HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Magnifica Humanitas (vatican.va)

1312 points by theletterf 14 hours ago | 732 comments

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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash (tomshardware.com)

593 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 259 comments

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Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore (techcrunch.com)

529 points by elorant 12 hours ago | 486 comments

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The Eternal Sloptember (geohot.github.io)

441 points by razin 21 hours ago | 351 comments

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Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few (religionnews.com)

332 points by benwerd 11 hours ago | 68 comments

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Leave Me Behind (androidessence.com)

321 points by mooreds 12 hours ago | 283 comments

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Jira Is Turing-Complete (seriot.ch)

291 points by vinhnx 20 hours ago | 140 comments

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Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks (krebsonsecurity.com)

262 points by jruohonen 10 hours ago | 69 comments

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Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout (mullvad.net)

252 points by Cider9986 7 hours ago | 40 comments

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The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month (eualternative.eu)

196 points by sparkling 6 hours ago | 76 comments

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Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing (businessinsider.com)

189 points by _____k 8 hours ago | 261 comments

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Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (promptarmor.com)

174 points by Kneenex 3 hours ago | 36 comments

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Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025) (tmj4.com)

168 points by cdrnsf 11 hours ago | 154 comments

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Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization" (variety.com)

163 points by embedding-shape 11 hours ago | 2 comments

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Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (blocksandfiles.com)

142 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 73 comments

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IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry (futurumgroup.com)

140 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 59 comments

17.

C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers (lemon.rip)

137 points by xngbuilds 10 hours ago | 47 comments

18.

Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now (cnn.com)

125 points by breve 15 hours ago | 142 comments

19.

Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died (referenceforbusiness.com)

110 points by L_Rahman 8 hours ago | 47 comments

20.

Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties (techxplore.com)

96 points by Lihh27 4 hours ago | 20 comments

21.

2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update (medcurity.com)

94 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | 92 comments

22.

Hacker News front page as a site (thefrontpage.dev)

93 points by thatxliner 4 hours ago | 38 comments

23.

Japan's New Hypersonic Engine Could Make 2-Hour Flights to the US a Reality (bgr.com)

92 points by rmason 5 hours ago | 82 comments

24.

GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100 (github.com)

83 points by adunk 13 hours ago | 67 comments

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Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas" (anthropic.com)

70 points by Philpax 5 hours ago | 89 comments

26.

Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore (unix.foo)

70 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 77 comments

27.

Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017) (atlasobscura.com)

65 points by downbad_ 19 hours ago | 71 comments

28.

I manage teams without a single call (orchidfiles.com)

63 points by theorchid 12 hours ago | 87 comments

29.

Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff (tinyvolt.com)

63 points by nivter 16 hours ago | 14 comments

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D. Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Running Felony Fraud Scheme Prosecutable in New York (cmarmitage.substack.com)

63 points by JumpCrisscross 22 hours ago | 3 comments