HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)

744 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 155 comments

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Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)

500 points by harel 23 hours ago | 341 comments

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Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse (bbc.com)

472 points by colinprince 12 hours ago | 249 comments

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What your Bluetooth devices reveal (blog.dmcc.io)

456 points by ssgodderidge 22 hours ago | 169 comments

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AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet (jeffgeerling.com)

367 points by VorpalWay 12 hours ago | 285 comments

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UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)

358 points by righthand 22 hours ago | 115 comments

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SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)

338 points by mustaphah 15 hours ago | 144 comments

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Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)

314 points by max-m 15 hours ago | 41 comments

9.

Privilege is bad grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)

300 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 260 comments

10.

Use protocols, not services (notnotp.com)

293 points by enz 18 hours ago | 114 comments

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GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple (blog.tomaszdunia.pl)

270 points by to3k 2 hours ago | 185 comments

12.

Running My Own XMPP Server (blog.dmcc.io)

225 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 138 comments

13.

Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue (github.com)

210 points by zachlatta 15 hours ago | 99 comments

14.

"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name (jkap.io)

158 points by presbyterian 18 hours ago | 140 comments

15.

The Sideprocalypse (johan.hal.se)

155 points by headalgorithm 22 hours ago | 126 comments

16.

I guess I kinda get why people hate AI (anthony.noided.media)

154 points by NM-Super 19 hours ago | 247 comments

17.

Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout (vo2maxpro.com)

142 points by GoodluckH 11 hours ago | 106 comments

18.

WebMCP Proposal (webmachinelearning.github.io)

140 points by Alifatisk 19 hours ago | 74 comments

19.

Robert Duvall has died (nytimes.com)

140 points by glimshe 18 hours ago | 69 comments

20.

Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe (wero-wallet.eu)

129 points by tilt 17 hours ago | 122 comments

21.

Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox (docker.com)

123 points by four_fifths 14 hours ago | 62 comments

22.

AI optimism is a class privilege (joshcollinsworth.com)

122 points by ragall 18 hours ago | 121 comments

23.

How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video] (youtube.com)

121 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 6 comments

24.

Poor Deming never stood a chance (surfingcomplexity.blog)

114 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 51 comments

25.

Neurons outside the brain (essays.debugyourpain.com)

112 points by yichab0d 18 hours ago | 46 comments

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iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life (macrumors.com)

110 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 115 comments

27.

Suicide Linux (2009) (qntm.org)

109 points by icwtyjj 16 hours ago | 63 comments

28.

State of Show HN: 2025 (blog.sturdystatistics.com)

109 points by kianN 17 hours ago | 24 comments

29.

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026 (heise.de)

104 points by layer8 3 hours ago | 123 comments

30.

Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning (arthurcnops.blog)

100 points by acnops 2 hours ago | 102 comments