HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations (github.com)

986 points by arnemunthekaas 7 hours ago | 131 comments

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I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea (notnottalmud.substack.com)

892 points by networked 13 hours ago | 364 comments

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25 years of mass surveillance is enough (schneier.com)

652 points by iamnothere 8 hours ago | 233 comments

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Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption (bbc.com)

369 points by choult 9 hours ago | 360 comments

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US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons (bbc.com)

357 points by harporoeder 16 hours ago | 257 comments

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Linux from Scratch (linuxfromscratch.org)

339 points by sippingabonedry 15 hours ago | 108 comments

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Charts built for Chat (dbtcharts.com)

293 points by thingsilearned 22 hours ago | 87 comments

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A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals (effort.news)

283 points by yusufozkan 22 hours ago | 107 comments

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Java 27 (mail.openjdk.org)

277 points by mkurz 6 hours ago | 246 comments

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CSS-Tricks in Limbo (vale.rocks)

234 points by edent 12 hours ago | 100 comments

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Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite (withcapsule.app)

222 points by bashtian 6 hours ago | 105 comments

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Let's make quality the norm again (forbrukerradet.no)

218 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 218 comments

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Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 (rmoff.net)

217 points by rmoff 11 hours ago | 86 comments

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Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (law.justia.com)

216 points by neom 23 hours ago | 213 comments

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Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent (theregister.com)

214 points by throwworhtthrow 19 hours ago | 131 comments

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Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary (reutersconnect.com)

208 points by Markoff 5 hours ago | 59 comments

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There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet (404media.co)

185 points by pavel_lishin 3 hours ago | 131 comments

18.

An Update on Wayback Machine Access (blog.archive.org)

170 points by ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago | 85 comments

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Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers (reuters.com)

147 points by kaycebasques 5 hours ago | 151 comments

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Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device (bkovac.github.io)

147 points by bobili1234 6 hours ago | 24 comments

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America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster (lawfaremedia.org)

145 points by hn_acker 4 hours ago | 85 comments

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Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality (dallincrump.com)

143 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 77 comments

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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier] (lawfaremedia.org)

136 points by mdp2021 7 hours ago | 7 comments

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OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M (techcrunch.com)

120 points by myth_drannon 8 hours ago | 92 comments

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Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (blog.google)

120 points by leumon 2 hours ago | 75 comments

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How much of F-Droid is LLM generated? (tintotint.eu)

113 points by _ZeD_ 10 hours ago | 148 comments

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Swift 6.4 Released (swift.org)

113 points by timsneath 4 hours ago | 54 comments

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A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO' (techtimes.co.uk)

110 points by Tiwariparth6165 5 hours ago | 64 comments

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We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes (strix.ai)

110 points by bearsyankees 1 hour ago | 41 comments

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Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance (reddit.com)

102 points by vrganj 6 hours ago | 91 comments