Story ranking for the past week

  1. It's hard to justify Tahoe icons | 935
  2. Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes | 4662
  3. Lessons from 14 years at Google | 683
  4. Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time | 985
  5. Vietnam bans unskippable ads | 647
  6. Linux is good now | 990
  7. enclose.horse | 202
  8. Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere | 245
  9. 2025: The Year in LLMs | 598
  10. There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout | 414
  11. 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop | 637
  12. The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café | 434
  13. A website to destroy all websites | 394
  14. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero | 74
  15. Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? | 130
  16. Why users cannot create Issues directly | 305
  17. Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades | 585
  18. AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention | 453
  19. The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 | 132
  20. Databases in 2025: A Year in Review | 180
  21. Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension | 351
  22. Spherical Snake | 124
  23. I'm a developer for a major food delivery app | 297
  24. I canceled my book deal | 363
  25. HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark | 353
  26. Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame | 251
  27. IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world | 1180
  28. FracturedJson | 161
  29. Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got | 268
  30. Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video] | 223
  31. Cameras and Lenses (2020) | 57
  32. The Post-American Internet | 410
  33. Claude Code On-the-Go | 322
  34. Google broke my heart | 274
  35. I rebooted my social life | 404
  36. Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged | 703
  37. Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust | 158
  38. 10 years of personal finances in plain text files | 190
  39. Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75% | 266
  40. Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die | 289
  41. Web development is fun again | 606
  42. Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far | 644
  43. 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform | 436
  44. The suck is why we're here | 271
  45. Pebble Round 2 | 271
  46. Parental controls aren't for parents | 450
  47. RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids? | 83
  48. I switched from VSCode to Zed | 401
  49. Tell HN: Happy New Year | 207
  50. iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan | 408
  51. 39th Chaos Communication Congress Videos | 110
  52. I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019) | 117
  53. Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021) | 87
  54. Happy Public Domain Day 2026 | 85
  55. Python numbers every programmer should know | 185
  56. Clicks Communicator | 260
  57. Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet | 401
  58. Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc. | 141
  59. 2025 Letter | 322
  60. Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups | 468
  61. Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis | 177
  62. Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS | 209
  63. Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature | 55
  64. Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone | 259
  65. Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet | 321
  66. Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? | 336
  67. C Is Best (2025) | 496
  68. The C3 Programming Language | 257
  69. Can Bundler be as fast as uv? | 102
  70. BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal | 662
  71. Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” | 268
  72. Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities | 97
  73. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) | 304
  74. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf] | 101
  75. During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website | 187
  76. ACM Is Now Open Access | 50
  77. Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons | 30
  78. Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android | 158
  79. Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them | 111
  80. Welcome to Gas Town | 207
  81. X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced | 567
  82. I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it | 105
  83. Can I start using Wayland in 2026? | 307
  84. All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025) | 320
  85. Why does a least squares fit appear to have a bias when applied to simple data? | 75
  86. California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info | 82
  87. Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible | 227
  88. A spider web unlike any seen before | 141
  89. Show HN: An interactive guide to how browsers work | 38
  90. Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere | 330
  91. Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes | 92
  92. Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring | 503
  93. 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player | 337
  94. Explosions reported in Venezuelan capital Caracas | 11
  95. Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale | 28
  96. Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt | 55
  97. The rise of industrial software | 192
  98. Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second | 142
  99. I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022) | 127
  100. Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density | 239