HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (sytse.com)

803 points by bob_theslob646 11 hours ago | 181 comments

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Spanish legislation as a Git repo (github.com)

700 points by enriquelop 16 hours ago | 216 comments

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AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (news.stanford.edu)

565 points by oldfrenchfries 14 hours ago | 433 comments

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I decompiled the White House's new app (thereallo.dev)

431 points by amarcheschi 13 hours ago | 159 comments

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Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables (grid.iamkate.com)

386 points by rwmj 17 hours ago | 267 comments

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I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (youtube.com)

370 points by msephton 16 hours ago | 62 comments

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CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering (theopenreader.org)

305 points by TORcicada 20 hours ago | 136 comments

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Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly (github.com)

302 points by OJFord 18 hours ago | 94 comments

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Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right (theregister.com)

263 points by Brajeshwar 13 hours ago | 209 comments

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South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots (reutersconnect.com)

247 points by _____k 5 hours ago | 129 comments

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CSS is DOOMed (nielsleenheer.com)

235 points by msephton 8 hours ago | 54 comments

12.

Linux is an interpreter (astrid.tech)

176 points by frizlab 11 hours ago | 36 comments

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Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com)

173 points by mean_mistreater 10 hours ago | 112 comments

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The first 40 months of the AI era (lzon.ca)

140 points by jpmitchell 9 hours ago | 69 comments

15.

Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs (theguardian.com)

135 points by mordechai9000 6 hours ago | 80 comments

16.

Treason in the Futures Markets (paulkrugman.substack.com)

130 points by Gasp0de 17 hours ago | 60 comments

17.

OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 (github.com)

114 points by caminanteblanco 10 hours ago | 30 comments

18.

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them (psychologytoday.com)

90 points by ndr42 20 hours ago | 72 comments

19.

No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations (arstechnica.com)

83 points by rbanffy 17 hours ago | 79 comments

20.

Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention (independent.co.uk)

77 points by ghd_ 17 hours ago | 40 comments

21.

Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia (theguardian.com)

75 points by Brajeshwar 12 hours ago | 17 comments

22.

Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008 (finance.yahoo.com)

72 points by dvfjsdhgfv 12 hours ago | 44 comments

23.

rpg.actor Game Jam (rpg.actor)

72 points by Kye 12 hours ago | 6 comments

24.

Undroidwish – a single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms (androwish.org)

70 points by smartmic 11 hours ago | 3 comments

25.

ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight (icao.int)

69 points by phantomathkg 14 hours ago | 108 comments

26.

Google just gave Android power users a sideloading win (androidauthority.com)

65 points by croemer 8 hours ago | 71 comments

27.

Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) (bmj.com)

65 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 36 comments

28.

The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive

63 points by acmerfight 13 hours ago | 64 comments

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Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147 (ft.com)

62 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 66 comments

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Canadian man says U.S. border officers made him give DNA sample (cbc.ca)

62 points by geox 13 hours ago | 30 comments