HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law (tomshardware.com)

561 points by shscs911 13 hours ago | 248 comments

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The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now (stephendiehl.com)

435 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 303 comments

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Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (newsletter.eng-leadership.com)

423 points by gpi 23 hours ago | 107 comments

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DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions (theguardian.com)

422 points by firefax 21 hours ago | 96 comments

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Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras (texastribune.org)

381 points by DeepLogin 17 hours ago | 278 comments

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Hy4 preview (tencent.com)

360 points by shenli3514 21 hours ago | 221 comments

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Bug Blindness (danluu.com)

338 points by davidmckenna 16 hours ago | 212 comments

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Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private (theregister.com)

295 points by defrost 7 hours ago | 218 comments

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Creepy Crawlies (people.kernel.org)

245 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 88 comments

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No AI Fridays (noaifridays.com)

225 points by xendo 4 hours ago | 121 comments

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Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role (tucker.wales)

169 points by tuckerwales 22 hours ago | 71 comments

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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations (dwarkesh.com)

168 points by consumer451 16 hours ago | 98 comments

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Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms (latimes.com)

162 points by measurablefunc 17 hours ago | 198 comments

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Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018) (arxiv.org)

161 points by joebig 8 hours ago | 48 comments

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I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul (sfstandard.com)

154 points by lisper 17 hours ago | 115 comments

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FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued (freecore.org)

152 points by sashk 15 hours ago | 82 comments

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Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel (qubes-os.org)

146 points by vntok 7 hours ago | 61 comments

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Hacking IKEA Furniture (greenlightning.eu)

139 points by greenlightning 4 hours ago | 75 comments

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Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online (defrag98.com)

123 points by throw0101a 17 hours ago | 69 comments

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Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns (dl.acm.org)

112 points by matt_d 21 hours ago | 42 comments

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vLLM v0.28.0 (github.com)

107 points by mrrrcs 22 hours ago | 37 comments

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Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default (github.com)

103 points by sparsesignal 3 hours ago | 127 comments

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Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws (morganlewis.com)

96 points by toomuchtodo 14 hours ago | 66 comments

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Benjamin Franklin’s alter egos gave him the most freedom (smithsonianmag.com)

92 points by cisc 15 hours ago | 53 comments

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Domain-Driven Agents (coldtake.dev)

90 points by AlarQ 21 hours ago | 20 comments

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What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022) (strangeloopcanon.com)

78 points by bilsbie 19 hours ago | 88 comments

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Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat (fortune.com)

72 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 62 comments

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European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy (reclaimthenet.org)