HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support (nickyreinert.de)

819 points by y42 12 hours ago | 489 comments

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Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic (bloomberg.com)

423 points by elffjs 12 hours ago | 456 comments

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Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s (bloomberg.com)

380 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 13 hours ago | 428 comments

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Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing (kevinlynagh.com)

379 points by alcazar 13 hours ago | 95 comments

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How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences (nate.leaflet.pub)

325 points by calcifer 17 hours ago | 305 comments

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Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler (github.com)

318 points by dluan 19 hours ago | 86 comments

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Ubuntu 26.04 (lwn.net)

305 points by lxst 23 hours ago | 244 comments

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SDL Now Supports DOS (github.com)

238 points by Jayschwa 11 hours ago | 92 comments

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Show HN: How LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lecture (ynarwal.github.io)

234 points by ynarwal__ 21 hours ago | 53 comments

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API (developers.openai.com)

224 points by arabicalories 9 hours ago | 124 comments

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South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf (bbc.com)

221 points by giuliomagnifico 19 hours ago | 145 comments

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Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute (techcrunch.com)

206 points by elpakal 8 hours ago | 7 comments

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My audio interface has SSH enabled by default (hhh.hn)

188 points by hhh 8 hours ago | 52 comments

14.

The Classic American Diner (blogs.loc.gov)

186 points by NaOH 9 hours ago | 114 comments

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UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba (bmj.com)

185 points by dberhane 17 hours ago | 79 comments

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Hear your agent suffer through your code (github.com)

184 points by AndrewVos 17 hours ago | 84 comments

17.

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning (arxiv.org)

176 points by jamie-simon 10 hours ago | 62 comments

18.

I'm done making desktop applications (2009) (kalzumeus.com)

153 points by claxo 12 hours ago | 176 comments

19.

Refuse to let your doctor record you (buttondown.com)

147 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 193 comments

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Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses (nytimes.com)

145 points by duxup 11 hours ago | 54 comments

21.

Why Not Venus? (mceglowski.substack.com)

140 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 85 comments

22.

SFO Quiet Airport (2025) (viewfromthewing.com)

138 points by CaliforniaKarl 9 hours ago | 80 comments

23.

Google Flow Music (flowmusic.app)

124 points by hmokiguess 7 hours ago | 110 comments

24.

Aspartame is not that bad? (2022) (dynomight.net)

117 points by pHequals7 16 hours ago | 241 comments

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The operating cost of adult and gambling startups (orchidfiles.com)

117 points by theorchid 15 hours ago | 191 comments

26.

Composition shouldn't be this hard (cambra.dev)

117 points by larelli 20 hours ago | 72 comments

27.

Show HN: Gova – The declarative GUI framework for Go (github.com)

117 points by aliezsid 22 hours ago | 26 comments

28.

Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly (jeroen.github.io)

115 points by datajeroen 18 hours ago | 37 comments

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Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations (gigazine.net)

106 points by gslin 12 hours ago | 37 comments

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nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL (hostednowhere.com)

98 points by bpierre 17 hours ago | 62 comments