HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)

573 points by milkglass 6 hours ago | 335 comments

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Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org)

467 points by skullone 14 hours ago | 240 comments

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Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)

464 points by pr337h4m 19 hours ago | 302 comments

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USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)

368 points by gwerbret 14 hours ago | 66 comments

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Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

335 points by _-x-_ 11 hours ago | 125 comments

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Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)

283 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 178 comments

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Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)

278 points by chiefalchemist 12 hours ago | 166 comments

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The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it (newrepublic.com)

245 points by chirau 15 hours ago | 328 comments

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Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)

235 points by nickjj 20 hours ago | 78 comments

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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (juraj.bednar.io)

225 points by gasull 9 hours ago | 117 comments

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Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (blog.happyfellow.dev)

163 points by thehappyfellow 19 hours ago | 67 comments

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Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center (boilingsteam.com)

153 points by ekianjo 19 hours ago | 123 comments

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GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty (openai.com)

149 points by Murfalo 22 hours ago | 101 comments

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Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (seriouseats.com)

146 points by jstrieb 16 hours ago | 122 comments

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Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known (nbcnews.com)

125 points by hggh 20 hours ago | 168 comments

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America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)

122 points by sleepyguy 17 hours ago | 140 comments

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Hokusai and Tesselations (dl.ndl.go.jp)

121 points by srean 19 hours ago | 15 comments

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Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)

109 points by terminalbraid 14 hours ago | 40 comments

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Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)

102 points by varjag 19 hours ago | 48 comments

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GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (lists.gnupg.org)

92 points by zdkaster 9 hours ago | 33 comments

21.

Jumping into cold water can stop your heart (jorgenmelau.substack.com)

88 points by fanf2 22 hours ago | 36 comments

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The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)

85 points by offbyone42 12 hours ago | 12 comments

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Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter (edenai.co)

78 points by muzzy19 4 hours ago | 42 comments

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AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)

78 points by pabs3 7 hours ago | 18 comments

25.

Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)

77 points by sph 3 hours ago | 14 comments

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A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023) (allbrainsbelong.org)

65 points by AndrewDucker 23 hours ago | 64 comments

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Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch (nytimes.com)

60 points by danso 13 hours ago | 54 comments

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DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)

59 points by mji 13 hours ago | 6 comments

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What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role (mnot.net)

58 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 63 comments

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Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)

57 points by elisaado 1 hour ago | 0 comments