HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War (anthropic.com)

1868 points by qwertox 11 hours ago | 992 comments

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Layoffs at Block (twitter.com)

714 points by mlex 12 hours ago | 768 comments

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Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)

564 points by davidbarker 17 hours ago | 536 comments

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Anthropic ditches its core safety promise (cnn.com)

548 points by motbus3 21 hours ago | 3 comments

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What Claude Code chooses (amplifying.ai)

416 points by tin7in 15 hours ago | 171 comments

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Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (read.technically.dev)

366 points by itunpredictable 17 hours ago | 371 comments

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AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)

357 points by DamnInteresting 18 hours ago | 167 comments

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Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com)

302 points by smalltorch 23 hours ago | 74 comments

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What does " 2>&1 " mean? (stackoverflow.com)

281 points by alexmolas 14 hours ago | 151 comments

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Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic (nytimes.com)

241 points by mikece 6 hours ago | 113 comments

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Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage (idc.com)

238 points by littlexsparkee 11 hours ago | 253 comments

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Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)

237 points by kvinogradov 17 hours ago | 147 comments

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The Hunt for Dark Breakfast (moultano.wordpress.com)

219 points by moultano 6 hours ago | 82 comments

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In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% (bsky.app)

203 points by doener 18 hours ago | 131 comments

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You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account (heltweg.org)

197 points by rhazn 22 hours ago | 295 comments

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Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (cs.uml.edu)

184 points by spiffytech 16 hours ago | 91 comments

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BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)

184 points by jasonpeacock 19 hours ago | 64 comments

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OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation (2025) (osmand.net)

170 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 54 comments

19.

This time is different (shkspr.mobi)

167 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 291 comments

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He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network (calmatters.org)

155 points by Element_ 15 hours ago | 62 comments

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Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." (twitter.com)

138 points by josephcsible 15 hours ago | 105 comments

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Google Street View in 2026 (tech.marksblogg.com)

137 points by marklit 16 hours ago | 101 comments

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Palantir's AI Is Playing a Major Role in Tracking Gaza Aid Deliveries (dropsitenews.com)

136 points by mikece 9 hours ago | 52 comments

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America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice (garymarcus.substack.com)

132 points by MindGods 13 hours ago | 80 comments

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A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives (bookriot.com)

128 points by LostMyLogin 6 hours ago | 94 comments

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Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (youtube.com)

125 points by Ulf950 19 hours ago | 48 comments

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Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win (hollywoodreporter.com)