HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)

1290 points by MaxMussio 22 hours ago | 534 comments

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AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)

698 points by meysamazad 8 hours ago | 423 comments

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Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)

490 points by askvictor 9 hours ago | 6 comments

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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)

476 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 524 comments

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FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com)

405 points by gyan 10 hours ago | 91 comments

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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)

331 points by automatoney 4 hours ago | 71 comments

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DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)

324 points by zhoutong 10 hours ago | 83 comments

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All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (valleynewslive.com)

316 points by NDlurker 3 hours ago | 187 comments

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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (users.wpi.edu)

307 points by pmg101 20 hours ago | 336 comments

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Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)

263 points by meetpateltech 14 hours ago | 271 comments

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Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)

263 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 56 comments

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U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (cnbc.com)

241 points by tcp_handshaker 9 hours ago | 348 comments

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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)

233 points by thewebguyd 4 hours ago | 174 comments

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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)

197 points by cimi_ 9 hours ago | 104 comments

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Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (this.weekinsecurity.com)

178 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 61 comments

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NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data (publictechnology.net)

145 points by robin_reala 11 hours ago | 33 comments

17.

Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

137 points by jdcampolargo 1 hour ago | 8 comments

18.

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)

124 points by jandeboevrie 22 hours ago | 75 comments

19.

Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)

123 points by johnbarron 6 hours ago | 176 comments

20.

You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)

123 points by pedro_movai 11 hours ago | 102 comments

21.

Web security is too hard (textslashplain.com)

114 points by kevincox 1 hour ago | 42 comments

22.

Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)

108 points by simonebrunozzi 8 hours ago | 31 comments

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Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com)

107 points by MakazhanAlpamys 8 hours ago | 20 comments

24.

The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014) (upi.com)

104 points by giov4 10 hours ago | 76 comments

25.

"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (computerenhance.com)

98 points by FrojoS 10 hours ago | 80 comments

26.

The AI Demand Bubble (wheresyoured.at)

97 points by 7777777phil 4 hours ago | 90 comments

27.

Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)

94 points by sbulaev 10 hours ago | 31 comments

28.

Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)

85 points by carlos-menezes 2 hours ago | 76 comments

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)

81 points by riadsila 3 hours ago | 25 comments

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Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal (live.euronext.com)

76 points by riffraff 10 hours ago | 81 comments