Story ranking for the past week

  1. It's hard to justify Tahoe icons | 949
  2. Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers | 327
  3. Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes | 4678
  4. Lessons from 14 years at Google | 688
  5. Vietnam bans unskippable ads | 801
  6. Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time | 995
  7. Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team | 812
  8. enclose.horse | 227
  9. Eat Real Food | 1552
  10. Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere | 246
  11. US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes | 1096
  12. There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout | 444
  13. Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far | 1318
  14. 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop | 637
  15. The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café | 434
  16. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero | 74
  17. Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? | 130
  18. Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016) | 479
  19. Shipmap.org | 115
  20. AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention | 476
  21. Databases in 2025: A Year in Review | 191
  22. The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 | 133
  23. Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension | 357
  24. Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS | 197
  25. HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark | 356
  26. IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world | 1188
  27. Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got | 269
  28. FracturedJson | 162
  29. Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone | 396
  30. The Post-American Internet | 442
  31. The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup | 399
  32. Google broke my heart | 286
  33. Claude Code On-the-Go | 331
  34. Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% | 272
  35. Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die | 292
  36. 10 years of personal finances in plain text files | 190
  37. 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform | 457
  38. Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs | 346
  39. Web development is fun again | 620
  40. Pebble Round 2 | 284
  41. The suck is why we're here | 275
  42. I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it | 138
  43. I switched from VSCode to Zed | 415
  44. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? | 86
  45. Parental controls aren't for parents | 451
  46. The Jeff Dean Facts | 162
  47. 39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos | 110
  48. How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code | 170
  49. Open Infrastructure Map | 92
  50. I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019) | 117
  51. Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? | 389
  52. Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021) | 87
  53. ChatGPT Health | 628
  54. Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware | 49
  55. Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout | 294
  56. Clicks Communicator | 260
  57. Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet | 403
  58. C Is Best (2025) | 543
  59. Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis | 178
  60. Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS | 209
  61. Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons | 48
  62. A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela | 207
  63. LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf] | 91
  64. Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature | 55
  65. Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet | 321
  66. A4 Paper Stories | 176
  67. Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities | 101
  68. The C3 Programming Language | 258
  69. Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” | 272
  70. Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default | 136
  71. A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time | 135
  72. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 334
  73. US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year | 343
  74. During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website | 187
  75. Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android | 165
  76. Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE | 315
  77. Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) | 250
  78. X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced | 573
  79. Can I start using Wayland in 2026? | 318
  80. All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025) | 320
  81. Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? | 75
  82. ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree | 249
  83. California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info | 83
  84. Minnesota officials say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting | 59
  85. Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work | 38
  86. A spider web unlike any seen before | 142
  87. Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible | 230
  88. Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela | 308
  89. AI coding assistants are getting worse? | 436
  90. Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20 | 150
  91. Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring | 511
  92. Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale | 28
  93. “Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016) | 273
  94. Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas | 11
  95. Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density | 265
  96. I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022) | 129
  97. Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second | 143
  98. Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician | 84
  99. Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com | 165
  100. ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods | 259