HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Magnifica Humanitas (vatican.va)

1394 points by theletterf 20 hours ago | 795 comments

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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash (tomshardware.com)

806 points by rbanffy 12 hours ago | 337 comments

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Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore (techcrunch.com)

543 points by elorant 18 hours ago | 502 comments

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Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)

452 points by signa11 7 hours ago | 170 comments

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Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few (religionnews.com)

337 points by benwerd 17 hours ago | 68 comments

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Leave Me Behind (androidessence.com)

331 points by mooreds 18 hours ago | 291 comments

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Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout (mullvad.net)

327 points by Cider9986 12 hours ago | 61 comments

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Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks (krebsonsecurity.com)

272 points by jruohonen 16 hours ago | 71 comments

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Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (blocksandfiles.com)

231 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 129 comments

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Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (promptarmor.com)

222 points by Kneenex 8 hours ago | 46 comments

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Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing (businessinsider.com)

218 points by _____k 13 hours ago | 281 comments

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Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (apa.org)

216 points by bilsbie 8 hours ago | 73 comments

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The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month (eualternative.eu)

208 points by sparkling 11 hours ago | 77 comments

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Hacker News front page as a site (thefrontpage.dev)

203 points by thatxliner 10 hours ago | 63 comments

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Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died (referenceforbusiness.com)

178 points by L_Rahman 14 hours ago | 73 comments

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Ferrari Luce (ferrari.com)

177 points by jumploops 9 hours ago | 357 comments

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Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025) (tmj4.com)

173 points by cdrnsf 17 hours ago | 168 comments

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Pope Leo: opaque AI run by few firms risks "New Forms of Dehumanization" (variety.com)

164 points by embedding-shape 17 hours ago | 2 comments

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Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore (unix.foo)

158 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 182 comments

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How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (ente.com)

153 points by subract 7 hours ago | 16 comments

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What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (stevemagness.substack.com)

152 points by obscurette 16 hours ago | 138 comments

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C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers (lemon.rip)

150 points by xngbuilds 16 hours ago | 51 comments

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Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties (techxplore.com)

150 points by Lihh27 10 hours ago | 27 comments

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IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry (futurumgroup.com)

148 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 65 comments

25.

Does anybody like React? (jsx.lol)

137 points by brazukadev 4 hours ago | 171 comments

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Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now (cnn.com)

126 points by breve 20 hours ago | 146 comments

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CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude (support.apple.com)

123 points by dragonsenseiguy 6 hours ago | 53 comments

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A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft (bgr.com)