HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Steam Machine launches today (store.steampowered.com)

1657 points by theschwa 18 hours ago | 1418 comments

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Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation (mitchellh.com)

784 points by tosh 22 hours ago | 267 comments

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Never Give Them Your Face (nevergivethemyourface.com)

714 points by audiodude 22 hours ago | 404 comments

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Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed (ipvm.com)

536 points by jhonovich 16 hours ago | 245 comments

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Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040 (cbc.ca)

502 points by geox 16 hours ago | 348 comments

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GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally (unsloth.ai)

422 points by TechTechTech 14 hours ago | 186 comments

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The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output (patrickmccanna.net)

307 points by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 21 hours ago | 213 comments

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Jobs and Software Is Fucked (urflow.bearblog.dev)

303 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 275 comments

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Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance (hustvl.github.io)

300 points by DSemba 21 hours ago | 71 comments

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Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs (spur.us)

247 points by microcode 15 hours ago | 156 comments

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Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers (davidrevoy.com)

225 points by Tomte 23 hours ago | 117 comments

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VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO (arxiv.org)

225 points by timhigins 9 hours ago | 97 comments

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Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site (puzzlelair.com)

215 points by HaxleRose 23 hours ago | 129 comments

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1,700 free online courses from top universities (openculture.com)

208 points by momentmaker 9 hours ago | 33 comments

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Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV (gizmodo.com)

206 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 182 comments

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Prompt Injection as Role Confusion (role-confusion.github.io)

196 points by x312 20 hours ago | 102 comments

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Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents (oak.space)

192 points by zdgeier 20 hours ago | 165 comments

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Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components (github.com)

184 points by iamnothere 16 hours ago | 50 comments

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In praise of memcached (jchri.st)

179 points by j03b 10 hours ago | 65 comments

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Will It Mythos? (swelljoe.com)

178 points by mindingnever 7 hours ago | 115 comments

21.

Japanese symbols that speak without words (arun.is)

177 points by msephton 16 hours ago | 116 comments

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Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake (arstechnica.com)

169 points by pseudolus 11 hours ago | 8 comments

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The new HTTP QUERY method explained (kreya.app)

161 points by CommonGuy 5 hours ago | 88 comments

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NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say (science.org)

154 points by strangeloops85 19 hours ago | 91 comments

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Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center (chevron.com)

145 points by cdrnsf 22 hours ago | 136 comments

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Job application asked for my SAT scores (mrmarket.lol)

138 points by seltzerboys 14 hours ago | 342 comments

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Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon (theregister.com)

137 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 47 comments

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British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres (crunchydata.com)

132 points by sprawl_ 16 hours ago | 97 comments

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DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships (wsj.com)

129 points by julienchastang 20 hours ago | 58 comments

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Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says (reuters.com)

128 points by supercopter 1 hour ago | 52 comments