Story ranking for the past day

1. Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case | 289
2. macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt | 193
3. SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns | 103
4. The Tor Project is switching to Rust | 239
5. Koralm Railway | 173
6. Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union | 312
7. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI | 162
8. The tiniest yet real telescope I've built | 66
9. Rats Play DOOM | 91
10. Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options | 231
11. Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems | 132
12. Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help | 83
13. Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops | 188
14. Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source | 98
15. GNU Unifont | 53
16. CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy | 48
17. Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video] | 151
18. Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers | 112
19. Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect | 29
20. Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers | 99
21. Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast | 120
22. String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof | 134
23. The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme | 46
24. Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price | 115
25. Using secondary school maths to demystify AI | 218
26. Async DNS | 38
27. Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC | 146
28. Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation | 50
29. Show HN: Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig | 6
30. Smartphone without a battery (2022) | 32
31. Senator endorses discredited book that claims chemical treats autism, cancer | 60
32. Security issues with electronic invoices | 49
33. Why isn't online age verification just like showing your ID in person? | 110
34. New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books | 119
35. 50 years of proof assistants | 11
36. America's betting craze has spread to its news networks | 84
37. Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order | 17
38. Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November | 46
39. Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions | 57
40. Capsudo: Rethinking Sudo with Object Capabilities | 33
41. 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023) | 12
42. BpfJailer: eBPF Mandatory Access Control [pdf] | 4
43. Wine 11.0 RC2 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS | 0
44. Oliver sacks put himself into his case studies. What was the cost? | 10
45. US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump | 6
46. Building small Docker images faster | 11
47. Show HN: Epstein's emails reconstructed in a message-style UI (OCR and LLMs) | 8
48. Think Tanker Altered Ukraine War Map Before Big Polymarket Payout | 7
49. Super-Emitter of the Most Damaging Greenhouse Gas Found in Germany | 9
50. Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars | 25
51. When did the job market get so rude? | 40
52. The Checkerboard | 6
53. Amazon pulls AI-powered Fallout recap after getting key story details wrong | 8
54. The Average Founder Ages 6 Months Each Year | 19
55. Cut off by their banks and from Alexa, sanctioned ICC staffers remain resolute | 4
56. Show HN: tomcp.org – Turn any URL into an MCP server | 14
57. Nintendo Switch 2 RAM prices rise 41%, NAND flash up 8% – shares nosedive | 2
58. 'Mamdani Effect' Is Seeing More People Moving to New York, Not Leaving It | 10
59. Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms into Sharing People's Data | 7
60. Pope criticizes US bid to 'break apart' US-Europe alliance | 5
61. Poor Johnny still won't encrypt | 31
62. How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work? | 32
63. Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite Energy Supply Goal | 11
64. The Asahi Illusion | 1
65. You are dating an ecosystem | 24
66. Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange | 47
67. Meta's New A.I. Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company | 3
68. Show HN: Jottings; Anti-social microblog for your thoughts | 13
69. Chinese foundry SMIC achieves 5nm production without EUV tools | 7
70. Live Nation, Ticketmaster must face sprawling class action over prices | 1
71. A Chinese whistleblower living in the US is being hunted by Beijing with US tech | 5
72. Waymo cars ignored stopped school buses in Atlanta. What happens now? | 29
73. The choice between Rust and C-derived languages is not only about memory safety | 6
74. The Best Big Media Merger Is No Merger at All | 0
75. Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort | 5
76. EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise €210B of Russian assets | 0
77. Why more American seniors are getting high | 34
78. Armenia’s ancient 'dragon stones' are the work of a 6,000-year-old water cult | 0
79. Our "enterprise" experience with Stripe after $1B+ processed (be careful) | 5
80. Arizona city rejects data center after AI lobbying push | 1
81. Can I use HTTPS RRs? | 7
82. Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis | 40
83. Censorship in Western Academia and the War in Ukraine | 2
84. Lot of software engineers don't understand basic networking | 9
85. iOS 26.2 Release Notes | 6
86. Tanning beds triple melanoma risk, potentially causing broad DNA damage | 1
87. Ask HN: Did anyone else notice that the OpenAI Labs website was completely gone? | 6
88. LastPass fined £1.2M by ICO for data breach | 1
89. The FDA Rarely Forces Manufacturers to Recall Dangerous Medical Devices | 1
90. Trump signs executive order blocking states from regulating AI | 2
91. Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class | 3
92. US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again | 1
93. Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids | 5
94. The Death of the Scientist | 0
95. Why Meta's $70B Metaverse Gamble Collapsed | 3
96. NSF announces initiative for new generation of research organizations | 2
97. Ancient undersea wall dating to 5,800 BC discovered off French coast | 3
98. UK Lords propose ban on VPNs for children | 2
99. We found that the fix to address the DoS vulnerability in React was incomplete | 1
100. Show HN: Base UI v1.0 Unstyled UI Components from the Creators of Radix and MUI | 9