Story ranking for the past week

  1. Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence | 389
  2. OpenLogi | 430
  3. The Amazon tax | 699
  4. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results | 389
  5. AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) | 690
  6. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border | 1298
  7. Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots | 863
  8. Don't paste the AI, please | 579
  9. A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare | 169
  10. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint | 331
  11. HTML Can Do That | 229
  12. OpenRouter is joining Stripe | 497
  13. Being ambitious and being a dad | 760
  14. Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study | 972
  15. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers | 338
  16. Felony Bench | 335
  17. Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code | 334
  18. Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing | 730
  19. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things | 384
  20. Claude: System Prompts | 284
  21. Go 1.27 | 265
  22. Incident with Github.com | 2
  23. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 | 131
  24. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker | 278
  25. How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots | 439
  26. Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera | 393
  27. Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months | 563
  28. Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers | 202
  29. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases | 83
  30. Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub | 435
  31. Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 | 403
  32. Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees | 351
  33. Kobo can run apps now | 203
  34. The August 17 outage | 750
  35. GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter | 448
  36. There's no reason for software to be slow anymore | 481
  37. A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” | 332
  38. Beware Management Consultants | 158
  39. Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit | 420
  40. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late | 894
  41. Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down | 1392
  42. Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma | 299
  43. Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative | 453
  44. Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device | 117
  45. Incident with Github.com [resolved] | 974
  46. Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload | 501
  47. Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM | 307
  48. Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming | 88
  49. DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp | 153
  50. Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full | 225
  51. Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ | 300
  52. I'm becoming AI-blind | 484
  53. Casio F-B100W-1A | 386
  54. How does IKEA come up with names for its products? | 327
  55. Cerebras CS-4 | 274
  56. Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013) | 337
  57. And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway | 424
  58. Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner | 73
  59. CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s | 269
  60. PostgreSQL for Everything | 266
  61. Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" | 154
  62. Fixing a bricked Framework laptop | 299
  63. AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira | 157
  64. Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone | 410
  65. Mojo is now open source | 97
  66. Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM | 102
  67. Fairphone is now officially available in the United States | 198
  68. Stop Making TUIs | 512
  69. Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation | 286
  70. Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis | 180
  71. A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome | 196
  72. Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI | 209
  73. Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened | 224
  74. Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md | 219
  75. AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study | 372
  76. ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs | 114
  77. GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released | 170
  78. Scrap (2006) | 194
  79. Git at any scale | 114
  80. Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) | 137
  81. Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study | 120
  82. Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article | 233
  83. Turns are Better than Radians (2022) | 215
  84. Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows | 226
  85. How to disable or avoid intrusive AI | 197
  86. I should have loved biology (2020) | 130
  87. Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose | 187
  88. The AI Credit Resale Economy | 129
  89. Finger: the 1971 social network that never died | 124
  90. Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? | 261
  91. Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs | 119
  92. Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco | 303
  93. Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers | 503
  94. fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. | 135
  95. An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail | 211
  96. Hister – A private, full content search index that you control | 77
  97. Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM | 297
  98. Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam | 101
  99. Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) | 253
  100. Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk | 59