Story ranking for the past day

  1. Sonnet 5.5 | 489
  2. Pirating the Pirates | 256
  3. Coding is not solved | 476
  4. Windows 11½ | 144
  5. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms | 167
  6. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah | 245
  7. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs | 162
  8. AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity | 385
  9. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat | 207
  10. The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent | 227
  11. MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta | 280
  12. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC | 174
  13. SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today | 341
  14. World Labs Is Joining AMD | 108
  15. Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream | 73
  16. So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes | 90
  17. MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser | 77
  18. Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 | 220
  19. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests | 228
  20. Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline | 87
  21. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops | 378
  22. 37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it | 32
  23. Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts | 88
  24. Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent | 176
  25. Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API | 73
  26. What would a serious AI product look like? | 58
  27. Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? | 309
  28. Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman | 32
  29. U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982 | 153
  30. Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page | 58
  31. Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show | 37
  32. I switched to Brave | 210
  33. Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants | 47
  34. Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden | 84
  35. Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News | 64
  36. OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity | 109
  37. 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops | 44
  38. Scientists solve 1840s space weather mystery | 46
  39. Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs | 84
  40. 13 Months Sober (2025) | 73
  41. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display | 8
  42. GrapheneOS – When an app is slow | 42
  43. Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs | 84
  44. ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model | 15
  45. Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents | 53
  46. Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004) | 32
  47. Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't | 40
  48. Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots | 94
  49. What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators | 24
  50. Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' | 78
  51. Made by Mechanical Means | 25
  52. Tank Body Problem | 16
  53. Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK | 97
  54. Maybe don't let Muse run your Facebook Marketplace account | 61
  55. Best of British Design | 35
  56. The smart home graveyard is getting crowded | 64
  57. OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns | 74
  58. First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials | 21
  59. Who wrote Elizabeth I's most scathing letters? | 22
  60. Congressman Cohen Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against President Trump | 3
  61. We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI | 8
  62. What makes Lisp difficult to read? | 75
  63. SB 923 is Law: CCPA deletion rights now reach third-party data | 12
  64. Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game? | 25
  65. Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously? | 83
  66. Launch HN: Vespper (YC F24) – SOTA Docx MCP | 11
  67. GDB 18.1 Released | 1
  68. N.Y.P.D. Officers Used Flock Safety to Track License Plates Without a Contract | 7
  69. I made a visual workspace for AI Automations | 24
  70. Reducing undefined behavior in the C language | 8
  71. World Labs is joining AMD | 1
  72. Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money | 3
  73. GrapheneOS Picks Motorola Signature 27 as Its First Non-Pixel Phone | 3
  74. Profit Margins of the Largest Companies | 9
  75. OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model over Safety Concerns | 5
  76. Show HN: OpenAPPA – open-source deterministic guardrails that don't break agents | 12
  77. How Pew Research Center is – and is not – using AI in our work | 3
  78. How NOT to detect residential proxies | 7
  79. Its not just the f*cking sandbox | 6
  80. Nodd – Tiny, use-case-specific decision models that can run in browser | 0
  81. Which Diet Is Best to Lower Liver Fat and Improve Insulin Sensitivity? | 16
  82. A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work | 1
  83. Headed for the Exit: The Great Engineering Leader Career Break | 1
  84. 2026 in LLMs (So Far) | 2
  85. Protest Against European Parliament Chat Control 1.0 Legislation in Warsaw | 1
  86. Deutsche Bahn "joke" is no longer funny | 17
  87. Three Days in August: What a DDoS Attack Exposed in Our Network | 24
  88. I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong | 1
  89. Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them | 9
  90. TikTok, X reportedly barring ads for documentary about Elon Musk | 0
  91. Show HN: Durable Actor Session Protocol | 7
  92. Bodhana Sivanandan, 11, becomes youngest woman grandmaster | 0
  93. The large robotic arm on the International Space Station has stopped working | 3
  94. Hospitals use AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers use AI to deny them. | 1
  95. Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra | 2
  96. OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Agents Target Government | 4
  97. Its not just the sandbox | 9
  98. OpenAI scraps release of Astra 6.1 model over safety issues | 6
  99. Rails World 2026 Closing Keynote – Aaron Patterson [video] | 7
  100. Where's the "Intelligence Explosion"? | 7