HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release (tegabrain.com)

748 points by dmitrygr 14 hours ago | 300 comments

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Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive (old.reddit.com)

448 points by tamnd 14 hours ago | 416 comments

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A Love Letter to FreeBSD (tara.sh)

402 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 267 comments

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Why xor eax, eax? (xania.org)

349 points by hasheddan 6 hours ago | 135 comments

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Algorithms for Optimization [pdf] (algorithmsbook.com)

340 points by Anon84 19 hours ago | 29 comments

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Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen

333 points by SmolCloud 17 hours ago | 5 comments

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Advent of Sysadmin 2025 (sadservers.com)

328 points by lazyant 17 hours ago | 104 comments

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“Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran (twitter.com)

312 points by defly 22 hours ago | 114 comments

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It’s been a very hard year (bell.bz)

301 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 393 comments

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Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff? (economist.com)

252 points by harambae 17 hours ago | 536 comments

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DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning (huggingface.co)

242 points by victorbuilds 10 hours ago | 77 comments

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Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton (areweanticheatyet.com)

210 points by doener 11 hours ago | 295 comments

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Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years (yaky.dev)

196 points by the-anarchist 7 hours ago | 84 comments

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People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows (zdnet.com)

184 points by breve 22 hours ago | 184 comments

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Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland's Maps (eyeondesign.aiga.org)

168 points by mhb 5 hours ago | 39 comments

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X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200 (tpart.net)

165 points by walterbell 15 hours ago | 69 comments

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UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion' (netpol.org)

153 points by robtherobber 7 hours ago | 150 comments

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Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs (macrumors.com)

149 points by Brajeshwar 4 hours ago | 148 comments

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Google unkills JPEG XL? (tonisagrista.com)

145 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 124 comments

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SmartTube Compromised (aftvnews.com)

137 points by akersten 13 hours ago | 121 comments

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Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries (jaysbrickblog.com)

137 points by makeitdouble 20 hours ago | 69 comments

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You want microservices, but do you need them? (docker.com)

131 points by tsenturk 23 hours ago | 124 comments

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How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones (nasa.cx)

128 points by nasaok 22 hours ago | 42 comments

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1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises (raspberrypi.com)

127 points by shrx 7 hours ago | 98 comments

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'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs (ft.com)

121 points by mmarian 14 hours ago | 194 comments

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Grokipedia is the antithesis of Wikipedia (404media.co)

119 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 140 comments

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A new AI winter is coming? (taranis.ie)

118 points by voxleone 2 hours ago | 160 comments

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

114 points by whoishiring 2 hours ago | 140 comments

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WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf] (obr.uk)

92 points by robtaylor 3 hours ago | 87 comments

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AWS data centers' water use tied to spike in cancer and miscarriages in Oregon (techoreon.com)

91 points by ashishgupta2209 8 hours ago | 48 comments