HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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

642 points by laurentiurad 15 hours ago | 392 comments

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

582 points by satvikpendem 21 hours ago | 267 comments

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

550 points by akyuu 19 hours ago | 469 comments

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Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)

308 points by ike_usawa 22 hours ago | 251 comments

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

293 points by jader201 19 hours ago | 206 comments

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

268 points by evo_9 19 hours ago | 224 comments

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

250 points by Thorondor 19 hours ago | 89 comments

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

246 points by david927 16 hours ago | 873 comments

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

242 points by Klaster_1 19 hours ago | 61 comments

10.

What Happened to HackerOne? (blog.teknogeek.io)

238 points by hipparchus 7 hours ago | 105 comments

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Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (docker.com)

217 points by etoxin 4 hours ago | 142 comments

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code (claude.com)

214 points by sbehere 6 hours ago | 219 comments

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

192 points by iamnothere 18 hours ago | 93 comments

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OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)

148 points by hexomancer 16 hours ago | 75 comments

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

144 points by Kiboneu 20 hours ago | 108 comments

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I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video] (mynoise.net)

143 points by gregsadetsky 15 hours ago | 121 comments

17.

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

142 points by oskrim 22 hours ago | 98 comments

18.

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition (economist.com)

125 points by simonpure 14 hours ago | 82 comments

19.

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

124 points by chirau 13 hours ago | 114 comments

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

121 points by mef 14 hours ago | 105 comments

21.

Saying No (rozumem.xyz)

119 points by rozumem 15 hours ago | 100 comments

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

117 points by Rochus 21 hours ago | 19 comments

23.

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

116 points by berghoffer 13 hours ago | 69 comments

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

113 points by f-serif 17 hours ago | 106 comments

25.

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

112 points by andrewstetsenko 14 hours ago | 150 comments

26.

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

111 points by yu3zhou4 14 hours ago | 82 comments

27.

Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent (dpreview.com)

97 points by anigbrowl 9 hours ago | 22 comments

28.

How We Pushed CDC into Postgres (snowflake.com)

94 points by craigkerstiens 9 hours ago | 9 comments

29.

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes (tuxedono2.com)

93 points by smartmic 13 hours ago | 26 comments

30.

Is it all just vapourware? (kirahowe.com)

92 points by Lyngbakr 13 hours ago | 182 comments