HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer (roman.pt)

1474 points by lwhsiao 20 hours ago | 276 comments

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I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer (twitter.com)

692 points by apitman 11 hours ago | 337 comments

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Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb (richardosgood.com)

527 points by sohkamyung 18 hours ago | 313 comments

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Mechanical Watch (2022) (ciechanow.ski)

460 points by razin 5 hours ago | 86 comments

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The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (devblogs.microsoft.com)

436 points by paulmooreparks 12 hours ago | 137 comments

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Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers (theregister.com)

430 points by _tk_ 7 hours ago | 265 comments

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Typst 0.15.0 (typst.app)

324 points by schu 23 hours ago | 87 comments

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SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B (reuters.com)

317 points by itsmarcelg 6 hours ago | 622 comments

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Running local models is good now (vickiboykis.com)

311 points by jfb 2 hours ago | 162 comments

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I Love the Computer (michaelenger.com)

287 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 156 comments

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SpaceX Is Buying Cursor (bbc.com)

284 points by jrm-veris 4 hours ago | 3 comments

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Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible (gmalandrakis.com)

267 points by l0new0lf-G 19 hours ago | 499 comments

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I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID (bobdahacker.com)

255 points by BobDaHacker 11 hours ago | 90 comments

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What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes (notnotp.com)

240 points by chmaynard 20 hours ago | 188 comments

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Game Engine White Papers: Commander Keen (forgottenbytes.net)

226 points by mfiguiere 23 hours ago | 77 comments

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US battery manufacturing output continues to break records (fred.stlouisfed.org)

220 points by epistasis 20 hours ago | 182 comments

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Why I email complete strangers (goodinternetmagazine.com)

203 points by karakoram 18 hours ago | 92 comments

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Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 (tck.mn)

196 points by rdmuser 7 hours ago | 61 comments

19.

Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers (9to5google.com)

189 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 224 comments

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How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data (roszigit.com)

166 points by lkanwoqwp 23 hours ago | 24 comments

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Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch (runtimewire.com)

153 points by ilreb 14 hours ago | 68 comments

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Claude Corps (anthropic.com)

151 points by Mustan 23 hours ago | 111 comments

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Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion (economist.com)

150 points by andsoitis 14 hours ago | 413 comments

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Commodore Releases Flip Phone (commodore.net)

147 points by bartekrutkowski 7 hours ago | 92 comments

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Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage (sfgate.com)

138 points by pera 22 hours ago | 32 comments

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Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers (tech.slashdot.org)

128 points by arnejenssen 1 hour ago | 3 comments

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Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art (garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com)

122 points by california-og 12 hours ago | 18 comments

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Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland (bbc.com)

121 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 4 hours ago | 54 comments

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Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri (narracomm.com)

117 points by thelonelyborg 16 hours ago | 129 comments

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OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B (wheresyoured.at)

116 points by spking 12 hours ago | 62 comments