HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (atomic14.com)

587 points by iamflimflam1 8 hours ago | 274 comments

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Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)

561 points by mikemcquaid 17 hours ago | 225 comments

3.

JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)

527 points by taubek 17 hours ago | 213 comments

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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (vals.ai)

464 points by u1hcw9nx 4 hours ago | 192 comments

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I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)

400 points by robinpie 7 hours ago | 112 comments

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Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (lesswrong.com)

381 points by Levitating 11 hours ago | 176 comments

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Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)

357 points by TheJCDenton 9 hours ago | 190 comments

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Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation (investigatetv.com)

339 points by SanjayMehta 12 hours ago | 250 comments

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Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (theverge.com)

308 points by bookofjoe 11 hours ago | 159 comments

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Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com)

276 points by mfiguiere 5 hours ago | 117 comments

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David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com)

258 points by kolanos 8 hours ago | 193 comments

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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com)

204 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 47 comments

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Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco (guessingheadlights.com)

200 points by mikhael 7 hours ago | 167 comments

14.

Aligned to whom? (hyperbo.la)

172 points by lopopolo 22 hours ago | 113 comments

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Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests (techcrunch.com)

168 points by tdrz 15 hours ago | 117 comments

16.

Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)

162 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 73 comments

17.

The Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)

161 points by mulmen 22 hours ago | 24 comments

18.

CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com)

141 points by chiassedu80 11 hours ago | 71 comments

19.

The contagion of fear (bcantrill.dtrace.org)

134 points by elffjs 3 hours ago | 90 comments

20.

Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100 (invezz.com)

133 points by mgh2 15 hours ago | 183 comments

21.

After Math (terrytao.wordpress.com)

131 points by throwaway81523 22 hours ago | 142 comments

22.

US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs (tomshardware.com)

123 points by Levitating 12 hours ago | 105 comments

23.

Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing? (youtube.com)

123 points by chadgpt3 6 hours ago | 80 comments

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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)

114 points by blincoln 13 hours ago | 39 comments

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Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (nytimes.com)

104 points by thunderbong 8 hours ago | 63 comments

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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (unsung.aresluna.org)

97 points by leephillips 11 hours ago | 30 comments

27.

Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic (clashreport.com)

94 points by delichon 11 hours ago | 85 comments

28.

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

85 points by david927 8 hours ago | 162 comments

29.

Texts Reveal Kash Patel Ordering Staff to Fight "Ifindretards" Account (newrepublic.com)

79 points by girish_r 17 hours ago | 3 comments

30.

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (community.signalusers.org)

78 points by Cider9986 3 hours ago | 39 comments