HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)

740 points by milkglass 8 hours ago | 444 comments

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Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)

530 points by pr337h4m 21 hours ago | 360 comments

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Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org)

477 points by skullone 16 hours ago | 250 comments

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USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)

394 points by gwerbret 17 hours ago | 74 comments

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Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

392 points by _-x-_ 14 hours ago | 148 comments

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Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)

314 points by chiefalchemist 14 hours ago | 199 comments

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Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)

300 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 192 comments

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Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0 (asahilinux.org)

265 points by elisaado 4 hours ago | 87 comments

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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (juraj.bednar.io)

261 points by gasull 11 hours ago | 138 comments

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The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it (newrepublic.com)

250 points by chirau 17 hours ago | 331 comments

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Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)

239 points by nickjj 23 hours ago | 80 comments

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Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (blog.happyfellow.dev)

174 points by thehappyfellow 21 hours ago | 67 comments

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Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center (boilingsteam.com)

153 points by ekianjo 22 hours ago | 123 comments

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Statecharts: hierarchical state machines (statecharts.dev)

153 points by sph 5 hours ago | 39 comments

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Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (seriouseats.com)

149 points by jstrieb 18 hours ago | 123 comments

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America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)

131 points by sleepyguy 19 hours ago | 147 comments

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Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known (nbcnews.com)

127 points by hggh 22 hours ago | 177 comments

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Hokusai and Tesselations (dl.ndl.go.jp)

127 points by srean 21 hours ago | 15 comments

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Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)

119 points by terminalbraid 16 hours ago | 46 comments

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GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (lists.gnupg.org)

108 points by zdkaster 11 hours ago | 38 comments

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Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)

106 points by varjag 21 hours ago | 49 comments

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The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)

104 points by offbyone42 14 hours ago | 13 comments

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Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter (edenai.co)

97 points by muzzy19 6 hours ago | 53 comments

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At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared (cnn.com)

86 points by acdanger 2 hours ago | 58 comments

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AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)

83 points by pabs3 9 hours ago | 21 comments

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DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)

65 points by mji 15 hours ago | 6 comments

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Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch (nytimes.com)

62 points by danso 15 hours ago | 55 comments

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What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role (mnot.net)

59 points by ingve 23 hours ago | 63 comments

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Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets (getkloak.io)

51 points by neo2006 19 hours ago | 46 comments

30.

Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019) (ciechanow.ski)

51 points by subset 7 hours ago | 7 comments