HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software (github.com)

403 points by avionics-guy 23 hours ago | 133 comments

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Digg is gone again (digg.com)

343 points by hammerbrostime 23 hours ago | 352 comments

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Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe (bbc.com)

296 points by gostsamo 18 hours ago | 189 comments

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RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one (tomshardware.com)

192 points by edward 8 hours ago | 136 comments

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XML Is a Cheap DSL (unplannedobsolescence.com)

191 points by y1n0 6 hours ago | 196 comments

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Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025) (westernmt.news)

174 points by bilsbie 4 hours ago | 121 comments

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What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable (mitsloan.mit.edu)

166 points by inaros 1 hour ago | 117 comments

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Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people (haitiantimes.com)

164 points by e12e 20 hours ago | 93 comments

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I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites (benzimmermann.dev)

150 points by kernelrocks 19 hours ago | 45 comments

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An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills (old.reddit.com)

147 points by pabs3 17 hours ago | 13 comments

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Please Do Not A/B Test My Workflow (backnotprop.com)

146 points by ramoz 6 hours ago | 183 comments

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Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company (arstechnica.com)

135 points by waits 20 hours ago | 34 comments

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I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me (lr0.org)

122 points by ghd_ 19 hours ago | 232 comments

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Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben (spiegel.de)

107 points by sebastian_z 4 hours ago | 37 comments

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AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier (robenglander.com)

101 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 89 comments

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U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. DOJ Scrapped It (propublica.org)

94 points by johnbarron 22 hours ago | 21 comments

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Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware (github.com)

92 points by XzetaU8 9 hours ago | 5 comments

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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in court testimony (theguardian.com)

92 points by mitchbob 23 hours ago | 0 comments

19.

NMAP in the Movies (nmap.org)

88 points by homebrewer 2 hours ago | 12 comments

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Stanford researchers report first recording of a blue whale's heart rate (2019) (news.stanford.edu)

81 points by eatonphil 23 hours ago | 49 comments

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Our Experience with I-Ready (moultano.wordpress.com)

80 points by barry-cotter 18 hours ago | 31 comments

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The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker (techcrunch.com)

80 points by wateroo 23 hours ago | 10 comments

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Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount (reuters.com)

79 points by Aboutplants 17 hours ago | 13 comments

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The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer's, mental health – and more (vox.com)

74 points by epistasis 21 hours ago | 1 comments

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Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture (tboteproject.com)

68 points by mefengl 9 hours ago | 12 comments

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Starlink Militarization and Its Impact on Global Strategic Stability (interpret.csis.org)

67 points by msuniverse2026 9 hours ago | 90 comments

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$2B nonprofit grants traced to find who's behind age verification bills (old.reddit.com)

66 points by spaghetdefects 17 hours ago | 1 comments

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UBI Is Your Productivity Dividend – The Only Way to All Share What We All Built (scottsantens.substack.com)