HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)

788 points by senko 22 hours ago | 464 comments

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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)

584 points by theanonymousone 18 hours ago | 261 comments

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Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)

449 points by groomlake 20 hours ago | 244 comments

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_for-sale DNS records (specification.website)

408 points by shaunpud 23 hours ago | 157 comments

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My server is a phone now (seg6.space)

374 points by seg6 13 hours ago | 158 comments

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Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)

249 points by jmusall 13 hours ago | 21 comments

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)

242 points by adletbalzhanov 14 hours ago | 154 comments

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Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)

242 points by minimaxir 9 hours ago | 39 comments

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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)

235 points by geox 19 hours ago | 151 comments

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Don't use your phone while you poop (nate.spot)

199 points by ExMachina73 22 hours ago | 212 comments

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Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)

199 points by gumby 20 hours ago | 159 comments

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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)

195 points by jggonz 13 hours ago | 117 comments

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)

189 points by electricant 23 hours ago | 40 comments

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LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)

177 points by andrewpollack 19 hours ago | 105 comments

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Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)

169 points by MarcoDewey 17 hours ago | 48 comments

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Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)

166 points by happosai 22 hours ago | 109 comments

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The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)

165 points by doubletwoyou 8 hours ago | 73 comments

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Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (academic.oup.com)

150 points by bohaska 11 hours ago | 146 comments

19.

Incentives are for losers (experimental-history.com)

137 points by bkudria 10 hours ago | 99 comments

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Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)

137 points by mfiguiere 21 hours ago | 59 comments

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Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age (itsfoss.com)

110 points by WaitWaitWha 8 hours ago | 98 comments

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Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)

107 points by bookofjoe 15 hours ago | 65 comments

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Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com)

101 points by BruceEel 7 hours ago | 44 comments

24.

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)

83 points by rahen 23 hours ago | 13 comments

25.

Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)

73 points by tchalla 14 hours ago | 76 comments

26.

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)

71 points by gukoff 5 hours ago | 15 comments

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ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)

63 points by Eloissssss 10 hours ago | 47 comments

28.

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)

58 points by skibz 19 hours ago | 18 comments

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Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost (404media.co)

50 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 26 comments

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TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)

49 points by frozenseven 11 hours ago | 4 comments