HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows (brown.edu)

371 points by hhs 22 hours ago | 166 comments

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Networking and the Internet, from First Principles (fazamhd.com)

192 points by faza 8 hours ago | 58 comments

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The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018) (designyoutrust.com)

186 points by mvdtnz 15 hours ago | 63 comments

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Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot (mixfont.com)

173 points by justswim 11 hours ago | 128 comments

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GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps (tryai.dev)

151 points by hershyb_ 23 hours ago | 84 comments

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Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii (theguardian.com)

142 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 48 comments

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We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput (clickhouse.com)

139 points by saisrirampur 5 hours ago | 16 comments

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Modern decor may be straining people's brains (studyfinds.com)

137 points by downwithdisease 4 hours ago | 130 comments

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Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)

137 points by downbad_ 3 hours ago | 84 comments

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Prefer strict tables in SQLite (evanhahn.com)

128 points by ingve 3 hours ago | 48 comments

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Your code is fast – if you're lucky (tiki.li)

120 points by chrka 10 hours ago | 79 comments

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AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence (geohot.github.io)

114 points by rvz 2 hours ago | 144 comments

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Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets (nytimes.com)

113 points by jbegley 23 hours ago | 15 comments

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FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky (theconversation.com)

109 points by reaperducer 8 hours ago | 129 comments

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Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves (bloomberg.com)

102 points by helsinkiandrew 11 hours ago | 127 comments

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Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf] (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)

85 points by zetalyrae 7 hours ago | 41 comments

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The early History of the Singular Value Decomposition (1993) [pdf] (math.ucdavis.edu)

69 points by wolfi1 5 hours ago | 32 comments

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Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe (economist.com)

69 points by tagawa 20 hours ago | 28 comments

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Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch (shipthatcode.com)

68 points by acley 7 hours ago | 30 comments

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Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (pluralistic.net)

68 points by jason_s 3 hours ago | 29 comments

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USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025 (expressnews.com)

66 points by gscott 6 hours ago | 47 comments

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Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom (io-fund.com)

65 points by adletbalzhanov 3 hours ago | 20 comments

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Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled (torrentfreak.com)

65 points by thisislife2 23 hours ago | 2 comments

24.

Who manages the agents? (off-policy.com)

58 points by GavCo 2 hours ago | 45 comments

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How to hide from killer drones (economist.com)

56 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 55 comments

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Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash (bbc.com)

56 points by cdrnsf 20 hours ago | 21 comments

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Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch (windowslatest.com)

55 points by GBiT 6 hours ago | 12 comments

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Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership (anti-forbes-list.vercel.app)

54 points by sakshyampatro 10 hours ago | 51 comments

29.

FreeCAD in the Browser (magik.net)

48 points by cui 20 hours ago | 36 comments

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Tropical forests facing increasing risks of exposure to critical temp thresholds (pnas.org)

48 points by littlexsparkee 5 hours ago | 19 comments