Story ranking for the past week

1. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access | 233
2. Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest | 310
3. Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch | 608
4. We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack | 417
5. Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed | 577
6. AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' | 528
7. Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? | 812
8. alpr.watch | 442
9. Announcing the Beta release of ty | 175
10. Thin desires are eating life | 266
11. No Graphics API | 179
12. 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions | 245
13. Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work | 650
14. AI will make formal verification go mainstream | 425
15. Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions | 815
16. History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts | 381
17. I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me | 504
18. This is not the future | 405
19. Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies | 417
20. Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges | 806
21. Classical statues were not painted horribly | 321
22. “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number | 304
23. Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices | 159
24. Tell HN: HN was down | 327
25. I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero | 387
26. Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo | 929
27. 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 | 220
28. If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? | 1006
29. Please just try HTMX | 460
30. Coursera to combine with Udemy | 372
31. Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks | 286
32. GPT-5.2-Codex | 307
33. GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust | 121
34. No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter | 326
35. Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? | 462
36. Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features | 519
37. Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters | 115
38. Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment | 455
39. GPT Image 1.5 | 255
40. SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image | 108
41. 40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity | 206
42. VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits | 320
43. Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice | 138
44. Mistral OCR 3 | 87
45. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? | 467
46. Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders | 147
47. Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions | 2
48. Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide | 347
49. How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips | 579
50. Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels | 56
51. CSS Grid Lanes | 119
52. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 507
53. Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial | 480
54. Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 | 893
55. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1444
56. Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ | 248
57. Show HN: Picknplace.js, an alternative to drag-and-drop | 146
58. Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach | 271
59. AI agents are starting to eat SaaS | 386
60. Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system | 194
61. Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES | 162
62. JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet | 318
63. Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres | 446
64. A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images | 96
65. I tried Gleam for Advent of Code | 211
66. Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn) | 263
67. After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up | 310
68. Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C | 156
69. Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop | 316
70. Rob Reiner has died | 240
71. Unscii | 58
72. Elevated errors across many models | 155
73. Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates | 320
74. How SQLite is tested | 82
75. OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer | 76
76. I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model | 123
77. Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's | 149
78. Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted | 317
79. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse | 343
80. SoundCloud has banned VPN access | 211
81. A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote | 167
82. You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser | 84
83. Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More) | 45
84. Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem | 164
85. Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes | 147
86. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 93
87. Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens | 69
88. Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable | 142
89. Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith | 250
90. I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours | 142
91. Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People | 37
92. Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years | 229
93. MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies | 217
94. Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015) | 124
95. Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem | 182
96. Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch | 44
97. TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy | 71
98. AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2 | 120
99. Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models | 57
100. Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac | 214