HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

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

1839 points by ngruhn 6 days ago | 740 comments

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

1639 points by jdcampolargo 4 days ago | 95 comments

3.

LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)

1410 points by MaxMussio 5 days ago | 572 comments

4.

Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)

1171 points by theanonymousone 3 days ago | 167 comments

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

1120 points by ai2027 6 days ago | 614 comments

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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)

1033 points by RickJWagner 2 days ago | 1262 comments

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Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)

945 points by xtreak29 4 days ago | 596 comments

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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)

933 points by itvision 2 days ago | 702 comments

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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects (bbc.com)

898 points by defrost 2 days ago | 878 comments

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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)

860 points by colesantiago 4 days ago | 929 comments

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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (blog.senko.net)

827 points by senko 1 day ago | 502 comments

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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)

798 points by boplicity 2 days ago | 427 comments

13.

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

793 points by meysamazad 5 days ago | 465 comments

14.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)

779 points by tosh 2 days ago | 466 comments

15.

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

727 points by bryanmikaelian 6 days ago | 233 comments

16.

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

726 points by ymir_e 6 days ago | 374 comments

17.

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

713 points by surprisetalk 5 days ago | 768 comments

18.

Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)

692 points by tsak 3 days ago | 534 comments

19.

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)

692 points by DarkContinent 3 days ago | 215 comments

20.

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (blog.cloudflare.com)

659 points by speckx 4 days ago | 331 comments

21.

More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)

647 points by mertbio 6 days ago | 500 comments

22.

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

627 points by milkshakes 6 days ago | 938 comments

23.

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

625 points by automatoney 5 days ago | 99 comments

24.

Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)

605 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 272 comments

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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)

545 points by apitman 2 days ago | 348 comments

26.

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)

543 points by luispa 4 days ago | 293 comments

27.

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

539 points by mpweiher 6 days ago | 444 comments

28.

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (app.dealroom.co)

532 points by delduca 2 days ago | 375 comments

29.

Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)

527 points by ahamez 3 days ago | 312 comments

30.

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)

506 points by Footkerchief 3 days ago | 412 comments