Story ranking for the past day

  1. Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more | 372
  2. Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster | 316
  3. Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI | 727
  4. The Anthropic Economic Index | 196
  5. To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell | 525
  6. I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease | 273
  7. Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure | 46
  8. Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019) | 237
  9. Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No | 70
  10. We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly | 147
  11. What about K? | 116
  12. 1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS | 223
  13. The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video] | 171
  14. CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' | 94
  15. Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024) | 34
  16. Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees | 96
  17. How Copyover MUD Servers Worked | 37
  18. Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation | 45
  19. Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud | 121
  20. Show HN: Open Source Security & Compliance: Introducing Opencomply | 1
  21. Patterns for Building Realtime Features | 25
  22. Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach | 20
  23. Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009) | 389
  24. Show HN: Global 3D topography explorer | 31
  25. Apple software update "bug" enables Apple Intelligence | 69
  26. Steam makes its ban on in-game ads explicit | 47
  27. Fun with C++26 reflection: Keyword Arguments | 39
  28. What happens to SaaS in a world with computer-using agents? | 72
  29. A story about USB floppy drives (2004) | 42
  30. ReCAPTCHA: 819M hours of wasted human time and billions in Google profits | 17
  31. Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S. | 24
  32. Ask HN: Physics PhD at Stanford or Berkeley | 81
  33. The ABA supports the rule of law | 20
  34. Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' | 112
  35. The return of the buffalo is reviving portions of the ecosystem | 30
  36. Beavers finish seven-year dam project in two days saving – $1M | 43
  37. TinyX: Small Featured X Server | 9
  38. Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide | 7
  39. The Floppotron 3.0 (2022) | 5
  40. How America traded systematic improvement for quick wins–and lost both | 7
  41. Earth's inner core may have changed shape, say scientists | 35
  42. What are non intelligent people like me supposed to do for money? | 66
  43. Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM; retains Black Friday | 33
  44. The Physicians Are Healing Themselves, with Ozempic | 78
  45. I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering | 20
  46. 'social network' attacking pesticide critics shuts down after investigation | 8
  47. Relational Quantum Mechanics | 9
  48. Man who lost Bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill | 54
  49. DOGE's war on "waste" looks suspiciously like a war on science | 1
  50. CFPB's 1,700 employees told to "not perform any work" | 30
  51. SolarWinds to Be Acquired by Turn/River Capital | 22
  52. Show HN: Check How Qualified You Are for a Job | 3
  53. Euclid telescope captures Einstein ring revealing warping of space | 1
  54. Large Nuclear-Powered Subsonic Aircraft for Transoceanic Commerce (1971) [pdf] | 4
  55. France unveils 109B-euro AI investment | 7
  56. Nocc – A Distributed C++ Compiler | 12
  57. Python 3.14 Getting New Interpreter | 7
  58. Tell HN: OpenAI in Panic Mode over DeepSeek | 24
  59. Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights | 1
  60. Just give the man the fish (i.e. just answer the question) | 12
  61. Trump to pause enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials | 6
  62. Duolingo Handbook | 10
  63. Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction | 5
  64. The Crisis in Tech's Obsession with Junior Talent | 17
  65. The McKinley Years | 12
  66. Five Former Treasury Secretaries: Our Democracy Is Under Siege | 3
  67. Show HN: Seen: rendering 1,000,000+ notes in <1s. speed, by default | 23
  68. DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk's Plans for 'X' Digital Wallet | 1
  69. You are using Cursor AI incorrectly | 2
  70. Show HN: Fuckingsearch.com, search Google without AI Overviews | 14
  71. NESFab – A new programming language for creating NES games | 2
  72. The 'Mosaic' Method and the Value of CIA Names to U.S. Adversaries | 2
  73. DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL | 0
  74. Elementary Functions and Not Following the IEEE754 Floating-Point Standard(2020) | 4
  75. The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway | 1
  76. Show HN: Nstart, a Nostr's Onbarding Tool | 1
  77. Ask HN: Is it me or we almost stopped using Google because of LLMs? | 22
  78. Mellanox ConnectX-5: iRISC reverse engineering | 2
  79. The NSA's "Big Delete" | 1
  80. LLM Hallucination Benchmark: R1, o1, o3-mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash Think Exp 01-21 | 3
  81. Peter Thiel's Apocalypse Dreams | 3
  82. Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4B bid for control of OpenAI, WSJ reports | 5
  83. Judge Rules the White House Failed to Comply with Court Order [pdf] | 0
  84. Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition "Atrophied and Unprepared" | 2
  85. Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting | 1
  86. iOS 18.3.1 patches USB Restricted Mode disabling exploit | 0
  87. Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order | 3
  88. Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They're Trying to Publish It Anyway | 0
  89. Stop AI | 2
  90. The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway | 1
  91. Seoul airport officials confiscated almost 11 tons of kimchi last year | 5
  92. Gimp 3.0 RC3 Released | 3
  93. Ask HN: Wantrepreneur who's run out of energy/ideas. What now? | 23
  94. Show HN: OLake[open source] Fastest database to Iceberg data replication tool | 1
  95. Men are more prepared for fatherhood than we think | 8
  96. Mistral Gets Down to Business | 0
  97. Show HN: Reducing memory allocs in convoy's flatten pkg | 2
  98. "A pair of scissors sitting on my table suddenly burst into flames" | 0
  99. Tell HN: Title: The UC Berkeley Job Market Meltdown–What No One Wants to Admit | 8
  100. Claude is More Anxious than GPT | 13