HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall (jeffgeerling.com)

373 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 148 comments

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Write code like a human will maintain it (unstack.io)

315 points by ScottWRobinson 8 hours ago | 256 comments

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Good Tools Are Invisible (gingerbill.org)

306 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 143 comments

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Late Bronze Age Collapse (acoup.blog)

291 points by dmonay 10 hours ago | 203 comments

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New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices (theguardian.com)

287 points by randycupertino 4 hours ago | 163 comments

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AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region (nevo-project.epfl.ch)

255 points by smusamashah 14 hours ago | 221 comments

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EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA (ec.europa.eu)

243 points by jeroenhd 11 hours ago | 162 comments

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GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)

238 points by scrlk 3 hours ago | 213 comments

9.

In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service (yummymelon.com)

206 points by kickingvegas 14 hours ago | 94 comments

10.

Mayor Mamdani announces "Click-to-Cancel" rules (nyc.gov)

177 points by thisislife2 2 hours ago | 2 comments

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Successful Companies Go Blind (ianreppel.org)

171 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 60 comments

12.

Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond (frontiersin.org)

165 points by hbcondo714 22 hours ago | 150 comments

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Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015) (smithsonianmag.com)

136 points by simonebrunozzi 5 hours ago | 103 comments

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The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017) (vfxblog.com)

130 points by markus_zhang 5 hours ago | 52 comments

15.

Punk, or why I don't stream anymore (geohot.github.io)

129 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 170 comments

16.

How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI (casp.ac)

115 points by imustachyou 3 hours ago | 97 comments

17.

A Love Letter to Flashcards (lesleylai.info)

112 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 72 comments

18.

GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps (tryai.dev)

104 points by hershyb_ 1 hour ago | 58 comments

19.

Focus (boz.com)

99 points by iacguy 21 hours ago | 54 comments

20.

Exit Chat Control (exitchatcontrol.org)

94 points by mparramon 19 hours ago | 3 comments

21.

Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C (novaramedia.com)

84 points by robtherobber 9 hours ago | 125 comments

22.

War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history (waratlas.org)

84 points by NaOH 4 hours ago | 33 comments

23.

Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust (anthropic.com)

74 points by Jimmc414 19 hours ago | 80 comments

24.

Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash (discuss.ai.google.dev)

70 points by NickDob 2 hours ago | 43 comments

25.

45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC (pushsquare.com)

67 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 93 comments

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Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't (vettedconsumer.com)

67 points by ermantrout 11 hours ago | 52 comments

27.

Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets (nytimes.com)

67 points by jbegley 1 hour ago | 11 comments

28.

Lisp as the Maxwell's Equations of Software (michaelnielsen.org)

65 points by andsoitis 16 hours ago | 4 comments

29.

Computation as a universal and fundamental concept (ergo.org)

62 points by simonpure 7 hours ago | 55 comments

30.

Build your own vulnerability harness (blog.cloudflare.com)

62 points by ianrahman 20 hours ago | 23 comments