HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (blog.mozilla.org)

672 points by WithinReason 21 hours ago | 275 comments

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Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)

554 points by nolok 14 hours ago | 244 comments

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I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)

515 points by TheEdonian 15 hours ago | 365 comments

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At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025 (stateofsurveillance.org)

419 points by rolph 10 hours ago | 313 comments

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Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)

402 points by dive 16 hours ago | 270 comments

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AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise (thestateofbrand.com)

380 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 377 comments

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AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)

356 points by ch_sm 14 hours ago | 150 comments

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Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter (williamangel.net)

304 points by datadrivenangel 15 hours ago | 260 comments

9.

WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency (nytimes.com)

288 points by zzzeek 14 hours ago | 177 comments

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I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com)

277 points by tech4bot 14 hours ago | 127 comments

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Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com)

207 points by Bibabomas 12 hours ago | 60 comments

12.

Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels (electrek.co)

192 points by celsoazevedo 23 hours ago | 187 comments

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Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request (twitter.com)

189 points by bhouston 10 hours ago | 130 comments

14.

Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them (rutgerbregman.substack.com)

178 points by fredski42 20 hours ago | 85 comments

15.

GenCAD (gencad.github.io)

164 points by dagenix 6 hours ago | 37 comments

16.

CUDA Books (github.com)

148 points by dariubs 15 hours ago | 32 comments

17.

EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data (osnews.com)

141 points by abdelhousni 10 hours ago | 66 comments

18.

Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely (idahonews.com)

133 points by ChrisArchitect 6 hours ago | 110 comments

19.

VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) (spectrum.ieee.org)

129 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 38 comments

20.

Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU (arnaud-carre.github.io)

104 points by z303 20 hours ago | 38 comments

21.

The occasional ECONNRESET (movq.de)

102 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 23 comments

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Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state' (businessinsider.com)

98 points by LelouBil 11 hours ago | 155 comments

23.

Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages (opencivics-labs.github.io)

94 points by laurex 11 hours ago | 27 comments

24.

Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD (bbc.com)

84 points by bushwart 15 hours ago | 90 comments

25.

The AI water issue is fake (blog.andymasley.com)

79 points by shepherdjerred 9 hours ago | 56 comments

26.

An AI Hate Wave Is Here (axios.com)

77 points by karakoram 6 hours ago | 97 comments

27.

Prolog Coding Horror (metalevel.at)

71 points by RohanAdwankar 6 hours ago | 25 comments

28.

Design posters showcasing your country's electrical grid (github.com)

71 points by lyoncy 5 hours ago | 18 comments

29.

The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations (jdhodges.com)

67 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 37 comments

30.

University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt's AI cheerleading (theverge.com)

62 points by latexr 9 hours ago | 1 comments