HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler (grapheneos.social)

2067 points by ChuckMcM 1 day ago | 698 comments

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

1748 points by john-doe 6 days ago | 1140 comments

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Local AI needs to be the norm (unix.foo)

1747 points by cylo 1 day ago | 693 comments

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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)

1738 points by haunter 5 days ago | 593 comments

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Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

1654 points by CliffStoll 5 days ago | 254 comments

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Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)

1620 points by diebillionaires 5 days ago | 647 comments

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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)

1547 points by anonymousiam 3 days ago | 580 comments

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Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)

1345 points by PriorityLeft 4 days ago | 986 comments

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Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)

1053 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 864 comments

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Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)

919 points by stefanpie 4 days ago | 643 comments

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I'm going back to writing code by hand (blog.k10s.dev)

908 points by dropbox_miner 22 hours ago | 559 comments

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David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)

878 points by defrost 3 days ago | 165 comments

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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)

851 points by psxuaw 4 days ago | 467 comments

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I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left (fourlightyears.blogspot.com)

835 points by andrewstuart 2 days ago | 620 comments

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AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)

830 points by thm 4 days ago | 731 comments

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Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)

815 points by flipped 4 days ago | 331 comments

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Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)

783 points by e12e 5 days ago | 884 comments

18.

The map that keeps Burning Man honest (not-ship.com)

767 points by speckx 4 days ago | 350 comments

19.

Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions (red-squares.cian.lol)

765 points by cianmm 5 days ago | 167 comments

20.

DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved (status.denic.de)

746 points by warpspin 6 days ago | 410 comments

21.

Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)

722 points by jeromechoo 5 days ago | 329 comments

22.

Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com)

716 points by SergeAx 6 days ago | 550 comments

23.

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro (gowers.wordpress.com)

710 points by _alternator_ 2 days ago | 524 comments

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Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc (twitter.com)

707 points by heldrida 2 days ago | 688 comments

25.

Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged (privatecaptcha.com)

704 points by ribtoks 3 days ago | 363 comments

26.

Internet Archive Switzerland (blog.archive.org)

693 points by hggh 2 days ago | 114 comments

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Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)