HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot (this.weekinsecurity.com)

573 points by speckx 14 hours ago | 206 comments

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Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say (nbcnews.com)

509 points by MilnerRoute 14 hours ago | 396 comments

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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute (techcrunch.com)

408 points by ramanan 21 hours ago | 2 comments

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Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts (ntsc.rs)

338 points by gregsadetsky 13 hours ago | 88 comments

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Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) (pokeemerald.com)

315 points by tripplyons 21 hours ago | 90 comments

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Moving beyond fork() + exec() (lwn.net)

296 points by jwilk 18 hours ago | 292 comments

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Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs (twitter.com)

276 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 467 comments

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Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF (su3.io)

229 points by losfair 17 hours ago | 55 comments

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The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy (blog.includesecurity.com)

208 points by nikcub 23 hours ago | 91 comments

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New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker (randalolson.com)

202 points by davidbarker 12 hours ago | 233 comments

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Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health (science.org)

164 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 158 comments

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Python JIT project was asked to pause development (discuss.python.org)

163 points by kbumsik 17 hours ago | 86 comments

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Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements (ft.com)

151 points by nmstoker 17 hours ago | 46 comments

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Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months (github.com)

140 points by babuskov 5 hours ago | 66 comments

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Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation (mashable.com)

139 points by thisislife2 18 hours ago | 65 comments

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Benchmarks in Leipzig (arxiv.org)

131 points by root-parent 18 hours ago | 46 comments

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You Can Run (magazine.atavist.com)

126 points by bryanrasmussen 16 hours ago | 67 comments

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I design with Claude more than Figma now (blog.janestreet.com)

125 points by MrBuddyCasino 3 hours ago | 86 comments

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The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners (ioccc.org)

120 points by matt_d 3 hours ago | 21 comments

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US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules (reuters.com)

118 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 19 hours ago | 77 comments

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Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git (ataraxy-labs.github.io)

115 points by rohanucla 12 hours ago | 47 comments

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Public Domain Image Archive (pdimagearchive.org)

103 points by davidbarker 8 hours ago | 16 comments

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An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World (radioworld.com)

100 points by pkaeding 7 hours ago | 96 comments

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Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering (arxiv.org)

95 points by Anon84 7 hours ago | 30 comments

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Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM (simonwillison.net)

93 points by theanonymousone 18 hours ago | 29 comments

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The circus freaks of open source (drewdevault.com)

77 points by keyle 3 hours ago | 20 comments

27.

The new bibliomaniacs (engelsbergideas.com)

75 points by RickJWagner 20 hours ago | 72 comments

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Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo (knowablemagazine.org)