HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (tomshardware.com)

704 points by shscs911 22 hours ago | 343 comments

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Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root (0xcc.io)

421 points by trap0xcc 10 hours ago | 410 comments

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European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy (reclaimthenet.org)

359 points by nickslaughter02 10 hours ago | 150 comments

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Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private (theregister.com)

328 points by defrost 16 hours ago | 263 comments

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“I just chose words carefully” (unsung.aresluna.org)

284 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 76 comments

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Hacking IKEA Furniture (greenlightning.eu)

269 points by greenlightning 14 hours ago | 184 comments

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No AI Fridays (noaifridays.com)

263 points by xendo 13 hours ago | 186 comments

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Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat (fortune.com)

262 points by Brajeshwar 11 hours ago | 308 comments

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Haiku R1/beta6 has been released (haiku-os.org)

258 points by metrofun 9 hours ago | 76 comments

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METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack (thezvi.wordpress.com)

227 points by catbird 11 hours ago | 189 comments

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Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (qubes-os.org)

206 points by vntok 17 hours ago | 84 comments

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Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018) (arxiv.org)

192 points by joebig 17 hours ago | 56 comments

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Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default (github.com)

186 points by sparsesignal 13 hours ago | 207 comments

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Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds (komoroske.com)

130 points by rzk 9 hours ago | 43 comments

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The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change (economist.com)

107 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 123 comments

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Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws (morganlewis.com)

105 points by toomuchtodo 23 hours ago | 75 comments

17.

Building my own network stack (blog.lyc8503.net)

93 points by uneven9434 16 hours ago | 78 comments

18.

Automating Immersive Reading (smoores.dev)

92 points by smoores 14 hours ago | 40 comments

19.

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists (ziglang.org)

84 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 61 comments

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Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps (blog.google)

79 points by lr0 20 hours ago | 49 comments

21.

One Nix flake to rule them all (fzakaria.com)

79 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 14 comments

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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer (righto.com)

79 points by pwg 6 hours ago | 13 comments

23.

Startup Anti-Patterns (itamarnovick.com)

78 points by rzk 10 hours ago | 39 comments

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Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver (github.com)

69 points by SillyUsername 7 hours ago | 34 comments

25.

Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry (ft.com)

59 points by JumpCrisscross 17 hours ago | 80 comments

26.

Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice (abc.net.au)

58 points by martyvis 15 hours ago | 31 comments

27.

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's) (sander.ai)

57 points by peter_d_sherman 5 hours ago | 19 comments

28.

Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device (chipsandcheese.com)

54 points by klelatti 18 hours ago | 6 comments

29.

Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas (adropincalm.com)

51 points by borracciaBlu 3 hours ago | 51 comments

30.

Spark: Sparklines in your shell (git.zx2c4.com)

50 points by hskimse 15 hours ago | 12 comments