HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI (skyview.social)

1092 points by christoph-heiss 8 hours ago | 1397 comments

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Maybe the default settings are too high (raptitude.com)

863 points by htk 23 hours ago | 283 comments

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Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out (nesbitt.io)

534 points by birdculture 10 hours ago | 305 comments

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Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI (imgur.com)

453 points by signa11 17 hours ago | 18 comments

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Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors (sfconservancy.org)

408 points by pabs3 22 hours ago | 133 comments

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How uv got so fast (nesbitt.io)

375 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 126 comments

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FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub (twitter.com)

314 points by merlindru 5 hours ago | 71 comments

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I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)

257 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 248 comments

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Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" (simonwillison.net)

238 points by nabla9 4 hours ago | 157 comments

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Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations (nhmu.utah.edu)

238 points by astronads 5 hours ago | 106 comments

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My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL (old.reddit.com)

227 points by davisr 3 hours ago | 74 comments

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TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models (github.com)

223 points by meander_water 19 hours ago | 41 comments

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ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests (community.openai.com)

213 points by Valid3840 10 hours ago | 136 comments

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MiniMax M2.1: Built for Real-World Complex Tasks, Multi-Language Programming (minimaxi.com)

205 points by 110 22 hours ago | 72 comments

15.

LearnixOS (learnix-os.com)

176 points by gtirloni 10 hours ago | 66 comments

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Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system (github.com)

128 points by pranshuparmar 7 hours ago | 16 comments

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How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023) (johndcook.com)

119 points by tzury 4 hours ago | 22 comments

18.

Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

116 points by kwar13 10 hours ago | 141 comments

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High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects (smithsonianmag.com)

101 points by mhb 7 hours ago | 93 comments

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Show HN: AutoLISP interpreter in Rust/WASM – a CAD workflow invented 33 yrs ago (acadlisp.de)

100 points by holg 7 hours ago | 29 comments

21.

Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith (catalinionescu.dev)

98 points by cionescu1 15 hours ago | 43 comments

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Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode (nullprogram.com)

94 points by rcarmo 10 hours ago | 12 comments

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A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash (blog.nawaz.org)

93 points by BeetleB 5 hours ago | 102 comments

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Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs (nakedcapitalism.com)

92 points by indigodaddy 22 hours ago | 49 comments

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ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?' (politico.com)

86 points by standardUser 5 hours ago | 71 comments

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Ultimate-Linux: Userspace for Linux in Pure JavaScript (github.com)

86 points by radeeyate 20 hours ago | 26 comments

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Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster (folklore.org)

72 points by maayank 8 hours ago | 89 comments

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Codex vs. Claude Code (today) (build.ms)

72 points by gmays 10 hours ago | 75 comments

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ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0 (railsatscale.com)

72 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | 24 comments

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When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions (miod.online.fr)

71 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 18 comments