HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)

712 points by meysamazad 10 hours ago | 427 comments

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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)

517 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 556 comments

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Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)

493 points by askvictor 11 hours ago | 6 comments

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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

431 points by jdcampolargo 2 hours ago | 18 comments

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FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com)

415 points by gyan 12 hours ago | 94 comments

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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)

395 points by automatoney 6 hours ago | 83 comments

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DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)

340 points by zhoutong 11 hours ago | 87 comments

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All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (valleynewslive.com)

331 points by NDlurker 4 hours ago | 201 comments

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U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (cnbc.com)

323 points by tcp_handshaker 10 hours ago | 547 comments

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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (users.wpi.edu)

323 points by pmg101 22 hours ago | 361 comments

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Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)

281 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 60 comments

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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)

274 points by thewebguyd 5 hours ago | 216 comments

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Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)

265 points by meetpateltech 16 hours ago | 277 comments

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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)

215 points by cimi_ 10 hours ago | 108 comments

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Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (this.weekinsecurity.com)

198 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 71 comments

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)

179 points by riadsila 5 hours ago | 50 comments

17.

Web Security is Too Hard (textslashplain.com)

167 points by kevincox 3 hours ago | 77 comments

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Waymo – Dallas Open to All (waymo.com)

152 points by xnx 3 hours ago | 144 comments

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NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data (publictechnology.net)

147 points by robin_reala 13 hours ago | 33 comments

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Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)

132 points by carlos-menezes 3 hours ago | 117 comments

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Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)

128 points by johnbarron 7 hours ago | 178 comments

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You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)

128 points by pedro_movai 13 hours ago | 103 comments

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Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)

124 points by jandeboevrie 23 hours ago | 76 comments

24.

Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)

120 points by simonebrunozzi 10 hours ago | 31 comments

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"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (computerenhance.com)

112 points by FrojoS 11 hours ago | 97 comments

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Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com)

112 points by MakazhanAlpamys 10 hours ago | 22 comments

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The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014) (upi.com)

107 points by giov4 11 hours ago | 76 comments

28.

The AI Demand Bubble (wheresyoured.at)

99 points by 7777777phil 5 hours ago | 107 comments

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Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)

96 points by sbulaev 11 hours ago | 32 comments

30.

Nobel Disease (en.wikipedia.org)

93 points by num42 10 hours ago | 95 comments