HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

241.

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)

859 points by zdw 2 months ago | 290 comments

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AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it (koshyjohn.com)

858 points by koshyjohn 4 days ago | 593 comments

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Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta (thetimes.com)

858 points by macleginn 3 weeks ago | 580 comments

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The 49MB web page (thatshubham.com)

857 points by kermatt 1 month ago | 375 comments

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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too (notebookcheck.net)

854 points by smurda 3 months ago | 800 comments

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If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design (mastodon.social)

854 points by lateforwork 3 months ago | 321 comments

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All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)

854 points by pizza 2 weeks ago | 294 comments

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Some things just take time (lucumr.pocoo.org)

853 points by vaylian 1 month ago | 273 comments

249.

System76 on Age Verification Laws (blog.system76.com)

850 points by LorenDB 1 month ago | 602 comments

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I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed (jamesdrandall.com)

848 points by jamesrandall 2 months ago | 668 comments

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An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below (twitter.com)

847 points by jeremyccrane 5 days ago | 1019 comments

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System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf] (www-cdn.anthropic.com)

847 points by be7a 3 weeks ago | 660 comments

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The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec) (taalas.com)

847 points by sidnarsipur 2 months ago | 455 comments

254.

Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down (idiallo.com)

844 points by firefoxd 3 months ago | 368 comments

255.

Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) (therecord.media)

842 points by robtherobber 2 months ago | 434 comments

256.

PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading (stuartbreckenridge.net)

841 points by JumpCrisscross 1 month ago | 396 comments

257.

Claude's Cycles [pdf] (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)

841 points by fs123 1 month ago | 362 comments

258.

Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control (news.dyne.org)

839 points by smartmic 1 month ago | 450 comments

259.

Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI (github.com)

839 points by lairv 2 months ago | 223 comments

260.

Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age (agelesslinux.org)

837 points by nateb2022 1 month ago | 628 comments

261.

Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service (deepdelver.substack.com)

836 points by freddykruger 1 month ago | 296 comments

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2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop (xeiaso.net)

835 points by todsacerdoti 3 months ago | 639 comments

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Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold (jsnover.com)

835 points by naves 3 weeks ago | 580 comments

264.

We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk (twitter.com)

832 points by golfer 2 months ago | 448 comments

265.

Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product (simonberens.com)

832 points by sberens 3 months ago | 405 comments

266.

Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed (blog.can.ac)

832 points by kachapopopow 2 months ago | 295 comments

267.

Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

831 points by morpheuskafka 2 weeks ago | 231 comments

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A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification (pcgamer.com)