HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Om Malik has died (om.co)

1146 points by minimaxir 19 hours ago | 132 comments

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The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (expression.fire.org)

948 points by bilsbie 18 hours ago | 477 comments

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We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)

377 points by dhruv3006 10 hours ago | 185 comments

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Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line (bloomberg.com)

300 points by scrlk 22 hours ago | 329 comments

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What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant (fernandoi.cl)

289 points by cuchoi 13 hours ago | 124 comments

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Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (jeffgeerling.com)

270 points by Alupis 15 hours ago | 143 comments

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Incident CVE-2026-LGTM (nesbitt.io)

267 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 47 comments

8.

Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)

241 points by luu 13 hours ago | 38 comments

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Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base (arstechnica.com)

220 points by tzs 17 hours ago | 137 comments

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The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023) (gchandbook.org)

203 points by teleforce 17 hours ago | 43 comments

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AI children's books, body horror edition (lcamtuf.substack.com)

199 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 74 comments

12.

The Doorman's Fallacy in action (rozumem.xyz)

190 points by rozumem 20 hours ago | 246 comments

13.

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators (unconv.ai)

178 points by babelfish 19 hours ago | 43 comments

14.

Why have papers by one of history's most famous physicists been retracted? (science.org)

172 points by adharmad 2 hours ago | 68 comments

15.

An oral history of Bank Python (2021) (calpaterson.com)

155 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 64 comments

16.

Deno 2.9 (deno.com)

141 points by enz 23 hours ago | 61 comments

17.

US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6 (old.reddit.com)

128 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago | 143 comments

18.

OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO (nytimes.com)

119 points by mfiguiere 19 hours ago | 102 comments

19.

Parallel Parentheses Matching (williamdue.github.io)

110 points by Athas 20 hours ago | 15 comments

20.

Why current LLM costs are not sustainable (aditya.patadia.org)

103 points by adityapatadia 8 hours ago | 183 comments

21.

Jolla Phone, Over 13 500 units sold (commerce.jolla.com)

92 points by mrbn100ful 1 hour ago | 63 comments

22.

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus (nijho.lt)

82 points by wasting_time 18 hours ago | 66 comments

23.

No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass (borretti.me)

79 points by hamish-b 12 hours ago | 96 comments

24.

Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain (alephneuro.com)

76 points by rossant 4 hours ago | 21 comments

25.

Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years (theregister.com)

73 points by fauigerzigerk 9 hours ago | 68 comments

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OpenAI to Stagger Release of GPT 5.6 at Request of U.S. Government (velo.xyz)

71 points by 217 19 hours ago | 25 comments

27.

Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not (github.com)

68 points by backlit4034 4 hours ago | 75 comments

28.

The AI backlash is only getting started (economist.com)

67 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 184 comments

29.

European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status (theregister.com)

54 points by Bender 23 hours ago | 36 comments

30.

The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections (bloodinthemachine.com)

54 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 21 comments