HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame (monogame.net)

522 points by haunter 13 hours ago | 225 comments

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Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades (latimes.com)

472 points by ValentineC 7 hours ago | 316 comments

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I canceled my book deal (austinhenley.com)

390 points by azhenley 10 hours ago | 244 comments

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Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. (exopriors.com)

324 points by Xyra 21 hours ago | 115 comments

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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] (ece.uvic.ca)

276 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 84 comments

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Tell HN: Happy New Year

273 points by schappim 16 hours ago | 144 comments

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2025: The Year in LLMs (simonwillison.net)

268 points by simonw 5 hours ago | 145 comments

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Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (helsinki.fi)

261 points by lrasinen 15 hours ago | 284 comments

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The rise of industrial software (chrisloy.dev)

224 points by chrisloy 19 hours ago | 160 comments

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Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died (obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com)

217 points by spankibalt 11 hours ago | 62 comments

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Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers (reuters.com)

215 points by lossolo 10 hours ago | 108 comments

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2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 (windowscentral.com)

204 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 283 comments

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France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year (theguardian.com)

197 points by belter 13 hours ago | 255 comments

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On privacy and control (toidiu.com)

154 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 86 comments

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The compiler is your best friend (blog.daniel-beskin.com)

151 points by based2 13 hours ago | 103 comments

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The most famous transcendental numbers (sprott.physics.wisc.edu)

146 points by vismit2000 16 hours ago | 95 comments

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How AI labs are solving the power problem (newsletter.semianalysis.com)

137 points by Symmetry 15 hours ago | 212 comments

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Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)

133 points by Mgtyalx 10 hours ago | 120 comments

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The Delete Act (privacy.ca.gov)

126 points by weaksauce 5 hours ago | 62 comments

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Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris (kywch.github.io)

123 points by a1k0n 13 hours ago | 30 comments

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When square pixels aren't square (alexwlchan.net)

119 points by PaulHoule 15 hours ago | 56 comments

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Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke (monash.edu)

113 points by PaulHoule 6 hours ago | 19 comments

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Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure (reuters.com)

107 points by JumpCrisscross 14 hours ago | 115 comments

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Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system (mod.gov.il)

106 points by fork-bomber 14 hours ago | 178 comments

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2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal? (xam.dk)

99 points by based2 13 hours ago | 139 comments

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Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups (smokingonabike.com)

91 points by coldpie 11 hours ago | 86 comments

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Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy (physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

85 points by Luc 6 hours ago | 84 comments

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OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history (wsj.com)