumem.xyz)

119 points by rozumem 14 hours ago | 100 comments

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The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (blog.andymasley.com)

118 points by mef 12 hours ago | 99 comments

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Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com)

117 points by Rochus 20 hours ago | 18 comments

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FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US (tomshardware.com)

113 points by f-serif 16 hours ago | 105 comments

24.

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)

113 points by berghoffer 12 hours ago | 66 comments

25.

The Hacker's Renaissance (2025) (phrack.org)

111 points by yu3zhou4 12 hours ago | 81 comments

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Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium (euronews.com)

109 points by andrewstetsenko 13 hours ago | 146 comments

27.

CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)

98 points by ashurandi 22 hours ago | 36 comments

28.

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)

96 points by Lammy 23 hours ago | 77 comments

29.

Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent (dpreview.com)

93 points by anigbrowl 8 hours ago | 21 comments

30.

Is it all just vapourware? (kirahowe.com)

92 points by Lyngbakr 12 hours ago | 182 comments