HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

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If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort (tombedor.dev)

1409 points by jjfoooo4 21 hours ago | 443 comments

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AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 (lantian.pub)

1341 points by xiaoyu2006 15 hours ago | 482 comments

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Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive (simonwillison.net)

709 points by lumpa 19 hours ago | 606 comments

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)

698 points by sam_bristow 19 hours ago | 232 comments

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Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public (fablepool.com)

496 points by matthewbarras 23 hours ago | 260 comments

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CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers (innovativegenomics.org)

453 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 126 comments

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Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency (huggingface.co)

362 points by nekofneko 9 hours ago | 195 comments

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Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass (mayrhofer.eu.org)

327 points by timedude 23 hours ago | 243 comments

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A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime (blog.lopp.net)

282 points by FergusArgyll 5 hours ago | 185 comments

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AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit (discourse.ifin.network)

249 points by keyle 14 hours ago | 182 comments

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Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher (blog.osull.com)

229 points by danosull 9 hours ago | 174 comments

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Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails (korte.co)

221 points by dotcoma 14 hours ago | 211 comments

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WASI 0.3 (bytecodealliance.org)

202 points by mavdol04 6 hours ago | 82 comments

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The Future of Email (fastmail.com)

180 points by soheilpro 9 hours ago | 195 comments

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I Am Not a Reverse Centaur (blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

153 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | 104 comments

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Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds (doug.sh)

152 points by dougcalobrisi 19 hours ago | 74 comments

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A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air (news.utexas.edu)

147 points by ilreb 21 hours ago | 93 comments

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A dumpster arrived behind my university's library (yalereview.org)

129 points by mooreds 6 hours ago | 114 comments

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Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?

129 points by pqtyw 3 hours ago | 49 comments

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Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end (envs.net)

128 points by FergusArgyll 5 hours ago | 86 comments

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"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" (correresmidestino.com)

127 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 114 comments

22.

European sunscreens are safer than American (2024) (ms.now)

125 points by qsi 6 hours ago | 81 comments

23.

Tell HN: Meta is down

120 points by reportinglurker 6 hours ago | 130 comments

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Maxproof (arxiv.org)

118 points by ilreb 8 hours ago | 9 comments

25.

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS (ikyle.me)

110 points by kkm 2 hours ago | 42 comments

26.

Keygen.music (keygen.music)

109 points by soupspaces 4 hours ago | 63 comments

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Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video (politiken.dk)

105 points by Veserv 2 hours ago | 36 comments

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Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982) (sseh.uchicago.edu)