Story ranking for the past week

  1. When did Google get so weird? | 1117
  2. Gemini 4 Argon | 1180
  3. Pi 1.0 | 590
  4. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock | 458
  5. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price | 952
  6. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah | 946
  7. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? | 391
  8. Sonnet 5.5 | 614
  9. Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over | 738
  10. Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility | 387
  11. America.gov | 737
  12. Dots: Always-on agents | 646
  13. Pirating the Pirates | 382
  14. You said no MCP | 362
  15. Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city | 162
  16. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs | 277
  17. Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform | 217
  18. StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta | 177
  19. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent | 335
  20. Ember-1 | 249
  21. Coding is not solved | 544
  22. Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model | 311
  23. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms | 225
  24. Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines | 127
  25. Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel | 405
  26. DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers | 431
  27. Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake | 534
  28. Apple Pass Designer | 328
  29. Windows 11½ | 182
  30. September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy | 391
  31. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive | 304
  32. Pi Durable | 72
  33. Extra Big Ass Intelligence | 123
  34. macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess | 359
  35. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat | 257
  36. Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election | 303
  37. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm | 497
  38. Ask HN: What are you reading? | 881
  39. Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art | 135
  40. AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity | 399
  41. FLUX 3 Image | 96
  42. A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] | 140
  43. Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works | 11
  44. The AI Race Just Got Awkward | 462
  45. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed | 301
  46. Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' | 229
  47. Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant | 374
  48. DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows | 218
  49. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites | 112
  50. SvelteKit 3 | 177
  51. There are no "rogue" AI agents | 269
  52. A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting | 80
  53. Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 | 439
  54. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal | 171
  55. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops | 986
  56. US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS | 395
  57. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries | 304
  58. The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent | 240
  59. RIP, vector database | 116
  60. Tells of a Slop UI | 243
  61. On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted | 346
  62. A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work | 92
  63. Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas | 109
  64. We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything | 183
  65. MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta | 305
  66. Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers | 173
  67. Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | 118
  68. Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks | 156
  69. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display | 50
  70. Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died | 67
  71. PS5 Relapse Exploit | 254
  72. From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4 | 99
  73. Sites in ChatGPT | 335
  74. The last time my family was replaced by technology | 641
  75. Fuck Android Developer Verification Program | 138
  76. Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] | 120
  77. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC | 190
  78. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart | 401
  79. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub | 177
  80. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records | 128
  81. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing | 253
  82. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi | 138
  83. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests | 407
  84. World Labs is Joining AMD | 121
  85. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 | 113
  86. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025) | 162
  87. Shimano Bicycle Museum Review | 80
  88. SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today | 366
  89. Tcl/Tk 9.1 | 143
  90. The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf] | 182
  91. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards | 59
  92. Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS | 211
  93. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life | 107
  94. Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream | 92
  95. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds | 155
  96. Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams | 112
  97. Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers | 66
  98. Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones | 225
  99. MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser | 113
  100. Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns | 25