HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? (atomic14.com)

642 points by iamflimflam1 9 hours ago | 302 comments

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Homebrew 7.0.0 (brew.sh)

568 points by mikemcquaid 18 hours ago | 229 comments

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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher (vals.ai)

536 points by u1hcw9nx 6 hours ago | 243 comments

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JetKVM Mini (jetkvm.com)

531 points by taubek 19 hours ago | 217 comments

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I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc (dreamstation.systems)

408 points by robinpie 9 hours ago | 112 comments

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Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 (lesswrong.com)

392 points by Levitating 12 hours ago | 178 comments

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Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too (techcrunch.com)

367 points by TheJCDenton 11 hours ago | 201 comments

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Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation (investigatetv.com)

342 points by SanjayMehta 13 hours ago | 252 comments

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Data collected by cars and sold to third parties (theverge.com)

328 points by bookofjoe 13 hours ago | 169 comments

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Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017) (twitter.com)

282 points by mfiguiere 7 hours ago | 122 comments

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David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models (twitter.com)

281 points by kolanos 10 hours ago | 207 comments

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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2? (devblogs.microsoft.com)

217 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 50 comments

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Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco (guessingheadlights.com)

201 points by mikhael 9 hours ago | 173 comments

14.

Making Startups Powerful (paulgraham.com)

172 points by tosh 13 hours ago | 76 comments

15.

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests (techcrunch.com)

170 points by tdrz 17 hours ago | 117 comments

16.

The contagion of fear (bcantrill.dtrace.org)

164 points by elffjs 4 hours ago | 125 comments

17.

CUDA for AMD on Windows (github.com)

142 points by chiassedu80 12 hours ago | 73 comments

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Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100 (invezz.com)

134 points by mgh2 16 hours ago | 184 comments

19.

US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs (tomshardware.com)

127 points by Levitating 13 hours ago | 106 comments

20.

Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing? (youtube.com)

124 points by chadgpt3 8 hours ago | 82 comments

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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet (ras.ac.uk)

116 points by blincoln 15 hours ago | 39 comments

22.

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs (community.signalusers.org)

111 points by Cider9986 5 hours ago | 53 comments

23.

Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents (nytimes.com)

106 points by thunderbong 10 hours ago | 66 comments

24.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

99 points by david927 9 hours ago | 227 comments

25.

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side (unsung.aresluna.org)

99 points by leephillips 13 hours ago | 30 comments

26.

Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic (clashreport.com)

97 points by delichon 13 hours ago | 86 comments

27.

Texts Reveal Kash Patel Ordering Staff to Fight "Ifindretards" Account (newrepublic.com)

79 points by girish_r 19 hours ago | 3 comments

28.

There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier (singjupost.com)

70 points by andsoitis 7 hours ago | 87 comments

29.

Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003) (pages.cs.wisc.edu)

68 points by walrus01 6 hours ago | 8 comments

30.

AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (technologyreview.com)

66 points by dgellow 8 hours ago | 67 comments