HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (pew.org)

563 points by matthest 10 hours ago | 665 comments

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Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service (propublica.org)

463 points by hn_acker 20 hours ago | 212 comments

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FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms (techcrunch.com)

457 points by jbegley 15 hours ago | 172 comments

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Death to Scroll Fade (dbushell.com)

391 points by PaulHoule 19 hours ago | 201 comments

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A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)

383 points by signa11 8 hours ago | 202 comments

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Warranty Void If Regenerated (nearzero.software)

360 points by Stwerner 14 hours ago | 206 comments

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AI coding is gambling (notes.visaint.space)

331 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 400 comments

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Nvidia NemoClaw (github.com)

322 points by hmokiguess 19 hours ago | 217 comments

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Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste (svgbackgrounds.com)

281 points by visiwig 19 hours ago | 55 comments

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Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware (promptarmor.com)

251 points by ozgune 19 hours ago | 81 comments

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Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

227 points by bblcla 17 hours ago | 297 comments

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Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code (rjcorwin.github.io)

212 points by staticvar 8 hours ago | 57 comments

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Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts (tomshardware.com)

182 points by bilsbie 22 hours ago | 2 comments

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Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) (stripe.com)

180 points by bpierre 19 hours ago | 78 comments

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Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15 (engadget.com)

159 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 168 comments

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Conway's Game of Life, in real life (lcamtuf.substack.com)

157 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 36 comments

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Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026 (whois.domaintools.com)

152 points by someprick 21 hours ago | 126 comments

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Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 (cyberinsider.com)

142 points by adrianwaj 7 hours ago | 98 comments

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What 81,000 people want from AI (anthropic.com)

139 points by dsr12 6 hours ago | 111 comments

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CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root (blog.qualys.com)

139 points by askl 19 hours ago | 90 comments

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EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime (commission.europa.eu)

131 points by guidoiaquinti 17 hours ago | 83 comments

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Autoresearch for SAT Solvers (github.com)

131 points by chaisan 10 hours ago | 25 comments

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Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training (github.com)

128 points by xlayn 13 hours ago | 41 comments

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Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?

126 points by basilikum 9 hours ago | 141 comments

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Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework (blog.google)

123 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 200 comments

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Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying (wsj.com)

123 points by jgalt212 22 hours ago | 182 comments

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North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim (theregister.com)

122 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 133 comments

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Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild (wired.com)