HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Court Records Should Be Free (eff.org)

451 points by hn_acker 23 hours ago | 104 comments

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Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died (legacy.com)

436 points by pgrote 21 hours ago | 51 comments

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You (moultano.wordpress.com)

342 points by moultano 13 hours ago | 86 comments

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CSSQuake (cssquake.com)

313 points by msalsas 6 hours ago | 67 comments

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A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech (eff.org)

284 points by hn_acker 23 hours ago | 138 comments

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I Stored a Website in a Favicon (timwehrle.de)

253 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 86 comments

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Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good (nature.com)

232 points by Michelangelo11 23 hours ago | 310 comments

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Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings (theguardian.com)

232 points by ValentineC 18 hours ago | 131 comments

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Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023) (nochan.net)

214 points by Bender 20 hours ago | 154 comments

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Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks (newsletter.kentbeck.com)

199 points by rrvsh 17 hours ago | 115 comments

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Amazon drops Sam Altman movie after announcing OpenAI partnership (the-independent.com)

199 points by theanonymousone 21 hours ago | 69 comments

12.

Big Banana Car (bigbananacar.com)

166 points by Bender 23 hours ago | 87 comments

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John Jumper to join Anthropic (twitter.com)

158 points by artninja1988 23 hours ago | 122 comments

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Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering (space.com)

157 points by y1n0 13 hours ago | 82 comments

15.

How to feed a dictator (theguardian.com)

148 points by Michelangelo11 15 hours ago | 56 comments

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Surprising economics of load-balanced systems (brooker.co.za)

139 points by KraftyOne 20 hours ago | 34 comments

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VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate' (birminghammail.co.uk)

138 points by iamnothere 3 hours ago | 125 comments

18.

Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

135 points by amichail 18 hours ago | 223 comments

19.

Iran requires insurance on ships using Strait of Hormuz, fees likely to follow (lloydslist.com)

124 points by decimalenough 17 hours ago | 135 comments

20.

LLMs Are Complicated Now (ianbarber.blog)

122 points by matt_d 15 hours ago | 43 comments

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Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets (ft.com)

117 points by fandorin 21 hours ago | 103 comments

22.

Zenzizenzizenzic (en.wikipedia.org)

113 points by gyosifov 19 hours ago | 34 comments

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Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones (lrt.lt)

97 points by giuliomagnifico 5 hours ago | 79 comments

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From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone (techcrunch.com)

96 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 39 comments

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The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents (eff.org)

85 points by Brajeshwar 19 hours ago | 137 comments

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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash (bloomberg.com)

78 points by drayfield 3 hours ago | 27 comments

27.

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science (elizabethginexi.substack.com)

75 points by tacomonstrous 17 hours ago | 10 comments

28.

Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs (extremetech.com)

73 points by tcp_handshaker 3 hours ago | 33 comments

29.

The European Social Stack (european.social)

68 points by doener 2 hours ago | 48 comments

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A record 242 US cities now have starter homes that cost $1M (investors.zillowgroup.com)

67 points by littlexsparkee 16 hours ago | 80 comments