HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI (skyview.social)

1258 points by christoph-heiss 12 hours ago | 1512 comments

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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (nesbitt.io)

581 points by birdculture 13 hours ago | 326 comments

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How uv got so fast (nesbitt.io)

581 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 190 comments

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Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI (imgur.com)

457 points by signa11 21 hours ago | 18 comments

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FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub (twitter.com)

401 points by merlindru 8 hours ago | 123 comments

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My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL (old.reddit.com)

327 points by davisr 7 hours ago | 129 comments

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Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations (nhmu.utah.edu)

312 points by astronads 9 hours ago | 147 comments

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I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)

264 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | 256 comments

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Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" (simonwillison.net)

260 points by nabla9 7 hours ago | 192 comments

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TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models (github.com)

231 points by meander_water 23 hours ago | 43 comments

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ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests (community.openai.com)

221 points by Valid3840 13 hours ago | 144 comments

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Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system (github.com)

201 points by pranshuparmar 11 hours ago | 28 comments

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LearnixOS (learnix-os.com)

198 points by gtirloni 13 hours ago | 74 comments

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Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

160 points by kwar13 13 hours ago | 213 comments

15.

How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023) (johndcook.com)

139 points by tzury 7 hours ago | 27 comments

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A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash (blog.nawaz.org)

107 points by BeetleB 9 hours ago | 115 comments

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Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago (acadlisp.de)

107 points by holg 10 hours ago | 33 comments

18.

High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects (smithsonianmag.com)

106 points by mhb 11 hours ago | 99 comments

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Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode (nullprogram.com)

101 points by rcarmo 13 hours ago | 14 comments

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Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith (catalinionescu.dev)

98 points by cionescu1 18 hours ago | 46 comments

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Show HN: Xcc700: Self-hosting mini C compiler for ESP32 (Xtensa) in 700 lines (github.com)

93 points by isitcontent 11 hours ago | 17 comments

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ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?' (politico.com)

91 points by standardUser 8 hours ago | 72 comments

23.

Always Bet on Text (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

85 points by jesseduffield 3 hours ago | 40 comments

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ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0 (railsatscale.com)

80 points by ibobev 9 hours ago | 26 comments

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Codex vs. Claude Code (today) (build.ms)

77 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 85 comments

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Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster (folklore.org)

74 points by maayank 11 hours ago | 94 comments

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Drawing with zero-width characters (zw.swerdlow.dev)

73 points by benswerd 7 hours ago | 25 comments

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Exe.dev/ (exe.dev)

69 points by achairapart 2 hours ago | 43 comments

29.

How I think about Kubernetes (garnaudov.com)

68 points by todsacerdoti 5 hours ago | 43 comments

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Geometric Algorithms for Translucency Sorting in Minecraft [pdf] (douira.dev)

67 points by HeliumHydride 16 hours ago | 21 comments