Story ranking for the past day

1. Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month | 1461
2. Why is the sky blue? | 178
3. GitHub is down again | 386
4. Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock | 155
5. Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth | 158
6. Another GitHub outage in the same day | 223
7. AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports | 76
8. GitHub Is Down | 3
9. Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk | 376
10. Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months | 103
11. Sandboxels | 30
12. Testing Ads in ChatGPT | 309
13. Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT | 172
14. Thoughts on Generating C | 69
15. UEFI Bindings for JavaScript | 107
16. Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail | 208
17. AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It | 155
18. MIT Living Wage Calculator | 262
19. Offpunk 3.0 | 35
20. Super Bowl Ad for Ring Cameras Touted AI Surveillance Network | 118
21. What functional programmers get wrong about systems | 108
22. Irish man detained by ICE for 5 months | 126
23. Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs | 96
24. America has a tungsten problem | 152
25. Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective | 62
26. Luce: First Electric Ferrari | 143
27. Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM | 49
28. LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio" | 76
29. Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser | 17
30. The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers | 60
31. Discord Alternatives, Ranked | 31
32. Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure | 17
33. Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators | 92
34. From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media | 60
35. Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020) | 15
36. Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally | 2
37. Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? | 131
38. Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation | 37
39. Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs | 11
40. ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you | 8
41. Eddie Bauer declares bankruptcy | 60
42. Long-Sought Proof Tames Some of Math's Unruliest Equations | 17
43. Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders | 29
44. Game Theory Patterns at Work (2016) | 4
45. Why is Singapore no longer "cool"? | 120
46. Gen Z first generation since 1800's with lower cognitive performance | 46
47. Pure C, CPU-only inference with Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model | 3
48. As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries | 17
49. Can Ozempic Cure Addiction? | 97
50. Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior | 101
51. The Markets of Old London (2024) | 19
52. How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE | 12
53. Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them | 32
54. San Francisco's pro-billionaire march draws dozens | 13
55. Why "just prompt better" doesn't work | 15
56. US companies accused of 'AI washing' re: job losses | 3
57. AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You' | 71
58. An articulated archer automaton [video] | 6
59. Is the author of pdf-lib okay? | 19
60. Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers | 10
61. Is AI the Paperclip? | 7
62. Why Section 230 Is a Good Law and Why Messing with It Would Be Bad | 17
63. The Epstein class and collapse porn | 3
64. Safe Drinking Water Is a Basic Human Right That Texas Prisons Fail to Respect | 14
65. Advogato | 0
66. The Most Popular Agentic Open-Source Tools (2026 Edition) | 11
67. LibreOffice blasts Microsoft for putting "commercial interests" over everything | 8
68. Taiwan rejects possibility of transferring 40% of semiconductor capacity to US | 3
69. Data exfil from agents in messaging apps | 6
70. Show HN: ClawdTalk: Voice Calls for ClawdBots | 0
71. BYD outsells Tesla 10-to-1 in Australia as Chinese EVs dominate January sales | 3
72. The Cost of a Function Call | 7
73. Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges | 2
74. Ask HN: Do provisional patents matter for early-stage startups? | 16
75. Tokyo high schools abolish rules forcing students to dye non-black hair (2022) | 1
76. Never Work with Bad People | 3
77. Stack Overflow for AI Coding Agents | 9
78. Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function | 0
79. Cursor Composer 1.5 | 7
80. Google AI Tools Start Blocking Disney-Related Prompts | 7
81. Zero crashes, zero compromises: inside the HAProxy security audit | 5
82. I Wrote a Scheme in 2025 | 0
83. Massie Threatens to Reveal Epstein Client Names If Bondi Won't Unredact Them | 0
84. It's Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem | 11
85. Minions: Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents | 1
86. America isn't exceptional – it's the exception | 23
87. Ultrarunners in Secondhand Trainers | 2
88. Against fancy ligatures in programming fonts | 1
89. Using light-based computing to tackle complex challenges | 1
90. European Alternatives to American Apps | 3
91. Portugal builds Europe's first dedicated drone carrier | 1
92. Mesa 26.0's RADV RT improvements | 0
93. Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom | 1
94. Zulip.com Values | 0
95. EU finds the AI assistant in WhatsApp violating anti trust | 0
96. Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal | 2
97. Ask HN: Open Models are 9 months behind SOTA, how far behind are Local Models? | 10
98. Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Regulatory Rollback | 2
99. Write-Only Code | 0
100. Ring Doorbell's 'dystopian' Super Bowl ad is sparking privacy concerns | 1