HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

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

1828 points by ngruhn 4 days ago | 737 comments

2.

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

1632 points by jdcampolargo 2 days ago | 95 comments

3.

LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)

1402 points by MaxMussio 3 days ago | 568 comments

4.

Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)

1118 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 165 comments

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

1117 points by ai2027 4 days ago | 613 comments

6.

Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)

933 points by xtreak29 2 days ago | 588 comments

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

844 points by colesantiago 2 days ago | 914 comments

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

824 points by itvision 21 hours ago | 624 comments

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

804 points by defrost 7 hours ago | 758 comments

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

793 points by meysamazad 3 days ago | 465 comments

11.

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

726 points by ymir_e 4 days ago | 375 comments

12.

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

726 points by bryanmikaelian 4 days ago | 233 comments

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

709 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 764 comments

14.

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

679 points by DarkContinent 1 day ago | 213 comments

15.

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

678 points by tosh 6 days ago | 165 comments

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

658 points by speckx 2 days ago | 330 comments

17.

More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)

644 points by mertbio 4 days ago | 491 comments

18.

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

640 points by pudgywalsh 5 days ago | 249 comments

19.

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

625 points by bluehatbrit 6 days ago | 217 comments

20.

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

622 points by milkshakes 4 days ago | 933 comments

21.

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

619 points by automatoney 3 days ago | 100 comments

22.

Karpathy’s Pelican (twitter.com)

616 points by delichon 5 days ago | 434 comments

23.

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

615 points by tsak 1 day ago | 485 comments

24.

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

601 points by boplicity 17 hours ago | 336 comments

25.

Diátaxis (diataxis.fr)

556 points by ryanseys 5 days ago | 63 comments

26.

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

538 points by mpweiher 4 days ago | 443 comments

27.

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

538 points by luispa 2 days ago | 293 comments

28.

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

525 points by apitman 23 hours ago | 330 comments

29.

Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)

522 points by ahamez 1 day ago | 308 comments

30.

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

500 points by askvictor 3 days ago | 6 comments