Story ranking for the past week

  1. Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler | 723
  2. Local AI needs to be the norm | 715
  3. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent | 1140
  4. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | 593
  5. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated | 254
  6. Appearing productive in the workplace | 647
  7. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users | 580
  8. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce | 986
  9. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies | 864
  10. I'm going back to writing code by hand | 576
  11. Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data | 643
  12. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday | 165
  13. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit | 468
  14. I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left | 623
  15. AI slop is killing online communities | 732
  16. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE | 331
  17. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like | 884
  18. Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions | 167
  19. The map that keeps Burning Man honest | 352
  20. Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise | 276
  21. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved | 410
  22. Programming Still Sucks | 329
  23. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro | 524
  24. Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc | 690
  25. Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged | 364
  26. Internet Archive Switzerland | 116
  27. Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES | 168
  28. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | 328
  29. StarFighter 16-Inch | 385
  30. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format | 192
  31. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | 369
  32. EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" | 440
  33. Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability | 261
  34. Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics | 210
  35. Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers | 247
  36. A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking | 293
  37. Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer | 321
  38. Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message | 444
  39. Agents need control flow, not more prompts | 293
  40. I’ve banned query strings | 292
  41. Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory | 165
  42. Three Inverse Laws of AI | 350
  43. AI didn't delete your database, you did | 305
  44. Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML | 272
  45. An Introduction to Meshtastic | 186
  46. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense | 331
  47. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX | 483
  48. OpenAI’s WebRTC problem | 148
  49. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal | 157
  50. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement | 452
  51. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs | 269
  52. Knitting bullshit | 206
  53. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% | 803
  54. LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate | 199
  55. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... | 334
  56. Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable | 521
  57. GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values | 465
  58. Async Rust never left the MVP state | 264
  59. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet | 318
  60. Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house | 366
  61. AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures | 172
  62. The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism | 395
  63. Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning | 223
  64. Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career | 660
  65. Cartoon Network Flash Games | 131
  66. Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA | 441
  67. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) | 103
  68. CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler | 113
  69. Mythical Man Month | 208
  70. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school | 651
  71. Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard | 380
  72. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields | 238
  73. Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels | 277
  74. If AI writes your code, why use Python? | 401
  75. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria | 316
  76. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing | 273
  77. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview | 169
  78. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy | 449
  79. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms | 163
  80. Mojo 1.0 Beta | 242
  81. Write some software, give it away for free | 271
  82. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text | 120
  83. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS | 44
  84. Debian must ship reproducible packages | 166
  85. The One Dollar Counterfeiter | 141
  86. An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs | 101
  87. Inkscape 1.4.4 | 107
  88. The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024) | 188
  89. Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me | 120
  90. Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan | 217
  91. GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch | 128
  92. Space Cadet Pinball on Linux | 126
  93. I want to live like Costco people | 722
  94. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken | 116
  95. US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos | 540
  96. Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging | 221
  97. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] | 94
  98. Idempotency is easy until the second request is different | 212
  99. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields | 149
  100. Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only) | 153