HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (bbc.com)

303 points by gostsamo 20 hours ago | 192 comments

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What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable (mitsloan.mit.edu)

266 points by inaros 3 hours ago | 236 comments

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RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one (tomshardware.com)

226 points by edward 10 hours ago | 149 comments

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XML Is a Cheap DSL (unplannedobsolescence.com)

212 points by y1n0 8 hours ago | 212 comments

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Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025) (westernmt.news)

207 points by bilsbie 6 hours ago | 172 comments

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Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people (haitiantimes.com)

169 points by e12e 22 hours ago | 94 comments

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Please do not A/B test my workflow (backnotprop.com)

153 points by ramoz 8 hours ago | 191 comments

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I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites (benzimmermann.dev)

152 points by kernelrocks 21 hours ago | 45 comments

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An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills (old.reddit.com)

149 points by pabs3 19 hours ago | 13 comments

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Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)

137 points by waits 22 hours ago | 37 comments

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Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben (spiegel.de)

131 points by sebastian_z 6 hours ago | 45 comments

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I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me (lr0.org)

128 points by ghd_ 21 hours ago | 248 comments

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Nmap in the movies (2008) (nmap.org)

125 points by homebrewer 4 hours ago | 17 comments

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AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier (robenglander.com)

105 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 96 comments

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Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware (github.com)

101 points by XzetaU8 11 hours ago | 5 comments

16.

Sunsetting Jazzband (jazzband.co)

93 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 29 comments

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Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount (reuters.com)

84 points by Aboutplants 19 hours ago | 15 comments

18.

UBI as a productivity dividend (scottsantens.substack.com)

82 points by 2noame 4 hours ago | 142 comments

19.

Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (interpret.csis.org)

80 points by msuniverse2026 11 hours ago | 98 comments

20.

Our Experience with I-Ready (moultano.wordpress.com)

80 points by barry-cotter 20 hours ago | 31 comments

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The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer's, mental health – and more (vox.com)

75 points by epistasis 23 hours ago | 1 comments

22.

Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war (twitter.com)

74 points by theahura 1 hour ago | 27 comments

23.

Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022) (journals.sagepub.com)

70 points by xyzal 4 hours ago | 34 comments

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Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture (tboteproject.com)

70 points by mefengl 11 hours ago | 12 comments

25.

Show HN: GitAgent – An open standard that turns any Git repo into an AI agent (gitagent.sh)

67 points by sivasurend 6 hours ago | 7 comments

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$2B nonprofit grants traced to find who's behind age verification bills (old.reddit.com)

67 points by spaghetdefects 19 hours ago | 1 comments

27.

Optimizing Content for Agents (cra.mr)

66 points by vinhnx 18 hours ago | 25 comments

28.

AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined (youtube.com)

63 points by vaxman 3 hours ago | 23 comments

29.

ArXiv is establishing itself as an independent nonprofit organization (jobs.chronicle.com)

63 points by robinhouston 22 hours ago | 1 comments

30.

An ode to bzip (purplesyringa.moe)

60 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 32 comments