HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (blog.hayman.net)

853 points by mattl 11 hours ago | 226 comments

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Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (github.com)

678 points by sharjeelsayed 13 hours ago | 276 comments

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My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (gatesnotes.com)

571 points by nrvn 16 hours ago | 572 comments

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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (cnn.com)

517 points by saikatsg 14 hours ago | 808 comments

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Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

420 points by troupo 17 hours ago | 330 comments

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High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill (blog.adafruit.com)

404 points by ptorrone 14 hours ago | 349 comments

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Reservoir Sampling (samwho.dev)

362 points by chrisdemarco 13 hours ago | 71 comments

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Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference (radioandnukes.substack.com)

300 points by c16 21 hours ago | 67 comments

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Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford (nexo.sh)

287 points by nexo-v1 17 hours ago | 236 comments

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Google to back three new nuclear projects (esgtoday.com)

274 points by aburan28 16 hours ago | 303 comments

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Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy (github.com)

233 points by tylerflint 13 hours ago | 72 comments

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Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV (catholicreview.org)

215 points by rock57 13 hours ago | 2 comments

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Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (fusionenergybase.com)

189 points by sam 14 hours ago | 88 comments

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Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code (ghiculescu.substack.com)

170 points by jermaustin1 13 hours ago | 87 comments

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Trump's NIH axed research grants even after a judge blocked the cuts (propublica.org)

140 points by hn_acker 16 hours ago | 127 comments

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A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code (support.anthropic.com)

132 points by namukang 9 hours ago | 111 comments

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My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF (richardcocks.github.io)

110 points by eterm 18 hours ago | 158 comments

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How to start a school with your friends (prigoose.substack.com)

103 points by geverett 10 hours ago | 41 comments

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Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context (github.com)

100 points by Bhulapi 8 hours ago | 36 comments

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Starlink User Terminal Teardown (darknavy.org)

98 points by walterbell 3 hours ago | 16 comments

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More people are getting tattoos removed (gq.com)

97 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 162 comments

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Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk (news.artnet.com)

96 points by isaacfrond 22 hours ago | 88 comments

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Static as a Server (overreacted.io)

96 points by danabramov 12 hours ago | 69 comments

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Stability by Design (potetm.com)

95 points by potetm 10 hours ago | 33 comments

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How the US built 5k ships in WWII (construction-physics.com)

86 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 64 comments

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A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf] (usenix.org)

85 points by luu 3 hours ago | 52 comments

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Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire (scmp.com)