HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Don't be a meat proxy (gruhn.me)

1806 points by ngruhn 2 days ago | 721 comments

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Show HN: Elevators (john.fun)

1663 points by Jrh0203 5 days ago | 413 comments

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

1558 points by jdcampolargo 22 hours ago | 93 comments

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LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)

1373 points by MaxMussio 1 day ago | 564 comments

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UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (uefa.com)

1232 points by dickfickling 5 days ago | 673 comments

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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)

1107 points by ai2027 2 days ago | 605 comments

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The coolest use for the Vision Pro (christianselig.com)

845 points by robbiet480 6 days ago | 320 comments

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Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (krebsonsecurity.com)

811 points by speckx 6 days ago | 546 comments

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The session you cannot take with you (earendil.com)

785 points by apitman 5 days ago | 225 comments

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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (github.blog)

780 points by tomzorz 6 days ago | 295 comments

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

773 points by meysamazad 1 day ago | 458 comments

12.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update (api-docs.deepseek.com)

742 points by dnhkng 5 days ago | 347 comments

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SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? (research.jfrog.com)

723 points by ymir_e 2 days ago | 373 comments

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Devtools must be open source (blog.exe.dev)

717 points by bryanmikaelian 2 days ago | 232 comments

15.

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

684 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 737 comments

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qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work (github.com)

674 points by tosh 4 days ago | 165 comments

17.

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (openrss.org)

637 points by pudgywalsh 3 days ago | 247 comments

18.

Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion (tailscale.com)

624 points by bluehatbrit 4 days ago | 217 comments

19.

More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)

623 points by mertbio 2 days ago | 485 comments

20.

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)

620 points by milkshakes 2 days ago | 920 comments

21.

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (deepmind.google)

619 points by ai2027 6 days ago | 556 comments

22.

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research (science.org)

617 points by YeGoblynQueenne 6 days ago | 318 comments

23.

Karpathy’s Pelican (twitter.com)

614 points by delichon 3 days ago | 433 comments

24.

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (openai.com)

605 points by tedsanders 5 days ago | 402 comments

25.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)

589 points by theanonymousone 5 days ago | 312 comments

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

589 points by automatoney 1 day ago | 99 comments

27.

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI (blog.google)

581 points by Garbage 5 days ago | 609 comments

28.

Diátaxis (diataxis.fr)

553 points by ryanseys 3 days ago | 62 comments

29.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)

532 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 439 comments

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

499 points by askvictor 1 day ago | 6 comments