HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Steam Machine launches today (store.steampowered.com)

1824 points by theschwa 23 hours ago | 1566 comments

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Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed (ipvm.com)

584 points by jhonovich 21 hours ago | 299 comments

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Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040 (cbc.ca)

551 points by geox 21 hours ago | 389 comments

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GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally (unsloth.ai)

527 points by TechTechTech 19 hours ago | 251 comments

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VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO (arxiv.org)

313 points by timhigins 14 hours ago | 165 comments

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Jobs and Software Is Fucked (urflow.bearblog.dev)

308 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 282 comments

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Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid (pluralistic.net)

302 points by hn_acker 2 hours ago | 191 comments

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Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place (stephendiehl.com)

300 points by ibobev 6 hours ago | 362 comments

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Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing (github.com)

299 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 79 comments

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Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs (spur.us)

251 points by microcode 19 hours ago | 161 comments

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Will It Mythos? (swelljoe.com)

249 points by mindingnever 12 hours ago | 186 comments

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In praise of memcached (jchri.st)

239 points by j03b 15 hours ago | 99 comments

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1,700 free online courses from top universities (openculture.com)

235 points by momentmaker 14 hours ago | 34 comments

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Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components (github.com)

213 points by iamnothere 21 hours ago | 56 comments

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Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV (gizmodo.com)

212 points by speckx 23 hours ago | 193 comments

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Mistral OCR 4 (mistral.ai)

202 points by meetpateltech 2 hours ago | 57 comments

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The new HTTP QUERY method explained (kreya.app)

199 points by CommonGuy 10 hours ago | 143 comments

18.

Japanese symbols that speak without words (arun.is)

189 points by msephton 21 hours ago | 124 comments

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OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber (openai.com)

185 points by AaronO 15 hours ago | 141 comments

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Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says (reuters.com)

185 points by supercopter 6 hours ago | 76 comments

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Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake (arstechnica.com)

171 points by pseudolus 15 hours ago | 8 comments

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Elevated error rate across multiple models (status.claude.com)

165 points by rob 2 hours ago | 191 comments

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Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX (tikz.dev)

164 points by DominikPeters 2 hours ago | 25 comments

24.

The Coming Loop (lucumr.pocoo.org)

155 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 137 comments

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MSG Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition (404media.co)

155 points by cdrnsf 3 hours ago | 35 comments

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Job application asked for my SAT scores (mrmarket.lol)

149 points by seltzerboys 19 hours ago | 362 comments

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Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon (theregister.com)