HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)

1278 points by john-doe 19 hours ago | 866 comments

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.de TLD offline due to DNSSEC? (dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com)

553 points by warpspin 7 hours ago | 267 comments

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AI didn't delete your database, you did (idiallo.com)

496 points by Brajeshwar 13 hours ago | 272 comments

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Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (blog.google)

469 points by amrrs 11 hours ago | 208 comments

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Async Rust never left the MVP state (tweedegolf.nl)

427 points by pjmlp 19 hours ago | 230 comments

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Train Your Own LLM from Scratch (github.com)

427 points by kristianpaul 23 hours ago | 49 comments

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iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet (walletwallet.alen.ro)

386 points by alentodorov 14 hours ago | 292 comments

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Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)

377 points by blenderob 11 hours ago | 254 comments

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Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs (reflex.dev)

335 points by palashawas 10 hours ago | 193 comments

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When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing (robert-glaser.de)

323 points by youngbrioche 17 hours ago | 222 comments

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Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold (walzr.com)

315 points by MrBuddyCasino 22 hours ago | 260 comments

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IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com)

308 points by SeenNotHeard 9 hours ago | 179 comments

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The fun has been optimized out of the Internet (muddy.jprs.me)

300 points by jprs 12 hours ago | 265 comments

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Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% (twitter.com)

281 points by adrianmsmith 15 hours ago | 420 comments

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California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy (sfgate.com)

280 points by littlexsparkee 9 hours ago | 335 comments

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Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement (variety.com)

280 points by spankibalt 9 hours ago | 255 comments

17.

AI Product Graveyard (tooldirectory.ai)

245 points by StriverGuy 14 hours ago | 87 comments

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EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] (youtube.com)

241 points by brudgers 11 hours ago | 62 comments

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Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache (theregister.com)

239 points by dreadsword 22 hours ago | 169 comments

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NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address (npr.org)

232 points by ilamont 5 hours ago | 111 comments

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Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap? (dbreunig.com)

230 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 224 comments

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Agents for financial services and insurance (anthropic.com)

211 points by louiereederson 12 hours ago | 158 comments

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Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025) (sethmlarson.dev)

204 points by jollyjerry 23 hours ago | 42 comments

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CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers (dragonsreach.it)

186 points by averi 23 hours ago | 110 comments

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Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue (notepad-plus-plus.org)

169 points by minimaxir 9 hours ago | 77 comments

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Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes (smmt.co.uk)

160 points by kieranmaine 11 hours ago | 257 comments

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I'm scared about biological computing (kuber.studio)

154 points by kuberwastaken 11 hours ago | 138 comments

28.

Write some software, give it away for free (nonogra.ph)

154 points by nohell 5 hours ago | 114 comments

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It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs (tech.yahoo.com)

150 points by giantg2 12 hours ago | 160 comments

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Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say (apnews.com)

144 points by jethronethro 5 hours ago | 5 comments