Story ranking for the past week

  1. When did Google get so weird? | 1116
  2. Gemini 4 Argon | 1173
  3. Pi 1.0 | 579
  4. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock | 458
  5. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price | 951
  6. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah | 940
  7. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? | 390
  8. Sonnet 5.5 | 614
  9. Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over | 737
  10. America.gov | 736
  11. Dots: Always-on agents | 644
  12. Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free | 295
  13. Pirating the Pirates | 385
  14. You said no MCP | 362
  15. Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI | 623
  16. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs | 277
  17. Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform | 215
  18. StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta | 172
  19. I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband | 241
  20. Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility | 259
  21. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent | 334
  22. Ember-1 | 249
  23. Coding is not solved | 543
  24. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms | 225
  25. DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers | 429
  26. Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel | 395
  27. Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake | 523
  28. Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines | 126
  29. Windows 11½ | 181
  30. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive | 304
  31. September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy | 389
  32. Pi Durable | 68
  33. macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess | 358
  34. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat | 257
  35. Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election | 303
  36. Ask HN: What are you reading? | 879
  37. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm | 495
  38. AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity | 398
  39. Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story | 120
  40. A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] | 140
  41. The AI Race Just Got Awkward | 461
  42. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things | 119
  43. Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city | 102
  44. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed | 300
  45. Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant | 369
  46. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites | 110
  47. Go Concurrency Distilled | 187
  48. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots | 26
  49. SvelteKit 3 | 171
  50. There are no "rogue" AI agents | 269
  51. Apple Pass Designer | 241
  52. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal | 171
  53. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops | 985
  54. US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS | 395
  55. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries | 301
  56. The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent | 240
  57. DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows | 209
  58. Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 | 437
  59. On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted | 346
  60. Tells of a Slop UI | 243
  61. A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work | 92
  62. RIP, vector database | 107
  63. MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta | 305
  64. Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | 118
  65. Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks | 156
  66. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs | 350
  67. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display | 50
  68. PS5 Relapse Exploit | 254
  69. The last time my family was replaced by technology | 639
  70. Fuck Android Developer Verification Program | 137
  71. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC | 190
  72. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub | 177
  73. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) | 116
  74. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart | 399
  75. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records | 128
  76. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing | 249
  77. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi | 138
  78. FLUX 3 Image | 68
  79. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests | 405
  80. World Labs is Joining AMD | 121
  81. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025) | 162
  82. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 | 113
  83. SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today | 366
  84. Tcl/Tk 9.1 | 143
  85. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards | 59
  86. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life | 107
  87. Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream | 92
  88. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds | 155
  89. Shimano Bicycle Museum Review | 76
  90. Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers | 63
  91. Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams | 111
  92. MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser | 113
  93. Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones | 220
  94. Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns | 25
  95. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels | 169
  96. Solving Factorio Quality | 108
  97. The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures | 124
  98. How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 | 163
  99. The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf] | 148
  100. 56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience | 111