HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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I’m joining OpenAI (steipete.me)

1349 points by mfiguiere 21 hours ago | 1032 comments

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I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? (mastodon.world)

1254 points by novemp 13 hours ago | 771 comments

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Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)

422 points by harel 6 hours ago | 278 comments

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Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship (fide.com)

353 points by prophylaxis 21 hours ago | 240 comments

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Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)

301 points by danielhanchen 10 hours ago | 134 comments

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Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD (mashable.com)

300 points by dClauzel 7 hours ago | 253 comments

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Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)

297 points by beardyw 8 hours ago | 177 comments

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Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019 (jmail.world)

238 points by doener 21 hours ago | 97 comments

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The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself (ahmedeldin.substack.com)

227 points by 0x54MUR41 7 hours ago | 223 comments

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UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment (rockpapershotgun.com)

220 points by righthand 4 hours ago | 52 comments

11.

Running My Own XMPP Server (blog.dmcc.io)

171 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 99 comments

12.

What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You (blog.dmcc.io)

153 points by ssgodderidge 5 hours ago | 59 comments

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JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals (sgom.es)

152 points by luu 19 hours ago | 184 comments

14.

State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID (reclaimthenet.org)

145 points by computerliker 23 hours ago | 96 comments

15.

Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business (economist.com)

141 points by andsoitis 17 hours ago | 88 comments

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MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings (github.com)

141 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 58 comments

17.

The Sideprocalypse (johan.hal.se)

126 points by headalgorithm 5 hours ago | 106 comments

18.

Why I don't think AGI is imminent (dlants.me)

122 points by anonymid 20 hours ago | 269 comments

19.

I guess I kinda get why people hate AI (anthony.noided.media)

114 points by NM-Super 2 hours ago | 171 comments

20.

picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com)

113 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 51 comments

21.

Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality (pennmedicine.org)

104 points by gnabgib 19 hours ago | 71 comments

22.

iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life (macrumors.com)

102 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 99 comments

23.

GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor (gnu.org.ua)

99 points by smartmic 22 hours ago | 62 comments

24.

Building SQLite with a small swarm (kiankyars.github.io)

98 points by kyars 14 hours ago | 85 comments

25.

Privilege Is Bad Grammar (tadaima.bearblog.dev)

84 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 75 comments

26.

Error payloads in Zig (srcreigh.ca)

84 points by srcreigh 20 hours ago | 35 comments

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Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents (videocardz.com)