HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)

1109 points by weli 11 hours ago | 340 comments

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Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data (hunton.com)

932 points by toomuchtodo 23 hours ago | 137 comments

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CarPlay Is Additive (caseyliss.com)

535 points by sprawl_ 19 hours ago | 667 comments

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Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't (stefan.schueller.net)

520 points by talonx 15 hours ago | 414 comments

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Protect your right to run local AI (righttointelligence.org)

469 points by thoughtpeddler 20 hours ago | 164 comments

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Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own (gamingonlinux.com)

444 points by ahlCVA 7 hours ago | 75 comments

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An American Privacy Emergency (scottaaronson.blog)

383 points by flowercalled 20 hours ago | 126 comments

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crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C (github.com)

371 points by Philpax 21 hours ago | 82 comments

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Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says (reuters.com)

296 points by nsoonhui 11 hours ago | 255 comments

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The Safari MCP server for web developers (webkit.org)

238 points by coloneltcb 18 hours ago | 66 comments

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Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective (eshumarneedi.com)

216 points by ExMachina73 7 hours ago | 199 comments

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Please stop the AI confidence theater (elenaverna.com)

213 points by skadamat 7 hours ago | 219 comments

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Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror (wordgard.net)

209 points by indy 11 hours ago | 78 comments

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Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP (arxiv.org)

203 points by kscarlet 4 hours ago | 135 comments

15.

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (github.com)

171 points by livestyle 5 hours ago | 75 comments

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Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful (12gramsofcarbon.com)

166 points by theahura 4 hours ago | 142 comments

17.

Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo (forms.cloud.microsoft)

150 points by throwaway2027 20 hours ago | 110 comments

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60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it (github.com)

128 points by dimitropoulos 4 hours ago | 44 comments

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PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit (ubicloud.com)

126 points by furkansahin 7 hours ago | 49 comments

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Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test (dailymail.com)

120 points by FireBeyond 21 hours ago | 95 comments

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U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iranian negotiators (nytimes.com)

119 points by MilnerRoute 22 hours ago | 67 comments

22.

Factories are just rooms (interconnected.org)

116 points by arbesman 4 hours ago | 54 comments

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Costco is the anti-Amazon (phenomenalworld.org)

112 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 63 comments

24.

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm (construction-physics.com)

104 points by crescit_eundo 7 hours ago | 43 comments

25.

America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report (derekthompson.org)

99 points by momentmaker 4 hours ago | 127 comments

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I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025) (inpreparation.substack.com)

96 points by theanonymousone 2 hours ago | 57 comments

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US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials (theguardian.com)

86 points by beardyw 3 hours ago | 96 comments

28.

The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything (filfre.net)

82 points by doppp 4 hours ago | 5 comments

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Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access (theregister.com)

78 points by ike_usawa 6 hours ago | 58 comments

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Faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore (manticoresearch.com)

78 points by snikolaev 16 hours ago | 12 comments