HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month (theverge.com)

585 points by x01 6 hours ago | 576 comments

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Art of Roads in Games (sandboxspirit.com)

556 points by linolevan 23 hours ago | 182 comments

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AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder (blundergoat.com)

481 points by weaksauce 21 hours ago | 332 comments

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GitHub is down again (githubstatus.com)

414 points by MattIPv4 4 hours ago | 363 comments

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Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC (harshanu.space)

330 points by unchar1 16 hours ago | 337 comments

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Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth (alltheviews.world)

328 points by tombh 10 hours ago | 132 comments

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Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock (github.com)

288 points by tokyobreakfast 4 hours ago | 102 comments

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GitHub Is Down (github.com)

257 points by albelfio 4 hours ago | 3 comments

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Why is the sky blue? (explainers.blog)

255 points by udit99 5 hours ago | 88 comments

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Nobody knows how the whole system works (surfingcomplexity.blog)

241 points by azhenley 15 hours ago | 163 comments

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TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan (apnews.com)

234 points by dev_tty01 16 hours ago | 167 comments

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AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (reuters.com)

228 points by redman25 6 hours ago | 55 comments

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Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025) (arxiv.org)

208 points by vinnyglennon 23 hours ago | 200 comments

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Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT (theregister.com)

198 points by rbanffy 9 hours ago | 150 comments

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Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail (bbc.com)

184 points by tartoran 5 hours ago | 172 comments

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AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It (hbr.org)

183 points by swolpers 6 hours ago | 149 comments

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Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord (odd-lots-books.netlify.app)

177 points by muggermuch 21 hours ago | 64 comments

18.

UEFI Bindings for JavaScript (codeberg.org)

164 points by ananas-dev 6 hours ago | 82 comments

19.

Thoughts on Generating C (wingolog.org)

163 points by ingve 7 hours ago | 43 comments

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Offpunk 3.0 (ploum.net)

163 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 33 comments

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Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months (theguardian.com)

156 points by n1b0m 2 hours ago | 70 comments

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Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures (bobbiec.github.io)

156 points by bobbiechen 22 hours ago | 37 comments

23.

Stop generating, start thinking (localghost.dev)

151 points by frizlab 22 hours ago | 97 comments

24.

Testing Ads in ChatGPT (openai.com)

140 points by davidbarker 1 hour ago | 166 comments

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Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly (voidtools.com)

139 points by idw 23 hours ago | 56 comments

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Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months (rte.ie)

131 points by cauliflower99 4 hours ago | 100 comments

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Another GitHub outage in the same day (githubstatus.com)

123 points by Nezteb 1 hour ago | 88 comments

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Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective (sciencedirect.com)