HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services (neilzone.co.uk)

934 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 573 comments

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MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max (apple.com)

791 points by scrlk 21 hours ago | 836 comments

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Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)

749 points by pabs3 10 hours ago | 235 comments

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I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project (twitter.com)

484 points by devinitely 21 hours ago | 237 comments

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Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video] (youtube.com)

482 points by pcdavid 20 hours ago | 82 comments

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Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability (ifixit.com)

414 points by wrxd 11 hours ago | 198 comments

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MacBook Air with M5 (apple.com)

396 points by Garbage 21 hours ago | 452 comments

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Don't become an engineering manager (newsletter.manager.dev)

360 points by flail 20 hours ago | 257 comments

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GPT‑5.3 Instant (openai.com)

357 points by meetpateltech 17 hours ago | 277 comments

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India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders (bbc.com)

352 points by tchalla 22 hours ago | 180 comments

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Iran War Cost Tracker (iran-cost-ticker.com)

301 points by TSiege 16 hours ago | 403 comments

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Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video] (youtube.com)

291 points by vanyauhalin 23 hours ago | 167 comments

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Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon (tomshardware.com)

287 points by vanburen 16 hours ago | 248 comments

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TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (bbc.com)

262 points by 1659447091 9 hours ago | 213 comments

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When AI writes the software, who verifies it? (leodemoura.github.io)

242 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 240 comments

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Don't make me talk to your chatbot (raymyers.org)

241 points by pkilgore 12 hours ago | 202 comments

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Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR (apple.com)

225 points by victorbjorklund 21 hours ago | 290 comments

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Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands (wired.com)

224 points by alwillis 15 hours ago | 79 comments

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Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 (growtika.com)

217 points by Growtika 21 hours ago | 164 comments

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GitHub having issues [resolved] (githubstatus.com)

208 points by Simpliplant 16 hours ago | 143 comments

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Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)

205 points by SerCe 7 hours ago | 81 comments

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Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)

203 points by spacemarine1 13 hours ago | 56 comments

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AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review (theverge.com)

180 points by duggan 21 hours ago | 128 comments

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Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native (tonsky.me)

171 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 211 comments

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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death (politico.eu)

170 points by mooreds 12 hours ago | 103 comments

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Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonwillison.net)

169 points by r4um 6 hours ago | 67 comments

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An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023) (jakelazaroff.com)

153 points by evakhoury 15 hours ago | 23 comments

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Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal (euronews.com)