HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (techcrunch.com)

654 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 437 comments

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European Alternatives (european-alternatives.eu)

642 points by s_dev 13 hours ago | 389 comments

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Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem (dbushell.com)

474 points by dbushell 19 hours ago | 334 comments

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AI Usage Policy (github.com)

471 points by mefengl 16 hours ago | 250 comments

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I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] (youtube.com)

444 points by codetheweb 21 hours ago | 98 comments

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Proof of Corn (proofofcorn.com)

321 points by rocauc 8 hours ago | 236 comments

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Booting from a vinyl record (2020) (boginjr.com)

283 points by yesturi 16 hours ago | 102 comments

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Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee (arstechnica.com)

275 points by CharlesW 7 hours ago | 289 comments

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Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale (maggieappleton.com)

262 points by pavel_lishin 10 hours ago | 268 comments

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Radicle: The Sovereign Forge (radicle.xyz)

260 points by ibobev 13 hours ago | 130 comments

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What has Docker become? (tuananh.net)

234 points by tuananh 14 hours ago | 261 comments

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Microsoft mishandling example.com (tinyapps.org)

229 points by mrled 13 hours ago | 77 comments

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Unrolling the Codex agent loop (openai.com)

219 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 100 comments

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Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go (github.com)

210 points by rvermeulen98 14 hours ago | 73 comments

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Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities (programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com)

209 points by 01jonny01 17 hours ago | 176 comments

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KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer (korg.com)

191 points by bpierre 12 hours ago | 89 comments

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Zotero 8 (zotero.org)

186 points by bouchard 8 hours ago | 52 comments

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Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed (github.com)

175 points by nurimamedov 7 hours ago | 156 comments

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New YC homepage (ycombinator.com)

175 points by sarreph 8 hours ago | 92 comments

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Replacing Protobuf with Rust (pgdog.dev)

166 points by whiteros_e 17 hours ago | 122 comments

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Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking (philipotoole.com)

160 points by otoolep 22 hours ago | 135 comments

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The lost art of XML (marcosmagueta.com)

135 points by Curiositry 22 hours ago | 131 comments

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The tech monoculture is finally breaking (jasonwillems.com)

132 points by at1as 11 hours ago | 183 comments

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White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying (bbc.co.uk)

121 points by petepete 13 hours ago | 77 comments

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Route leak incident on January 22, 2026 (blog.cloudflare.com)

120 points by nomaxx117 8 hours ago | 30 comments

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United States Completes WHO Withdrawal (hhs.gov)

117 points by Swizec 21 hours ago | 39 comments

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Banned C++ features in Chromium (chromium.googlesource.com)

114 points by szmarczak 6 hours ago | 91 comments

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TikTok Is Now Collecting More Data About Its Users (wired.com)

107 points by coloneltcb 3 hours ago | 58 comments

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White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying (nytimes.com)

107 points by nicpottier 11 hours ago | 46 comments

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House vote keeps federal "kill switch" vehicle mandate (reclaimthenet.org)

92 points by mikece 8 hours ago | 134 comments