HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools (blog.mozilla.org)

599 points by WithinReason 16 hours ago | 258 comments

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Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)

540 points by nolok 9 hours ago | 235 comments

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I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)

455 points by TheEdonian 10 hours ago | 329 comments

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At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025 (stateofsurveillance.org)

408 points by rolph 5 hours ago | 309 comments

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Native all the way, until you need text (justsitandgrin.im)

362 points by dive 11 hours ago | 241 comments

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AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise (thestateofbrand.com)

358 points by mooreds 11 hours ago | 365 comments

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Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter (williamangel.net)

286 points by datadrivenangel 10 hours ago | 239 comments

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AI is a technology not a product (daringfireball.net)

282 points by ch_sm 9 hours ago | 111 comments

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WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency (nytimes.com)

263 points by zzzeek 9 hours ago | 159 comments

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Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller (maurycyz.com)

228 points by zdw 21 hours ago | 19 comments

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I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation (github.com)

210 points by tech4bot 9 hours ago | 112 comments

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Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request (twitter.com)

179 points by bhouston 5 hours ago | 116 comments

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Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes (electrek.co)

165 points by breve 23 hours ago | 65 comments

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Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them (rutgerbregman.substack.com)

152 points by fredski42 15 hours ago | 83 comments

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EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data (osnews.com)

136 points by abdelhousni 5 hours ago | 64 comments

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Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels (electrek.co)

121 points by celsoazevedo 18 hours ago | 132 comments

17.

CUDA Books (github.com)

104 points by dariubs 10 hours ago | 22 comments

18.

Playing Atari ST Music on the Amiga with Zero CPU (arnaud-carre.github.io)

100 points by z303 15 hours ago | 35 comments

19.

Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep (github.com)

95 points by Bibabomas 7 hours ago | 34 comments

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Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state' (businessinsider.com)

94 points by LelouBil 6 hours ago | 144 comments

21.

Self-Distillation Enables Continual Learning [pdf] (arxiv.org)

94 points by teleforce 21 hours ago | 22 comments

22.

Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages (opencivics-labs.github.io)

93 points by laurex 6 hours ago | 23 comments

23.

VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) (spectrum.ieee.org)

93 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 17 comments

24.

The occasional ECONNRESET (movq.de)

82 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 19 comments

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Grafana Labs internal source code accessed (twitter.com)

80 points by jschorr 19 hours ago | 26 comments

26.

The AI water issue is fake (blog.andymasley.com)

76 points by shepherdjerred 4 hours ago | 52 comments

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Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD (bbc.com)