HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)

1344 points by dwwoelfel 21 hours ago | 613 comments

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Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)

975 points by theanonymousone 20 hours ago | 793 comments

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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)

653 points by technewssss 22 hours ago | 348 comments

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98.css (jdan.github.io)

485 points by lopespm 13 hours ago | 110 comments

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Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party

440 points by Thrashed 14 hours ago | 163 comments

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Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

397 points by adam_rida 16 hours ago | 191 comments

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What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)

386 points by nickthegreek 18 hours ago | 180 comments

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I regret migrating to Codeberg (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

357 points by boramalper 21 hours ago | 250 comments

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Flux 3 (bfl.ai)

349 points by ThouYS 5 hours ago | 90 comments

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Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died. (science.org)

339 points by Shortness8 14 hours ago | 208 comments

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Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com)

336 points by dhorthy 20 hours ago | 242 comments

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OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line (axios.com)

286 points by yogthos 22 hours ago | 322 comments

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Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)

286 points by mpweiher 21 hours ago | 65 comments

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The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)

285 points by jjfoooo4 18 hours ago | 196 comments

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Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs (reuters.com)

265 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 22 hours ago | 279 comments

16.

Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)

256 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 134 comments

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DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)

255 points by r2sk5t 21 hours ago | 283 comments

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Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)

220 points by MarcoDewey 21 hours ago | 82 comments

19.

Fields Medals 2026 (mathunion.org)

192 points by nill0 21 hours ago | 95 comments

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Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI (github.com)

170 points by harrisontin 20 hours ago | 26 comments

21.

Building on ATProto (lukekanies.com)

167 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 85 comments

22.

Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models (obsoletesony.substack.com)

145 points by speckx 17 hours ago | 159 comments

23.

Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change (werd.io)

142 points by benwerd 21 hours ago | 152 comments

24.

It's getting harder to focus every day (glyphack.com)

139 points by peykar 3 hours ago | 70 comments

25.

Emacs Is a Lispboard (en.andros.dev)

110 points by andros 21 hours ago | 55 comments

26.

Nothing works and everyone is euphoric (ptrchm.com)

108 points by pchm 2 hours ago | 100 comments

27.

Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account (blog.google)

106 points by lkurtz 16 hours ago | 92 comments

28.

Learn WebGPU for C++ (eliemichel.github.io)

103 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 13 comments

29.

Show HN: Claude-thermos keeps your Claude session warm for you (github.com)

102 points by s0ck_r4w 18 hours ago | 81 comments

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Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents (github.com)

101 points by Jonathanfishner 20 hours ago | 30 comments