HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)

961 points by milkglass 12 hours ago | 619 comments

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Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org)

492 points by skullone 20 hours ago | 269 comments

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Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)

477 points by elisaado 7 hours ago | 210 comments

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Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

452 points by _-x-_ 17 hours ago | 169 comments

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USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)

447 points by gwerbret 20 hours ago | 80 comments

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Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)

360 points by chiefalchemist 18 hours ago | 240 comments

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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (juraj.bednar.io)

307 points by gasull 15 hours ago | 162 comments

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The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it (newrepublic.com)

258 points by chirau 21 hours ago | 336 comments

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Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)

231 points by sph 9 hours ago | 68 comments

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GitHub unwanted UX change: issue links now open in a popup (github.com)

154 points by luckman212 4 hours ago | 71 comments

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Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (seriouseats.com)

151 points by jstrieb 22 hours ago | 125 comments

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America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)

148 points by sleepyguy 23 hours ago | 159 comments

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The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)

145 points by offbyone42 18 hours ago | 19 comments

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GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (lists.gnupg.org)

141 points by zdkaster 15 hours ago | 40 comments

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Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities (openai.com)

140 points by kmdupree 4 hours ago | 97 comments

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Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)

125 points by terminalbraid 20 hours ago | 49 comments

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Clay PCB Tutorial (feministhackerspaces.cargo.site)

116 points by j0r0b0 2 hours ago | 77 comments

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At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared (cnn.com)

112 points by acdanger 5 hours ago | 76 comments

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Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter (edenai.co)

112 points by muzzy19 10 hours ago | 61 comments

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AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)

91 points by pabs3 13 hours ago | 23 comments

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DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)

73 points by mji 19 hours ago | 7 comments

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Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch (nytimes.com)

66 points by danso 19 hours ago | 57 comments

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Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)

65 points by subset 11 hours ago | 9 comments

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Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets (getkloak.io)

54 points by neo2006 23 hours ago | 49 comments

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Agents Aren't Coworkers, Embed Them in Your Software (feldera.com)

48 points by gz09 18 hours ago | 20 comments

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AI Might Be Lying to Your Boss (williamoconnell.me)

45 points by annjose 22 hours ago | 5 comments

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An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com)