Story ranking for the past month

  1. Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) | 907
  2. My AI skeptic friends are all nuts | 2827
  3. Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube | 760
  4. Bill Atkinson has died | 273
  5. The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs | 946
  6. GCP Outage | 495
  7. Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video] | 776
  8. Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket | 421
  9. Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure | 518
  10. A receipt printer cured my procrastination | 601
  11. CSS Minecraft | 140
  12. U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites | 3611
  13. OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats | 934
  14. Photos taken inside musical instruments | 55
  15. The Grug Brained Developer (2022) | 566
  16. The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles | 234
  17. YouTube's new anti-adblock measures | 1276
  18. Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI | 424
  19. If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014) | 261
  20. Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts | 530
  21. FFmpeg merges WebRTC support | 199
  22. Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc | 489
  23. If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued | 355
  24. Working on databases from prison | 530
  25. Root shell on a credit card terminal | 251
  26. Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA | 465
  27. Show HN: Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform | 232
  28. Jemalloc Postmortem | 235
  29. German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal | 316
  30. Mechanical Watch: Exploded View | 98
  31. Owls in Towels | 98
  32. Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole | 604
  33. Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS | 409
  34. Square Theory | 138
  35. IRS Direct File on GitHub | 318
  36. The Who Cares Era | 722
  37. Apple introduces a universal design across platforms | 1202
  38. US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists | 383
  39. WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator | 134
  40. The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine | 1240
  41. WhatsApp introduces ads in its app | 1022
  42. Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests | 1677
  43. Show HN: Unregistry – “docker push” directly to servers without a registry | 163
  44. Claude 4 System Card | 252
  45. I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it | 495
  46. A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network | 377
  47. How to post when no one is reading | 252
  48. Chatterbox TTS | 188
  49. Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system | 273
  50. Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp | 435
  51. I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation | 223
  52. Human coders are still better than LLMs | 735
  53. Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers | 203
  54. Merlin Bird ID | 215
  55. Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub | 137
  56. How I program with agents | 294
  57. Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user | 190
  58. Why I wrote the BEAM book | 151
  59. Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix | 256
  60. Cursor 1.0 | 469
  61. Reinvent the Wheel | 221
  62. Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored | 160
  63. Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly | 151
  64. "Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B | 274
  65. Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust | 443
  66. How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes | 253
  67. US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal | 508
  68. Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android | 343
  69. At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work | 867
  70. Launch HN: Vassar Robotics (YC X25) – $219 robot arm that learns new skills | 219
  71. Start your own Internet Resiliency Club | 340
  72. The impossible predicament of the death newts | 183
  73. Progressive JSON | 235
  74. My website is ugly because I made it | 130
  75. Kagi Reaches 50k Users | 341
  76. Precision Clock Mk IV | 126
  77. Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) | 229
  78. Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed | 225
  79. Building Effective AI Agents | 87
  80. Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS | 162
  81. FLUX.1 Kontext | 127
  82. Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins | 165
  83. The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack' | 89
  84. OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80% | 495
  85. Microsoft suspended the email account of an ICC prosecutor at The Hague | 376
  86. Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure | 431
  87. Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello | 220
  88. Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway | 890
  89. GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP | 297
  90. New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles | 665
  91. Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard | 584
  92. Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022) | 121
  93. Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own | 241
  94. The Zed Debugger Is Here | 201
  95. EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal | 280
  96. Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device | 186
  97. My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle | 223
  98. The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf] | 270
  99. I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch | 77
  100. Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine | 649