Story ranking for the past week

  1. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent | 1137
  2. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | 591
  3. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated | 250
  4. Appearing productive in the workplace | 645
  5. Talking to strangers at the gym | 753
  6. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users | 544
  7. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce | 975
  8. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies | 822
  9. Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data | 624
  10. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons | 510
  11. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday | 159
  12. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit | 456
  13. AI slop is killing online communities | 713
  14. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE | 322
  15. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like | 879
  16. Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions | 167
  17. The map that keeps Burning Man honest | 348
  18. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved | 408
  19. Zig → Rust porting guide | 545
  20. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay | 693
  21. Programming Still Sucks | 329
  22. Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged | 354
  23. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | 328
  24. StarFighter 16-Inch | 379
  25. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro | 280
  26. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | 369
  27. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format | 192
  28. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused | 232
  29. Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac | 304
  30. Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers | 245
  31. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro | 452
  32. Let's Buy Spirit Air | 577
  33. A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking | 289
  34. Internet Archive Switzerland | 89
  35. Agents need control flow, not more prompts | 287
  36. The bottleneck was never the code | 412
  37. Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 | 532
  38. New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag | 554
  39. AI didn't delete your database, you did | 302
  40. Three Inverse Laws of AI | 349
  41. US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants | 169
  42. I am worried about Bun | 349
  43. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale | 146
  44. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense | 327
  45. Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc | 470
  46. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX | 480
  47. An Introduction to Meshtastic | 184
  48. EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" | 332
  49. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal | 152
  50. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs | 269
  51. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement | 453
  52. OpenAI’s WebRTC problem | 141
  53. Knitting bullshit | 206
  54. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% | 795
  55. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth | 158
  56. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” | 64
  57. Train Your Own LLM from Scratch | 50
  58. A desktop made for one | 265
  59. Agentic Coding Is a Trap | 374
  60. Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML | 250
  61. Async Rust never left the MVP state | 263
  62. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet | 318
  63. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... | 322
  64. Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved | 262
  65. Why TUIs are back | 420
  66. AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures | 166
  67. Cartoon Network Flash Games | 127
  68. Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA | 437
  69. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields | 237
  70. Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard | 368
  71. LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate | 149
  72. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing | 273
  73. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria | 307
  74. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) | 98
  75. Days without GitHub incidents | 169
  76. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy | 449
  77. Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?) | 68
  78. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school | 604
  79. Agent Skills | 211
  80. Mythical Man Month | 197
  81. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview | 165
  82. Write some software, give it away for free | 271
  83. Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable | 394
  84. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text | 119
  85. Mojo 1.0 Beta | 228
  86. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS | 44
  87. Inkscape 1.4.4 | 107
  88. Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me | 120
  89. I’ve banned query strings | 197
  90. Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks | 380
  91. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken | 115
  92. I want to live like Costco people | 715
  93. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] | 94
  94. Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold | 266
  95. US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos | 516
  96. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields | 147
  97. Southwest Headquarters Tour | 99
  98. Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging | 218
  99. Redis array: short story of a long development process | 110
  100. How Monero’s proof of work works | 225