HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1.

Om Malik has died (om.co)

1176 points by minimaxir 20 hours ago | 137 comments

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The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy (expression.fire.org)

976 points by bilsbie 19 hours ago | 501 comments

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We all depend on open source. We will defend it together (akrites.org)

397 points by dhruv3006 11 hours ago | 193 comments

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Incident CVE-2026-LGTM (nesbitt.io)

362 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | 64 comments

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Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line (bloomberg.com)

303 points by scrlk 23 hours ago | 334 comments

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What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant (fernandoi.cl)

302 points by cuchoi 14 hours ago | 131 comments

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Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity (jeffgeerling.com)

279 points by Alupis 16 hours ago | 157 comments

8.

Libre Barcode Project (graphicore.github.io)

249 points by luu 14 hours ago | 40 comments

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Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base (arstechnica.com)

225 points by tzs 19 hours ago | 140 comments

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Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck (science.org)

222 points by adharmad 3 hours ago | 105 comments

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The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (2nd Ed) (2023) (gchandbook.org)

209 points by teleforce 18 hours ago | 43 comments

12.

The Doorman's Fallacy in action (rozumem.xyz)

202 points by rozumem 21 hours ago | 257 comments

13.

AI children's books, body horror edition (lcamtuf.substack.com)

199 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 74 comments

14.

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators (unconv.ai)

178 points by babelfish 20 hours ago | 44 comments

15.

An oral history of Bank Python (2021) (calpaterson.com)

159 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 67 comments

16.

Jolla Phone (October 2026) (commerce.jolla.com)

155 points by mrbn100ful 2 hours ago | 97 comments

17.

OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO (nytimes.com)

133 points by mfiguiere 20 hours ago | 109 comments

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US Govt to individually approve who gets GPT 5.6 (old.reddit.com)

130 points by theanonymousone 10 hours ago | 149 comments

19.

Ultrasound imaging of the brain (alephneuro.com)

114 points by rossant 5 hours ago | 34 comments

20.

Parallel Parentheses Matching (williamdue.github.io)

111 points by Athas 21 hours ago | 15 comments

21.

Why current LLM costs are not sustainable (aditya.patadia.org)

105 points by adityapatadia 9 hours ago | 185 comments

22.

The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections (bloodinthemachine.com)

91 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 51 comments

23.

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus (nijho.lt)

83 points by wasting_time 20 hours ago | 66 comments

24.

No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass (borretti.me)

80 points by hamish-b 13 hours ago | 96 comments

25.

Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years (theregister.com)

75 points by fauigerzigerk 10 hours ago | 70 comments

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OpenAI to Stagger Release of GPT 5.6 at Request of U.S. Government (velo.xyz)

74 points by 217 20 hours ago | 26 comments

27.

The AI backlash is only getting started (economist.com)

71 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 207 comments

28.

Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not (github.com)

71 points by backlit4034 5 hours ago | 77 comments

29.

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model (openai.com)

63 points by minimaxir 17 minutes ago | 42 comments

30.

Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News (youtube.com)

55 points by RicoElectrico 4 hours ago | 54 comments