HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)

565 points by senko 10 hours ago | 360 comments

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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)

508 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 241 comments

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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)

383 points by bhavansig 16 hours ago | 116 comments

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NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)

356 points by wglb 23 hours ago | 81 comments

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_for-sale DNS records (specification.website)

345 points by shaunpud 12 hours ago | 132 comments

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com)

342 points by epestr 18 hours ago | 94 comments

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Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)

335 points by 882542F3884314B 14 hours ago | 346 comments

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Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)

317 points by groomlake 9 hours ago | 143 comments

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US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)

241 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 388 comments

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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)

216 points by sbulaev 15 hours ago | 283 comments

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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)

203 points by geox 8 hours ago | 122 comments

12.

Don't use your phone while you poop (nate.spot)

187 points by ExMachina73 11 hours ago | 202 comments

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Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did (theverge.com)

175 points by eternalreturn 15 hours ago | 171 comments

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LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)

163 points by andrewpollack 8 hours ago | 98 comments

15.

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)

159 points by gumby 9 hours ago | 89 comments

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Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (social.treehouse.systems)

152 points by happosai 11 hours ago | 105 comments

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Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)

149 points by 01-_- 15 hours ago | 13 comments

18.

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (blog.getutm.app)

136 points by electricant 11 hours ago | 24 comments

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Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com)

99 points by rfarley04 12 hours ago | 75 comments

20.

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)

87 points by MarcoDewey 5 hours ago | 18 comments

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Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)

83 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 48 comments

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Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 (web.archive.org)

81 points by dnnehgf 21 hours ago | 19 comments

23.

My server is a phone now (seg6.space)

79 points by seg6 2 hours ago | 34 comments

24.

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)

77 points by rahen 11 hours ago | 12 comments

25.

The USSR in 100 Photographs (trinixy.ru)

62 points by decimalenough 13 hours ago | 85 comments

26.

Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)

57 points by mfiguiere 9 hours ago | 29 comments

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Making an AI bid writer refuse to lie (ailucius.com)

50 points by Lucius-AI 15 hours ago | 0 comments

28.

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)

46 points by skibz 7 hours ago | 11 comments

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Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All (wired.com)

40 points by sbulaev 11 hours ago | 8 comments

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The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference (redhat.com)

39 points by eigenBasis 13 hours ago | 5 comments