HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (bbc.com)

307 points by gostsamo 21 hours ago | 193 comments

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What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable (mitsloan.mit.edu)

281 points by inaros 4 hours ago | 270 comments

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RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one (tomshardware.com)

238 points by edward 11 hours ago | 157 comments

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Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025) (westernmt.news)

220 points by bilsbie 7 hours ago | 185 comments

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XML Is a Cheap DSL (unplannedobsolescence.com)

215 points by y1n0 9 hours ago | 223 comments

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Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people (haitiantimes.com)

169 points by e12e 23 hours ago | 95 comments

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Please do not A/B test my workflow (backnotprop.com)

153 points by ramoz 10 hours ago | 196 comments

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I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites (benzimmermann.dev)

152 points by kernelrocks 22 hours ago | 45 comments

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GIMP 3.2 released (gimp.org)

149 points by F3nd0 1 hour ago | 35 comments

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An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills (old.reddit.com)

149 points by pabs3 20 hours ago | 13 comments

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Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)

137 points by waits 23 hours ago | 37 comments

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Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben (spiegel.de)

136 points by sebastian_z 7 hours ago | 45 comments

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Nmap in the movies (2008) (nmap.org)

135 points by homebrewer 5 hours ago | 18 comments

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I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me (lr0.org)

131 points by ghd_ 22 hours ago | 258 comments

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2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March (technode.global)

118 points by ninadwrites 2 hours ago | 88 comments

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AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier (robenglander.com)

109 points by birdculture 6 hours ago | 96 comments

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Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware (github.com)

108 points by XzetaU8 12 hours ago | 5 comments

18.

Sunsetting Jazzband (jazzband.co)

106 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | 37 comments

19.

Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (interpret.csis.org)

95 points by msuniverse2026 12 hours ago | 115 comments

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UBI as a productivity dividend (scottsantens.substack.com)

94 points by 2noame 5 hours ago | 181 comments

21.

Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war (twitter.com)

88 points by theahura 2 hours ago | 36 comments

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Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount (reuters.com)

85 points by Aboutplants 20 hours ago | 16 comments

23.

Our Experience with I-Ready (moultano.wordpress.com)

81 points by barry-cotter 21 hours ago | 31 comments

24.

Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022) (journals.sagepub.com)

73 points by xyzal 5 hours ago | 43 comments

25.

Show HN: GitAgent – An open standard that turns any Git repo into an AI agent (gitagent.sh)

72 points by sivasurend 8 hours ago | 7 comments

26.

It's time to move your docs in the repo (dein.fr)

71 points by gregdoesit 2 hours ago | 47 comments

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Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture (tboteproject.com)

71 points by mefengl 12 hours ago | 12 comments

28.

An ode to bzip (purplesyringa.moe)

69 points by signa11 5 hours ago | 43 comments

29.

Optimizing Content for Agents (cra.mr)

68 points by vinhnx 19 hours ago | 25 comments

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$2B nonprofit grants traced to find who's behind age verification bills (old.reddit.com)

67 points by spaghetdefects 21 hours ago | 1 comments