HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech (gadgetreview.com)

847 points by doener 18 hours ago | 20 comments

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Kagi Small Web (kagi.com)

722 points by trueduke 19 hours ago | 197 comments

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Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' (tomshardware.com)

603 points by crtasm 13 hours ago | 216 comments

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A Decade of Slug (terathon.com)

513 points by mwkaufma 10 hours ago | 43 comments

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FFmpeg 8.1 (ffmpeg.org)

372 points by gyan 14 hours ago | 57 comments

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Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track (fidget-spinner.github.io)

317 points by guidoiaquinti 10 hours ago | 136 comments

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If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems (andrewmurphy.io)

304 points by mooreds 11 hours ago | 205 comments

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Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system (github.com)

256 points by stefankuehnel 8 hours ago | 132 comments

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Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill (ilga.gov)

255 points by terminalbraid 11 hours ago | 392 comments

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Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers (bbc.com)

252 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 hours ago | 160 comments

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Node.js needs a virtual file system (blog.platformatic.dev)

238 points by voctor 14 hours ago | 209 comments

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Mistral AI Releases Forge (mistral.ai)

225 points by pember 8 hours ago | 33 comments

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GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano (openai.com)

217 points by meetpateltech 12 hours ago | 133 comments

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Unsloth Studio (unsloth.ai)

216 points by brainless 13 hours ago | 48 comments

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Java 26 is here (hanno.codes)

215 points by mfiguiere 10 hours ago | 170 comments

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Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks (phys.org)

213 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 119 comments

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Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back (governance.fyi)

192 points by bigbobbeeper 16 hours ago | 275 comments

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Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued (communityforums.atmeta.com)

191 points by par 9 hours ago | 202 comments

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OpenSUSE Kalpa (kalpadesktop.org)

185 points by ogogmad 15 hours ago | 82 comments

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A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992) (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

175 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB 16 hours ago | 98 comments

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Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source (matijacniacki.com)

163 points by zggf 21 hours ago | 69 comments

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Building a Shell (healeycodes.com)

153 points by ingve 19 hours ago | 38 comments

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'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025) (theasc.com)

135 points by tambourine_man 13 hours ago | 68 comments

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Edge.js: Run Node apps inside a WebAssembly sandbox (wasmer.io)

116 points by syrusakbary 11 hours ago | 33 comments

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Warranty Void If Regenerated (nearzero.software)

92 points by Stwerner 8 hours ago | 22 comments

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Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking (github.com)

92 points by adammiribyan 15 hours ago | 16 comments

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Show HN: Antfly: Distributed, Multimodal Search and Memory and Graphs in Go (github.com)

82 points by kingcauchy 13 hours ago | 36 comments

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Why AI systems don't learn – On autonomous learning from cognitive science (arxiv.org)