HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

769 points by paveworld 20 hours ago | 162 comments

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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything (simonwillison.net)

577 points by elffjs 21 hours ago | 296 comments

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Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s (github.com)

487 points by snehesht 8 hours ago | 249 comments

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Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' (techcrunch.com)

473 points by sbulaev 23 hours ago | 264 comments

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OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken' (theguardian.com)

267 points by jethronethro 23 hours ago | 3 comments

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Why don't more developers “use the platform”? (nolanlawson.com)

263 points by vinhnx 17 hours ago | 268 comments

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Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening (automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu)

199 points by longhaul 5 hours ago | 128 comments

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In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults (energytransition.org)

160 points by JumpCrisscross 12 hours ago | 177 comments

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Religious scholars met with Anthropic (nytimes.com)

153 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 382 comments

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We're working on a new RuneScape MMO (play.runescape.com)

146 points by droidjj 20 hours ago | 85 comments

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Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (github.com)

134 points by privacyisntdead 1 hour ago | 60 comments

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Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com)

125 points by allenleee 12 hours ago | 59 comments

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Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com)

111 points by knuckleheads 15 hours ago | 30 comments

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VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next (gamehistory.org)

102 points by rdmuser 12 hours ago | 16 comments

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Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children (teachyourkids.substack.com)

99 points by actfrench 9 hours ago | 70 comments

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Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage (1011now.com)

98 points by sensanaty 1 hour ago | 109 comments

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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States (medium.com)

95 points by sans_souse 22 hours ago | 18 comments

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Apple's "Clean Design" Is Stupidity When It Comes to Hiding Fire Extinguishers (gadgetreview.com)

77 points by josephcsible 21 hours ago | 31 comments

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UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program (reclaimthenet.org)

70 points by latein 15 hours ago | 28 comments

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Blindsight (Watts Novel) (en.wikipedia.org)

67 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | 55 comments

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What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI? (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

53 points by 6bitquant 13 hours ago | 40 comments

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"Torturing" LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet (404media.co)

41 points by airhangerf15 13 hours ago | 100 comments

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Bill Draper has died (nytimes.com)

40 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 12 comments

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The evolution of effective altruism (economist.com)

39 points by bazzmt 7 hours ago | 51 comments

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OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils (news.lavx.hu)

31 points by pjmlp 13 hours ago | 41 comments

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Building a RAG pipeline for semantic code search (blog.jetbrains.com)

31 points by saikatsg 3 hours ago | 7 comments

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Protest against housing crisis in Spain (theguardian.com)

27 points by akbarnama 12 hours ago | 51 comments

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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill (cbc.ca)

27 points by throw0101a 6 hours ago | 28 comments

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Software Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Product Engineering (newsletter.chainofthought.show)

26 points by cliffclimber 3 hours ago | 13 comments

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How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] (youtube.com)

24 points by simonjgreen 12 hours ago | 7 comments