HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

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

1835 points by ngruhn 5 days ago | 740 comments

2.

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

1637 points by jdcampolargo 4 days ago | 95 comments

3.

LLMs reward expertise (seangoedecke.com)

1409 points by MaxMussio 4 days ago | 570 comments

4.

Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)

1165 points by theanonymousone 2 days ago | 165 comments

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

1118 points by ai2027 5 days ago | 613 comments

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Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)

944 points by xtreak29 3 days ago | 592 comments

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

920 points by itvision 1 day ago | 691 comments

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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (noemamag.com)

919 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 1087 comments

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

888 points by defrost 1 day ago | 858 comments

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

854 points by colesantiago 3 days ago | 928 comments

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

793 points by meysamazad 4 days ago | 465 comments

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

785 points by boplicity 1 day ago | 420 comments

13.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (arcprize.org)

737 points by tosh 1 day ago | 445 comments

14.

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

726 points by ymir_e 5 days ago | 374 comments

15.

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

726 points by bryanmikaelian 5 days ago | 233 comments

16.

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

712 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | 766 comments

17.

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

691 points by DarkContinent 2 days ago | 214 comments

18.

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

680 points by tsak 2 days ago | 530 comments

19.

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

659 points by speckx 3 days ago | 331 comments

20.

More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)

645 points by mertbio 5 days ago | 498 comments

21.

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

626 points by milkshakes 5 days ago | 938 comments

22.

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

621 points by automatoney 4 days ago | 99 comments

23.

Karpathy’s Pelican (twitter.com)

617 points by delichon 6 days ago | 434 comments

24.

Diátaxis (diataxis.fr)

558 points by ryanseys 6 days ago | 63 comments

25.

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

544 points by apitman 2 days ago | 345 comments

26.

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

543 points by luispa 3 days ago | 293 comments

27.

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

539 points by mpweiher 5 days ago | 444 comments

28.

Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)

525 points by ahamez 3 days ago | 311 comments

29.

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (app.dealroom.co)

506 points by delduca 1 day ago | 372 comments

30.

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)

501 points by Footkerchief 2 days ago | 409 comments