HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy (tomwojcik.com)

518 points by marjancek 4 days ago | 391 comments

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500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive (theguardian.com)

518 points by ilamont 5 days ago | 304 comments

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Extra Big Ass Intelligence (extrabigassintelligence.com)

511 points by 34679 1 day ago | 126 comments

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Pi Durable (earendil.com)

505 points by paulsmith 3 days ago | 72 comments

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macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess (squareorbits.com)

490 points by SquareOrbits 5 days ago | 359 comments

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Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat (thisamericanlife.org)

484 points by simonpure 6 days ago | 257 comments

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Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' (techcrunch.com)

474 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 265 comments

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Ask HN: What are you reading?

466 points by dan-bailey 5 days ago | 882 comments

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Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm (twitter.com)

465 points by rzk 4 days ago | 498 comments

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The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux (phoronix.com)

460 points by speckx 1 day ago | 93 comments

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Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art (newgrounds.com)

457 points by azhenley 2 days ago | 136 comments

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I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken (theatlantic.com)

456 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 771 comments

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AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity (thecivilian.co.nz)

441 points by ljewalsh 6 days ago | 399 comments

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So you think you could be an electrician? (asteriskmag.com)

438 points by zdw 4 days ago | 401 comments

45.

FLUX 3 Image (bfl.ai)

435 points by minimaxir 3 days ago | 97 comments

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A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] (jorgegarciaherrero.com)

425 points by damaru2 5 days ago | 141 comments

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Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works (tej.as)

417 points by tejaskumar__ 1 day ago | 12 comments

48.

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows (deepseek.com)

413 points by Kuyawa 2 days ago | 220 comments

49.

The AI Race Just Got Awkward (insufferable.dev)

412 points by allisdust 4 days ago | 462 comments

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Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant (arstechnica.com)

411 points by rbanffy 3 days ago | 377 comments

51.

Why the Bronze Age Collapsed (worksinprogress.news)

411 points by AnodicElegy 5 days ago | 301 comments

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Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites (space.bl2.net)

407 points by wanick 5 days ago | 112 comments

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SvelteKit 3 (svelte.dev)

404 points by sampsn 3 days ago | 177 comments

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A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting (bsky.app)

402 points by mariuz 2 days ago | 82 comments

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Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 (techpowerup.com)

394 points by speckx 3 days ago | 440 comments

56.

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (spectrum.ieee.org)

394 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 171 comments

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RIP, vector database (turbopuffer.com)

394 points by razin 3 days ago | 116 comments

58.

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops (kqed.org)

389 points by randycupertino 6 days ago | 987 comments

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Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries (bbc.com)

389 points by devonnull 5 days ago | 304 comments

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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS (tomshardware.com)

388 points by mywacaday 5 days ago | 395 comments