HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)

297 points by ingve 17 hours ago | 142 comments

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Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii (theguardian.com)

296 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 101 comments

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What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI (gist.github.com)

285 points by jhoho 9 hours ago | 131 comments

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Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (antjs.org)

271 points by theMackabu 14 hours ago | 117 comments

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Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)

269 points by adletbalzhanov 17 hours ago | 106 comments

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Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh (iroh.computer)

263 points by tionis 12 hours ago | 59 comments

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We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)

212 points by saisrirampur 19 hours ago | 51 comments

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AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence (geohot.github.io)

204 points by rvz 16 hours ago | 244 comments

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Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)

199 points by downwithdisease 18 hours ago | 202 comments

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Networking and the Internet, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)

199 points by faza 22 hours ago | 67 comments

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UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction (timeseriesofindia.com)

192 points by prtk25 18 hours ago | 83 comments

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How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) (archive.cancerworld.net)

191 points by downbad_ 11 hours ago | 110 comments

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Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)

185 points by downbad_ 17 hours ago | 126 comments

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Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM (blog.yaelwrites.com)

180 points by theorchid 12 hours ago | 104 comments

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Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)

173 points by acley 21 hours ago | 53 comments

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RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch (github.com)

144 points by mariuz 12 hours ago | 21 comments

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Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025) (news.vt.edu)

137 points by sublinear 12 hours ago | 81 comments

18.

How to hide from killer drones (economist.com)

125 points by pseudolus 16 hours ago | 160 comments

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The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (math.ucdavis.edu)

122 points by wolfi1 19 hours ago | 65 comments

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FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (theconversation.com)

121 points by reaperducer 22 hours ago | 144 comments

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Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (2025) (pluralistic.net)

105 points by jason_s 17 hours ago | 67 comments

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Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19 (ijidonline.com)

100 points by thenerdhead 10 hours ago | 49 comments

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Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices (theguardian.com)

98 points by dilawar 7 hours ago | 113 comments

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Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid (npr.org)

96 points by nradov 6 hours ago | 161 comments

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A pure scheme web programming tool (goeteia.dev)

95 points by guenchi 9 hours ago | 22 comments

26.

Unexpected Solidlike Fracture in Simple Liquids (quantamagazine.org)

93 points by Anon84 8 hours ago | 45 comments

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Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

91 points by zetalyrae 21 hours ago | 49 comments

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Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma (abcnews.com)