HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (spectrum.ieee.org)

1174 points by oldnetguy 10 hours ago | 947 comments

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Ladybird adopts Rust (ladybird.org)

1053 points by adius 13 hours ago | 576 comments

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Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras (techcrunch.com)

548 points by mikece 5 hours ago | 364 comments

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Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)

524 points by josephcsible 17 hours ago | 412 comments

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Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)

520 points by qsi 16 hours ago | 96 comments

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Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (old.reddit.com)

428 points by doener 13 hours ago | 384 comments

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Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran (nytimes.com)

384 points by boplicity 5 hours ago | 162 comments

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Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)

351 points by microflash 17 hours ago | 117 comments

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Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)

257 points by con 21 hours ago | 70 comments

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ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)

245 points by pieterr 7 hours ago | 64 comments

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The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)

240 points by modinfo 22 hours ago | 132 comments

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Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight (thenevadaindependent.com)

228 points by rurp 3 hours ago | 86 comments

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$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents (yahoo.com)

222 points by walterbell 23 hours ago | 226 comments

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The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)

220 points by montenegrohugo 10 hours ago | 100 comments

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FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI build one for me (vladimir.varank.in)

209 points by varankinv 3 hours ago | 162 comments

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Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love (hackernews.love)

197 points by ohong 14 hours ago | 143 comments

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Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com)

182 points by levkk 9 hours ago | 40 comments

18.

A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)

174 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 118 comments

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Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% (docs.hetzner.com)

168 points by williausrohr 15 hours ago | 120 comments

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Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)

159 points by pseudolus 21 hours ago | 53 comments

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UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (forums.atariage.com)

135 points by marcodiego 4 hours ago | 43 comments

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Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)

133 points by ai_bot 15 hours ago | 49 comments

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femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com)

116 points by tosh 12 hours ago | 14 comments

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Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot (twitter.com)

114 points by Jimmc414 6 hours ago | 111 comments

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VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf] (pub-fee113bb711e441db5c353d2d31abbb3.r2.dev)

109 points by sagyam 11 hours ago | 94 comments

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AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says (gizmodo.com)

108 points by cdrnsf 1 hour ago | 66 comments

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Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives (old.reddit.com)

106 points by HelloUsername 7 hours ago | 77 comments

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Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)