HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Please Use AI (shawnsmucker.substack.com)

682 points by garycomtois 6 hours ago | 350 comments

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I am retiring from tech to live offline (openpath.quest)

630 points by PinkG 5 hours ago | 438 comments

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GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits (tomshardware.com)

510 points by possibilistic 22 hours ago | 242 comments

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Cars collect a startling amount of data about you (bbc.com)

471 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 17 hours ago | 267 comments

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Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test (twitter.com)

462 points by enraged_camel 19 hours ago | 509 comments

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GTA 6 Developers Unionize (rockstarintel.com)

442 points by AndrewKemendo 4 hours ago | 277 comments

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The dead economy theory (owenmcgrann.com)

375 points by WillDaSilva 4 hours ago | 519 comments

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Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion (github.com)

355 points by Kwastie 14 hours ago | 179 comments

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Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you (buildingbetter.tech)

319 points by ankitg12 18 hours ago | 62 comments

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SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims (sfstandard.com)

245 points by drewda 20 hours ago | 137 comments

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Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris (koenvangilst.nl)

240 points by vnglst 4 hours ago | 59 comments

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Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance' (bloomberg.com)

224 points by leopoldj 5 hours ago | 144 comments

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Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade? (mastrojs.github.io)

216 points by xyzal 9 hours ago | 197 comments

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test (arstechnica.com)

209 points by benbreen 16 hours ago | 8 comments

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Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)

191 points by goranmoomin 17 hours ago | 60 comments

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Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request (blog.kog.ai)

186 points by NicoConstant 10 hours ago | 84 comments

17.

Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding (inkandswitch.com)

177 points by justinweiss 5 hours ago | 66 comments

18.

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows (obeli.sk)

165 points by tomasol 2 hours ago | 82 comments

19.

It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 (jeffgeerling.com)

143 points by watermelon0 5 hours ago | 245 comments

20.

Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025) (dutchreview.com)

133 points by dotcoma 8 hours ago | 118 comments

21.

The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time (shkspr.mobi)

132 points by ColinWright 8 hours ago | 85 comments

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High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)

131 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 49 comments

23.

We should be more tired than the model (vickiboykis.com)

126 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 104 comments

24.

Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching (mpi.nl)

104 points by vi_sextus_vi 17 hours ago | 54 comments

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Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care (404media.co)

101 points by pavel_lishin 6 hours ago | 34 comments

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HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager (github.com)

92 points by peter_d_sherman 17 hours ago | 35 comments

27.

Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding? (construction-physics.com)

91 points by JumpCrisscross 20 hours ago | 123 comments

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The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin (minimaxir.com)