HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Claude Code is steganographically marking requests (thereallo.dev)

2425 points by kirushik 2 days ago | 741 comments

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Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection (f-droid.org)

1651 points by drewfax 1 day ago | 712 comments

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Claude Sonnet 5 (anthropic.com)

1256 points by marinesebastian 2 days ago | 780 comments

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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development (quesma.com)

1184 points by stared 3 days ago | 755 comments

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U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 (washingtonpost.com)

1182 points by alain94040 6 days ago | 1242 comments

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Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)

1134 points by minimaxir 6 days ago | 743 comments

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GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks (semgrep.dev)

1107 points by jms703 4 days ago | 513 comments

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HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88 (danunparsed.com)

1026 points by sambellll 4 days ago | 433 comments

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Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech (nonogra.ph)

1018 points by arkhiver 4 days ago | 630 comments

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Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 (twitter.com)

967 points by Pragmata 2 days ago | 686 comments

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Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days (github.com)

950 points by binyu 6 days ago | 386 comments

12.

For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides (quantamagazine.org)

942 points by defrost 2 days ago | 296 comments

13.

Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)

914 points by taubek 4 days ago | 127 comments

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Virginia bans sale of precise geolocation data (hunton.com)

910 points by toomuchtodo 18 hours ago | 134 comments

15.

OpenRA (openra.net)

813 points by tosh 6 days ago | 166 comments

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DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf] (github.com)

796 points by aurenvale 6 days ago | 360 comments

17.

Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)

782 points by HotGarbage 6 days ago | 295 comments

18.

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation (blog.playstation.com)

778 points by Tiberium 2 days ago | 784 comments

19.

Half-Baked Product (weli.dev)

741 points by weli 6 hours ago | 210 comments

20.

EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors (patrick-breyer.de)

738 points by NeutralForest 5 days ago | 434 comments

21.

30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech (theintercept.com)

720 points by xrd 4 days ago | 484 comments

22.

Most arguments are about ego, not ideas (wangcong.org)

713 points by backlit4034 2 days ago | 556 comments

23.

European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple (waag.org)

707 points by donohoe 3 days ago | 308 comments

24.

Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies (clashreport.com)

694 points by mgh2 1 day ago | 280 comments

25.

The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting (europeancorrespondent.com)

690 points by robtherobber 3 days ago | 328 comments

26.

Free the Icons (weblog.rogueamoeba.com)

687 points by zdw 6 days ago | 256 comments

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The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party (det.social)

685 points by Risse 4 days ago | 1569 comments

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.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting (hccf.onmy.cloud)