HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)

587 points by pentagrama 16 hours ago | 241 comments

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Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)

587 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 241 comments

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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" (rvembedded.com)

415 points by Narishma 11 hours ago | 227 comments

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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)

375 points by Alifatisk 16 hours ago | 132 comments

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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

353 points by stagas 11 hours ago | 94 comments

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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)

296 points by hruvhwe 9 hours ago | 164 comments

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The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)

251 points by mlenhard 14 hours ago | 100 comments

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Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter (bloomberg.com)

246 points by zacharyozer 8 hours ago | 175 comments

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What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? (littlelearner-ll.github.io)

238 points by porridgeraisin 21 hours ago | 205 comments

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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)

206 points by bilsbie 5 hours ago | 87 comments

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The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)

186 points by lentil_soup 13 hours ago | 129 comments

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Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing (daringfireball.net)

170 points by ropbear 7 hours ago | 169 comments

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St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)

167 points by toomuchtodo 13 hours ago | 130 comments

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The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (highereddive.com)

167 points by walrus01 4 hours ago | 60 comments

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Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)

160 points by root-parent 7 hours ago | 64 comments

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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (science.org)

144 points by brandonb 12 hours ago | 73 comments

17.

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome (buf.build)

132 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 85 comments

18.

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (ischool.berkeley.edu)

130 points by ronbenton 4 hours ago | 54 comments

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A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life (rand.org)

121 points by thunderbong 15 hours ago | 87 comments

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ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days (theintercept.com)

119 points by Jimmc414 8 hours ago | 52 comments

21.

Banned Words List (pen.org)

111 points by structuredPizza 16 hours ago | 50 comments

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Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe (futurism.com)

103 points by healsdata 7 hours ago | 97 comments

23.

Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

98 points by antipurist 17 hours ago | 116 comments

24.

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)

94 points by austinallegro 16 hours ago | 9 comments

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The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US (politico.com)

89 points by hebelehubele 23 hours ago | 61 comments

26.

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)

86 points by ghuntley 8 hours ago | 98 comments

27.

AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)

81 points by riskone 18 hours ago | 48 comments

28.

GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost (newyorker.com)

76 points by karakoram 14 hours ago | 63 comments

29.

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)

76 points by homarp 10 hours ago | 25 comments

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US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged (independent.co.uk)

74 points by NordStreamYacht 16 hours ago | 62 comments