HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (bbc.com)

843 points by defrost 13 hours ago | 805 comments

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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)

709 points by boplicity 23 hours ago | 386 comments

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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)

382 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 233 comments

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A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website (patronview.com)

355 points by petercooper 8 hours ago | 341 comments

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Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (app.dealroom.co)

348 points by delduca 5 hours ago | 237 comments

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U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal (nbcnews.com)

335 points by ceejayoz 10 hours ago | 336 comments

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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)

331 points by RickJWagner 10 hours ago | 475 comments

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App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours (daringfireball.net)

244 points by _da_ 4 hours ago | 129 comments

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Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)

227 points by poly2it 12 hours ago | 104 comments

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Assembly Hall of Shame (github.com)

214 points by piotrgrabowski 5 hours ago | 45 comments

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2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (ign.com)

198 points by inigyou 15 hours ago | 184 comments

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Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] (youtube.com)

198 points by Bender 8 hours ago | 50 comments

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USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data (niemanlab.org)

180 points by cdrnsf 9 hours ago | 70 comments

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Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023) (lse.ac.uk)

169 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 175 comments

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Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com)

166 points by v0id_isgood 11 hours ago | 99 comments

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AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot (fastcompany.com)

158 points by rwmj 10 hours ago | 101 comments

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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates (blog.cloudflare.com)

152 points by m3h 12 hours ago | 42 comments

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Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70% (databricks.com)

148 points by moonikakiss 5 hours ago | 144 comments

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Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities (openai.com)

142 points by artninja1988 6 hours ago | 157 comments

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Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day (community.frame.work)

141 points by RobinHirst11 18 hours ago | 53 comments

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The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate (currentaffairs.org)

139 points by Anon84 12 hours ago | 163 comments

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DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says (politico.com)

137 points by ceejayoz 11 hours ago | 67 comments

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An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes (sdss.org)

129 points by MarcoDewey 8 hours ago | 33 comments

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Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)

125 points by stagas 12 hours ago | 56 comments

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ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests' (apnews.com)

124 points by geox 5 hours ago | 73 comments

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Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it (ancientlibrary.net)

121 points by aagha 4 hours ago | 43 comments

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Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money (nationalreview.com)

86 points by petethomas 23 hours ago | 54 comments

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Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 (eco3min.fr)

79 points by brandonb 7 hours ago | 141 comments

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Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)

76 points by jnord 10 hours ago | 76 comments

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Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief (theregister.com)

75 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 45 comments