HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce (reuters.com)

766 points by PriorityLeft 14 hours ago | 497 comments

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AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)

673 points by thm 15 hours ago | 577 comments

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Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)

658 points by stefanpie 12 hours ago | 402 comments

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The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)

656 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 318 comments

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Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)

648 points by flipped 15 hours ago | 262 comments

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Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers (old.reddit.com)

563 points by newsoftheday 18 hours ago | 219 comments

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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)

536 points by psxuaw 11 hours ago | 284 comments

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Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense (paulkrugman.substack.com)

497 points by Qem 23 hours ago | 317 comments

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Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)

471 points by bsuh 17 hours ago | 230 comments

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DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal (github.com)

395 points by tamnd 18 hours ago | 109 comments

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Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria (nature.com)

357 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 285 comments

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I want to live like Costco people (tastecooking.com)

296 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 607 comments

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AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields (deepmind.google)

295 points by berlianta 19 hours ago | 123 comments

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Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)

283 points by instagraham 16 hours ago | 95 comments

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Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI (tomshardware.com)

273 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 326 comments

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LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb (theregister.com)

216 points by robin_reala 23 hours ago | 129 comments

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Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)

205 points by wslh 16 hours ago | 179 comments

18.

Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview (hacks.mozilla.org)

198 points by HieronymusBosch 18 hours ago | 93 comments

19.

The Self-Cancelling Subscription (predr.ag)

173 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 72 comments

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Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)

156 points by hhs 11 hours ago | 53 comments

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ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas) (bleepingcomputer.com)

143 points by tfirst 14 hours ago | 2 comments

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Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives" (arstechnica.com)

122 points by epistasis 14 hours ago | 4 comments

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I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook (blog.johnozbay.com)

120 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 164 comments

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Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)

108 points by hhs 11 hours ago | 42 comments

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Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)

101 points by jruohonen 14 hours ago | 22 comments

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California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply (kmph.com)

97 points by cdrnsf 17 hours ago | 203 comments

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Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com)

97 points by blumpy22 16 hours ago | 46 comments

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How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability (blog.cloudflare.com)