Story ranking for the past day

1. Half-Baked Product | 374
2. Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own | 100
3. Costco is the anti-Amazon | 360
4. Espionage Against the European Parliament | 80
5. Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says | 274
6. Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally | 145
7. Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror | 95
8. 60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it | 89
9. Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective | 217
10. Please stop the AI confidence theater | 242
11. Factories are just rooms | 90
12. Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP | 151
13. Holes | 36
14. Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper | 62
15. I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025) | 92
16. SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine | 50
17. Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all | 42
18. Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful | 153
19. PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit | 95
20. Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research | 88
21. International chess federation sanctions Kramnik | 83
22. Africans Are Turning to Starlink | 167
23. The Fall and Rise of Screwworm | 60
24. America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report | 172
25. Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV | 22
26. FreeBSD ate my RAM | 42
27. The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything | 15
28. Farmer, marketer at odds over sales of white nectarines | 117
29. Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming | 132
30. US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials | 137
31. Applied Category Theory Course (2018) | 7
32. Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access | 68
33. New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview | 29
34. Software, from First Principles | 15
35. Best Simple System for Now (2025) | 16
36. Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things | 102
37. The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam | 13
38. AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money | 90
39. Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students | 82
40. The circuit that lets your brain think and see | 16
41. MSI Center – How to gain SYSTEM privileges in seconds | 16
42. The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker | 60
43. Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL | 9
44. Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models | 9
45. Open Source Touhou Clone | 0
46. Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds with Incompatibility | 1
47. 'guix substitute' and 'guix pull' Vulnerabilities | 0
48. A Road to Common Lisp (2018) | 0
49. Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17 | 50
50. Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition | 106
51. Kagi Changelog (July 2): Heads, tails, and an AI toggle | 12
52. Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island | 19
53. Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI) | 16
54. AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report | 65
55. It Still Can't Do My Job: Four Years of Moving Goalposts (2022–2026) | 121
56. GitFut – Your GitHub stats turned into a World-Cup-style player card | 22
57. Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions | 5
58. Goodbye, Forever, Probably | 19
59. Synthesis is harder than analysis | 10
60. Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas | 68
61. AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price | 38
62. What does privatization of the US Postal Service mean? | 85
63. Pet projects are getting too big to pet | 27
64. David Beazley – Programming Courses | 8
65. Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor | 23
66. Dispersion loss counteracts embedding condensation in small language models | 7
67. GCC WebAssembly Back End | 0
68. AI First: How the Federal Government Is Prioritizing AI over People and Planet | 24
69. Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I’m leaving developer relations | 20
70. Maybe you should learn something | 13
71. Pandoc Lua Filters | 0
72. The UK's Latest "Debanking" Scandal Should Give Everyone Pause | 11
73. Amazon's Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers | 0
74. Coding without AI: a revolutionary new way to work | 5
75. Anatomy of Persistent Memory's 3 Layers: Comparing ContextNest, Mem0 and Zep | 3
76. Oak: Git for Agents | 14
77. X has suddenly banned an account documenting Trump's corrupt stock trades | 1
78. Scientists discover guidance system for migratory songbirds | 5
79. I Could Kill You with a Consumer Drone | 29
80. David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82 | 1
81. NOYB (Max Schrems) to challenge EU/US data sharing after SCOTUS ruling [pdf] | 6
82. Claude's Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job | 8
83. After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck | 8
84. How many failed startups have you launched? | 10
85. Tesla Robotaxi Launches in Miami | 0
86. EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why | 0
87. ClawdMojis – A Clawd for Every Occasion | 1
88. US Government says it got hacked – again | 1
89. How Fighter Jets Lock on (and How the Targets Know) (2014) | 8
90. Tesla stock sinks 7% despite strong deliveries report, worst day in nearly 1y | 14
91. ReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call Toward Vista Compatibility | 1
92. Elevating Privileges from Firefox to Android Root | 5
93. Meta AI chief says their coming LLM has caught up with OpenAI's flagship model | 0
94. AI's $2.2T deficit fix is already half fake, economists say | 1
95. A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator | 2
96. Rare copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives | 3
97. Croatia got eliminated from the World Cup by a closed-source sensor | 1
98. Vibe Hardware with Arduino, ESP32 and RP2040 | 0
99. Musk demanded proof people died from USAID cuts. He got it – and lost it | 0
100. SpaceX Is Junk. That's What the Bond Market Says | 1