HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

1181 points by jdcampolargo 10 hours ago | 67 comments

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AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)

749 points by meysamazad 18 hours ago | 438 comments

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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)

614 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 648 comments

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Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)

497 points by askvictor 19 hours ago | 6 comments

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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)

490 points by automatoney 14 hours ago | 91 comments

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FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com)

434 points by gyan 20 hours ago | 94 comments

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DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)

367 points by zhoutong 19 hours ago | 92 comments

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All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (valleynewslive.com)

363 points by NDlurker 12 hours ago | 222 comments

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U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (cnbc.com)

360 points by tcp_handshaker 18 hours ago | 652 comments

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)

360 points by riadsila 13 hours ago | 88 comments

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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)

351 points by thewebguyd 14 hours ago | 257 comments

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Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)

308 points by tosh 23 hours ago | 72 comments

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Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)

280 points by xnx 11 hours ago | 457 comments

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Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (troyhunt.com)

265 points by stymaar 8 hours ago | 70 comments

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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)

241 points by cimi_ 18 hours ago | 127 comments

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I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com)

238 points by mattsterett 9 hours ago | 148 comments

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Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)

234 points by depr 9 hours ago | 120 comments

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libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (blog.hartwork.org)

231 points by spyc 6 hours ago | 29 comments

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Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)

226 points by luispa 7 hours ago | 87 comments

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Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (this.weekinsecurity.com)

221 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 80 comments

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Web Security is Too Hard (textslashplain.com)

206 points by kevincox 11 hours ago | 109 comments

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AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)

182 points by bookofjoe 7 hours ago | 140 comments

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Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)

174 points by carlos-menezes 11 hours ago | 157 comments

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NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data (publictechnology.net)

152 points by robin_reala 21 hours ago | 33 comments

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Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI (queue.acm.org)

149 points by tchalla 5 hours ago | 96 comments

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Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)

138 points by simonebrunozzi 18 hours ago | 33 comments

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Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)

134 points by johnbarron 16 hours ago | 186 comments

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You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)