HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Anthropic ditches its core safety promise (cnn.com)

542 points by motbus3 8 hours ago | 3 comments

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Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users

529 points by miki123211 11 hours ago | 198 comments

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Banned in California (bannedincalifornia.org)

479 points by pie_flavor 21 hours ago | 554 comments

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How will OpenAI compete? (ben-evans.com)

451 points by iamskeole 22 hours ago | 610 comments

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Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance (eff.org)

442 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 135 comments

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Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model (blog.google)

388 points by davidbarker 5 hours ago | 374 comments

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RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs (arstechnica.com)

369 points by jnord 18 hours ago | 317 comments

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First Website (1992) (info.cern.ch)

297 points by shrikaranhanda 22 hours ago | 84 comments

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AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)

262 points by DamnInteresting 5 hours ago | 129 comments

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Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line (gitlab.com)

262 points by smalltorch 10 hours ago | 64 comments

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You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account (heltweg.org)

188 points by rhazn 9 hours ago | 287 comments

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In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% (bsky.app)

186 points by doener 6 hours ago | 122 comments

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Will vibe coding end like the maker movement? (read.technically.dev)

171 points by itunpredictable 5 hours ago | 189 comments

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Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit (disruptionbanking.com)

166 points by shin_lao 19 hours ago | 69 comments

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Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers (endowment.dev)

161 points by kvinogradov 5 hours ago | 109 comments

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I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word” (grumpy-economist.com)

160 points by qsi 16 hours ago | 223 comments

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BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything (tuananh.net)

114 points by jasonpeacock 7 hours ago | 31 comments

18.

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf] (cs.uml.edu)

110 points by spiffytech 4 hours ago | 47 comments

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Story of XZ Backdoor [video] (youtube.com)

96 points by Ulf950 6 hours ago | 41 comments

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Google Street View in 2026 (tech.marksblogg.com)

95 points by marklit 3 hours ago | 66 comments

21.

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (wsj.com)

92 points by reaperducer 18 hours ago | 80 comments

22.

just-bash: Bash for Agents (github.com)

88 points by tosh 7 hours ago | 52 comments

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Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals' (cnn.com)

85 points by jb1991 9 hours ago | 99 comments

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Technical Excellence Is Not Enough (raccoon.land)

85 points by bo0tzz 11 hours ago | 89 comments

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Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." (twitter.com)

80 points by josephcsible 3 hours ago | 65 comments

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He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, uncovered a surveillance network (calmatters.org)

76 points by Element_ 2 hours ago | 32 comments

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iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information (apple.com)

72 points by throwfaraway4 2 hours ago | 39 comments

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Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information (motherjones.com)

72 points by u1hcw9nx 23 hours ago | 10 comments

29.

What Claude Code Chooses (amplifying.ai)

65 points by tin7in 3 hours ago | 29 comments

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Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

64 points by SeenNotHeard 22 hours ago | 70 comments