HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning (werd.io)

1109 points by benwerd 19 hours ago | 837 comments

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Airport Simulator (airport.apunen.com)

795 points by apunen 23 hours ago | 153 comments

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Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database (news.risky.biz)

641 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 354 comments

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Who's afraid of Chinese models? (stratechery.com)

632 points by mfiguiere 22 hours ago | 430 comments

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Kimi Work (kimi.com)

546 points by ms7892 16 hours ago | 236 comments

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The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel (edri.org)

507 points by rapnie 21 hours ago | 303 comments

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Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (jelly-ui.com)

493 points by baldvinmar 16 hours ago | 155 comments

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Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public (aclu.org)

402 points by StatsAreFun 9 hours ago | 125 comments

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Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode (wren.wtf)

390 points by alekq 20 hours ago | 247 comments

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Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled (xenaproject.wordpress.com)

344 points by artninja1988 14 hours ago | 139 comments

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Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling (emergingtrajectories.com)

336 points by cl42 18 hours ago | 311 comments

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Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding (asia.nikkei.com)

280 points by NordStreamYacht 5 hours ago | 158 comments

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Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac (blaizzy.github.io)

276 points by aratahikaru5 15 hours ago | 88 comments

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Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL (phoronix.com)

272 points by DemiGuru 19 hours ago | 65 comments

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Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team (forum.jellyfin.org)

243 points by swat535 10 hours ago | 190 comments

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Perfection is not over-engineering (var0.xyz)

239 points by var0xyz 19 hours ago | 102 comments

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LEDs’ potential to save our night skies (spectrum.ieee.org)

232 points by defrost 20 hours ago | 175 comments

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How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks (unslop.run)

224 points by dopamine_daddy 17 hours ago | 154 comments

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Shinjuku Station in 3D (satoshi7190.github.io)

221 points by Gecko4072 19 hours ago | 50 comments

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The Voice of Google (newyorker.com)

206 points by littlexsparkee 18 hours ago | 113 comments

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Airbus Takes Flight from AWS (theregister.com)

205 points by bbg2401 23 hours ago | 161 comments

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Agent swarms and the new model economics (cursor.com)

192 points by jlaneve 15 hours ago | 87 comments

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Incremental – A library for incremental computations (github.com)

192 points by handfuloflight 5 hours ago | 32 comments

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I Stopped “Creating Content” (refactoringenglish.com)

172 points by mtlynch 17 hours ago | 127 comments

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Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) (nothings.org)

169 points by firephox 18 hours ago | 72 comments

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Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)

165 points by akanet 13 hours ago | 38 comments

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Czechia moves to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2027 (expats.cz)

157 points by Markoff 17 hours ago | 86 comments

28.

That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing (rachelbythebay.com)

148 points by wglb 15 hours ago | 144 comments

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Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files (hypr.land)

136 points by matesz 16 hours ago | 125 comments

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My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry (statnews.com)

135 points by Jimmc414 16 hours ago | 156 comments