HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions with the Department of War (anthropic.com)

602 points by qwertox 2 hours ago | 346 comments

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Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

589 points by miki123211 15 hours ago | 220 comments

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Anthropic ditches its core safety promise (cnn.com)

546 points by motbus3 12 hours ago | 3 comments

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Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)

476 points by davidbarker 8 hours ago | 463 comments

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RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs (arstechnica.com)

374 points by jnord 22 hours ago | 322 comments

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Layoffs at Block (twitter.com)

349 points by mlex 3 hours ago | 333 comments

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AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)

315 points by DamnInteresting 9 hours ago | 156 comments

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Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (read.technically.dev)

296 points by itunpredictable 8 hours ago | 283 comments

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Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com)

284 points by smalltorch 14 hours ago | 71 comments

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What Claude Code Chooses (amplifying.ai)

214 points by tin7in 6 hours ago | 96 comments

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Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)

207 points by kvinogradov 8 hours ago | 125 comments

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You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account (heltweg.org)

193 points by rhazn 13 hours ago | 290 comments

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In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% (bsky.app)

192 points by doener 9 hours ago | 125 comments

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Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit (disruptionbanking.com)

169 points by shin_lao 23 hours ago | 69 comments

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I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word” (grumpy-economist.com)

162 points by qsi 19 hours ago | 234 comments

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Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (cs.uml.edu)

146 points by spiffytech 7 hours ago | 69 comments

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Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage (idc.com)

141 points by littlexsparkee 2 hours ago | 147 comments

18.

BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)

140 points by jasonpeacock 10 hours ago | 45 comments

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Google Street View in 2026 (tech.marksblogg.com)

126 points by marklit 7 hours ago | 94 comments

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He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, uncovered a surveillance network (calmatters.org)

125 points by Element_ 6 hours ago | 51 comments

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America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice (garymarcus.substack.com)

120 points by MindGods 4 hours ago | 68 comments

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Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (youtube.com)

115 points by Ulf950 10 hours ago | 44 comments

23.

This time is different (shkspr.mobi)

111 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 171 comments

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OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation (2025) (osmand.net)

107 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 28 comments

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Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." (twitter.com)

104 points by josephcsible 6 hours ago | 84 comments

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Just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com)

103 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 62 comments

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What does " 2>&1 " mean? (stackoverflow.com)

97 points by alexmolas 4 hours ago | 66 comments

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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (wsj.com)

96 points by reaperducer 22 hours ago | 86 comments

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iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information (apple.com)

93 points by throwfaraway4 6 hours ago | 45 comments

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Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor (usecardboard.com)

92 points by sxmawl 6 hours ago | 46 comments