HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash (tomshardware.com)

1020 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 456 comments

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Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)

1017 points by signa11 18 hours ago | 388 comments

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GitHub Actions was down (githubstatus.com)

637 points by cebert 6 hours ago | 326 comments

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Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (apa.org)

515 points by bilsbie 19 hours ago | 205 comments

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Ferrari Luce (ferrari.com)

433 points by jumploops 20 hours ago | 801 comments

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Hacker News front page as a site (thefrontpage.dev)

393 points by thatxliner 21 hours ago | 108 comments

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Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier (politico.eu)

366 points by vrganj 6 hours ago | 126 comments

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Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence (reuters.com)

344 points by thm 4 hours ago | 173 comments

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Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes (9to5google.com)

338 points by Cider9986 13 hours ago | 190 comments

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How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (ente.com)

334 points by subract 19 hours ago | 58 comments

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Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (blocksandfiles.com)

315 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 197 comments

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Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore (unix.foo)

270 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 299 comments

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DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD (dynip.dev)

261 points by dynip 10 hours ago | 107 comments

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Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files (promptarmor.com)

254 points by Kneenex 20 hours ago | 48 comments

15.

The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month (eualternative.eu)

222 points by sparkling 23 hours ago | 81 comments

16.

Does anybody like React? (jsx.lol)

221 points by brazukadev 15 hours ago | 304 comments

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The User Is Visibly Frustrated (pscanf.com)

221 points by croes 13 hours ago | 198 comments

18.

A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft (bgr.com)

221 points by rmason 22 hours ago | 166 comments

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Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify' (theverge.com)

208 points by berlianta 7 hours ago | 104 comments

20.

Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties (techxplore.com)

187 points by Lihh27 21 hours ago | 33 comments

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AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn (seuros.com)

182 points by berlianta 4 hours ago | 104 comments

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CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude (support.apple.com)

164 points by dragonsenseiguy 18 hours ago | 92 comments

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Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union (reuters.com)

157 points by onemoresoop 1 hour ago | 67 comments

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Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs (signalbloom.ai)

132 points by GodelNumbering 5 hours ago | 145 comments

25.

Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?

131 points by widenrun 12 hours ago | 92 comments

26.

Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up (earthiongame.com)

127 points by MrBuddyCasino 14 hours ago | 58 comments

27.

Language Models Need Sleep (arxiv.org)

103 points by juxtapose 2 hours ago | 76 comments

28.

Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com)

88 points by tanelpoder 18 hours ago | 68 comments

29.

I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty (theguptalog.blogspot.com)

87 points by tjek 7 hours ago | 39 comments

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Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd (osnews.com)

84 points by birdculture 8 hours ago | 109 comments