HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (uefa.com)

821 points by dickfickling 8 hours ago | 450 comments

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Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)

590 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 349 comments

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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (openai.com)

510 points by tedsanders 9 hours ago | 336 comments

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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)

491 points by tomzorz 10 hours ago | 167 comments

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Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)

486 points by ai2027 11 hours ago | 397 comments

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'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling (remysharp.com)

426 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 165 comments

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Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year (android-developers.googleblog.com)

361 points by dmantis 16 hours ago | 443 comments

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We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 (bottlenecklabs.com)

309 points by Areibman 9 hours ago | 192 comments

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GCC steering committee announces AI policy (lwn.net)

245 points by arto 15 hours ago | 292 comments

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Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 (grumpygamer.com)

235 points by alberto-m 18 hours ago | 109 comments

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Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (github.com)

221 points by navs 7 hours ago | 83 comments

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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (martinfowler.com)

201 points by javaeeeee 11 hours ago | 81 comments

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Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 (projectpluto.com)

186 points by ryannevius 13 hours ago | 48 comments

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Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (quantamagazine.org)

185 points by ibobev 11 hours ago | 99 comments

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Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? (construction-physics.com)

177 points by crescit_eundo 14 hours ago | 213 comments

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1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed (noyb.eu)

160 points by dotcoma 21 hours ago | 99 comments

17.

Europe's fires are just the start (economist.com)

152 points by andsoitis 13 hours ago | 253 comments

18.

The AI Aesthetic (blog.jim-nielsen.com)

147 points by montroser 3 hours ago | 70 comments

19.

Hacker Public Radio (hackerpublicradio.org)

139 points by bmacho 12 hours ago | 25 comments

20.

CodePen 2.0 (chriscoyier.net)

138 points by robin_reala 9 hours ago | 42 comments

21.

Are We Stuck with Lean? (mathoverflow.net)

131 points by jjgreen 15 hours ago | 61 comments

22.

The lost civic life of movie rental stores (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

129 points by facundo_olano 12 hours ago | 189 comments

23.

Gpiozero Flow (bennuttall.com)

121 points by benn_88 16 hours ago | 37 comments

24.

RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) (mnot.net)

119 points by notarobot123 13 hours ago | 34 comments

25.

Why don't people use formal methods? (2019) (hillelwayne.com)

116 points by Thom2503 14 hours ago | 105 comments

26.

So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ (dynomight.net)

112 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 99 comments

27.

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (anthropic.com)

107 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 89 comments

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I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals (geospatialml.com)

105 points by volumes94 4 hours ago | 39 comments

29.

Making Postgres queues scale (dbos.dev)

105 points by KraftyOne 8 hours ago | 26 comments

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3D Pinball for Windows (1995) (98.js.org)

101 points by mushstory 15 hours ago | 47 comments