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)

1071 points by john-doe 14 hours ago | 737 comments

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Zig → Rust porting guide (github.com)

694 points by SergeAx 20 hours ago | 513 comments

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

470 points by Brajeshwar 7 hours ago | 253 comments

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Train Your Own LLM from Scratch (github.com)

410 points by kristianpaul 17 hours ago | 49 comments

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

409 points by pjmlp 14 hours ago | 220 comments

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Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?) (daringfireball.net)

368 points by gyomu 21 hours ago | 67 comments

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Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)

361 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 23 hours ago | 191 comments

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

353 points by amrrs 5 hours ago | 158 comments

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

352 points by alentodorov 9 hours ago | 266 comments

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

301 points by MrBuddyCasino 17 hours ago | 252 comments

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Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)

298 points by blenderob 6 hours ago | 195 comments

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

290 points by jprs 7 hours ago | 252 comments

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

270 points by youngbrioche 12 hours ago | 190 comments

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

264 points by warpspin 1 hour ago | 81 comments

15.

AI Product Graveyard (tooldirectory.ai)

237 points by StriverGuy 8 hours ago | 83 comments

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

235 points by SeenNotHeard 4 hours ago | 141 comments

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

233 points by dreadsword 17 hours ago | 163 comments

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

218 points by ingve 14 hours ago | 213 comments

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

216 points by palashawas 5 hours ago | 119 comments

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What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) (margaretstorey.com)

213 points by raphaelcosta 19 hours ago | 136 comments

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

198 points by jollyjerry 17 hours ago | 42 comments

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

177 points by averi 17 hours ago | 102 comments

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

175 points by littlexsparkee 3 hours ago | 215 comments

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Agents for financial services and insurance (anthropic.com)

167 points by louiereederson 6 hours ago | 122 comments

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

166 points by brudgers 5 hours ago | 38 comments

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

153 points by adrianmsmith 9 hours ago | 170 comments

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