HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data (github.com)

1409 points by sidgarimella 21 hours ago | 464 comments

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Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot (neufangled.com)

694 points by nharada 22 hours ago | 212 comments

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Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too (simonwillison.net)

682 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 197 comments

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Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI (nytimes.com)

642 points by ceejayoz 23 hours ago | 445 comments

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Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws (arstechnica.com)

489 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 477 comments

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Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3 (webkit.org)

472 points by paddingtone 17 hours ago | 247 comments

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US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months (asia.nikkei.com)

385 points by angry_impala 17 hours ago | 157 comments

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C++26 Disapproved (andreasfertig.com)

371 points by thatxliner 14 hours ago | 273 comments

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The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer (arxiv.org)

365 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 56 comments

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AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt (spectrum.ieee.org)

356 points by pseudolus 3 hours ago | 248 comments

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Jelly Sheet (mrdoob.github.io)

340 points by memalign 11 hours ago | 88 comments

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The Internals of PostgreSQL (interdb.jp)

324 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 23 comments

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Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux (mindstudio.ai)

306 points by novaRom 6 hours ago | 157 comments

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Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)

293 points by jameslk 4 hours ago | 78 comments

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Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE (nbcnews.com)

263 points by gmays 23 hours ago | 235 comments

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Kitty 0.50 (sw.kovidgoyal.net)

261 points by porridgeraisin 6 hours ago | 160 comments

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How I use AI (Oct 2026) (ben.stolovitz.com)

224 points by citelao 20 hours ago | 254 comments

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Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders (flipper.net)

224 points by user_7832 19 hours ago | 91 comments

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Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI (theguardian.com)

216 points by alkyon 4 hours ago | 170 comments

20.

Democrats win control of the House of Representatives (nbcnews.com)

186 points by geox 11 hours ago | 92 comments

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Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues (githubstatus.com)

165 points by kevcampb 4 hours ago | 80 comments

22.

Gitbook Breached

162 points by punchmesan 22 hours ago | 38 comments

23.

I dumped Apple’s word list (helgesver.re)

160 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 91 comments

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macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes (wadetregaskis.com)

136 points by colejohnson66 19 hours ago | 106 comments

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Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers (blog.cosmos-institute.org)

128 points by ersinesen 5 hours ago | 75 comments

26.

AI is destroying my CS degree (lordtoots.bearblog.dev)

124 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 116 comments

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Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active (lamont.columbia.edu)

120 points by gmays 13 hours ago | 25 comments

28.

Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one (blog.bear.app)

117 points by psxuaw 23 hours ago | 80 comments

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US midterm elections 2026 live updates: Democrats win Senate control and edge (theguardian.com)

108 points by hkhn 8 hours ago | 41 comments

30.

The lost malloc() (napcakes.nekoweb.org)

101 points by matt_d 7 hours ago | 36 comments