HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (blog.terrygodier.com)

561 points by satvikpendem 12 hours ago | 254 comments

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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)

429 points by laurentiurad 6 hours ago | 243 comments

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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)

371 points by akyuu 10 hours ago | 303 comments

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Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)

326 points by minimaxir 22 hours ago | 64 comments

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Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy (techcrunch.com)

239 points by evo_9 10 hours ago | 191 comments

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Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone (techeblog.com)

222 points by Thorondor 10 hours ago | 72 comments

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Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)

214 points by ike_usawa 14 hours ago | 171 comments

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The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)

200 points by doubletwoyou 21 hours ago | 97 comments

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)

187 points by Klaster_1 11 hours ago | 43 comments

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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)

186 points by jader201 10 hours ago | 138 comments

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Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud (pubsonline.informs.org)

185 points by iamnothere 10 hours ago | 86 comments

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There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)

184 points by gukoff 18 hours ago | 31 comments

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

173 points by david927 8 hours ago | 650 comments

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Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com)

162 points by BruceEel 20 hours ago | 68 comments

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John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)

127 points by Kiboneu 12 hours ago | 85 comments

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Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)

124 points by oskrim 14 hours ago | 86 comments

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Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age (itsfoss.com)

118 points by WaitWaitWha 21 hours ago | 115 comments

18.

Saying No (rozumem.xyz)

117 points by rozumem 7 hours ago | 92 comments

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OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment (openchamber.dev)

108 points by hexomancer 8 hours ago | 55 comments

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FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US (tomshardware.com)

105 points by f-serif 9 hours ago | 96 comments

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Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com)

105 points by Rochus 13 hours ago | 16 comments

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Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium (euronews.com)

99 points by andrewstetsenko 5 hours ago | 120 comments

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Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse (wtoc.com)

99 points by chirau 4 hours ago | 74 comments

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The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025) (blog.andymasley.com)

98 points by mef 5 hours ago | 81 comments

25.

The Hacker's Renaissance (2025) (phrack.org)

96 points by yu3zhou4 5 hours ago | 69 comments

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SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost (404media.co)

92 points by theanonymousone 18 hours ago | 68 comments

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CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)

91 points by ashurandi 15 hours ago | 33 comments

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The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)

85 points by Lammy 15 hours ago | 67 comments

29.

Is it all just vapourware? (kirahowe.com)

84 points by Lyngbakr 4 hours ago | 164 comments

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Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change (82mhz.net)

81 points by reallydontask 10 hours ago | 72 comments