HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)

872 points by bradleyg223 4 hours ago | 591 comments

2.

You said no MCP (earendil.com)

597 points by yarapavan 14 hours ago | 334 comments

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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy (tomwojcik.com)

485 points by marjancek 17 hours ago | 362 comments

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The AI Race Just Got Awkward (insufferable.dev)

370 points by allisdust 8 hours ago | 405 comments

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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? (prospect.org)

243 points by ragall 16 hours ago | 218 comments

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A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (spectrum.ieee.org)

212 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 84 comments

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Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)

202 points by Thom2503 13 hours ago | 189 comments

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The last time my family was replaced by technology (manuel.darcemont.fr)

170 points by megalomanu 11 hours ago | 401 comments

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Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm (twitter.com)

157 points by rzk 14 hours ago | 72 comments

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Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability (electrek.co)

147 points by ciconia 19 hours ago | 200 comments

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LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (hereticpleb.vercel.app)

136 points by BurnerBurner 19 hours ago | 145 comments

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EDG C++ front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)

136 points by iandinwoodie 4 hours ago | 54 comments

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What TLA+ can and can't check (buttondown.com)

131 points by b-man 10 hours ago | 29 comments

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SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)

126 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 51 comments

15.

RSS Feeds for Last.fm (lfm.xiffy.nl)

122 points by Baljhin 21 hours ago | 41 comments

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Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com)

120 points by anerli 6 hours ago | 54 comments

17.

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings (quantamagazine.org)

108 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | 38 comments

18.

America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" (america.gov)

107 points by thoughtfullyso 4 hours ago | 42 comments

19.

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs (netlify.com)

105 points by jbott 5 hours ago | 38 comments

20.

Commit description as a thinking tool (yedhu.me)

104 points by yedhukrishnan 6 hours ago | 60 comments

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The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (thespacereview.com)

98 points by Bluestein 2 hours ago | 22 comments

22.

PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust (github.com)

85 points by sparticle62 20 hours ago | 37 comments

23.

Ballmer Peak (en.wikipedia.org)

85 points by thunderbong 21 hours ago | 30 comments

24.

CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective (turkeyland.net)

82 points by ArchAndStarch 4 hours ago | 61 comments

25.

GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence (artificialanalysis.ai)

79 points by theanonymousone 14 hours ago | 96 comments

26.

SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)

76 points by kmstout 9 hours ago | 15 comments

27.

Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available (ubuntu.com)

75 points by d99kris 10 hours ago | 98 comments

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Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)