HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? (github.com)

863 points by bryan0 23 hours ago | 370 comments

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Gemini 4 Argon (blog.google)

577 points by bradleyg223 1 hour ago | 358 comments

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You said no MCP (earendil.com)

559 points by yarapavan 11 hours ago | 323 comments

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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy (tomwojcik.com)

480 points by marjancek 14 hours ago | 362 comments

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The AI Race Just Got Awkward (insufferable.dev)

360 points by allisdust 5 hours ago | 398 comments

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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? (prospect.org)

237 points by ragall 14 hours ago | 213 comments

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Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use (nltimes.nl)

197 points by Thom2503 10 hours ago | 186 comments

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A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal (spectrum.ieee.org)

187 points by rbanffy 7 hours ago | 74 comments

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Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability (electrek.co)

147 points by ciconia 17 hours ago | 197 comments

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The last time my family was replaced by technology (manuel.darcemont.fr)

144 points by megalomanu 8 hours ago | 338 comments

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How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it (railcode.dev)

128 points by yakkomajuri 22 hours ago | 74 comments

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LinkedIn Larpmaxxing (hereticpleb.vercel.app)

124 points by BurnerBurner 17 hours ago | 138 comments

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RSS Feeds for Last.fm (lfm.xiffy.nl)

120 points by Baljhin 18 hours ago | 41 comments

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SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering (alphapixeldev.com)

115 points by ibobev 7 hours ago | 47 comments

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NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor (gevernova.com)

111 points by papa-whisky 22 hours ago | 110 comments

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What TLA+ can and can't check (buttondown.com)

109 points by b-man 7 hours ago | 25 comments

17.

Commit description as a thinking tool (yedhu.me)

100 points by yedhukrishnan 4 hours ago | 58 comments

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Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents (github.com)

97 points by anerli 4 hours ago | 43 comments

19.

America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" (america.gov)

86 points by thoughtfullyso 2 hours ago | 33 comments

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PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust (github.com)

85 points by sparticle62 18 hours ago | 37 comments

21.

Ballmer Peak (en.wikipedia.org)

85 points by thunderbong 19 hours ago | 26 comments

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EDG C++ front-end goes public (edgcpp.org)

79 points by iandinwoodie 2 hours ago | 32 comments

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GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence (artificialanalysis.ai)

78 points by theanonymousone 11 hours ago | 96 comments

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Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available (ubuntu.com)

74 points by d99kris 8 hours ago | 97 comments

25.

Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes (ledge.sh)

71 points by dancablam 21 hours ago | 38 comments

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SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 (sdf.org)

70 points by kmstout 7 hours ago | 13 comments

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Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings (quantamagazine.org)