HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Scott Adams has died (youtube.com)

932 points by ekianjo 18 hours ago | 1450 comments

2.

AI generated music barred from Bandcamp (old.reddit.com)

761 points by cdrnsf 14 hours ago | 543 comments

3.

Apple Creator Studio (apple.com)

490 points by lemonlime227 19 hours ago | 399 comments

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Scott Adams has died (usatoday.com)

418 points by schmuckonwheels 16 hours ago | 3 comments

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We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers (blog.metabrainz.org)

393 points by LorenDB 11 hours ago | 204 comments

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Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation (discuss.python.org)

377 points by ayhanfuat 18 hours ago | 167 comments

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Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests (theguardian.com)

373 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | 274 comments

8.

Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home (buckscountybeacon.com)

368 points by mooreds 19 hours ago | 248 comments

9.

Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk (coywolf.com)

329 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 97 comments

10.

Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout (heraldscotland.com)

312 points by TiredOfLife 22 hours ago | 255 comments

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When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software (marcia.no)

303 points by Marciplan 10 hours ago | 90 comments

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90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet (state-of-iranblackout.whisper.security)

265 points by silencednetizen 16 hours ago | 336 comments

13.

A 40-line fix eliminated a 400x performance gap (questdb.com)

257 points by bluestreak 10 hours ago | 55 comments

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Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever (github.com)

239 points by 19-84 17 hours ago | 57 comments

15.

What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025 (scotthelme.co.uk)

238 points by MattSayar 17 hours ago | 337 comments

16.

The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025) (freedomnews.org.uk)

222 points by robtherobber 20 hours ago | 269 comments

17.

The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (owlposting.com)

220 points by abhishaike 15 hours ago | 40 comments

18.

The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists (lewiscampbell.tech)

217 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 207 comments

19.

Games Workshop bans staff from using AI (ign.com)

217 points by jsheard 12 hours ago | 114 comments

20.

Every GitHub object has two IDs (greptile.com)

217 points by dakshgupta 17 hours ago | 58 comments

21.

The Tulip Creative Computer (github.com)

216 points by apitman 16 hours ago | 50 comments

22.

Indifference is a power (aeon.co)

204 points by suioir 19 hours ago | 213 comments

23.

How to make a damn website (2024) (lmnt.me)

192 points by birdculture 16 hours ago | 57 comments

24.

Mozilla's open source AI strategy (blog.mozilla.org)

184 points by nalinidash 21 hours ago | 189 comments

25.

The $LANG Programming Language

181 points by dang 9 hours ago | 37 comments

26.

No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams (ablg.io)

177 points by tonioab 14 hours ago | 195 comments

27.

Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well (garymarcus.substack.com)