HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services (neilzone.co.uk)

940 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 580 comments

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Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)

871 points by pabs3 12 hours ago | 310 comments

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MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max (apple.com)

811 points by scrlk 22 hours ago | 872 comments

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I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project (twitter.com)

490 points by devinitely 23 hours ago | 241 comments

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Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video] (youtube.com)

485 points by pcdavid 22 hours ago | 84 comments

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Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability (ifixit.com)

428 points by wrxd 13 hours ago | 205 comments

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MacBook Air with M5 (apple.com)

398 points by Garbage 22 hours ago | 457 comments

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Don't become an engineering manager (newsletter.manager.dev)

370 points by flail 22 hours ago | 261 comments

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GPT‑5.3 Instant (openai.com)

365 points by meetpateltech 19 hours ago | 284 comments

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Iran War Cost Tracker (iran-cost-ticker.com)

303 points by TSiege 17 hours ago | 407 comments

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Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon (tomshardware.com)

291 points by vanburen 18 hours ago | 253 comments

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TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe (bbc.com)

281 points by 1659447091 11 hours ago | 271 comments

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When AI writes the software, who verifies it? (leodemoura.github.io)

256 points by todsacerdoti 20 hours ago | 261 comments

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Don't make me talk to your chatbot (raymyers.org)

243 points by pkilgore 14 hours ago | 203 comments

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Agentic Engineering Patterns (simonwillison.net)

228 points by r4um 8 hours ago | 108 comments

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Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR (apple.com)

227 points by victorbjorklund 23 hours ago | 293 comments

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Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands (wired.com)

225 points by alwillis 17 hours ago | 79 comments

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Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024 (growtika.com)

220 points by Growtika 23 hours ago | 166 comments

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Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language (elbowgreasegames.substack.com)

218 points by spacemarine1 15 hours ago | 62 comments

20.

GitHub having issues [resolved] (githubstatus.com)

208 points by Simpliplant 17 hours ago | 144 comments

21.

Nobody gets promoted for simplicity (terriblesoftware.org)

205 points by SerCe 9 hours ago | 81 comments

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AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review (theverge.com)

184 points by duggan 23 hours ago | 129 comments

23.

Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native (tonsky.me)

176 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 217 comments

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Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death (politico.eu)

171 points by mooreds 14 hours ago | 104 comments

25.

An Interactive Intro to CRDTs (2023) (jakelazaroff.com)

159 points by evakhoury 17 hours ago | 27 comments

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Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal (euronews.com)

144 points by nothrowaways 12 hours ago | 30 comments

27.

Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities (github.com)

143 points by rs545837 11 hours ago | 88 comments

28.

A CPU that runs entirely on GPU (github.com)

134 points by cypres 8 hours ago | 61 comments

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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell (gamehistory.org)

130 points by sb057 16 hours ago | 23 comments

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My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs (ddmckinnon.com)

128 points by dmckinno 13 hours ago | 126 comments