HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Claude: System Prompts (platform.claude.com)

663 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 256 comments

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Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (support.mozilla.org)

660 points by pentagrama 21 hours ago | 259 comments

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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

517 points by stagas 16 hours ago | 143 comments

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A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” (rvembedded.com)

514 points by Narishma 17 hours ago | 269 comments

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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (simonwillison.net)

497 points by bilsbie 10 hours ago | 229 comments

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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" (scholar.google.com)

399 points by Alifatisk 22 hours ago | 142 comments

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Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)

363 points by zacharyozer 13 hours ago | 221 comments

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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose (w4g1.dev)

313 points by hruvhwe 15 hours ago | 174 comments

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The AI Credit Resale Economy (vectoral.com)

292 points by mlenhard 19 hours ago | 117 comments

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Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing (daringfireball.net)

283 points by ropbear 12 hours ago | 280 comments

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The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (highereddive.com)

227 points by walrus01 10 hours ago | 111 comments

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Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (reuters.com)

210 points by root-parent 13 hours ago | 107 comments

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The weekend is 100 years old (theguardian.com)

200 points by lentil_soup 18 hours ago | 142 comments

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St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (wptv.com)

188 points by toomuchtodo 19 hours ago | 143 comments

15.

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] (ischool.berkeley.edu)

188 points by ronbenton 10 hours ago | 91 comments

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GIMP Development Update (gimp.org)

178 points by lumpa 7 hours ago | 124 comments

17.

Protobuf has LSP support (buf.build)

155 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago | 107 comments

18.

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers (science.org)

154 points by brandonb 18 hours ago | 80 comments

19.

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network (reticulum.network)

130 points by sudo_cowsay 10 hours ago | 40 comments

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ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days (theintercept.com)

128 points by Jimmc414 14 hours ago | 53 comments

21.

A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life (rand.org)

126 points by thunderbong 21 hours ago | 88 comments

22.

Banned Words List (pen.org)

120 points by structuredPizza 21 hours ago | 49 comments

23.

Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe (futurism.com)

116 points by healsdata 12 hours ago | 118 comments

24.

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator (ei3lh.eu)

104 points by austinallegro 22 hours ago | 12 comments

25.

Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

101 points by antipurist 23 hours ago | 118 comments

26.

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later (ivan-gavran.github.io)

91 points by ghuntley 13 hours ago | 106 comments

27.

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent (math-ai-org.github.io)

91 points by homarp 16 hours ago | 28 comments

28.

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 (meanhamster.com)

89 points by erickhill 8 hours ago | 10 comments

29.

AI Coding Without the Vibes (peterbloem.nl)

87 points by riskone 23 hours ago | 50 comments

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Rhombus 1.1 is now available (blog.racket-lang.org)

87 points by spdegabrielle 9 hours ago | 28 comments