Story ranking for the past week

  1. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent | 1123
  2. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | 576
  3. Appearing productive in the workplace | 631
  4. Talking to strangers at the gym | 749
  5. VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage | 850
  6. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons | 509
  7. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? | 299
  8. Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions | 167
  9. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like | 859
  10. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved | 407
  11. Zig → Rust porting guide | 537
  12. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay | 692
  13. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | 327
  14. The gay jailbreak technique (2025) | 258
  15. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro | 280
  16. StarFighter 16-Inch | 377
  17. DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier | 394
  18. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | 366
  19. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused | 231
  20. Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac | 303
  21. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format | 184
  22. Dav2d | 189
  23. The map that keeps Burning Man honest | 309
  24. Let's Buy Spirit Air | 576
  25. Ti-84 Evo | 482
  26. AI slop is killing online communities | 533
  27. Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce | 343
  28. Programming Still Sucks | 291
  29. The bottleneck was never the code | 399
  30. Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 | 530
  31. Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE | 229
  32. New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag | 554
  33. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables | 166
  34. Do_not_track | 167
  35. AI didn't delete your database, you did | 301
  36. Three Inverse Laws of AI | 349
  37. Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers | 203
  38. Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data | 337
  39. NetHack 5.0.0 | 180
  40. US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants | 167
  41. I am worried about Bun | 346
  42. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale | 146
  43. This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 | 150
  44. OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors | 473
  45. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX | 472
  46. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense | 314
  47. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement | 446
  48. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs | 264
  49. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% | 785
  50. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth | 158
  51. Knitting bullshit | 204
  52. City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo | 123
  53. Ask.com has closed | 240
  54. Train Your Own LLM from Scratch | 50
  55. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” | 61
  56. New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming | 272
  57. A desktop made for one | 264
  58. Six years perfecting maps on watchOS | 119
  59. Agentic Coding Is a Trap | 373
  60. Async Rust never left the MVP state | 259
  61. A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury | 229
  62. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet | 318
  63. Agents need control flow, not more prompts | 211
  64. Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved | 262
  65. Why TUIs are back | 420
  66. AI uses less water than the public thinks | 396
  67. Grok 4.3 | 530
  68. Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months | 475
  69. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit | 198
  70. Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA | 411
  71. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields | 237
  72. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing | 269
  73. Days without GitHub incidents | 168
  74. Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app | 321
  75. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy | 448
  76. Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?) | 68
  77. Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge | 218
  78. Agent Skills | 211
  79. Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers | 131
  80. Write some software, give it away for free | 271
  81. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS | 44
  82. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal | 99
  83. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria | 281
  84. Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me | 120
  85. Inkscape 1.4.4 | 106
  86. Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks | 380
  87. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken | 115
  88. AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights | 178
  89. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] | 94
  90. Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold | 265
  91. California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws | 356
  92. Southwest Headquarters Tour | 99
  93. Redis array: short story of a long development process | 110
  94. How Monero’s proof of work works | 225
  95. The fun has been optimized out of the Internet | 277
  96. Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan | 144
  97. Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to | 182
  98. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) | 491
  99. PyInfra 3.8.0 | 106
  100. From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth | 228