HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce (reuters.com)

1113 points by PriorityLeft 19 hours ago | 754 comments

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Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)

849 points by stefanpie 18 hours ago | 553 comments

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AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)

764 points by thm 21 hours ago | 657 comments

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Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)

733 points by flipped 21 hours ago | 304 comments

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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)

724 points by psxuaw 17 hours ago | 386 comments

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Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened (apnews.com)

563 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 478 comments

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Agents need control flow, not more prompts (bsuh.bearblog.dev)

549 points by bsuh 23 hours ago | 266 comments

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Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text (anthropic.com)

347 points by instagraham 22 hours ago | 108 comments

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Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard (elciudadano.com)

338 points by wslh 22 hours ago | 284 comments

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ClojureScript Gets Async/Await (clojurescript.org)

220 points by Borkdude 9 hours ago | 53 comments

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Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2 (nintendo.co.jp)

211 points by razorbeamz 9 hours ago | 186 comments

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An Introduction to Meshtastic (meshtastic.org)

194 points by ColinWright 5 hours ago | 72 comments

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Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect (uchicagomedicine.org)

179 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 72 comments

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GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs (openrouter.ai)

153 points by gmays 15 hours ago | 42 comments

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ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas) (bleepingcomputer.com)

143 points by tfirst 20 hours ago | 2 comments

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Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off (theverge.com)

142 points by droidjj 2 hours ago | 139 comments

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Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus (bcm.edu)

136 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 55 comments

18.

Just Fucking Use Go (blainsmith.com)

130 points by xngbuilds 2 hours ago | 109 comments

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Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found (citizen.co.za)

128 points by jruohonen 20 hours ago | 30 comments

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Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos and "almost no false positives" (arstechnica.com)

122 points by epistasis 20 hours ago | 4 comments

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A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking (sinceyouarrived.world)

118 points by mwheelz 3 hours ago | 68 comments

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GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 (github.com)

114 points by foltik 16 hours ago | 52 comments

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Principles for agent-native CLIs (twitter.com)

101 points by blumpy22 22 hours ago | 49 comments

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GeoJSON (geojson.org)

99 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 44 comments

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California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply (kmph.com)

98 points by cdrnsf 23 hours ago | 211 comments

26.

Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)

98 points by ribtoks 2 hours ago | 29 comments

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Mojo 1.0 Beta (mojolang.org)

92 points by sbt567 13 hours ago | 98 comments

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Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study (cam.ac.uk)

92 points by hhs 17 hours ago | 68 comments

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Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com)

85 points by peter_d_sherman 11 hours ago | 38 comments

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Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees (~20% of workforce) (finance.yahoo.com)

82 points by gcr 19 hours ago | 2 comments