HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)

2415 points by dang 5 days ago | 902 comments

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My AI skeptic friends are all nuts (fly.io)

2341 points by tabletcorry 1 week ago | 2818 comments

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Claude 4 (anthropic.com)

2013 points by meetpateltech 3 weeks ago | 1169 comments

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Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube (jeffgeerling.com)

1633 points by DavideNL 1 week ago | 757 comments

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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source (blogs.windows.com)

1613 points by pentagrama 3 weeks ago | 1193 comments

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Bill Atkinson has died (daringfireball.net)

1586 points by romanhn 1 week ago | 273 comments

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The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (qz.com)

1574 points by booleanbetrayal 1 week ago | 942 comments

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GCP Outage (status.cloud.google.com)

1443 points by thanhhaimai 2 days ago | 491 comments

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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment (nytimes.com)

1253 points by jbredeche 4 weeks ago | 529 comments

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Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot (support.mozilla.org)

1222 points by phantomathkg 3 weeks ago | 761 comments

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CSS Minecraft (benjaminaster.com)

1220 points by mudkipdev 2 weeks ago | 140 comments

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Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure (tailscale.com)

1211 points by ingve 2 days ago | 498 comments

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A receipt printer cured my procrastination (laurieherault.com)

1187 points by laurieherault 2 days ago | 579 comments

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OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats (arstechnica.com)

1129 points by ColinWright 1 week ago | 934 comments

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Photos taken inside musical instruments (dpreview.com)

1117 points by worik 2 weeks ago | 55 comments

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Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane (old.reddit.com)

1088 points by laiysb 3 weeks ago | 552 comments

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Postgres IDE in VS Code (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

1040 points by Dowwie 3 weeks ago | 406 comments

18.

Spaced repetition systems have gotten better (domenic.me)

1026 points by domenicd 3 weeks ago | 512 comments

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The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles (simonwillison.net)

945 points by swyx 1 week ago | 232 comments

20.

Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI (mistral.ai)

926 points by meetpateltech 4 days ago | 423 comments

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Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students (nytimes.com)

922 points by S0y 3 weeks ago | 1038 comments

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Gemini Diffusion (simonwillison.net)

890 points by mdp2021 3 weeks ago | 244 comments

23.

Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts (github.com)

881 points by gregorywegory 1 week ago | 518 comments

24.

Have I Been Pwned 2.0 (troyhunt.com)

880 points by LorenDB 3 weeks ago | 305 comments

25.

FFmpeg merges WebRTC support (git.ffmpeg.org)

875 points by Sean-Der 1 week ago | 198 comments

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If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) (joshworth.com)

866 points by sdoering 2 days ago | 252 comments

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Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc (apple.com)

850 points by thm 5 days ago | 489 comments

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If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued (betterthanrandom.substack.com)