HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)

2387 points by dang 2 days ago | 892 comments

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My AI skeptic friends are all nuts (fly.io)

2341 points by tabletcorry 1 week ago | 2818 comments

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Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (jeffgeerling.com)

1627 points by DavideNL 6 days ago | 757 comments

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Bill Atkinson has died (daringfireball.net)

1582 points by romanhn 4 days ago | 273 comments

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The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)

1574 points by booleanbetrayal 1 week ago | 942 comments

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OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats (arstechnica.com)

1129 points by ColinWright 1 week ago | 934 comments

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The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles (simonwillison.net)

937 points by swyx 4 days ago | 228 comments

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Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI (mistral.ai)

908 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 413 comments

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Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts (github.com)

881 points by gregorywegory 1 week ago | 518 comments

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FFmpeg merges WebRTC support (git.ffmpeg.org)

875 points by Sean-Der 1 week ago | 198 comments

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If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued (betterthanrandom.substack.com)

846 points by weltview 1 week ago | 355 comments

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Root shell on a credit card terminal (stefan-gloor.ch)

840 points by stgl 1 week ago | 251 comments

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Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc (apple.com)

838 points by thm 2 days ago | 484 comments

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Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS (github.com)

751 points by gok 2 days ago | 403 comments

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IRS Direct File on GitHub (chrisgiven.com)

743 points by nickthegreek 1 week ago | 318 comments

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Apple introduces a universal design across platforms (apple.com)

725 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 1181 comments

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A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network (github.com)

679 points by doener 1 week ago | 377 comments

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Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests (cnn.com)

676 points by sapphicsnail 2 days ago | 1631 comments

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How to post when no one is reading (jeetmehta.com)

665 points by j4mehta 1 week ago | 252 comments

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Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system (github.com)

663 points by asicsp 1 week ago | 273 comments

21.

Merlin Bird ID (merlin.allaboutbirds.org)

636 points by twitchard 1 week ago | 216 comments

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Why I wrote the BEAM book (happihacking.com)

613 points by lawik 1 week ago | 151 comments

23.

Cursor 1.0 (cursor.com)

612 points by ecz 1 week ago | 468 comments

24.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored (rachel.fast.ai)

605 points by chmaynard 1 week ago | 159 comments

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Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole (port.ac.uk)

602 points by zaik 19 hours ago | 499 comments

26.

Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user (brutecat.com)

596 points by brutecat 3 days ago | 188 comments

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How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes (about.gitlab.com)