HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)

616 points by senko 13 hours ago | 391 comments

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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)

533 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago | 248 comments

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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)

397 points by bhavansig 18 hours ago | 121 comments

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_for-sale DNS records (specification.website)

366 points by shaunpud 14 hours ago | 135 comments

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Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)

364 points by 882542F3884314B 17 hours ago | 360 comments

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)

352 points by epestr 20 hours ago | 99 comments

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Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)

340 points by groomlake 11 hours ago | 169 comments

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US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)

265 points by rbanffy 17 hours ago | 416 comments

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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)

217 points by sbulaev 17 hours ago | 291 comments

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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)

212 points by geox 10 hours ago | 137 comments

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Don't use your phone while you poop (nate.spot)

187 points by ExMachina73 13 hours ago | 202 comments

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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)

176 points by eternalreturn 17 hours ago | 173 comments

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Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)

176 points by gumby 11 hours ago | 132 comments

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My server is a phone now (seg6.space)

167 points by seg6 5 hours ago | 70 comments

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LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)

165 points by andrewpollack 11 hours ago | 99 comments

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Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)

155 points by happosai 14 hours ago | 106 comments

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Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)

150 points by 01-_- 18 hours ago | 13 comments

18.

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)

147 points by electricant 14 hours ago | 28 comments

19.

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)

108 points by rfarley04 15 hours ago | 87 comments

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Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)

100 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 63 comments

21.

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)

100 points by MarcoDewey 8 hours ago | 22 comments

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)

87 points by adletbalzhanov 5 hours ago | 48 comments

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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)

82 points by jggonz 4 hours ago | 30 comments

24.

Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)

79 points by mfiguiere 12 hours ago | 35 comments

25.

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)

79 points by rahen 14 hours ago | 13 comments

26.

Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)

67 points by jmusall 4 hours ago | 11 comments

27.

The USSR in 100 Photographs (trinixy.ru)

63 points by decimalenough 15 hours ago | 86 comments

28.

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)

51 points by skibz 10 hours ago | 14 comments

29.

Making an AI bid writer refuse to lie (ailucius.com)

50 points by Lucius-AI 17 hours ago | 0 comments

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Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (wired.com)

40 points by sbulaev 13 hours ago | 9 comments