HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)

1491 points by verditelabs 23 hours ago | 320 comments

2.

Om Malik has died (om.co)

1131 points by minimaxir 19 hours ago | 131 comments

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The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (expression.fire.org)

929 points by bilsbie 17 hours ago | 463 comments

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We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)

372 points by dhruv3006 9 hours ago | 181 comments

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Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion (github.com)

325 points by engomez 23 hours ago | 156 comments

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Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line (bloomberg.com)

299 points by scrlk 21 hours ago | 326 comments

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What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant (fernandoi.cl)

280 points by cuchoi 13 hours ago | 120 comments

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Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (jeffgeerling.com)

260 points by Alupis 14 hours ago | 139 comments

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Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates (neowin.net)

243 points by bundie 23 hours ago | 225 comments

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Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)

234 points by luu 12 hours ago | 38 comments

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Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base (arstechnica.com)

218 points by tzs 17 hours ago | 135 comments

12.

Incident CVE-2026-LGTM (nesbitt.io)

207 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 34 comments

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The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023) (gchandbook.org)

197 points by teleforce 16 hours ago | 42 comments

14.

AI children's books, body horror edition (lcamtuf.substack.com)

196 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 74 comments

15.

The Doorman's Fallacy in action (rozumem.xyz)

179 points by rozumem 19 hours ago | 236 comments

16.

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators (unconv.ai)

175 points by babelfish 18 hours ago | 42 comments

17.

An oral history of Bank Python (2021) (calpaterson.com)

152 points by tosh 19 hours ago | 64 comments

18.

Deno 2.9 (deno.com)

141 points by enz 23 hours ago | 61 comments

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Why have papers by one of history's most famous physicists been retracted? (science.org)

137 points by adharmad 1 hour ago | 46 comments

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US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6 (old.reddit.com)

127 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago | 142 comments

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OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO (nytimes.com)

119 points by mfiguiere 19 hours ago | 101 comments

22.

Parallel Parentheses Matching (williamdue.github.io)

110 points by Athas 19 hours ago | 15 comments

23.

Why current LLM costs are not sustainable (aditya.patadia.org)

103 points by adityapatadia 7 hours ago | 181 comments

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Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus (nijho.lt)

82 points by wasting_time 18 hours ago | 65 comments

25.

No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass (borretti.me)

76 points by hamish-b 12 hours ago | 95 comments

26.

Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years (theregister.com)

73 points by fauigerzigerk 9 hours ago | 68 comments

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OpenAI to Stagger Release of GPT 5.6 at Request of U.S. Government (velo.xyz)

69 points by 217 19 hours ago | 24 comments

28.

Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not (github.com)

68 points by backlit4034 3 hours ago | 71 comments

29.

The AI backlash is only getting started (economist.com)

65 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 163 comments

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Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain (alephneuro.com)

57 points by rossant 3 hours ago | 17 comments