HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" (lwn.net)

489 points by pluc 21 hours ago | 455 comments

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The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now (stephendiehl.com)

427 points by ibobev 17 hours ago | 291 comments

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DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions (theguardian.com)

409 points by firefax 17 hours ago | 92 comments

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Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (newsletter.eng-leadership.com)

403 points by gpi 18 hours ago | 100 comments

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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (tomshardware.com)

343 points by shscs911 8 hours ago | 153 comments

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Hy4 preview (tencent.com)

321 points by shenli3514 16 hours ago | 195 comments

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Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras (texastribune.org)

318 points by DeepLogin 12 hours ago | 183 comments

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GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE) (bsky.app)

297 points by 400thecat 20 hours ago | 161 comments

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Bug Blindness (danluu.com)

281 points by davidmckenna 11 hours ago | 174 comments

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (science.nasa.gov)

206 points by JumpCrisscross 20 hours ago | 80 comments

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Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role (tucker.wales)

165 points by tuckerwales 18 hours ago | 66 comments

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Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms (latimes.com)

158 points by measurablefunc 12 hours ago | 180 comments

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I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul (sfstandard.com)

147 points by lisper 12 hours ago | 108 comments

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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (dwarkesh.com)

128 points by consumer451 12 hours ago | 74 comments

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Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online (defrag98.com)

120 points by throw0101a 12 hours ago | 67 comments

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FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued (freecore.org)

113 points by sashk 10 hours ago | 65 comments

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Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private (theregister.com)

107 points by defrost 2 hours ago | 64 comments

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vLLM v0.28.0 (github.com)

106 points by mrrrcs 17 hours ago | 36 comments

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Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (dl.acm.org)

95 points by matt_d 16 hours ago | 36 comments

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Quantifying Colour (ekunazanu.foo)

92 points by vismit2000 20 hours ago | 8 comments

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Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws (morganlewis.com)

86 points by toomuchtodo 9 hours ago | 52 comments

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Domain-Driven Agents (coldtake.dev)

86 points by AlarQ 16 hours ago | 17 comments

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Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom (smithsonianmag.com)

75 points by cisc 10 hours ago | 31 comments

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Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack (uecker.codeberg.page)

74 points by uecker 21 hours ago | 52 comments

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Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018) (arxiv.org)

74 points by joebig 3 hours ago | 15 comments

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What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022) (strangeloopcanon.com)

73 points by bilsbie 14 hours ago | 80 comments

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The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality (optimizedbyotto.com)

62 points by jruohonen 19 hours ago | 81 comments

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LLMs are making me lose my savviness (pgaleone.eu)

59 points by me2too 17 hours ago | 75 comments

29.

Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude (claude.com)

58 points by shenli3514 16 hours ago | 57 comments

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Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022) (coolboulder.org)

56 points by mooreds 19 hours ago | 12 comments