HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies (sytse.com)

1003 points by bob_theslob646 15 hours ago | 206 comments

2.

Spanish legislation as a Git repo (github.com)

737 points by enriquelop 21 hours ago | 220 comments

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AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice (news.stanford.edu)

636 points by oldfrenchfries 19 hours ago | 477 comments

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I decompiled the White House's new app (thereallo.dev)

509 points by amarcheschi 17 hours ago | 184 comments

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Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables (grid.iamkate.com)

391 points by rwmj 22 hours ago | 272 comments

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I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video] (youtube.com)

389 points by msephton 21 hours ago | 66 comments

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CSS is DOOMed (nielsleenheer.com)

322 points by msephton 12 hours ago | 71 comments

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Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly (github.com)

308 points by OJFord 23 hours ago | 100 comments

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South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots (reutersconnect.com)

291 points by _____k 9 hours ago | 166 comments

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Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right (theregister.com)

267 points by Brajeshwar 18 hours ago | 211 comments

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Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem (twitter.com)

202 points by mean_mistreater 14 hours ago | 132 comments

12.

Linux is an interpreter (astrid.tech)

198 points by frizlab 16 hours ago | 43 comments

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The first 40 months of the AI era (lzon.ca)

180 points by jpmitchell 14 hours ago | 92 comments

14.

Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs (theguardian.com)

149 points by mordechai9000 11 hours ago | 96 comments

15.

OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 (github.com)

144 points by caminanteblanco 14 hours ago | 39 comments

16.

Treason in the Futures Markets (paulkrugman.substack.com)

132 points by Gasp0de 22 hours ago | 59 comments

17.

Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024) (bmj.com)

118 points by bookofjoe 8 hours ago | 70 comments

18.

Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention (independent.co.uk)

92 points by ghd_ 21 hours ago | 46 comments

19.

Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices (androidauthority.com)

86 points by croemer 12 hours ago | 121 comments

20.

Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia (theguardian.com)

85 points by Brajeshwar 16 hours ago | 19 comments

21.

No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations (arstechnica.com)

83 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 83 comments

22.

OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem (github.com)

78 points by wangzhangwu 4 hours ago | 30 comments

23.

Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008 (finance.yahoo.com)

76 points by dvfjsdhgfv 17 hours ago | 49 comments

24.

ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight (icao.int)

75 points by phantomathkg 18 hours ago | 134 comments

25.

rpg.actor Game Jam (rpg.actor)

75 points by Kye 16 hours ago | 6 comments

26.

Undroidwish – A single-file, batteries-included Tcl/Tk binary for many platforms (androwish.org)

74 points by smartmic 16 hours ago | 3 comments

27.

A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging (fraunhofer.de)

73 points by gnabgib 10 hours ago | 30 comments

28.

The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive

68 points by acmerfight 18 hours ago | 71 comments

29.

Canadian man says U.S. border officers made him give DNA sample (cbc.ca)

65 points by geox 18 hours ago | 30 comments

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Goldman Sachs now reckons that oil could take out the 2008 record of $147 (ft.com)

63 points by bookofjoe 11 hours ago | 74 comments