HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The Amazon tax (seths.blog)

1120 points by herbertl 18 hours ago | 614 comments

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Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit (theregister.com)

574 points by pseudolus 21 hours ago | 397 comments

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Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM (pixelcluster.dev)

522 points by flaburgan 23 hours ago | 290 comments

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Beware Management Consultants (about.iceland.co.uk)

519 points by KolmogorovComp 11 hours ago | 129 comments

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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner (philo.gay)

424 points by otherayden 18 hours ago | 69 comments

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Fixing a bricked Framework laptop (quantum5.ca)

399 points by jp_sc 18 hours ago | 270 comments

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OpenLogi (openlogi.org)

384 points by amatheus 5 hours ago | 82 comments

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Fairphone is now officially available in the United States (fairphone.com)

370 points by Vinnl 18 hours ago | 175 comments

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Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation (bfi.uchicago.edu)

351 points by jplusequalt 6 hours ago | 205 comments

10.

How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (ikea.com)

318 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 188 comments

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Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers (asmedigitalcollection.asme.org)

296 points by cwwc 14 hours ago | 450 comments

12.

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (shkspr.mobi)

279 points by _djo_ 14 hours ago | 183 comments

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Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk (theconversation.com)

271 points by zeristor 17 hours ago | 56 comments

14.

Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion (support.claude.com)

269 points by tyre 14 hours ago | 246 comments

15.

Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People (privacyguides.org)

250 points by DeepLogin 19 hours ago | 167 comments

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A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome (github.com)

249 points by phoenix120 9 hours ago | 85 comments

17.

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust (github.com)

238 points by fittingopposite 13 hours ago | 31 comments

18.

Rethinking Database Programming (acadia.engineering)

237 points by honungsburk 23 hours ago | 133 comments

19.

Norway should buy OpenAI (onethousandmeans.com)

232 points by alexeigannon 11 hours ago | 246 comments

20.

Cerebras CS-4 (cerebras.ai)

222 points by sunils34 6 hours ago | 149 comments

21.

Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco (economist.com)

199 points by newsomix9xl 5 hours ago | 145 comments

22.

Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows (twitter.com)

176 points by porridgeraisin 19 hours ago | 145 comments

23.

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book) (opensource.posit.co)

172 points by jeroenjanssens 17 hours ago | 39 comments

24.

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone (bbc.com)

169 points by dabinat 6 hours ago | 112 comments

25.

Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union (apple.com)

157 points by newusertoday 15 hours ago | 217 comments

26.

Degraded performance for multiple models (status.claude.com)

147 points by matt89 14 hours ago | 129 comments

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US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures (bbc.com)

146 points by root-parent 12 hours ago | 70 comments

28.

Mojo is now open source! (modular.com)

141 points by visheshdembla 15 hours ago | 34 comments

29.

Claude Code teaching macOS to natively print to the HP Laser 1008a (cdn.kuber.studio)

126 points by amrrs 10 hours ago | 3 comments

30.

Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries (github.com)

118 points by zX41ZdbW 7 hours ago | 95 comments