HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame (monogame.net)

532 points by haunter 15 hours ago | 229 comments

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Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades (latimes.com)

518 points by ValentineC 9 hours ago | 354 comments

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I canceled my book deal (austinhenley.com)

426 points by azhenley 12 hours ago | 253 comments

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2025: The Year in LLMs (simonwillison.net)

365 points by simonw 7 hours ago | 196 comments

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Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. (exopriors.com)

327 points by Xyra 23 hours ago | 116 comments

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Tell HN: Happy New Year

298 points by schappim 18 hours ago | 166 comments

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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] (ece.uvic.ca)

283 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 87 comments

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Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (helsinki.fi)

262 points by lrasinen 17 hours ago | 289 comments

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The rise of industrial software (chrisloy.dev)

229 points by chrisloy 21 hours ago | 161 comments

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Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers (reuters.com)

224 points by lossolo 12 hours ago | 113 comments

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Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died (obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com)

222 points by spankibalt 13 hours ago | 62 comments

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2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 (windowscentral.com)

208 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 285 comments

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France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year (theguardian.com)

201 points by belter 16 hours ago | 276 comments

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On privacy and control (toidiu.com)

159 points by todsacerdoti 12 hours ago | 90 comments

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The compiler is your best friend (blog.daniel-beskin.com)

153 points by based2 15 hours ago | 105 comments

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The Delete Act (privacy.ca.gov)

152 points by weaksauce 7 hours ago | 65 comments

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The most famous transcendental numbers (sprott.physics.wisc.edu)

151 points by vismit2000 18 hours ago | 99 comments

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How AI labs are solving the power problem (newsletter.semianalysis.com)

140 points by Symmetry 17 hours ago | 215 comments

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Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke (monash.edu)

139 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | 30 comments

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Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf] (storage.courtlistener.com)

135 points by Mgtyalx 12 hours ago | 122 comments

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Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups (smokingonabike.com)

128 points by coldpie 13 hours ago | 96 comments

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Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris (kywch.github.io)

126 points by a1k0n 15 hours ago | 30 comments

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Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system (mod.gov.il)

122 points by fork-bomber 16 hours ago | 221 comments

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When square pixels aren't square (alexwlchan.net)

122 points by PaulHoule 17 hours ago | 57 comments

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Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure (reuters.com)

114 points by JumpCrisscross 16 hours ago | 115 comments

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Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy (physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

109 points by Luc 8 hours ago | 106 comments

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2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal? (xam.dk)

99 points by based2 15 hours ago | 139 comments

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OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history (wsj.com)