HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Writing by hand is good for your brain (nealstephenson.substack.com)

636 points by dwwoelfel 5 hours ago | 316 comments

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Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (politico.com)

487 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 474 comments

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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt (futurism.com)

446 points by technewssss 6 hours ago | 214 comments

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I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation (citizendot.github.io)

439 points by CITIZENDOT 23 hours ago | 120 comments

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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects (codeberg.org)

342 points by intunderflow 18 hours ago | 573 comments

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OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (simonwillison.net)

295 points by abhisek 18 hours ago | 255 comments

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OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line (axios.com)

261 points by yogthos 6 hours ago | 297 comments

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Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs (reuters.com)

242 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 hours ago | 252 comments

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Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs (blog.codeberg.org)

179 points by acmnrs 18 hours ago | 130 comments

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Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ (haqr.eu)

179 points by mpweiher 5 hours ago | 30 comments

11.

What happened to TheNumbers.com (stephenfollows.com)

162 points by nickthegreek 2 hours ago | 60 comments

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EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps (theguardian.com)

160 points by Stevvo 9 hours ago | 167 comments

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Astronomers may have found the first exomoon (eso.org)

159 points by MarcoDewey 5 hours ago | 56 comments

14.

Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time (dfarq.homeip.net)

158 points by giuliomagnifico 14 hours ago | 147 comments

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Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support (nondescriptpointer.com)

154 points by helonaut 23 hours ago | 60 comments

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Malleable computing, Emacs, and you (yummymelon.com)

149 points by kickingvegas 22 hours ago | 47 comments

17.

Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years (cnn.com)

146 points by effects 21 hours ago | 50 comments

18.

Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16 (ziggit.dev)

144 points by Erenay09 14 hours ago | 108 comments

19.

Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change (werd.io)

136 points by benwerd 6 hours ago | 144 comments

20.

Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style (petals.dev)

128 points by snorbleck 18 hours ago | 37 comments

21.

I Regret Migrating to Codeberg (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

122 points by boramalper 5 hours ago | 88 comments

22.

Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL (learnopengl.com)

121 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 70 comments

23.

Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose (worseonpurpose.com)

109 points by bilsbie 8 hours ago | 94 comments

24.

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough) (github.com)

97 points by dhorthy 4 hours ago | 76 comments

25.

All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized (claytondorge.com)

95 points by toomuchtodo 22 hours ago | 17 comments

26.

The arguments against open source AI are bad (tombedor.dev)

92 points by jjfoooo4 3 hours ago | 62 comments

27.

Safari Technology Preview 248 Released (webkit.org)

90 points by Erenay09 22 hours ago | 78 comments

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DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 (darpa.mil)

88 points by r2sk5t 6 hours ago | 80 comments

29.

I think you might be fooling yourself with AI (louwrentius.com)

73 points by louwrentius 5 hours ago | 142 comments

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Transform your fund into something you can talk to (angellist.com)

73 points by nathanamin 4 hours ago | 27 comments