HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)

982 points by thitran 10 hours ago | 484 comments

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GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (bbc.co.uk)

594 points by n1b0m 12 hours ago | 547 comments

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Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac (notepad-plus-plus.org)

568 points by maxloh 12 hours ago | 256 comments

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Let's Buy Spirit Air (letsbuyspiritair.com)

562 points by bjhess 22 hours ago | 536 comments

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Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (ecopv-eu.com)

548 points by rdeboo 7 hours ago | 487 comments

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Agentic Coding Is a Trap (larsfaye.com)

420 points by ayoisaiah 23 hours ago | 329 comments

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Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved (githubstatus.com)

417 points by gen220 6 hours ago | 251 comments

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US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants (techcrunch.com)

366 points by ZeidJ 5 hours ago | 124 comments

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Days without GitHub incidents (dayswithoutgithubincident.com)

344 points by goalieca 4 hours ago | 140 comments

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I am worried about Bun (wwj.dev)

323 points by remote-dev 5 hours ago | 223 comments

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Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com)

308 points by cft 4 hours ago | 119 comments

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The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility (xogium.me)

282 points by SpyCoder77 22 hours ago | 120 comments

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The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions (jdgr.net)

214 points by jdgr 23 hours ago | 123 comments

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How Monero’s proof of work works (blog.alcazarsec.com)

210 points by alcazar 8 hours ago | 164 comments

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PyInfra 3.8.0 (github.com)

199 points by wowi42 9 hours ago | 78 comments

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Redis array: short story of a long development process (antirez.com)

196 points by antirez 8 hours ago | 75 comments

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Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to (economist.com)

188 points by andsoitis 5 hours ago | 122 comments

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Heat pump sales rise across Europe (pv-magazine.com)

169 points by doener 4 hours ago | 90 comments

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Humanoid Robot Actuators (firgelli.com)

164 points by ofrzeta 18 hours ago | 77 comments

20.

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks (nber.org)

163 points by littlexsparkee 6 hours ago | 151 comments

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UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations (fuelinsight.co.uk)

144 points by theazureguy 7 hours ago | 70 comments

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How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)

141 points by Sean-Der 2 hours ago | 63 comments

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Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability (strix.ai)

138 points by bearsyankees 4 hours ago | 61 comments

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Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test (science.org)

121 points by pseudolus 9 hours ago | 106 comments

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“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025) (space.com)

112 points by Tomte 4 hours ago | 40 comments

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Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision (goodmorningamerica.com)

108 points by taubek 13 hours ago | 102 comments

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Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets (engadget.com)

106 points by cdrnsf 9 hours ago | 61 comments

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Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster (globalnews.ca)

104 points by Teever 6 hours ago | 81 comments

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OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools (404media.co)

103 points by cdrnsf 6 hours ago | 94 comments

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Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts (bloomberg.com)

99 points by koolhead17 5 hours ago | 16 comments