HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location (an.dywa.ng)

714 points by cbeuw 19 hours ago | 425 comments

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Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media (yle.fi)

647 points by Teever 19 hours ago | 464 comments

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Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) (nmn.sh)

301 points by behnamoh 14 hours ago | 287 comments

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Netbird a German Tailscale alternative (P2P WireGuard-based overlay network) (netbird.io)

246 points by l1am0 2 hours ago | 69 comments

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US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private (bloomberg.com)

195 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 19 hours ago | 342 comments

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In praise of –dry-run (henrikwarne.com)

194 points by ingve 15 hours ago | 106 comments

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Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf] (help.apple.com)

186 points by pieterr 20 hours ago | 133 comments

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List animals until failure (rose.systems)

176 points by l1n 11 hours ago | 99 comments

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Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device (arstechnica.com)

173 points by qmr 21 hours ago | 146 comments

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US reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages (theguardian.com)

172 points by echelon_musk 23 hours ago | 1 comments

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Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025 (wikiedu.org)

169 points by ColinWright 15 hours ago | 68 comments

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Outsourcing thinking (erikjohannes.no)

168 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 157 comments

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Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine (crl.io)

142 points by Antibabelic 18 hours ago | 34 comments

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Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies

128 points by andylizf 17 hours ago | 72 comments

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Film students who can no longer sit through films (theatlantic.com)

125 points by haunter 20 hours ago | 211 comments

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Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes (theguardian.com)

117 points by novaRom 17 hours ago | 86 comments

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The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf] (usenix.org)

116 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 23 comments

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Genode OS is a tool kit for building highly secure special-purpose OS (genode.org)

116 points by doener 18 hours ago | 21 comments

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Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. (github.com)

109 points by behnamoh 15 hours ago | 62 comments

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Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign (theregister.com)

104 points by breve 15 hours ago | 85 comments

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Show HN: Minimal – Open-Source Community driven Hardened Container Images (github.com)

98 points by ritvikarya98 16 hours ago | 27 comments

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The Book of PF, 4th edition (nostarch.com)

92 points by 0x54MUR41 4 hours ago | 19 comments

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Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?

84 points by cvhc 18 hours ago | 127 comments

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What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent (mariozechner.at)

84 points by SatvikBeri 3 hours ago | 25 comments

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Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011) (gwern.net)

84 points by teej 17 hours ago | 19 comments

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Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions (quantamagazine.org)

79 points by marojejian 12 hours ago | 34 comments

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Demystifying ARM SME to Optimize General Matrix Multiplications (arxiv.org)

74 points by matt_d 16 hours ago | 16 comments

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Noctia: A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland (github.com)