HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Anthropic ditches its core safety promise (cnn.com)

542 points by motbus3 8 hours ago | 3 comments

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Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

523 points by miki123211 11 hours ago | 196 comments

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Banned in California (bannedincalifornia.org)

474 points by pie_flavor 21 hours ago | 549 comments

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How will OpenAI compete? (ben-evans.com)

449 points by iamskeole 22 hours ago | 608 comments

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Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (eff.org)

440 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 135 comments

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Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)

380 points by davidbarker 4 hours ago | 369 comments

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RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs (arstechnica.com)

369 points by jnord 18 hours ago | 317 comments

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First Website (1992) (info.cern.ch)

297 points by shrikaranhanda 21 hours ago | 84 comments

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Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com)

259 points by smalltorch 10 hours ago | 62 comments

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AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)

253 points by DamnInteresting 5 hours ago | 125 comments

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You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account (heltweg.org)

187 points by rhazn 9 hours ago | 287 comments

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In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% (bsky.app)

186 points by doener 5 hours ago | 122 comments

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Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit (disruptionbanking.com)

166 points by shin_lao 19 hours ago | 69 comments

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Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (read.technically.dev)

160 points by itunpredictable 4 hours ago | 175 comments

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I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word” (grumpy-economist.com)

159 points by qsi 16 hours ago | 223 comments

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Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)

153 points by kvinogradov 4 hours ago | 107 comments

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An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop (aircada.com)

129 points by sech8420 23 hours ago | 72 comments

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BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)

110 points by jasonpeacock 6 hours ago | 30 comments

19.

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (cs.uml.edu)

106 points by spiffytech 3 hours ago | 46 comments

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Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (youtube.com)

95 points by Ulf950 6 hours ago | 40 comments

21.

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (wsj.com)

92 points by reaperducer 18 hours ago | 80 comments

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Google Street View in 2026 (tech.marksblogg.com)

90 points by marklit 3 hours ago | 65 comments

23.

just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com)

88 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 50 comments

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Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals' (cnn.com)

85 points by jb1991 9 hours ago | 99 comments

25.

Technical Excellence Is Not Enough (raccoon.land)

85 points by bo0tzz 11 hours ago | 89 comments

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Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." (twitter.com)

77 points by josephcsible 2 hours ago | 64 comments

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Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information (motherjones.com)

72 points by u1hcw9nx 23 hours ago | 10 comments

28.

He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, uncovered a surveillance network (calmatters.org)

71 points by Element_ 2 hours ago | 31 comments

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iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information (apple.com)

67 points by throwfaraway4 2 hours ago | 34 comments

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Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications (scripps.edu)

63 points by littlexsparkee 8 hours ago | 73 comments