HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows (waxy.org)

373 points by ridesisapis 16 hours ago | 147 comments

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Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see (github.com)

305 points by Cider9986 22 hours ago | 118 comments

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VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate' (birminghammail.co.uk)

299 points by iamnothere 20 hours ago | 341 comments

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Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (extremetech.com)

287 points by tcp_handshaker 20 hours ago | 165 comments

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SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (smpte.org)

265 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 82 comments

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DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots (neuviemeporte.github.io)

259 points by LowLevelMahn 19 hours ago | 68 comments

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Renting a sewing machine from the library (bbc.com)

241 points by sohkamyung 12 hours ago | 131 comments

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Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior (cell.com)

218 points by croes 12 hours ago | 54 comments

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Developers don't understand CORS (2019) (fosterelli.co)

215 points by toilet 9 hours ago | 122 comments

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Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches (phoronix.com)

213 points by simonpure 14 hours ago | 197 comments

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Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents (blog.cloudflare.com)

213 points by farhadhf 23 hours ago | 113 comments

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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (sciencedaily.com)

211 points by colinprince 6 hours ago | 154 comments

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UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (lispm.net)

205 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 41 comments

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Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase (startupwiki.tech)

198 points by shpran 19 hours ago | 62 comments

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Pre-2022 Books (notes.lorenzogravina.com)

195 points by trms 12 hours ago | 122 comments

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When I reject AI code even if it works (vinibrasil.com)

190 points by vnbrs 10 hours ago | 107 comments

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Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World (esquire.com)

186 points by throwaway81523 12 hours ago | 80 comments

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Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites (townsquare.cauenapier.com)

182 points by cauenapier 23 hours ago | 101 comments

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The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost (sciencedaily.com)

175 points by nryoo 17 hours ago | 59 comments

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Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux (sibexi.co)

172 points by Sibexico 11 hours ago | 42 comments

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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash (reuters.com)

170 points by drayfield 20 hours ago | 111 comments

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AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs via BIOS update in July (tomshardware.com)

156 points by roboror 15 hours ago | 38 comments

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From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone (techcrunch.com)

153 points by Brajeshwar 21 hours ago | 68 comments

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The rise of South Korea’s weapons business (politico.com)

140 points by JumpCrisscross 23 hours ago | 50 comments

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Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil (cnn.com)

136 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 100 comments

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Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore (github.com)

134 points by gr4vityWall 17 hours ago | 272 comments

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Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025) (theregister.com)

127 points by wglb 13 hours ago | 36 comments

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Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones (lrt.lt)