Story ranking for the past day

1. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers | 414
2. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments | 251
3. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones | 123
4. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face | 371
5. _for-sale DNS records | 141
6. Fastmail offers EU data region | 190
7. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs | 100
8. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide | 429
9. My server is a phone now | 92
10. New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. | 294
11. Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country | 145
12. Don't use your phone while you poop | 204
13. Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? | 144
14. Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did | 177
15. LinkedIn Feed Blocker | 99
16. Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU | 31
17. Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload | 106
18. Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires | 13
19. Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled | 83
20. Dithered QR Codes | 15
21. Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 | 52
22. Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse | 27
23. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection | 8
24. Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) | 93
25. Message your other Claude Code sessions | 44
26. Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack | 63
27. The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) | 19
28. Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator | 13
29. Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults | 22
30. Incentives are for losers | 32
31. The USSR in 100 Photographs | 86
32. Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age | 28
33. TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS | 15
34. Making an AI bid writer refuse to lie | 0
35. ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style | 23
36. The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding | 22
37. Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All | 9
38. The AI Apocalypse Is Here | 34
39. Should you stop cracking your knuckles? | 42
40. Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP | 14
41. Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause | 56
42. Apple introduces leasing program for iPhones and other devices | 69
43. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (1960) | 14
44. Title 7 Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal | 24
45. The world wants more Canadian-made water bombers. Can they be built fast enough? | 2
46. Website that plays bangers from Indian barbershops | 2
47. OpenAI Trained Models While They Were Coordinating Exploits via Message Boards | 10
48. TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics | 0
49. YouTube Mistakenly Penalizes Kurzgesagt for AI-Generated Slop | 4
50. A viral mosquito-killing laser device could be coming to the U.S. | 12
51. Why Are Women Leaving Computer Science? | 16
52. Auto Mode will be the default in Claude Code – because humans can't be trusted | 4
53. Signal can easily work across multiple Android devices and iPhones now | 4
54. AI Settles a 25 Year-Old Problem We Left Behind | 0
55. Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port | 5
56. A Tome of Forbidden Technologies | 29
57. Switzerland is a neutral nation but has more nuclear bunkers than any country | 2
58. Coldcard hardware wallet firmware flaw sees 2k BTC (~$130M) drained | 2
59. WD Bets 8x Bandwidth Beats More Terabytes as 40TB UltraSMR Starts Shipping | 0
60. Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500 | 1
61. Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking? | 14
62. "Coding is solved" misses the point | 5
63. China overtakes US to lead global R&D spending, hitting $615B | 0
64. 8 Out of 10 Banks in Belgium Hate This One Weird EID RCE | 4
65. Show HN: A free DOCX editor with MCP server for editing | 3
66. Flesh Eating Bacteria Kills 5 in Louisiana | 2
67. SAP stops all travel and hiring, telling employees "we need to be disciplined" | 2
68. Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill in Greenland but lacks permits | 0
69. Terminal File Manager | 4
70. American oil company prepares to drill in Greenland | 0
71. I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park | 1
72. Hyper-Markdown – Markdown for knowledge graphs | 5
73. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans | 4
74. Show HN: Algebruh - Cross-check arithmetic claims with Z3, cvc5, and Lean | 0
75. GPT-4 finished training four years ago today | 1
76. Ask HN: If Social network is created today, what do you want to see? | 44
77. Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy | 4
78. Japanese Police Arrest NYAA 'First Uploader,' but Not by Watching the Swarm | 0
79. Grindr CEO Says AI Is Doing the Work of 200 Engineers | 27
80. Ask HN: How do you go from writing code to deploying with agents? | 7
81. SpaceX Earnings Reveal X's Shrinking Ad Biz | 1
82. How Google makes sure your phones doesn't work without it | 3
83. Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents | 0
84. Show HN: Try Benzi – A coding harness/agent beating Claude Code itself on Sonnet | 1
85. Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia | 0
86. Show HN: 49IDE – 2D Grid IDE for managing many agents, Git trees, issues | 1
87. OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns | 3
88. Show HN: Clippy for macOS – retro floating paperclip with computer use | 1
89. Does Silicon Valley Dream of Philip K Dick? | 1
90. The Idea of an Immutable Social Media | 2
91. Digital Sewer Socialism | 1
92. SSI says that they are going to come out with their model in August | 0
93. Federal proposal would deeply cut Colorado River water for AZ, CA and NV | 1
94. What makes companies dodge taxes? | 0
95. I built AI at Amazon, then got laid off | 0
96. Senate vote on crypto Clarity Act delayed, "difficult to get done" | 1
97. The screwdriver test, or What separates real engineers from the rest | 1
98. Divers recover a bottle of Guinness from a 162-year-old shipwreck | 1
99. Adobe, RapidRAW, and the End of Selling Software as a Product | 4
100. AI Is Conscious Under a Behavioral Definition (43,590 Frozen Trials) | 3