HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents (pew.org)

599 points by matthest 12 hours ago | 705 comments

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FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms (techcrunch.com)

467 points by jbegley 16 hours ago | 174 comments

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Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service (propublica.org)

465 points by hn_acker 22 hours ago | 212 comments

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A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)

428 points by signa11 10 hours ago | 226 comments

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Warranty Void If Regenerated (nearzero.software)

393 points by Stwerner 15 hours ago | 233 comments

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Death to Scroll Fade (dbushell.com)

392 points by PaulHoule 20 hours ago | 202 comments

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AI coding is gambling (notes.visaint.space)

334 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 404 comments

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Nvidia NemoClaw (github.com)

332 points by hmokiguess 20 hours ago | 217 comments

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Show HN: I built 48 lightweight SVG backgrounds you can copy/paste (svgbackgrounds.com)

292 points by visiwig 20 hours ago | 58 comments

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Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware (promptarmor.com)

252 points by ozgune 20 hours ago | 81 comments

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Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?

232 points by bblcla 18 hours ago | 308 comments

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Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code (rjcorwin.github.io)

230 points by staticvar 10 hours ago | 59 comments

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Conway's Game of Life, in real life (lcamtuf.substack.com)

183 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 43 comments

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Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts (tomshardware.com)

182 points by bilsbie 23 hours ago | 2 comments

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Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) (stripe.com)

181 points by bpierre 20 hours ago | 79 comments

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Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149 (cyberinsider.com)

171 points by adrianwaj 8 hours ago | 117 comments

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Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15 (engadget.com)

161 points by bookofjoe 20 hours ago | 169 comments

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What 81,000 people want from AI (anthropic.com)

155 points by dsr12 7 hours ago | 131 comments

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Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026 (whois.domaintools.com)

152 points by someprick 22 hours ago | 128 comments

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Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training (github.com)

149 points by xlayn 14 hours ago | 43 comments

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Autoresearch for SAT Solvers (github.com)

140 points by chaisan 11 hours ago | 27 comments

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CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root (blog.qualys.com)

139 points by askl 20 hours ago | 94 comments

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EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime (commission.europa.eu)

135 points by guidoiaquinti 18 hours ago | 84 comments

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Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?

129 points by basilikum 10 hours ago | 154 comments

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Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying (wsj.com)

123 points by jgalt212 23 hours ago | 183 comments

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North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim (theregister.com)

122 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 133 comments

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Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild (wired.com)

121 points by WalterSobchak 21 hours ago | 90 comments

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Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland (bsky.app)