HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025) (pv-magazine.com)

878 points by robin_reala 16 hours ago | 539 comments

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US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf] (cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov)

523 points by dryadin 20 hours ago | 409 comments

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FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font (arcade.pirillo.com)

438 points by rendx 17 hours ago | 151 comments

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Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse (felixturner.github.io)

400 points by imadr 9 hours ago | 59 comments

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How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier (old.reddit.com)

389 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 220 comments

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Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft (writings.hongminhee.org)

366 points by dahlia 11 hours ago | 388 comments

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Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional (cbs12.com)

352 points by 1970-01-01 9 hours ago | 460 comments

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down (bsky.social)

316 points by minimaxir 7 hours ago | 279 comments

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JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 (bellard.org)

258 points by TechTechTech 10 hours ago | 71 comments

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Oracle is building yesterday's data centers with tomorrow's debt (cnbc.com)

242 points by spenvo 6 hours ago | 128 comments

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The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025) (smartlab.at)

232 points by jruohonen 22 hours ago | 158 comments

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FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale (engineering.fb.com)

230 points by sudhakaran88 21 hours ago | 94 comments

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Sir Tony Hoare has died (lefenetrou.blogspot.com)

227 points by nextos 3 hours ago | 56 comments

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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom (arstechnica.com)

209 points by randycupertino 7 hours ago | 71 comments

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The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future (europeancorrespondent.com)

205 points by mariuz 11 hours ago | 273 comments

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Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery (liliputing.com)

191 points by heresie-dabord 10 hours ago | 124 comments

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New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates (twitter.com)

186 points by bilsbie 11 hours ago | 177 comments

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DARPA’s new X-76 (darpa.mil)

162 points by newer_vienna 9 hours ago | 157 comments

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Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers, tinkerers, and activists (fixfest.therestartproject.org)

154 points by robtherobber 9 hours ago | 18 comments

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Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol (tamarack.cloud)

152 points by baconomatic 14 hours ago | 60 comments

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Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP (github.com)

141 points by knowsuchagency 21 hours ago | 101 comments

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Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day (twz.com)

137 points by throwawayffffas 11 hours ago | 133 comments

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Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship (jacobin.com)

128 points by johnbarron 10 hours ago | 27 comments

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Show HN: The Mog Programming Language (moglang.org)

123 points by belisarius222 8 hours ago | 61 comments

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US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows (bbc.com)

117 points by johnbarron 10 hours ago | 75 comments

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FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing (vivianvoss.net)

114 points by vermaden 13 hours ago | 47 comments

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Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed (theguardian.com)

103 points by Red_Tarsius 19 hours ago | 196 comments

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Uber reported to the state that I was fired for "annoying a coworker." (anon-ex-uber.medium.com)