Story ranking for the past day

1. Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame | 229
2. Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades | 354
3. I canceled my book deal | 252
4. 2025: The Year in LLMs | 195
5. Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. | 116
6. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 166
7. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] | 87
8. Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere | 289
9. The rise of industrial software | 161
10. Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers | 113
11. Stewart Cheifet, creator of The Computer Chronicles, has died | 62
12. 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11 | 285
13. France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year | 274
14. On privacy and control | 90
15. The compiler is your best friend | 105
16. The Delete Act | 65
17. The most famous transcendental numbers | 98
18. How AI labs are solving the power problem | 215
19. Scientists unlock brain's natural clean-up system for new treatments for stroke | 30
20. Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf] | 122
21. Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups | 96
22. Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris | 30
23. When square pixels aren't square | 57
24. Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system | 217
25. Drugmakers raise US prices on 350 medicines despite pressure | 115
26. Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy | 104
27. 2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal? | 139
28. OpenAI is paying employees more than any major tech startup in history | 63
29. Nvidia GB10's Memory Subsystem, from the CPU Side | 10
30. Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API | 87
31. Who invented the transistor? | 74
32. All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision | 12
33. Show HN: BusterMQ, Thread-per-core NATS server in Zig with io_uring | 11
34. PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review | 18
35. Judge to Texas: You Can't Age-Gate the Internet Without Evidence | 56
36. Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy Using eBPF | 9
37. AI-generated videos showing young and attractive women promote Poland's EU exit | 42
38. Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans | 86
39. The Economics of Duke University | 26
40. UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space | 8
41. Flow5 released to open source | 1
42. Show HN: I built a universal clipboard that syncs realtime on multiple devices | 64
43. PS5 ROM Keys | 3
44. The HSBC app refuses to work if "Bitwarden" is installed on user's Android phone | 20
45. NASA's Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts | 3
46. Tesla publishes analyst forecasts suggesting sales set to fall | 38
47. France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 | 5
48. Pixar's True Story | 4
49. Cheap solar is transforming lives and economies across Africa | 15
50. I use Samsung's Wi-Fi menu to seriously improve my connectivity | 4
51. Xi Jinping Vows to Reunify China and Taiwan in New Year's Eve Speech | 31
52. Love Your Customers | 0
53. Laptops are about to become a casualty of the AI grift | 13
54. Suddenly Everyone Is Scared to Dance at Concerts and Clubs | 18
55. Trump administration removes three spyware-linked executives from sanctions list | 2
56. FTX whistleblower Caroline Ellison set for early release next month | 43
57. Show HN: Generate your personal HN recap for 2025 | 4
58. Here's Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025 – and failed to deliver | 1
59. China mandates 50% domestic equipment rule for chipmakers | 4
60. Finland seizes ship from Russia suspected of breaking telecom cable to Estonia | 4
61. The Weeb Economy | 3
62. Be aware when opening "take home challenges" from untrusted recruiters | 0
63. Russian crew detained after undersea cable cut in 'sabotage' | 2
64. 100k-Watt Iron Beam laser becomes first to be operationally deployed | 5
65. Grok's Profile Fills with AI Bikini Edits Sparking Consent Backlash | 0
66. Billionaires added record $2.2T in wealth in 2025 | 6
67. RunAgent Genie – Ultimate Prompt Engineering Game with Advanced Guardrails | 5
68. A Solid Load of Bull | 0
69. Two Decades of Piracy Reporting: TorrentFreak's Retrospective | 0
70. China drafts strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence | 1
71. Tech Startups Are Handing Out Free Nicotine Pouches to Boost Productivity | 3
72. Eliminate Branches by Melding IR Instructions | 1
73. American Heart Association Revives Theory Light Drinking May Be Good for You | 13
74. In 2026, Will Americans Turn Against Oligarchs? | 4
75. Happy New Year HN! | 3
76. New measles cases in S. Carolina put U.S. at risk of losing elimination status | 0
77. California’s billionaire tax, explained | 4
78. The Cost of Translation | 0
79. Most of Iran Shuts Down as Government Grapples with Protests and Economy | 3
80. Russia's disinformation campaign about Bulgaria's transition to the euro | 0
81. Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work | 2
82. The Ridiculous Engineering of the Most Important Machine [video] | 1
83. Atmospheric Computing | 0
84. 'Ghost resorts': 100s of ski slopes lie abandoned–will nature reclaim Alps? | 0
85. Measles resurgence: US cases top 2k as vaccine rates slip | 1
86. Musk claims Tesla Model Y is best-selling car in the world, but there are doubts | 3
87. Altered brain tissue microstructure in long Covid&recovered Covid-19 individuals | 3
88. Ask HN: What are your plans for 2026? | 7
89. Switching off AI's ability to lie makes it more likely to claim it's conscious | 4
90. Qwen-Image-2512 | 1
91. Show HN: Bill My Cloud, a simple no-nonsense AWS cost estimator | 0
92. Show HN: I built a portable Yahtzee device with custom PCB and WASM simulator | 0
93. Zara uses AI to dress models virtually rather than book new photo shoots | 3
94. China forecast to have sold one in every 10 new cars in UK in 2025 | 6
95. Google Skills | 1
96. Ask HN: Anyone still using RSS feeds? | 11
97. Tech billionaires threaten to exit California over proposed wealth tax | 7
98. Ask HN: How the f$ do I get rich in 2026? | 9
99. Oil Tanker Fleeing the Coast Guard Now Listed in Russian Ship Database | 8
100. UK Rail Grafana Dashboard | 2