HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day (ericpardee.github.io)

548 points by dr_pardee 6 hours ago | 237 comments

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

402 points by andsoitis 17 hours ago | 245 comments

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

306 points by dredmorbius 6 hours ago | 122 comments

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

288 points by raybb 11 hours ago | 128 comments

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

257 points by taubek 14 hours ago | 197 comments

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GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost (reinvently.co.uk)

232 points by ed-is-ai 4 hours ago | 105 comments

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What Is a Harness? (earendil.com)

205 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 110 comments

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

198 points by boilerupnc 18 hours ago | 73 comments

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

189 points by campuscodi 8 hours ago | 87 comments

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A website for debloated open source alternatives (debloat.dev)

182 points by ryanvogel 4 hours ago | 69 comments

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The End of an Athlon (os2museum.com)

173 points by userbinator 15 hours ago | 78 comments

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How Complex Systems Fail (1998) (how.complexsystems.fail)

171 points by shortcrct 6 hours ago | 50 comments

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

168 points by cocacola1 20 hours ago | 103 comments

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

163 points by bwb 7 hours ago | 58 comments

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JIT Compiling Code in 5μs (malisper.me)

149 points by zX41ZdbW 15 hours ago | 95 comments

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NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier (primeintellect.ai)

135 points by stared 23 hours ago | 35 comments

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Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests (studyfinds.com)

113 points by mdp2021 5 hours ago | 100 comments

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How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer (lalitm.com)

107 points by vanpra 1 hour ago | 42 comments

19.

I Dream of Quieter Computing (henry.codes)

106 points by Sir_Twist 18 hours ago | 107 comments

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

104 points by verisimi 12 hours ago | 112 comments

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Fast and Hard Code (lucumr.pocoo.org)

101 points by tosh 15 hours ago | 71 comments

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

101 points by epestr 11 hours ago | 69 comments

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Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling (punyamishra.com)

89 points by the-mitr 5 hours ago | 58 comments

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Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf] (2004) (olli.unt.edu)

79 points by tiahura 21 hours ago | 58 comments

25.

The Sloppification of Peptides (henryaj.substack.com)

78 points by henryaj 11 hours ago | 65 comments

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

78 points by tartoran 20 hours ago | 30 comments

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

73 points by giuliomagnifico 11 hours ago | 53 comments

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Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? (slate.com)

69 points by tchalla 2 hours ago | 26 comments

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'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics' (npr.org)

67 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | 38 comments

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Fable and the End of the Free Lunch (dbreunig.com)

66 points by dbreunig 2 hours ago | 48 comments