Story ranking for the past week

  1. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access | 237
  2. Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest | 318
  3. Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch | 628
  4. We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack | 429
  5. Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed | 578
  6. AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' | 530
  7. Backing Up Spotify | 355
  8. Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? | 817
  9. alpr.watch | 442
  10. History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts | 402
  11. Announcing the Beta release of ty | 175
  12. Thin desires are eating life | 267
  13. Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work | 653
  14. No Graphics API | 179
  15. 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions | 245
  16. AI will make formal verification go mainstream | 429
  17. Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions | 817
  18. I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me | 504
  19. CSS Grid Lanes | 218
  20. This is not the future | 408
  21. Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies | 419
  22. Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters | 162
  23. Mistral OCR 3 | 120
  24. Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges | 806
  25. Classical statues were not painted horribly | 326
  26. “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number | 304
  27. Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks | 325
  28. GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust | 127
  29. 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 | 223
  30. Please just try HTMX | 477
  31. Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices | 160
  32. I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero | 392
  33. Tell HN: HN was down | 327
  34. Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo | 929
  35. If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? | 1007
  36. Coursera to combine with Udemy | 374
  37. GPT-5.2-Codex | 310
  38. Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files | 117
  39. Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features | 532
  40. No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter | 328
  41. Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? | 466
  42. Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment | 456
  43. GPT Image 1.5 | 255
  44. SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image | 108
  45. 40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity | 206
  46. Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice | 138
  47. Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels | 57
  48. Go ahead, self-host Postgres | 300
  49. Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders | 148
  50. How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips | 592
  51. NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power | 200
  52. Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud | 402
  53. Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide | 348
  54. Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions | 2
  55. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 522
  56. Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop | 149
  57. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1449
  58. Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial | 480
  59. Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 | 894
  60. Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ | 248
  61. Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach | 274
  62. AI agents are starting to eat SaaS | 386
  63. Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system | 195
  64. Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does | 256
  65. Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES | 162
  66. JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet | 319
  67. Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres | 449
  68. Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn) | 273
  69. LLM Year in Review | 138
  70. Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed | 226
  71. A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images | 96
  72. After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up | 320
  73. Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop | 316
  74. TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy | 111
  75. 8-bit Boléro | 46
  76. Rob Reiner has died | 240
  77. You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser | 95
  78. Unscii | 58
  79. Elevated errors across many models | 155
  80. Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates | 322
  81. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse | 368
  82. Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates | 47
  83. How SQLite is tested | 82
  84. Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics | 60
  85. OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer | 76
  86. Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted | 318
  87. Charles Proxy | 111
  88. Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens | 71
  89. SoundCloud has banned VPN access | 212
  90. Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes | 150
  91. A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote | 168
  92. Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More) | 45
  93. Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem | 168
  94. Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable | 142
  95. I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours | 142
  96. Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study | 415
  97. Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years | 229
  98. MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies | 217
  99. Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) | 126
  100. Gemini 3 Pro vs. 2.5 Pro in Pokemon Crystal | 82