HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k (systima.ai)

528 points by systima 11 hours ago | 294 comments

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Old and new apps, via modern coding agents (terrytao.wordpress.com)

425 points by subset 18 hours ago | 126 comments

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Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS (scrapfly.dev)

383 points by joahnn_s 8 hours ago | 183 comments

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I love LLMs, I hate hype (geohot.github.io)

380 points by therepanic 11 hours ago | 240 comments

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Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles

316 points by levkk 4 hours ago | 174 comments

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How to read more books (scotto.me)

284 points by silcoon 13 hours ago | 162 comments

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Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty (dakra.github.io)

270 points by signa11 20 hours ago | 52 comments

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The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia (economist.com)

228 points by saikatsg 14 hours ago | 187 comments

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Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity (theregister.com)

226 points by Bender 9 hours ago | 231 comments

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LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders (larp.website)

198 points by BerislavLopac 12 hours ago | 41 comments

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Tiny Emulators (floooh.github.io)

195 points by naves 9 hours ago | 12 comments

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Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)

188 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 120 comments

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Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)

172 points by brryant 12 hours ago | 63 comments

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Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase (github.com)

151 points by cosmtrek 23 hours ago | 62 comments

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Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family (english.elpais.com)

149 points by RetroTechie 18 hours ago | 211 comments

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Understanding the Odin programming language (odinbook.com)

149 points by AlexeyBrin 17 hours ago | 92 comments

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AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study (spectrum.ieee.org)

143 points by zaikunzhang 16 hours ago | 102 comments

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Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (shellzine.net)

133 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 35 comments

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Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media (ca.pcmag.com)

124 points by thunderbong 19 hours ago | 144 comments

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I Learned to Read Again (substack.magazinenongrata.com)

119 points by georgex7 11 hours ago | 50 comments

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Why Vanilla JavaScript (guseyn.com)

113 points by guseyn 6 hours ago | 67 comments

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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

112 points by david927 8 hours ago | 343 comments

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How we can reduce traffic congestion (research.google)

111 points by raahelb 13 hours ago | 137 comments

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Automation Without Understanding (arxiv.org)

108 points by root-parent 12 hours ago | 47 comments

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Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams (app.ilograph.com)

103 points by billyp-rva 17 hours ago | 31 comments

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Making Crash Bandicoot (2011) (all-things-andy-gavin.com)

101 points by alexpls 16 hours ago | 1 comments

27.

Against Usefulness (motivenotes.ai)

98 points by supo 11 hours ago | 24 comments

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Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs (cacm.acm.org)