Story ranking for the past month

  1. Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise | 1849
  2. U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly | 2569
  3. Meta Llama 3 | 730
  4. Mario meets Pareto | 177
  5. Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable | 243
  6. 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza | 1433
  7. This is a teenager | 792
  8. Obituary for a quiet life (2023) | 285
  9. LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs | 451
  10. XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable." | 811
  11. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things | 413
  12. Anatomy of a credit card rewards program | 733
  13. Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison | 1432
  14. Descent 3 Source Code | 323
  15. Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax | 200
  16. Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness | 1163
  17. Vernor Vinge has died | 320
  18. The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining | 324
  19. Timeline of the xz open source attack | 461
  20. Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners | 495
  21. Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA | 169
  22. Daniel Kahneman has died | 309
  23. Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map | 282
  24. Visualizing Attention, a Transformer's Heart [video] | 171
  25. A curious phenomenon called 'Etak' | 206
  26. Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died | 104
  27. Show HN: I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD | 130
  28. What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane | 532
  29. DBRX: A new open LLM | 343
  30. Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor | 469
  31. Simon Riggs has died | 226
  32. Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P | 335
  33. Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance | 230
  34. Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file | 151
  35. Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on? | 767
  36. The race to replace Redis | 496
  37. AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License | 273
  38. Shattered Pixel Dungeon is an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler | 228
  39. Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem | 375
  40. CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred | 324
  41. The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland Has Collapsed | 2
  42. Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor | 244
  43. Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses | 1108
  44. An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data | 340
  45. I Lost Faith in Kagi | 605
  46. Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation | 376
  47. Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation | 192
  48. The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet | 377
  49. Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone | 133
  50. AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License | 368
  51. Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer | 168
  52. Radios, how do they work? | 109
  53. How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain | 996
  54. U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS | 426
  55. Guess my RGB | 144
  56. The darker side of being a doctor | 499
  57. The xz attack shell script | 313
  58. Linux Crisis Tools | 124
  59. German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice | 384
  60. Stop Acting Like You're Famous | 270
  61. 3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine | 152
  62. Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta | 621
  63. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii | 74
  64. Beeper acquired by Automattic | 292
  65. PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias | 210
  66. Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos | 370
  67. Writing Gnome Apps with Swift | 282
  68. Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home | 141
  69. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver | 124
  70. Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores | 747
  71. Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph | 374
  72. Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card | 84
  73. Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock? | 313
  74. Xz/liblzma: Bash-stage Obfuscation Explained | 128
  75. Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS | 176
  76. FFmpeg 7.0 | 223
  77. How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile? | 221
  78. Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects | 341
  79. Suspicious discontinuities (2020) | 279
  80. SQLite Schema Diagram Generator | 87
  81. How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals? | 283
  82. IrfanView | 330
  83. Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game | 154
  84. Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI | 401
  85. Mixtral 8x22B | 238
  86. The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The story of E. coli chemotaxis | 213
  87. Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy | 208
  88. Lessons after a Half-billion GPT Tokens | 172
  89. German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice | 323
  90. Hello World | 79
  91. The design philosophy of Great Tables | 92
  92. Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026 | 329
  93. Redis re-implemented with SQLite | 119
  94. Faces.js, a JavaScript library for generating vector-based cartoon faces | 95
  95. CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians | 122
  96. Low Cost Robot Arm | 249
  97. NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++ | 308
  98. Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy | 218
  99. Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017) | 324
  100. 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth | 176