HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort (tombedor.dev)

1322 points by jjfoooo4 18 hours ago | 425 comments

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AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)

1265 points by xiaoyu2006 12 hours ago | 458 comments

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Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)

688 points by lumpa 16 hours ago | 585 comments

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)

679 points by sam_bristow 16 hours ago | 222 comments

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Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public (fablepool.com)

491 points by matthewbarras 20 hours ago | 258 comments

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Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (mayrhofer.eu.org)

322 points by timedude 20 hours ago | 239 comments

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Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)

303 points by nekofneko 6 hours ago | 155 comments

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A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (blog.lopp.net)

230 points by FergusArgyll 3 hours ago | 150 comments

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AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (discourse.ifin.network)

216 points by keyle 11 hours ago | 137 comments

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Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher (blog.osull.com)

213 points by danosull 6 hours ago | 162 comments

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Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails (korte.co)

206 points by dotcoma 11 hours ago | 201 comments

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Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation (kennethpayne.uk)

203 points by nick238 21 hours ago | 189 comments

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The Future of Email (fastmail.com)

171 points by soheilpro 6 hours ago | 189 comments

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WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)

170 points by mavdol04 3 hours ago | 68 comments

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CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)

168 points by gmays 2 hours ago | 46 comments

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Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012) (righto.com)

148 points by geerlingguy 23 hours ago | 24 comments

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Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)

143 points by dougcalobrisi 16 hours ago | 70 comments

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A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (news.utexas.edu)

131 points by ilreb 18 hours ago | 85 comments

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European sunscreens are safer than American (2024) (ms.now)

120 points by qsi 3 hours ago | 66 comments

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Tell HN: Meta is down

111 points by reportinglurker 3 hours ago | 124 comments

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Travel locally, where you are (ssp.sh)

109 points by zazuke 21 hours ago | 71 comments

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Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982) (sseh.uchicago.edu)

102 points by paulmooreparks 9 hours ago | 70 comments

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Maxproof (arxiv.org)

98 points by ilreb 5 hours ago | 9 comments

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Tailwind and slop apps (briandouglas.ie)

97 points by coneonthefloor 20 hours ago | 75 comments

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David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)

95 points by SirLJ 6 hours ago | 31 comments

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Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good (protonprivacy.substack.com)

87 points by doener 23 hours ago | 44 comments

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Show HN: Boo – Screen-style terminal multiplexer built on libghostty (github.com)