HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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

1743 points by john-doe 5 days ago | 1138 comments

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

1735 points by haunter 4 days ago | 591 comments

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Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

1638 points by CliffStoll 4 days ago | 251 comments

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Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)

1612 points by diebillionaires 4 days ago | 645 comments

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Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)

1542 points by thitran 6 days ago | 753 comments

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

1510 points by anonymousiam 2 days ago | 563 comments

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

1333 points by PriorityLeft 3 days ago | 982 comments

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

1042 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 850 comments

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

915 points by stefanpie 3 days ago | 632 comments

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

868 points by defrost 2 days ago | 160 comments

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

847 points by psxuaw 3 days ago | 461 comments

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AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)

827 points by thm 3 days ago | 716 comments

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Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)

815 points by flipped 3 days ago | 325 comments

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

781 points by e12e 4 days ago | 882 comments

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

765 points by cianmm 4 days ago | 167 comments

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

762 points by speckx 3 days ago | 349 comments

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

746 points by warpspin 5 days ago | 408 comments

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Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com)

716 points by SergeAx 5 days ago | 547 comments

19.

Programming Still Sucks (stvn.sh)

715 points by jeromechoo 4 days ago | 329 comments

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GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay (bbc.co.uk)

711 points by n1b0m 6 days ago | 693 comments

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

699 points by ribtoks 2 days ago | 358 comments

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

685 points by amrrs 5 days ago | 328 comments

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

684 points by heldrida 1 day ago | 664 comments

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StarFighter 16-Inch (us.starlabs.systems)

683 points by signa11 4 days ago | 383 comments

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

681 points by _alternator_ 1 day ago | 510 comments

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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler (grapheneos.social)

680 points by ChuckMcM 5 hours ago | 252 comments

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Internet Archive Switzerland (blog.archive.org)

677 points by hggh 1 day ago | 108 comments

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Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy (blog.cloudflare.com)

656 points by rolph 4 days ago | 369 comments

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SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format (sqlite.org)

656 points by whatisabcdefgh 4 days ago | 192 comments

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Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com)

643 points by cft 6 days ago | 232 comments