HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

181.

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" (lwn.net)

515 points by pluc 2 weeks ago | 485 comments

182.

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (lighthousenewsletter.com)

515 points by j0selit0 2 weeks ago | 216 comments

183.

Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS

514 points by leumon 2 weeks ago | 325 comments

184.

2026 Eclipse Webcams (jonty.github.io)

513 points by zoenolan 1 month ago | 143 comments

185.

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

509 points by Footkerchief 1 month ago | 419 comments

186.

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is (forum.level1techs.com)

507 points by felineflock 3 weeks ago | 205 comments

187.

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)

503 points by askvictor 1 month ago | 6 comments

188.

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

502 points by randycupertino 4 weeks ago | 403 comments

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Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (macrumors.com)

500 points by thm 2 weeks ago | 594 comments

190.

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (rockpapershotgun.com)

500 points by Tomte 2 weeks ago | 246 comments

191.

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)

499 points by dzdt 1 month ago | 278 comments

192.

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption (blog.google)

498 points by u1hcw9nx 1 month ago | 290 comments

193.

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (api-docs.deepseek.com)

498 points by dares2573 3 weeks ago | 155 comments

194.

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh)

496 points by jemoka 3 weeks ago | 149 comments

195.

Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (hister.org)

494 points by auraham 3 weeks ago | 101 comments

196.

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 (phoboslab.org)

492 points by atan2 1 month ago | 252 comments

197.

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full (fabiensanglard.net)

492 points by shdon 4 weeks ago | 226 comments

198.

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels (fda.gov)

490 points by sunnynagra 2 weeks ago | 238 comments

199.

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation (lwn.net)

489 points by Velocifyer 2 weeks ago | 232 comments

200.

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (techcrunch.com)

486 points by zacharyozer 4 weeks ago | 301 comments

201.

To become a better writer, read as much as you can (nappertime.com)

484 points by andsoitis 3 weeks ago | 264 comments

202.

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux (runarcn.no)

483 points by speckx 1 month ago | 530 comments

203.

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)

482 points by theanonymousone 1 month ago | 204 comments

204.

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)

482 points by riadsila 1 month ago | 133 comments

205.

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI (newsletter.eng-leadership.com)

480 points by gpi 2 weeks ago | 122 comments

206.

Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (abc.net.au)

479 points by robtherobber 1 month ago | 338 comments

207.

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election (bbc.com)

473 points by tcp_handshaker 1 month ago | 389 comments

208.

Nebula Sans (nebulasans.com)

473 points by GavinAnderegg 2 weeks ago | 197 comments

209.

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview (community.openai.com)

469 points by allanrbo 1 month ago | 315 comments

210.

Casio F-B100W-1A (casio.com)

467 points by __fst__ 3 weeks ago | 387 comments