HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)

815 points by john-doe 9 hours ago | 570 comments

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Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com)

687 points by SergeAx 16 hours ago | 506 comments

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Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com)

594 points by cft 23 hours ago | 207 comments

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How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale (openai.com)

477 points by Sean-Der 21 hours ago | 139 comments

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Train Your Own LLM from Scratch (github.com)

391 points by kristianpaul 13 hours ago | 47 comments

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Days without GitHub incidents (dayswithoutgithubincident.com)

382 points by goalieca 23 hours ago | 159 comments

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Async Rust never left the MVP state (tweedegolf.nl)

367 points by pjmlp 10 hours ago | 204 comments

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Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?) (daringfireball.net)

364 points by gyomu 17 hours ago | 66 comments

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AI didn't delete your database, you did (idiallo.com)

361 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 191 comments

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Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)

349 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 19 hours ago | 175 comments

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iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (walletwallet.alen.ro)

283 points by alentodorov 5 hours ago | 229 comments

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Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold (walzr.com)

270 points by MrBuddyCasino 13 hours ago | 227 comments

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The fun has been optimized out of the Internet (muddy.jprs.me)

265 points by jprs 3 hours ago | 219 comments

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Heat pump sales rise across Europe (pv-magazine.com)

262 points by doener 23 hours ago | 189 comments

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Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache (theregister.com)

223 points by dreadsword 12 hours ago | 153 comments

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Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability (strix.ai)

219 points by bearsyankees 23 hours ago | 97 comments

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What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) (margaretstorey.com)

212 points by raphaelcosta 15 hours ago | 132 comments

18.

AI Product Graveyard (tooldirectory.ai)

205 points by StriverGuy 4 hours ago | 78 comments

19.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing (robert-glaser.de)

199 points by youngbrioche 8 hours ago | 134 comments

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Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight (stripe.dev)

192 points by r00k 21 hours ago | 97 comments

21.

Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)

184 points by jollyjerry 13 hours ago | 37 comments

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Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)

177 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 187 comments

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CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers (dragonsreach.it)

168 points by averi 13 hours ago | 93 comments

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Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)

160 points by blenderob 2 hours ago | 86 comments

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'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level (theguardian.com)

158 points by dmm 20 hours ago | 192 comments

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It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs (tech.yahoo.com)

126 points by giantg2 2 hours ago | 125 comments

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Offenders sentenced up to 10 years for spying on TSMC (taipeitimes.com)

122 points by ironyman 23 hours ago | 23 comments

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DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts (wired.com)

119 points by HotGarbage 22 hours ago | 17 comments

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Incident with Actions (githubstatus.com)

114 points by pera 3 hours ago | 60 comments

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The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars (nobodyaskedforthis.lol)

108 points by cadito 15 hours ago | 95 comments