HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Manim: Animation engine for explanatory math videos (github.com)

347 points by pykello 14 hours ago | 61 comments

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Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law (wired.com)

216 points by BallsInIt 22 hours ago | 124 comments

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Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN (techdirt.com)

215 points by BallsInIt 21 hours ago | 101 comments

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RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode (tbray.org)

197 points by Bogdanp 8 hours ago | 94 comments

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Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine (github.com)

195 points by libreboxdevs 10 hours ago | 56 comments

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I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface (openmymind.net)

190 points by begoon 15 hours ago | 209 comments

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My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips) (efitz-thoughts.blogspot.com)

173 points by efitz 20 hours ago | 89 comments

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Developer's block (underlap.org)

166 points by todsacerdoti 12 hours ago | 85 comments

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I made a floppy disk from scratch (kottke.org)

166 points by bookofjoe 11 hours ago | 67 comments

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Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion (bloomberg.com)

155 points by voxadam 22 hours ago | 106 comments

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Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference (arstechnica.com)

151 points by ksec 18 hours ago | 87 comments

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I hacked Monster Energy (bobdahacker.com)

146 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 129 comments

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Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems (english.kyodonews.net)

139 points by anigbrowl 21 hours ago | 88 comments

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What makes Claude Code so damn good (minusx.ai)

133 points by samuelstros 2 hours ago | 110 comments

15.

The ROI of Exercise (herman.bearblog.dev)

132 points by ingve 15 hours ago | 220 comments

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Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++ (gau-nernst.github.io)

116 points by dsr12 9 hours ago | 17 comments

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Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day (english.kyodonews.net)

112 points by Improvement 19 hours ago | 88 comments

18.

Rethinking the Linux cloud stack for confidential VMs (lwn.net)

102 points by Bogdanp 10 hours ago | 41 comments

19.

Line scan camera image processing for train photography (daniel.lawrence.lu)

94 points by dllu 5 hours ago | 16 comments

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RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no (nature.com)

85 points by rntn 4 hours ago | 80 comments

21.

World Wide Lightning Location Network (wwlln.net)

84 points by perihelions 14 hours ago | 33 comments

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The use of LLM assistants for kernel development (lwn.net)

77 points by Bogdanp 22 hours ago | 33 comments

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Libre – An anonymous social experiment without likes, followers, or ads (libreantisocial.com)

75 points by rododecba 4 hours ago | 91 comments

24.

Why the Internet Is Turning to Shit (currentaffairs.org)

71 points by Improvement 22 hours ago | 62 comments

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Glyn: Type-safe PubSub and Registry for Gleam actors with distributed clustering (github.com)

70 points by TheWiggles 23 hours ago | 10 comments

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Developer sentenced to prison for activating “kill switch” to avenge his firing (arstechnica.com)

69 points by Volundr 17 hours ago | 72 comments

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Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately (techcrunch.com)

57 points by ed1024 22 hours ago | 73 comments

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Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems (utcc.utoronto.ca)

57 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 57 comments

29.

A visual history of Visual C++ (2017) (malsmith.net)

57 points by rayanboulares 18 hours ago | 39 comments

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Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25 (mfbmina.dev)

56 points by mfbmina 6 hours ago | 42 comments