HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort (tombedor.dev)

1328 points by jjfoooo4 18 hours ago | 429 comments

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AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)

1270 points by xiaoyu2006 13 hours ago | 460 comments

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Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)

689 points by lumpa 16 hours ago | 586 comments

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)

679 points by sam_bristow 17 hours ago | 223 comments

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Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public (fablepool.com)

491 points by matthewbarras 20 hours ago | 258 comments

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Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (mayrhofer.eu.org)

322 points by timedude 20 hours ago | 240 comments

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Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)

306 points by nekofneko 7 hours ago | 158 comments

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A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (blog.lopp.net)

234 points by FergusArgyll 3 hours ago | 153 comments

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AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (discourse.ifin.network)

219 points by keyle 11 hours ago | 141 comments

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Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher (blog.osull.com)

213 points by danosull 6 hours ago | 164 comments

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Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails (korte.co)

207 points by dotcoma 11 hours ago | 205 comments

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Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation (kennethpayne.uk)

203 points by nick238 21 hours ago | 189 comments

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CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)

190 points by gmays 2 hours ago | 53 comments

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WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)

174 points by mavdol04 3 hours ago | 68 comments

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The Future of Email (fastmail.com)

171 points by soheilpro 7 hours ago | 189 comments

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Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)

143 points by dougcalobrisi 17 hours ago | 71 comments

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A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (news.utexas.edu)

132 points by ilreb 18 hours ago | 87 comments

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European sunscreens are safer than American (2024) (ms.now)

121 points by qsi 4 hours ago | 66 comments

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Tell HN: Meta is down

112 points by reportinglurker 3 hours ago | 124 comments

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Travel locally, where you are (ssp.sh)

109 points by zazuke 21 hours ago | 71 comments

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Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982) (sseh.uchicago.edu)

102 points by paulmooreparks 10 hours ago | 70 comments

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Maxproof (arxiv.org)

100 points by ilreb 5 hours ago | 8 comments

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Tailwind and slop apps (briandouglas.ie)

97 points by coneonthefloor 20 hours ago | 75 comments

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David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)

95 points by SirLJ 6 hours ago | 31 comments

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Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good (protonprivacy.substack.com)

87 points by doener 23 hours ago | 44 comments

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Show HN: Boo – Screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty (github.com)

84 points by kylecarbs 20 hours ago | 27 comments

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A dumpster arrived behind my university's library (yalereview.org)

81 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 57 comments

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Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end (envs.net)

81 points by FergusArgyll 2 hours ago | 53 comments

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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML (2021) (shkspr.mobi)

77 points by luispa 19 hours ago | 23 comments

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What the fuck happened to nerds (mrmarket.bearblog.dev)

75 points by mrmarket 3 hours ago | 74 comments