HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (blog.terrygodier.com)

574 points by satvikpendem 14 hours ago | 258 comments

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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)

486 points by laurentiurad 8 hours ago | 274 comments

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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)

417 points by akyuu 12 hours ago | 345 comments

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Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)

248 points by evo_9 12 hours ago | 198 comments

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Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)

237 points by ike_usawa 16 hours ago | 187 comments

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Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)

236 points by Thorondor 12 hours ago | 75 comments

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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)

215 points by jader201 12 hours ago | 160 comments

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)

204 points by Klaster_1 13 hours ago | 48 comments

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The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)

202 points by doubletwoyou 23 hours ago | 97 comments

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

197 points by david927 10 hours ago | 706 comments

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Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (pubsonline.informs.org)

187 points by iamnothere 12 hours ago | 88 comments

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There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)

185 points by gukoff 20 hours ago | 31 comments

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Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com)

162 points by BruceEel 22 hours ago | 68 comments

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Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)

133 points by oskrim 16 hours ago | 88 comments

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John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)

131 points by Kiboneu 14 hours ago | 98 comments

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Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age (itsfoss.com)

119 points by WaitWaitWha 23 hours ago | 115 comments

17.

Saying No (rozumem.xyz)

118 points by rozumem 9 hours ago | 94 comments

18.

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)

118 points by hexomancer 10 hours ago | 66 comments

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Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (wtoc.com)

112 points by chirau 6 hours ago | 102 comments

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FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US (tomshardware.com)

111 points by f-serif 11 hours ago | 99 comments

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Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com)

108 points by Rochus 15 hours ago | 16 comments

22.

The Hacker's Renaissance (2025) (phrack.org)

105 points by yu3zhou4 7 hours ago | 74 comments

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Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium (euronews.com)

104 points by andrewstetsenko 7 hours ago | 132 comments

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The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (blog.andymasley.com)

102 points by mef 7 hours ago | 84 comments

25.

CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)

95 points by ashurandi 17 hours ago | 33 comments

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SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost (404media.co)

94 points by theanonymousone 19 hours ago | 68 comments

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New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it (propelmusic.co.nz)