HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Trump fires NSF's oversight board (science.org)

460 points by skullone 12 hours ago | 233 comments

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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code (techtrenches.dev)

457 points by milkglass 4 hours ago | 246 comments

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Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem (scientificamerican.com)

409 points by pr337h4m 17 hours ago | 256 comments

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USB Cheat Sheet (2022) (fabiensanglard.net)

343 points by gwerbret 13 hours ago | 63 comments

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Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day

301 points by _-x-_ 10 hours ago | 121 comments

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Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish (blog.matthewbrunelle.com)

278 points by speckx 19 hours ago | 173 comments

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Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease? (freakonomics.com)

250 points by chiefalchemist 11 hours ago | 146 comments

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The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it (newrepublic.com)

241 points by chirau 14 hours ago | 327 comments

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Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor (github.com)

233 points by nickjj 19 hours ago | 76 comments

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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs (juraj.bednar.io)

196 points by gasull 7 hours ago | 97 comments

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Simulacrum of Knowledge Work (blog.happyfellow.dev)

154 points by thehappyfellow 17 hours ago | 61 comments

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Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center (boilingsteam.com)

152 points by ekianjo 18 hours ago | 123 comments

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GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty (openai.com)

148 points by Murfalo 20 hours ago | 101 comments

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Can you stop beans from making you gassy? (seriouseats.com)

144 points by jstrieb 14 hours ago | 121 comments

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Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known (nbcnews.com)

125 points by hggh 18 hours ago | 168 comments

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America's Geothermal Breakthrough (oilprice.com)

114 points by sleepyguy 15 hours ago | 135 comments

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Hokusai and Tesselations (dl.ndl.go.jp)

114 points by srean 17 hours ago | 15 comments

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Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill (fosstodon.org)

102 points by terminalbraid 12 hours ago | 38 comments

19.

Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp (coalton-lang.github.io)

99 points by varjag 17 hours ago | 45 comments

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Jumping into cold water can stop your heart (jorgenmelau.substack.com)

86 points by fanf2 20 hours ago | 36 comments

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GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline (lists.gnupg.org)

79 points by zdkaster 7 hours ago | 24 comments

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Behind-the-Scenes of MacBook Neo Introduction Video (youtube.com)

75 points by 0xbg 22 hours ago | 7 comments

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AGPLv3§74 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Like OnlyOffice (sfconservancy.org)

73 points by pabs3 6 hours ago | 17 comments

24.

The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024) (fabiensanglard.net)

69 points by offbyone42 10 hours ago | 11 comments

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A Collection of Chronic Medical Conditions Common in Autistic and ADHD Adults [pdf] (2023) (allbrainsbelong.org)

65 points by AndrewDucker 21 hours ago | 64 comments

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Her life savings mysteriously disappeared after a systems glitch (nytimes.com)

60 points by danso 11 hours ago | 51 comments

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What's missing in the 'agentic' story: a well-defined user agent role (mnot.net)

58 points by ingve 19 hours ago | 61 comments

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DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles (lmsys.org)

56 points by mji 11 hours ago | 5 comments

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HEALPix (en.wikipedia.org)

52 points by hyperific 22 hours ago | 7 comments

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Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets (getkloak.io)

50 points by neo2006 16 hours ago | 44 comments