HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) (cs.unc.edu)

926 points by vismit2000 23 hours ago | 432 comments

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Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (pew.org)

518 points by matthest 9 hours ago | 594 comments

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Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service (propublica.org)

458 points by hn_acker 19 hours ago | 211 comments

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FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms (techcrunch.com)

451 points by jbegley 13 hours ago | 171 comments

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Death to Scroll Fade (dbushell.com)

386 points by PaulHoule 18 hours ago | 199 comments

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A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)

334 points by signa11 7 hours ago | 179 comments

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AI coding is gambling (notes.visaint.space)

328 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 399 comments

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Warranty Void If Regenerated (nearzero.software)

323 points by Stwerner 12 hours ago | 181 comments

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Nvidia NemoClaw (github.com)

300 points by hmokiguess 17 hours ago | 209 comments

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Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste (svgbackgrounds.com)

256 points by visiwig 17 hours ago | 52 comments

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Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware (promptarmor.com)

249 points by ozgune 17 hours ago | 81 comments

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OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO) (om.co)

225 points by aamederen 22 hours ago | 198 comments

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Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

223 points by bblcla 15 hours ago | 287 comments

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Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts (tomshardware.com)

182 points by bilsbie 20 hours ago | 2 comments

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Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code (rjcorwin.github.io)

181 points by staticvar 7 hours ago | 42 comments

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Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) (stripe.com)

175 points by bpierre 18 hours ago | 75 comments

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Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15 (engadget.com)

156 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 160 comments

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Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026 (whois.domaintools.com)

152 points by someprick 19 hours ago | 125 comments

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CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root (blog.qualys.com)

132 points by askl 17 hours ago | 81 comments

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EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime (commission.europa.eu)

124 points by guidoiaquinti 15 hours ago | 80 comments

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Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?

122 points by basilikum 7 hours ago | 128 comments

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Autoresearch for SAT Solvers (github.com)

122 points by chaisan 8 hours ago | 23 comments

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Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework (blog.google)

121 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 191 comments

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North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim (theregister.com)

121 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 133 comments

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Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild (wired.com)

119 points by WalterSobchak 18 hours ago | 89 comments

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Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 (cyberinsider.com)

119 points by adrianwaj 5 hours ago | 73 comments

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Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying (wsj.com)