HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (forum.level1techs.com)

424 points by felineflock 21 hours ago | 174 comments

2.

Scrap (2006) (twitter.com)

388 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 212 comments

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To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)

332 points by andsoitis 12 hours ago | 212 comments

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Thinking in Python (thinkinginpython.com)

252 points by pjacotg 21 hours ago | 51 comments

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Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code (twitter.com)

197 points by matthieu_bl 22 hours ago | 176 comments

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hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate (lapcatsoftware.com)

186 points by zdw 20 hours ago | 83 comments

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I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes (xda-developers.com)

183 points by raybb 5 hours ago | 89 comments

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Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed (xda-developers.com)

159 points by taubek 9 hours ago | 121 comments

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MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust (martypc.net)

159 points by boilerupnc 12 hours ago | 55 comments

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The End of an Athlon (os2museum.com)

147 points by userbinator 10 hours ago | 60 comments

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NetBSD and my life (2005) (mail-index.netbsd.org)

141 points by gnyeki 20 hours ago | 34 comments

12.

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015) (nappertime.com)

138 points by cocacola1 15 hours ago | 75 comments

13.

NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)

129 points by stared 17 hours ago | 32 comments

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JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)

125 points by zX41ZdbW 9 hours ago | 82 comments

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Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers (marcua.net)

119 points by speckx 21 hours ago | 20 comments

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Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware (securelist.com)

116 points by campuscodi 2 hours ago | 49 comments

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Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage (cnn.com)

106 points by MilnerRoute 22 hours ago | 91 comments

18.

Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium (bbc.com)

99 points by epestr 5 hours ago | 66 comments

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Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical (erikengdahl.se)

92 points by verisimi 7 hours ago | 102 comments

20.

I Dream of Quieter Computing (henry.codes)

88 points by Sir_Twist 13 hours ago | 95 comments

21.

Fast and Hard Code (lucumr.pocoo.org)

85 points by tosh 10 hours ago | 49 comments

22.

Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf] (olli.unt.edu)

75 points by tiahura 15 hours ago | 52 comments

23.

The Sloppification of Peptides (henryaj.substack.com)

74 points by henryaj 6 hours ago | 60 comments

24.

US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired (bbc.com)

73 points by tartoran 15 hours ago | 30 comments

25.

What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)

70 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 40 comments

26.

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras (risky.biz)

68 points by dredmorbius 1 hour ago | 20 comments

27.

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025) (rwwgreene.substack.com)

65 points by rznicolet 21 hours ago | 41 comments

28.

Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens (soverybright.com)

64 points by telecuda 21 hours ago | 85 comments

29.

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes (bookdna.com)

61 points by bwb 2 hours ago | 20 comments

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Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days (telegraph.co.uk)

60 points by giuliomagnifico 5 hours ago | 42 comments