HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer (roman.pt)

1466 points by lwhsiao 20 hours ago | 275 comments

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I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer (twitter.com)

673 points by apitman 11 hours ago | 329 comments

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Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb (richardosgood.com)

523 points by sohkamyung 17 hours ago | 313 comments

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Mechanical Watch (2022) (ciechanow.ski)

446 points by razin 5 hours ago | 82 comments

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The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (devblogs.microsoft.com)

429 points by paulmooreparks 11 hours ago | 137 comments

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Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak (theregister.com)

418 points by _tk_ 7 hours ago | 233 comments

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Typst 0.15.0 (typst.app)

324 points by schu 23 hours ago | 87 comments

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I Love the Computer (michaelenger.com)

287 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 156 comments

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SpaceX Is Buying Cursor (bbc.com)

283 points by jrm-veris 4 hours ago | 346 comments

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SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (reuters.com)

278 points by itsmarcelg 5 hours ago | 235 comments

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Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)

274 points by jfb 2 hours ago | 145 comments

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Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible (gmalandrakis.com)

267 points by l0new0lf-G 19 hours ago | 498 comments

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I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID (bobdahacker.com)

254 points by BobDaHacker 11 hours ago | 90 comments

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What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes (notnotp.com)

240 points by chmaynard 20 hours ago | 187 comments

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Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen (forgottenbytes.net)

226 points by mfiguiere 22 hours ago | 77 comments

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US battery manufacturing output continues to break records (fred.stlouisfed.org)

219 points by epistasis 20 hours ago | 182 comments

17.

Why I email complete strangers (goodinternetmagazine.com)

203 points by karakoram 18 hours ago | 92 comments

18.

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 (tck.mn)

186 points by rdmuser 6 hours ago | 61 comments

19.

Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers (9to5google.com)

177 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 112 comments

20.

How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data (roszigit.com)

165 points by lkanwoqwp 23 hours ago | 24 comments

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Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch (runtimewire.com)

153 points by ilreb 13 hours ago | 68 comments

22.

Claude Corps (anthropic.com)

151 points by Mustan 22 hours ago | 111 comments

23.

Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion (economist.com)

149 points by andsoitis 14 hours ago | 411 comments

24.

Commodore Releases Flip Phone (commodore.net)

146 points by bartekrutkowski 7 hours ago | 91 comments

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Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage (sfgate.com)

138 points by pera 22 hours ago | 32 comments

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Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland (bbc.com)

121 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 4 hours ago | 53 comments

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Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art (garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com)

121 points by california-og 12 hours ago | 16 comments

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Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri (narracomm.com)

117 points by thelonelyborg 16 hours ago | 127 comments

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OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B (wheresyoured.at)

116 points by spking 12 hours ago | 62 comments

30.

I Fired Google (theartofdoingstuff.com)

106 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 94 comments