Story ranking for the past day

  1. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 251
  2. Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20B in cash | 268
  3. Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig | 159
  4. Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL | 94
  5. Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator | 90
  6. Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] | 69
  7. When Compilers Surprise You | 95
  8. I'm returning my Framework 16 | 319
  9. Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 | 144
  10. Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024) | 152
  11. The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago | 118
  12. Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together | 93
  13. AMD entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago | 86
  14. Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults | 120
  15. Avoid Mini-Frameworks | 97
  16. How I Left YouTube | 151
  17. Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019) | 47
  18. US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA | 132
  19. Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] | 38
  20. Ruby 4.0.0 Released | 11
  21. Researchers achieved 1,270 Wh/L in an anode-free lithium metal battery | 51
  22. Help my website is too small | 13
  23. The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022) | 80
  24. Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale | 30
  25. My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions | 85
  26. Looking for Decent Conversation? | 13
  27. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 52
  28. European Majority favours more social media regulation | 130
  29. Asterisk AI Voice Agent | 39
  30. Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave | 41
  31. Mt. Gox CEO Karpelès Reveals Details of 2014 Collapse and Japanese Detention | 36
  32. Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US | 33
  33. Steam Store is offline | 18
  34. Python Applied Mathematics Labs | 2
  35. New reactor produces clean energy and carbon nanotubes from natural gas | 40
  36. Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI | 60
  37. Microsoft Agent Framework | 26
  38. Silicon Valley's tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026 | 7
  39. The EU's Fine Against X Is Not About Speech or 'Censorship' | 88
  40. The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists | 4
  41. Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff | 23
  42. Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011) | 1
  43. Starlink satellite fails, polluting orbit with debris and falling toward Earth | 4
  44. Show HN: Just Fucking Use Cloudflare – A satirical guide to the CF stack | 29
  45. Show HN: A local-first, reversible PII scrubber for AI workflows | 6
  46. The Phone-Based Retirement Is Here | 2
  47. Judge in Vizio Case Rules on Issue Irrelevant to Rights Under Copyleft | 0
  48. A Father, a Son and Their $108B Push for Media Moguldom (Larry Ellison) | 18
  49. Google Built Its Empire Scraping the Web. Now It's Suing a Scraper of Google | 4
  50. It Is Happening Here | 2
  51. Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat | 14
  52. Microsoft: "30% of Our Code Is AI." Also Microsoft: "Windows Is Broken." | 9
  53. Show HN: No more writing shitty regexes to police usernames | 54
  54. Build Your Own 100TB NAS in 2025: Complete TrueNAS Storage Guide | 13
  55. Can eating high fat cheese and cream reduce dementia risk,as new study suggests? | 6
  56. My HTML Web Component boilerplate for 2026 | 5
  57. AI Withholds Life-or-Death Information Unless You Know the Magic Words | 1
  58. The Next-Gen Mainboard Designed with AmigaOS4 and MorphOS in Mind | 3
  59. Officials discover a million more documents potentially related to Epstein case | 3
  60. Rack makes Pion SCTP 71% faster with 27% less latency | 3
  61. The Future of Veritasium [video] | 8
  62. Fixing HN comments with breadth-first navigation | 3
  63. Linus - kernel copyright licence covers software, does not extend to hardware | 0
  64. Indiegogo suppressing indie journalists exposing israel | 1
  65. Groq and Nvidia Licensing Agreement | 1
  66. Lessons from Building an Indie App for Artists | 2
  67. Britain Just Had Its Sunniest Year on Record | 3
  68. Renault concept goes 626 miles on single charge at motorway speed | 7
  69. A man hunting the spies in your smartphone | 2
  70. Salmon Recipe | 0
  71. The subtle Red of HN and so minimalist and beautiful | 2
  72. Writing HTML by hand is easier than debugging your static site generator (2024) | 1
  73. Show HN: I built an open-source Linux-capable single-board computer with DDR3 | 5
  74. AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study Finds | 2
  75. Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations | 0
  76. Learn LaTeX in 30 Minutes | 1
  77. Show HN: WebPtoPNG – I built a WebP to PNG tool, everything runs in the browser | 8
  78. Pulled '60 Minutes' segment on Trump immigration policy accidentally aired | 9
  79. Older Americans quit weight loss drugs in droves | 11
  80. Ask HN: Why is Hacker News red? Christmas? | 10
  81. The most damaging taboo about sexual violence | 1
  82. Microsoft's biggest 2026 problem – the fans have checked out | 4
  83. Claude Pro and Max subscribers get 2x usage limits through New Year's Eve | 1
  84. Sweden Steps Up Efforts to Reverse the Decline in Cash Usage | 5
  85. Librarians Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI | 4
  86. US drops plan to deport Chinese national who exposed Xinjiang abuses | 2
  87. Next JavaScript app is hacked, you just don't know it yet | 8
  88. Show HN: Does Information Density Cause Time Dilation? | 13
  89. Ask HN: Good uses cases for Fabrice's microquickjs | 2
  90. SSH Tiny.christmas | 1
  91. A Curl 2025 Review | 1
  92. GitHub is returning Gateway Time-outs | 6
  93. Ask HN: How many HN'ers Celebrate Christmas vs. ? | 10
  94. US bars 5 Europeans it says pressured tech firms to censor American viewpoints | 1
  95. I think I just solved screen-time addiction | 4
  96. Show HN: Epstein Files and images (4000 .png files) | 0
  97. South Korea Passes Strictest Disinformation Law in Any Democracy | 0
  98. SA-FARI: Open Video Dataset | 0
  99. Investors Warn of 'Rot in Private Equity' as Funds Strike Circular Deals | 0
  100. Only known copy of Unix v4 recovered and running | 2