HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)

595 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 267 comments

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Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)

467 points by groomlake 23 hours ago | 273 comments

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My server is a phone now (seg6.space)

423 points by seg6 16 hours ago | 191 comments

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Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)

295 points by jmusall 16 hours ago | 30 comments

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Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (shopify.engineering)

280 points by adletbalzhanov 16 hours ago | 184 comments

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Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)

267 points by minimaxir 11 hours ago | 51 comments

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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)

238 points by geox 21 hours ago | 157 comments

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Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)

214 points by jggonz 15 hours ago | 137 comments

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Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)

201 points by gumby 23 hours ago | 172 comments

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The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)

179 points by doubletwoyou 10 hours ago | 85 comments

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Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (eclipsefan.org)

178 points by MarcoDewey 19 hours ago | 55 comments

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LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com)

177 points by andrewpollack 22 hours ago | 106 comments

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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (blog.terrygodier.com)

167 points by satvikpendem 1 hour ago | 68 comments

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Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (academic.oup.com)

159 points by bohaska 14 hours ago | 177 comments

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Incentives are for losers (experimental-history.com)

144 points by bkudria 13 hours ago | 108 comments

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Message your other Claude Code sessions (code.claude.com)

138 points by mfiguiere 23 hours ago | 61 comments

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There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)

121 points by gukoff 7 hours ago | 20 comments

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Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com)

116 points by BruceEel 9 hours ago | 53 comments

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Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age (itsfoss.com)

111 points by WaitWaitWha 11 hours ago | 106 comments

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Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack (news.maryland.gov)

107 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 65 comments

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Everything You Do Is Being Recorded (theatlantic.com)

104 points by ike_usawa 3 hours ago | 89 comments

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Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)

91 points by tchalla 16 hours ago | 94 comments

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Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost (404media.co)

70 points by theanonymousone 7 hours ago | 56 comments

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Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)

70 points by tremguy 3 hours ago | 55 comments

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TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)

67 points by frozenseven 13 hours ago | 8 comments

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ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style (arstechnica.com)

65 points by Eloissssss 13 hours ago | 51 comments

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CSS: The bomb inside your inbox (portswigger.net)

62 points by ashurandi 5 hours ago | 18 comments

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TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)

60 points by skibz 21 hours ago | 18 comments

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Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center (tomshardware.com)

52 points by mikhael 2 hours ago | 54 comments

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Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt (youtube.com)

48 points by johnbarron 3 hours ago | 56 comments