Story ranking for the past week

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 427
  2. Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] | 548
  3. Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI | 1778
  4. Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS | 562
  5. How uv got so fast | 447
  6. We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years | 277
  7. Some Epstein file redactions are being undone | 780
  8. Floor796 | 115
  9. Calendar | 118
  10. What an unprocessed photo looks like | 195
  11. Maybe the default settings are too high | 317
  12. Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves | 471
  13. Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out | 450
  14. Ruby 4.0.0 | 190
  15. Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert | 328
  16. X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents | 123
  17. Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML | 261
  18. Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers | 391
  19. Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash | 403
  20. How we lost communication to entertainment | 378
  21. Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig | 414
  22. US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified | 520
  23. Say No to Palantir in the NHS | 209
  24. FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub | 184
  25. Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole | 170
  26. We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) | 320
  27. Claude Code gets native LSP support | 337
  28. Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system | 97
  29. My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL | 256
  30. The Illustrated Transformer | 88
  31. It's Always TCP_NODELAY | 176
  32. Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study | 122
  33. Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations | 318
  34. I sell onions on the Internet (2019) | 169
  35. Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time | 271
  36. Unifi Travel Router | 428
  37. Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL | 165
  38. Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI | 18
  39. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 136
  40. Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief | 354
  41. Exe.dev | 292
  42. If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014) | 254
  43. Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors | 154
  44. Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator | 123
  45. Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 | 162
  46. Gpg.fail | 323
  47. GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability | 234
  48. Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English | 191
  49. The best things and stuff of 2025 | 95
  50. Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster | 148
  51. Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views | 200
  52. Lua 5.5 | 131
  53. Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom | 238
  54. Fahrplan – 39C3 | 222
  55. Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached | 243
  56. Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] | 126
  57. Always bet on text (2014) | 174
  58. Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal | 107
  59. Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors | 110
  60. Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat | 103
  61. NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut | 156
  62. How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little? | 212
  63. 10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13 | 129
  64. Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts | 211
  65. iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA | 325
  66. Publishing your work increases your luck | 123
  67. Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge | 248
  68. Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? | 419
  69. I'm returning my Framework 16 | 607
  70. Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases | 119
  71. Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) | 124
  72. Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" | 238
  73. Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA | 182
  74. Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] | 118
  75. I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 | 299
  76. The Garbage Collection Handbook | 55
  77. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 | 185
  78. Rainbow Six Siege hacked as players get billions of credits and random bans | 148
  79. QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop | 159
  80. Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video] | 4
  81. LearnixOS | 107
  82. USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994 | 289
  83. Don't Become the Machine | 141
  84. I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus | 245
  85. Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024) | 318
  86. Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling | 111
  87. Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026? | 399
  88. Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs | 269
  89. Debian's Git Transition | 147
  90. Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades | 258
  91. One year of keeping a tada list | 76
  92. Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address | 231
  93. Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together | 148
  94. Archivists posted the 60 minutes CECOT segment Bari Weiss killed | 11
  95. TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models | 46
  96. Stepping down as Mockito maintainer after ten years | 152
  97. When compilers surprise you | 104
  98. Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 | 167
  99. ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests | 157
  100. Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free | 26