HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce (reuters.com)

1058 points by PriorityLeft 18 hours ago | 716 comments

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Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)

831 points by stefanpie 16 hours ago | 546 comments

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AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)

758 points by thm 20 hours ago | 653 comments

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Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)

725 points by flipped 19 hours ago | 300 comments

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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)

697 points by psxuaw 16 hours ago | 373 comments

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Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (old.reddit.com)

592 points by newsoftheday 23 hours ago | 235 comments

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Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)

535 points by bsuh 22 hours ago | 263 comments

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DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com)

449 points by tamnd 23 hours ago | 129 comments

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Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened (apnews.com)

442 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | 361 comments

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Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)

335 points by instagraham 21 hours ago | 101 comments

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Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)

313 points by wslh 21 hours ago | 258 comments

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Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)

287 points by HieronymusBosch 23 hours ago | 124 comments

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Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)

284 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 338 comments

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ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)

196 points by Borkdude 8 hours ago | 45 comments

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Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2 (nintendo.co.jp)

188 points by razorbeamz 8 hours ago | 167 comments

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Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)

178 points by hhs 16 hours ago | 70 comments

17.

An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)

148 points by ColinWright 3 hours ago | 57 comments

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ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas) (bleepingcomputer.com)

143 points by tfirst 18 hours ago | 2 comments

19.

GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)

137 points by gmays 14 hours ago | 30 comments

20.

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)

135 points by hhs 16 hours ago | 51 comments

21.

I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook (blog.johnozbay.com)

126 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 165 comments

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Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)

125 points by jruohonen 19 hours ago | 30 comments

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Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives" (arstechnica.com)

122 points by epistasis 19 hours ago | 4 comments

24.

Just Fucking Use Go (blainsmith.com)

119 points by xngbuilds 1 hour ago | 92 comments

25.

GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com)

113 points by foltik 15 hours ago | 51 comments

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Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com)

101 points by blumpy22 21 hours ago | 49 comments

27.

California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply (kmph.com)

98 points by cdrnsf 22 hours ago | 210 comments

28.

Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)

91 points by sbt567 12 hours ago | 91 comments

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Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study (cam.ac.uk)

89 points by hhs 16 hours ago | 62 comments

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Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off (theverge.com)

86 points by droidjj 1 hour ago | 68 comments