HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org)

460 points by skullone 12 hours ago | 232 comments

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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)

439 points by milkglass 4 hours ago | 226 comments

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Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)

398 points by pr337h4m 17 hours ago | 253 comments

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USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)

338 points by gwerbret 13 hours ago | 63 comments

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Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

289 points by _-x-_ 10 hours ago | 120 comments

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Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)

276 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 172 comments

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Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)

245 points by chiefalchemist 10 hours ago | 145 comments

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The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it (newrepublic.com)

239 points by chirau 13 hours ago | 326 comments

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Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)

233 points by nickjj 18 hours ago | 76 comments

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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (juraj.bednar.io)

185 points by gasull 7 hours ago | 89 comments

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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020) (fabiensanglard.net)

160 points by adunk 23 hours ago | 30 comments

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Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (blog.happyfellow.dev)

153 points by thehappyfellow 17 hours ago | 59 comments

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Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center (boilingsteam.com)

152 points by ekianjo 18 hours ago | 123 comments

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GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty (openai.com)

148 points by Murfalo 20 hours ago | 101 comments

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Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (seriouseats.com)

144 points by jstrieb 14 hours ago | 121 comments

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Lambda Calculus Benchmark for AI (victortaelin.github.io)

136 points by marvinborner 23 hours ago | 41 comments

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Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known (nbcnews.com)

125 points by hggh 18 hours ago | 167 comments

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A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp (github.com)

125 points by mariuz 23 hours ago | 45 comments

19.

Hokusai and Tesselations (dl.ndl.go.jp)

114 points by srean 17 hours ago | 15 comments

20.

America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)

113 points by sleepyguy 15 hours ago | 134 comments

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Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)

101 points by terminalbraid 12 hours ago | 38 comments

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Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)

96 points by varjag 17 hours ago | 45 comments

23.

Jumping into cold water can stop your heart (jorgenmelau.substack.com)

86 points by fanf2 20 hours ago | 36 comments

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Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (blisscast.wordpress.com)

76 points by keepamovin 23 hours ago | 63 comments

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GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (lists.gnupg.org)

75 points by zdkaster 7 hours ago | 23 comments

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Behind-the-Scenes of MacBook Neo Introduction Video (youtube.com)

75 points by 0xbg 22 hours ago | 7 comments

27.

AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)

72 points by pabs3 5 hours ago | 16 comments

28.

The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)

66 points by offbyone42 10 hours ago | 11 comments

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A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023) (allbrainsbelong.org)

65 points by AndrewDucker 21 hours ago | 64 comments

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Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch (nytimes.com)

60 points by danso 11 hours ago | 51 comments