HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Mario Meets Pareto (mayerowitz.io)

924 points by theanonymousone 16 hours ago | 151 comments

2.

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)

660 points by DarkContinent 23 hours ago | 205 comments

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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index (artificialanalysis.ai)

460 points by apitman 9 hours ago | 294 comments

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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (theregister.com)

448 points by itvision 7 hours ago | 345 comments

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GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (githubstatus.com)

352 points by Footkerchief 12 hours ago | 284 comments

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Almost no skill required to cook a steak (blog.sydorets.com)

293 points by yusyd 12 hours ago | 342 comments

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Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs (scalex.dev)

264 points by Wirbelwind 15 hours ago | 196 comments

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Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard (electronicmaterialsoffice.com)

260 points by aemerson_ 13 hours ago | 219 comments

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Taste Is All That's Left (notashelf.dev)

250 points by tsak 10 hours ago | 199 comments

10.

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update (slayersclub.bethesda.net)

236 points by dsubburam 7 hours ago | 115 comments

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On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails (github.com)

212 points by microtonal 21 hours ago | 172 comments

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Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks (provenmetal.com)

187 points by willcarkner 11 hours ago | 134 comments

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Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users (openai.com)

173 points by tedsanders 10 hours ago | 126 comments

14.

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)

163 points by collinmanderson 8 hours ago | 111 comments

15.

Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)

143 points by pseudolus 9 hours ago | 103 comments

16.

xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout (illegal.solutions)

136 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 114 comments

17.

What I love about Django (buttondown.com)

131 points by j4mie 20 hours ago | 108 comments

18.

France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week (apnews.com)

118 points by geox 22 hours ago | 51 comments

19.

GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties (githubstatus.com)

114 points by Jeaye 11 hours ago | 4 comments

20.

Let's all meet up in the Y2K (blog.gingerbeardman.com)

111 points by msephton 21 hours ago | 82 comments

21.

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned (troyhunt.com)

108 points by gnabgib 6 hours ago | 19 comments

22.

Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media (wsj.com)

105 points by boplicity 3 hours ago | 56 comments

23.

Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades (pbs.org)

98 points by starkparker 7 hours ago | 80 comments

24.

My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (mastodon.gamedev.place)

96 points by luu 9 hours ago | 190 comments

25.

A handful of cities have replaced Flock with Axon (404media.co)

96 points by cdrnsf 10 hours ago | 42 comments

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Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams) (github.com)

92 points by davidmckayv 11 hours ago | 20 comments

27.

Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities (bbc.com)

91 points by tchalla 14 hours ago | 117 comments

28.

Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself (dezeen.com)

81 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 50 comments

29.

DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices (platform.deepseek.com)

80 points by miroljub 13 hours ago | 68 comments

30.

Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work (jacobin.com)

77 points by ughitsaaron 9 hours ago | 129 comments