HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler (grapheneos.social)

2173 points by ChuckMcM 4 days ago | 754 comments

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Local AI needs to be the norm (unix.foo)

1875 points by cylo 4 days ago | 741 comments

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent (thatprivacyguy.com)

1751 points by john-doe 1 week ago | 1140 comments

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Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license (digitalfoundry.net)

1744 points by haunter 1 week ago | 593 comments

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Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

1668 points by CliffStoll 1 week ago | 257 comments

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Appearing productive in the workplace (nooneshappy.com)

1629 points by diebillionaires 1 week ago | 650 comments

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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users (reclaimthenet.org)

1557 points by anonymousiam 6 days ago | 588 comments

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Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)

1548 points by thitran 1 week ago | 753 comments

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VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (github.com)

1508 points by indrora 1 week ago | 850 comments

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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract (jeffgeerling.com)

1388 points by rubenbe 2 days ago | 426 comments

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Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce (reuters.com)

1352 points by PriorityLeft 6 days ago | 996 comments

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Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise (tanstack.com)

1087 points by varunsharma07 2 days ago | 459 comments

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Poland is now among the 20 largest economies (apnews.com)

1060 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 867 comments

14.

I'm going back to writing code by hand (blog.k10s.dev)

1014 points by dropbox_miner 3 days ago | 611 comments

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I moved my digital stack to Europe (monokai.com)

1000 points by monokai_nl 1 day ago | 596 comments

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Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (xda-developers.com)

935 points by haunter 3 days ago | 578 comments

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Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data (theverge.com)

920 points by stefanpie 6 days ago | 646 comments

18.

Googlebook (googlebook.google)

919 points by tambourine_man 2 days ago | 1544 comments

19.

If AI writes your code, why use Python? (medium.com)

909 points by indigodaddy 2 days ago | 965 comments

20.

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday (bbc.com)

885 points by defrost 6 days ago | 165 comments

21.

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons (drive.com.au)

862 points by teleforce 1 week ago | 510 comments

22.

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left (fourlightyears.blogspot.com)

853 points by andrewstuart 5 days ago | 639 comments

23.

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit (xeiaso.net)

853 points by psxuaw 6 days ago | 469 comments

24.

AI slop is killing online communities (rmoff.net)

831 points by thm 1 week ago | 734 comments

25.

Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE (openwall.com)

817 points by flipped 1 week ago | 332 comments

26.

Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise (nair.sh)

800 points by nilirl 2 days ago | 322 comments

27.

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like (simonwillison.net)