HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (blog.curiousquail.com)

1572 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 350 comments

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The August 17 outage (github.blog)

614 points by 0xedb 21 hours ago | 712 comments

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AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.pk)

586 points by darccio 6 hours ago | 364 comments

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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (kagi.com)

475 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 177 comments

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Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)

392 points by throw7 3 hours ago | 216 comments

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AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late (annas-archive.gl)

382 points by Cider9986 13 hours ago | 324 comments

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Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (danielvaughn.dev)

350 points by danielvaughn 21 hours ago | 202 comments

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Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study (rathbiotaclan.com)

345 points by Akasci 21 hours ago | 119 comments

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DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (api-docs.deepseek.com)

332 points by dares2573 5 hours ago | 110 comments

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I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)

321 points by tyre 22 hours ago | 121 comments

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Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened (xda-developers.com)

319 points by rdmuser 10 hours ago | 178 comments

12.

Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)

290 points by gregsadetsky 22 hours ago | 58 comments

13.

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (experimental-history.com)

244 points by rafaelc 21 hours ago | 361 comments

14.

Ox Alpha (openrouter.ai)

213 points by mtokmak06 16 hours ago | 167 comments

15.

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates (remapradio.com)

213 points by spankibalt 9 hours ago | 122 comments

16.

Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos (experimental-history.com)

196 points by cwal37 20 hours ago | 132 comments

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Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU (mathstodon.xyz)

182 points by u1hcw9nx 16 hours ago | 202 comments

18.

Small, native web tricks worth remembering (htmlcat.net)

174 points by marcomezzavilla 6 hours ago | 44 comments

19.

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges (github.com)

144 points by TheP1000 13 hours ago | 58 comments

20.

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)

136 points by signa11 9 hours ago | 76 comments

21.

I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases (lina.sh)

126 points by gavide 3 hours ago | 18 comments

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It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)

115 points by sonicrocketman 15 hours ago | 87 comments

23.

SpacetimeDB: a short technical review (strn.cat)

109 points by hurrrr 21 hours ago | 39 comments

24.

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering (ixuvo.com)

105 points by ksec 4 hours ago | 36 comments

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Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise (investors.micron.com)

102 points by osnium123 12 hours ago | 51 comments

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I'm Becoming AI-Blind (cymerys.com)

96 points by rcymerys 4 hours ago | 98 comments

27.

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore (jacob.gold)

91 points by mooreslaw 15 hours ago | 161 comments

28.

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x (catalystneuro.com)

87 points by bkd9 2 hours ago | 69 comments

29.

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986) (philipdick.com)

76 points by wise_blood 10 hours ago | 58 comments

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We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)

75 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 33 comments