HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time (scrollprize.org)

1707 points by verditelabs 4 days ago | 366 comments

2.

Om Malik has died (om.co)

1347 points by minimaxir 4 days ago | 171 comments

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

1181 points by alain94040 3 days ago | 1232 comments

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The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (expression.fire.org)

1150 points by bilsbie 4 days ago | 615 comments

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

1131 points by minimaxir 3 days ago | 741 comments

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

1084 points by jms703 1 day ago | 503 comments

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

1005 points by stared 20 hours ago | 652 comments

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

987 points by arkhiver 1 day ago | 608 comments

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

982 points by sambellll 1 day ago | 418 comments

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What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance (pluralistic.net)

949 points by hn_acker 6 days ago | 506 comments

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

943 points by binyu 2 days ago | 382 comments

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We’re making Bunny DNS free (bunny.net)

924 points by dabinat 6 days ago | 268 comments

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

896 points by taubek 1 day ago | 126 comments

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Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads (reuters.com)

843 points by virgildotcodes 5 days ago | 1252 comments

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OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom (techcrunch.com)

826 points by jamdesk 5 days ago | 468 comments

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Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments (hackernewstrends.com)

812 points by ytkimirti 4 days ago | 156 comments

17.

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities (reuters.com)

811 points by htrp 5 days ago | 1311 comments

18.

OpenRA (openra.net)

806 points by tosh 3 days ago | 163 comments

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

791 points by aurenvale 3 days ago | 360 comments

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Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers (pluralistic.net)

779 points by HotGarbage 2 days ago | 294 comments

21.

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI (twitter.com)

727 points by justinwp 6 days ago | 428 comments

22.

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

726 points by NeutralForest 1 day ago | 428 comments

23.

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model (swipe.futo.tech)

706 points by futohq 6 days ago | 254 comments

24.

Half-Life 2 in a Browser (hl2.slqnt.dev)

684 points by panza 5 days ago | 274 comments

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

676 points by xrd 1 day ago | 391 comments

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F3 (github.com)

655 points by tosh 6 days ago | 134 comments

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

637 points by Risse 1 day ago | 1397 comments

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The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online (eff.org)

634 points by bilsbie 2 days ago | 561 comments

29.

Fintech Engineering Handbook (w.pitula.me)

630 points by signa11 3 days ago | 217 comments

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Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors (bloomberg.com)

620 points by alanwreath 4 days ago | 547 comments