Story ranking for the past day

1. Gemini 4 Argon | 812
2. You said no MCP | 350
3. September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy | 367
4. The AI Race Just Got Awkward | 422
5. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm | 272
6. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal | 114
7. Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? | 223
8. The last time my family was replaced by technology | 467
9. Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use | 190
10. EDG C++ front-end goes public | 89
11. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025) | 87
12. What TLA+ can and can't check | 39
13. Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings | 53
14. 5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs | 58
15. Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents | 75
16. SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering | 57
17. 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience | 75
18. Fuck Android Developer Verification Program | 34
19. America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft" | 47
20. Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields | 9
21. Commit description as a thinking tool | 64
22. CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective | 91
23. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards | 17
24. Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis | 53
25. 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years | 135
26. Dear Software Makers | 63
27. SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987 | 21
28. Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan | 29
29. GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence | 99
30. Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program | 29
31. Gitea 28.0 | 33
32. Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available | 99
33. CHOMPI portable sampler instrument is now open-source (hardware and software) | 14
34. California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states | 108
35. Claude Says | 32
36. Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report | 7
37. Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy | 26
38. Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") | 6
39. Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management | 35
40. Let's Ditch Google (Verb) | 71
41. Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization | 72
42. Reddit is putting more limits on old.reddit.com | 25
43. Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes | 75
44. Coltrane's Tone Circle | 16
45. Show HN: Lathoa, a math app for kids where the AI is wrong on purpose | 22
46. Flydubai B38M, first officer under investigation for suspected suicide attempt | 7
47. Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin | 43
48. Functional Ultrasound Imaging (fUSI) from scratch | 7
49. FTC opens probe into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI | 2
50. Pledge signed by President Trump and top AI leaders misspells the United States | 14
51. I can't tell who's teaching who anymore | 31
52. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac | 14
53. Pilot of Israel-bound FlyDubai flight tried to crash plane | 15
54. Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace | 13
55. Show HN: I built a free Burp/Caido alternative but, zero setup - API Testing | 5
56. Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | 23
57. The Ethernet spec was first drafted on this day in 1980 | 4
58. Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf] | 0
59. pldb: programming languages papers | 1
60. 16-year-old found Microsoft bug, got admin access to 17.3T-row databases | 1
61. EDG C++ Compiler is open source | 1
62. Japan officially overhauls permanent residency rules | 13
63. Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, Newt Gingrich to Help Pentagon with Warfare Initiative | 12
64. Uber Wait Times Rise 19% as Prices Climb 53%: Study | 12
65. Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections | 35
66. Minitel | 2
67. Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++ | 12
68. Recursive `make` and `-j` | 8
69. A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit | 4
70. "Apple engineer" builds GitHub AI torture chamber to inflict "pain" on models | 26
71. Google Grapples with Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model | 1
72. Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry | 0
73. Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone | 42
74. Load balancing and failover inside Bunny CDN | 2
75. Bologna Bottle | 0
76. European Network for Payments – An EU Alternative to Visa/Mastercard | 1
77. Israel-bound flight lands in Saudi Arabia after violent incident between pilots | 2
78. Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32 | 1
79. Is sandboxing sufficient to contain rogue agents? | 17
80. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM | 8
81. IANA's email about why example.com changed | 1
82. Turbo Haskell | 0
83. Steelers ex-coach Mike Tomlin has been building a Minecraft city for 12 years | 0
84. Cities Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to Federal Surveillance Program | 1
85. Show HN: An old school forum on an open protocol – your identity is a keypair | 2
86. India restores ancient water systems (stepwells) | 0
87. USPS to Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for 'Community Safety' | 1
88. California Legalizes Balcony Solar | 5
89. The Invention of Islamic Invention | 1
90. Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data | 1
91. Dear User, email is here to stay | 2
92. Cold War espionage added $4.6B to East Germany's economy | 1
93. The eruption that destroyed Pompeii is helping scientists date Earth's history | 0
94. We used a database as a message queue. Now we use Kafka | 1
95. Codex Pricing: Pro has unlimited 5.6 usage | 14
96. The Homeless Community in Portland, Oregon That Became a Self-Governed Village | 2
97. Israel-bound flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after brawl between pilots | 4
98. Is Trump's Push to Rename AI to Super Intelligence Part of a Bigger Conspiracy? | 3
99. Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids? | 12
100. Ask HN: How will the AI endgame play out? | 21