HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

747 points by paveworld 19 hours ago | 156 comments

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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)

574 points by elffjs 19 hours ago | 292 comments

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Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' (techcrunch.com)

465 points by sbulaev 21 hours ago | 262 comments

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Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s (github.com)

424 points by snehesht 7 hours ago | 226 comments

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OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken' (theguardian.com)

267 points by jethronethro 21 hours ago | 3 comments

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Why don't more developers “use the platform”? (nolanlawson.com)

254 points by vinhnx 15 hours ago | 254 comments

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Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked (ben.stolovitz.com)

218 points by citelao 23 hours ago | 105 comments

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Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening (automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu)

192 points by longhaul 4 hours ago | 124 comments

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In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults (energytransition.org)

157 points by JumpCrisscross 11 hours ago | 172 comments

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Religious scholars met with Anthropic (nytimes.com)

151 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 374 comments

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We're working on a new RuneScape MMO (play.runescape.com)

143 points by droidjj 18 hours ago | 83 comments

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Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too? (sjg.io)

112 points by simonjgreen 23 hours ago | 60 comments

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Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com)

106 points by allenleee 10 hours ago | 56 comments

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Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com)

102 points by knuckleheads 13 hours ago | 27 comments

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Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children (teachyourkids.substack.com)

96 points by actfrench 7 hours ago | 63 comments

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VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next (gamehistory.org)

95 points by rdmuser 10 hours ago | 16 comments

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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States (medium.com)

93 points by sans_souse 21 hours ago | 18 comments

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Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers (gadgetreview.com)

77 points by josephcsible 19 hours ago | 31 comments

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UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program (reclaimthenet.org)

69 points by latein 13 hours ago | 28 comments

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Blindsight (Watts Novel) (en.wikipedia.org)

60 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 51 comments

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What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI? (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

49 points by 6bitquant 12 hours ago | 34 comments

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"Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet (404media.co)

41 points by airhangerf15 11 hours ago | 100 comments

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OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils (news.lavx.hu)

30 points by pjmlp 12 hours ago | 39 comments

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Protest against housing crisis in Spain (theguardian.com)

27 points by akbarnama 11 hours ago | 50 comments

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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill (cbc.ca)

26 points by throw0101a 4 hours ago | 22 comments

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Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering (newsletter.chainofthought.show)

25 points by cliffclimber 1 hour ago | 12 comments

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'Neanderthals Among Us' review (historytoday.com)

24 points by pepys 23 hours ago | 10 comments

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Building a RAG pipeline for semantic code search (blog.jetbrains.com)

24 points by saikatsg 2 hours ago | 4 comments

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RuneScape's Position on Gen AI (reddit.com)

22 points by cautiouscat 4 hours ago | 53 comments

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Writing code by hand is over, forever (eliocapella.com)

21 points by aray07 21 hours ago | 58 comments