Story ranking for the past week

1. Backing up Spotify | 693
2. Tell HN: Merry Christmas | 424
3. Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] | 552
4. Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files | 360
5. Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS | 550
6. Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI | 1614
7. We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years | 272
8. Some Epstein file redactions are being undone | 774
9. Maybe the default settings are too high | 296
10. Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves | 470
11. How uv got so fast | 252
12. Ruby 4.0.0 | 186
13. X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents | 122
14. Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers | 391
15. Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash | 396
16. Go ahead, self-host Postgres | 396
17. Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig | 405
18. The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt | 280
19. Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out | 349
20. Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 | 212
21. US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified | 519
22. A guide to local coding models | 350
23. Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics | 120
24. Logging sucks | 223
25. I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone | 559
26. We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) | 317
27. Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud | 497
28. Claude Code gets native LSP support | 333
29. The Illustrated Transformer | 88
30. It's Always TCP_NODELAY | 175
31. NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power | 209
32. Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study | 120
33. I sell onions on the Internet (2019) | 163
34. The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized | 67
35. Unifi Travel Router | 425
36. Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI | 18
37. Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL | 164
38. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 134
39. FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub | 153
40. If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014) | 254
41. Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything | 114
42. Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator | 121
43. Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 | 162
44. GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability | 234
45. Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates | 73
46. Ruby website redesigned | 187
47. Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors | 140
48. Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players | 114
49. Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster | 145
50. My insulin pump controller uses the Linux kernel. It also violates the GPL | 165
51. Lua 5.5 | 130
52. Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom | 237
53. Fahrplan – 39C3 | 204
54. Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached | 238
55. CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally | 311
56. Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations | 177
57. You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving | 412
58. Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] | 126
59. Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study | 499
60. Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal | 107
61. Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors | 102
62. NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut | 156
63. Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat | 103
64. How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little? | 211
65. OpenSCAD is kinda neat | 252
66. Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts | 211
67. 10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13 | 129
68. iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA | 320
69. Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge | 247
70. Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams | 456
71. Claude in Chrome | 194
72. Programming languages used for music | 104
73. Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN | 153
74. I'm returning my Framework 16 | 583
75. Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title | 124
76. Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases | 119
77. Skills Officially Comes to Codex | 130
78. Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] | 115
79. CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields | 111
80. Big GPUs don't need big PCs | 123
81. Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe | 185
82. The Garbage Collection Handbook | 55
83. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 | 184
84. Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system | 37
85. Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf | 142
86. I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 | 260
87. Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness" | 202
88. Benn Jordan – This Flock Camera Leak Is Like Netflix for Stalkers [video] | 4
89. I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus | 245
90. Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024) | 306
91. Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level | 196
92. Don't Become the Machine | 141
93. Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs | 268
94. Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go | 269
95. Debian's Git Transition | 147
96. Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades | 253
97. Archivists posted the 60 minutes CECOT segment Bari Weiss killed | 11
98. Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together | 146
99. Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks | 193
100. Reflections on AI at the End of 2025 | 362