HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)

748 points by bookofjoe 11 hours ago | 493 comments

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European Alternatives (european-alternatives.eu)

654 points by s_dev 16 hours ago | 394 comments

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Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem (dbushell.com)

489 points by dbushell 22 hours ago | 349 comments

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AI Usage Policy (github.com)

475 points by mefengl 20 hours ago | 254 comments

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Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)

340 points by rocauc 11 hours ago | 250 comments

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Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)

294 points by yesturi 19 hours ago | 108 comments

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Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)

287 points by pavel_lishin 13 hours ago | 309 comments

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Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee (arstechnica.com)

286 points by CharlesW 10 hours ago | 304 comments

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Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)

271 points by tosh 9 hours ago | 129 comments

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Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)

269 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 131 comments

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What has Docker become? (tuananh.net)

242 points by tuananh 17 hours ago | 264 comments

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Microsoft mishandling example.com (tinyapps.org)

232 points by mrled 16 hours ago | 81 comments

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Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com)

224 points by rvermeulen98 17 hours ago | 79 comments

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New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)

218 points by sarreph 11 hours ago | 107 comments

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Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com)

212 points by 01jonny01 20 hours ago | 178 comments

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KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)

212 points by bpierre 15 hours ago | 95 comments

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Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance (comma.ai)

211 points by JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | 116 comments

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Zotero 8 (zotero.org)

207 points by bouchard 11 hours ago | 54 comments

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Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed (github.com)

179 points by nurimamedov 11 hours ago | 161 comments

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Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)

169 points by whiteros_e 20 hours ago | 123 comments

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The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)

157 points by at1as 14 hours ago | 205 comments

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Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (blog.cloudflare.com)

135 points by nomaxx117 11 hours ago | 37 comments

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Banned C++ features in Chromium (chromium.googlesource.com)

133 points by szmarczak 9 hours ago | 108 comments

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White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying (bbc.co.uk)

125 points by petepete 17 hours ago | 77 comments

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TikTok is now collecting more data about its users (wired.com)

116 points by coloneltcb 7 hours ago | 73 comments

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White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying (nytimes.com)

109 points by nicpottier 15 hours ago | 46 comments

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Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-speech setup?

104 points by dsrtslnd23 18 hours ago | 22 comments

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Minnesota activist releases arrest video after manipulated White House version (apnews.com)

102 points by petethomas 5 hours ago | 41 comments

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House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate (reclaimthenet.org)

98 points by mikece 11 hours ago | 135 comments

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The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users (stuff.interfree.ca)

92 points by tuukkao 20 hours ago | 41 comments