Story ranking for the past day

  1. VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits | 192
  2. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? | 318
  3. I tried Gleam for Advent of Code | 146
  4. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 85
  5. Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith | 170
  6. YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same | 177
  7. Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C | 49
  8. Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's | 57
  9. LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted | 143
  10. Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost | 117
  11. I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model | 66
  12. Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video] | 149
  13. Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet | 168
  14. We built another object storage | 45
  15. Dick Van Dyke turns 100 | 2
  16. Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo | 76
  17. Flat-pack washing machine spins a fairer future | 46
  18. The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure | 25
  19. Workday project at Washington University hits $266M | 82
  20. Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad? | 117
  21. Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory | 4
  22. Purdue University approves new AI requirement for all undergrads | 51
  23. Closures as Win32 Window Procedures | 7
  24. Building an efficient hash table in Java | 3
  25. RemoveWindowsAI | 51
  26. AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement | 66
  27. A Giant Ball Will Help This Man Survive a Year on an Iceberg | 42
  28. Windows 3.1 in the Browser | 2
  29. If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain? | 18
  30. An Implementation of J | 19
  31. Z8086: Rebuilding the 8086 from Original Microcode | 13
  32. We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments | 42
  33. llamafile: Distribute and Run LLMs with a Single File | 6
  34. Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation | 9
  35. Awesome-Jj: Jujutsu Things | 7
  36. Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? | 45
  37. Show HN: I audited 500 K8s pods. Java wastes ~48% RAM, Go ~18% | 45
  38. 30 Years of <Br> Tags | 0
  39. What is a build system, anyway? | 0
  40. Interactive Common Lisp: An Enhanced REPL | 0
  41. Therapeutic Use of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: A Review | 12
  42. Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal | 23
  43. I think I might be done for a while | 7
  44. Multiple Indicted on Charges of Theft and Re-Sale of Restaurant Cooking Oil | 27
  45. Gut microbial imbalance can impact memory, says study | 4
  46. Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class | 76
  47. Lean Theorem Prover Mathlib | 0
  48. Bookmark for CAD/2d/3D Useful links | 4
  49. The military's new AI says boat strike 'unambiguously illegal' | 4
  50. Humans rank above meerkats but below beavers in monogamy league table | 3
  51. Sperm donor with cancer-causing gene fathers nearly 200 children | 8
  52. New Rule Forbids Gnome Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code | 0
  53. The Chinese Billionaires Having 100s of U.S.-Born Babies via Surrogate | 1
  54. Rocket Lab – 'Raise and Shine' Launch for JAXA [video] | 0
  55. Hacking Google Chrome Source Code: Make Puppeteer work over Redis PubSub | 3
  56. Skills vs. Dynamic MCP Loadouts | 0
  57. Trump Pretends to Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That's Legal | 0
  58. Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People | 1
  59. Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns | 1
  60. Clean, Limitless Energy Exists. China Is Going Big in the Race to Harness It | 1
  61. China's trade surplus tops record US$1T, defying trade war uncertainty | 1
  62. Arizona city rejects data center after AI lobbying push | 9
  63. JD Vance: "You might try hiring Americans." | 28
  64. Why mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis | 1
  65. Designing Electronics That Works | 0
  66. Air passengers exposed to high levels of ultrafine particles, study | 0
  67. Online Piracy Can Boost Box Office Revenue, Study Suggests | 2
  68. How Did the CIA Lose Nuclear Device? | 3
  69. Tell HN: The Python Software Foundation is now showing banner ads | 11
  70. How does the CPU cache work? | 0
  71. 3 | 0
  72. Show HN: Kinkora – A creative playground for experimenting with video models | 21
  73. China has invented a whole new way to do innovation | 1
  74. The state of the kernel Rust experiment | 0
  75. How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot | 0
  76. China Makes History with $1T Trade Surplus for First Time | 1
  77. Folkscanomy: Tandy and Radio Shack Books | 0
  78. I miss the old Internet of 10-20 years ago | 5
  79. Canada Mobilizes a People's Army | 0
  80. UN: World must tackle climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss | 1
  81. African athlete lured to Russia for work, ends up on front lines of Ukraine war | 2
  82. WebKit Features for Safari 26.2 | 0
  83. How to Watch the Radiant Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight | 3
  84. The state of the kernel Rust experiment | 0
  85. Eliminating Second Seattle Rail Tunnel Could Save $4.5B, but with Major Impacts | 2
  86. The simple cult camera that inspired Instagram (2017) | 2
  87. First all-optical XPU processing system | 3
  88. How Did the CIA Lose a Nuclear Device? | 2
  89. Shooting at Brown U Barus and Holley building houses engineering and physics | 0
  90. Kpython – A MicroPython Sidecar for the Linux Kernel (Experimental) | 2
  91. Intel Nears $1.6B Deal for AI Chip Startup SambaNova | 1
  92. Ask HN: Are You Considering Leaving Tech All Together? | 9
  93. Ask HN: Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI? | 5
  94. States lodge lawsuit against Trump's $100k H-1B visa fee | 1
  95. Petition for David Sacks to Self-Deport | 3
  96. Ask HN: Thought-Provoking Books | 6
  97. Tiobe Index for December 2025: R Joins the Top as SQL Climbs | 1
  98. FDA leaders propose new 'plausible mechanism' pathway for bespoke medicines | 1
  99. The Great Cholesterol Scam and the Dangers of Statins | 2
  100. Tell HN: Cloudflare now censors Polymarket in Germany | 6