HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality (reclaimthenet.org)

742 points by abawany 22 hours ago | 309 comments

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Time to talk about my writerdeck (veronicaexplains.net)

423 points by hggh 21 hours ago | 249 comments

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Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" (arstechnica.com)

357 points by DamnInteresting 15 hours ago | 113 comments

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Wake up! 16b (hellmood.111mb.de)

339 points by MaximilianEmel 15 hours ago | 24 comments

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Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out (adventuresinoss.com)

277 points by RyeCombinator 11 hours ago | 113 comments

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Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier? (adaptivesupport.amd.com)

257 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 143 comments

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Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links (techcrunch.com)

211 points by spike021 15 hours ago | 113 comments

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Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County (bbc.com)

159 points by borski 18 hours ago | 148 comments

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ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies (projectsaltbox.com)

154 points by cdrnsf 16 hours ago | 46 comments

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Greg Brockman interview [video] (fs.blog)

127 points by prakashqwerty 8 hours ago | 106 comments

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Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash (bbc.com)

118 points by baal80spam 20 hours ago | 99 comments

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The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients (statnews.com)

117 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | 140 comments

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DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost (esengine.github.io)

113 points by Alifatisk 3 hours ago | 67 comments

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Don't Roll Your Own (susam.net)

111 points by adunk 18 hours ago | 102 comments

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Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants (apnews.com)

111 points by logickkk1 15 hours ago | 14 comments

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'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing (theverge.com)

110 points by tambourine_man 12 hours ago | 85 comments

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Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics (quantamagazine.org)

99 points by anujbans 13 hours ago | 22 comments

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The C64 Dead Test Font (masswerk.at)

99 points by masswerk 12 hours ago | 17 comments

19.

My I3-Emacs Integration (khz.ac)

94 points by nosolace 17 hours ago | 41 comments

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Childhood Computing (susam.net)

85 points by blenderob 4 hours ago | 45 comments

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A self-powered computer in actual credit-card size (~1mm thick) (old.reddit.com)

82 points by gnabgib 19 hours ago | 7 comments

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Mastering Dyalog APL (mastering.dyalog.com)

81 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 17 comments

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JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it (dusanmalusev.dev)

73 points by CodeLieutenant 22 hours ago | 66 comments

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Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (2025) (opensource.microsoft.com)

70 points by GTP 3 hours ago | 22 comments

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An automated A.I. WWE news channel on YouTube tries to pronounce "WWE" (twitter.com)

69 points by YeGoblynQueenne 23 hours ago | 13 comments

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DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model (bloomberg.com)

64 points by moh_maya 2 hours ago | 65 comments

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Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity–and the Backlash Has Begun (singularityhub.com)

56 points by cdrnsf 20 hours ago | 33 comments

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Iowa to mandate students take Intellectual Freedom classes amid low enrollment (kcrg.com)