HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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CSSQuake (cssquake.com)

505 points by msalsas 22 hours ago | 105 comments

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The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows (waxy.org)

368 points by ridesisapis 15 hours ago | 147 comments

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VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate' (birminghammail.co.uk)

295 points by iamnothere 19 hours ago | 340 comments

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Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (extremetech.com)

283 points by tcp_handshaker 19 hours ago | 160 comments

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Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see (github.com)

272 points by Cider9986 21 hours ago | 100 comments

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SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (smpte.org)

259 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 79 comments

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DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (neuviemeporte.github.io)

250 points by LowLevelMahn 18 hours ago | 64 comments

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Renting a sewing machine from the library (bbc.com)

224 points by sohkamyung 10 hours ago | 115 comments

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Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents (blog.cloudflare.com)

206 points by farhadhf 22 hours ago | 110 comments

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UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (lispm.net)

202 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 38 comments

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Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches (phoronix.com)

198 points by simonpure 12 hours ago | 170 comments

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Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase (startupwiki.tech)

196 points by shpran 17 hours ago | 61 comments

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Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior (cell.com)

194 points by croes 10 hours ago | 40 comments

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Pre-2022 Books (notes.lorenzogravina.com)

192 points by trms 10 hours ago | 120 comments

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Developers don't understand CORS (2019) (fosterelli.co)

186 points by toilet 7 hours ago | 90 comments

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Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World (esquire.com)

181 points by throwaway81523 10 hours ago | 79 comments

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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (sciencedaily.com)

175 points by colinprince 5 hours ago | 116 comments

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When I reject AI code even if it works (vinibrasil.com)

172 points by vnbrs 8 hours ago | 98 comments

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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash (reuters.com)

169 points by drayfield 19 hours ago | 108 comments

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The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost (sciencedaily.com)

169 points by nryoo 15 hours ago | 59 comments

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Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (townsquare.cauenapier.com)

167 points by cauenapier 21 hours ago | 84 comments

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AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July (tomshardware.com)

152 points by roboror 14 hours ago | 37 comments

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Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux (sibexi.co)

152 points by Sibexico 10 hours ago | 37 comments

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From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone (techcrunch.com)

151 points by Brajeshwar 19 hours ago | 67 comments

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The rise of South Korea’s weapons business (politico.com)

138 points by JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago | 50 comments

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Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore (github.com)

132 points by gr4vityWall 16 hours ago | 263 comments

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Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil (cnn.com)

130 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 91 comments

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Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025) (theregister.com)

126 points by wglb 12 hours ago | 33 comments

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Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones (lrt.lt)

125 points by giuliomagnifico 21 hours ago | 93 comments

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Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM) (github.com)

118 points by overflowy 15 hours ago | 53 comments