HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Calendar (neatnik.net)

836 points by twapi 15 hours ago | 106 comments

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How we lost communication to entertainment (ploum.net)

625 points by 8organicbits 23 hours ago | 341 comments

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Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML (htmhell.dev)

618 points by soheilpro 19 hours ago | 229 comments

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Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert (substack.com)

568 points by Vincent_Yan404 13 hours ago | 240 comments

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Say No to Palantir in the NHS (notopalantir.goodlawproject.org)

538 points by _____k 22 hours ago | 194 comments

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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief (eclecticlight.co)

309 points by vitosartori 9 hours ago | 218 comments

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White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center (pbs.org)

270 points by Teever 23 hours ago | 186 comments

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Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA (quantamagazine.org)

267 points by vismit2000 18 hours ago | 163 comments

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AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos (kapwing.com)

149 points by aquir 12 hours ago | 155 comments

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Richard Stallman at the First Hackers Conference in 1984 [video] (youtube.com)

147 points by schmuckonwheels 22 hours ago | 33 comments

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Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling (stanislas.blog)

142 points by angristan 8 hours ago | 67 comments

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Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure (blog.rastrian.dev)

132 points by rastrian 20 hours ago | 133 comments

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Liberating Bluetooth on the ESP32 (exquisite.tube)

130 points by todsacerdoti 21 hours ago | 25 comments

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Hungry Fat Cells Could Someday Starve Cancer (ucsf.edu)

118 points by mrtnmrtn 10 hours ago | 28 comments

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Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024) (statnews.com)

109 points by rajlego 22 hours ago | 49 comments

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C++ says “We have try. . . finally at home” (devblogs.microsoft.com)

100 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 109 comments

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An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil (wsj.com)

98 points by bookofjoe 23 hours ago | 100 comments

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Dialtone – AOL 3.0 Server (dialtone.live)

97 points by rickcarlino 16 hours ago | 47 comments

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Public Domain Day 2026 (web.law.duke.edu)

93 points by rolph 21 hours ago | 13 comments

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How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014) (monthlyreview.org)

86 points by bryanrasmussen 22 hours ago | 47 comments

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The Dangers of SSL Certificates (surfingcomplexity.blog)

80 points by azhenley 21 hours ago | 94 comments

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2 in 3 Americans think AI will cause major harm to humans in the next 20 years [pdf] (2024) (pewresearch.org)

75 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | 141 comments

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Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free (scratchapixel.com)

75 points by theusus 9 hours ago | 6 comments

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Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video] (youtube.com)

57 points by xqcgrek2 21 hours ago | 64 comments

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Bankruptcies are exploding across the economy (businessinsider.com)

57 points by zerosizedweasle 21 hours ago | 21 comments

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In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet (arstechnica.com)

55 points by taubek 22 hours ago | 15 comments

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Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results

51 points by jeanlucas 1 hour ago | 53 comments

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America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth (bsky.app)

50 points by doener 23 hours ago | 13 comments

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'Off switch' discovery could help clear our brains of a common parasite (sciencealert.com)

47 points by amichail 23 hours ago | 13 comments

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7- and 14-segment fonts "DSEG" (keshikan.net)

44 points by anigbrowl 21 hours ago | 8 comments