Story ranking for the past day

  1. It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) | 345
  2. Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? | 815
  3. How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs | 520
  4. PGlite – Embeddable Postgres | 105
  5. I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer | 213
  6. Unreal Tournament 2004 is back | 191
  7. Transparent leadership beats servant leadership | 192
  8. Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas | 298
  9. RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung | 357
  10. The RAM shortage comes for us all | 365
  11. Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond | 142
  12. Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig | 339
  13. Django 6 | 137
  14. Multivox: Volumetric Display | 35
  15. A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat | 190
  16. Autism should not be treated as a single condition | 278
  17. We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months | 183
  18. Programming peaked | 202
  19. Fighting the age-gated internet | 182
  20. 30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" | 93
  21. Tunnl.gg | 92
  22. BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive | 123
  23. State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter | 68
  24. Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years | 142
  25. Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later | 127
  26. The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X | 158
  27. Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame | 65
  28. Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks | 19
  29. Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.0 available | 38
  30. Human hair grows through 'pulling' not pushing, study shows | 59
  31. Functional Quadtrees | 42
  32. CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally | 49
  33. CUDA-l2: Surpassing cuBLAS performance for matrix multiplication through RL | 11
  34. Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements) | 13
  35. PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners | 20
  36. NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards | 10
  37. Feynman vs. Computer | 22
  38. Countdown until the AI bubble bursts | 29
  39. The Ofcom Files, Part 4: Ofcom Rides Again | 18
  40. Netflix becomes frontrunner in bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery – sources | 4
  41. Hammersmith Bridge – Where did 25k vehicles go? | 48
  42. State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' | 20
  43. StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels | 3
  44. Rsync.net Technical Notes – Q4 2025 | 18
  45. I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years | 9
  46. Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine? | 12
  47. SMS phishers pivot to points, taxes, fake retailers | 18
  48. YouTuber accidentally crashes the rare plant market with viral cloning technique | 5
  49. How Brussels writes so many laws | 42
  50. Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing | 30
  51. Coca Cola has an executive dedicated to McDonald's | 53
  52. Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void | 21
  53. Brave vs. Firefox – Brave | 1
  54. US will now review H-1B applicants' social media – require them to make public | 45
  55. The End of the Train-Test Split | 4
  56. XY Problem | 18
  57. NextJS Security Vulnerability | 5
  58. TrueMeter: AI Energy Agent That Optimizes Utility Bills | 2
  59. SWI-Prolog 10.0.0 Released | 3
  60. Flock cameras are also computers – and perfectly hackable | 2
  61. Australia says world will follow social media ban as Meta starts blocking teens | 17
  62. The Math Legend Who Just Left Academia–For an AI Startup Run by a 24-Year-Old | 36
  63. What is better: a lookup table or an enum type? | 10
  64. Why won't Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? | 12
  65. Recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp Visi On | 1
  66. Crucial shutting down as Micron wants to sell RAM/SSDs to AI companies instead | 3
  67. Show HN: Xkcd #2347 lived in my head, so I built the dependency tower for real | 4
  68. The Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist | 3
  69. Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK) | 74
  70. Zuck Plans Deep Cuts for Metaverse Efforts | 6
  71. It's harder to read code than to write it | 3
  72. The Mysterious Realm of JavaScriptCore (2021) | 1
  73. CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it's doing, delays big vote | 1
  74. Show HN: I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable | 9
  75. Why One Man Is Fighting for Our Right to Control Our Garage Door Openers | 9
  76. A Technical Tour of the DeepSeek Models from V3 to v3.2 | 0
  77. Man Asks $75M for 'Lambo.com,' Court Gives It to Lamborghini for Free | 23
  78. Fairphone open-sources Fairphone 5 and 6 software, and Moments switch | 1
  79. Ask HN: What are the ethics at YC? | 9
  80. Ask HN: Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone? | 8
  81. Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video | 4
  82. Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air | 7
  83. Fast trigram based code search | 0
  84. Bad Dye Job | 2
  85. Meta reportedly plans to slash Metaverse budget by up to 30%, includes layoff | 3
  86. Show HN: Turn APIs into MCP servers without code | 2
  87. OpenAGI emerges from stealth with an AI agent that it claims crushes OpenAI | 1
  88. AWS partners with Nvidia to use NVLink in AI chips | 1
  89. Multiplying with a constant | 0
  90. Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN probes Gaza's missing aid seekers | 0
  91. In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet | 5
  92. Apple Announces Departure of Lisa Jackson and Kate Adams | 1
  93. Chatbots can sway political opinions but are 'substantially' inaccurate: study | 4
  94. Wooden skyscrapers point the way to more sustainable cities | 5
  95. Porsche Owners in Russia Unable to Start Cars After System Failure | 0
  96. LED Streetlights Are Disrupting Ecosystems – A Systems Failure | 2
  97. Meta to cut up to 30% of metaverse budget | 1
  98. Imo.im – Instant Messenger | 11
  99. Aluminium is crucial to vaccines – and safe. Why are US advisers debating it? | 3
  100. CDC advisory panel delays vote on hepatitis B vaccines after unruly meeting | 2