Story ranking for the past week

1. Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help | 1043
2. GPT-5.2 | 1079
3. Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed | 482
4. alpr.watch | 435
5. AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' | 458
6. Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? | 750
7. Announcing the Beta release of ty | 155
8. 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions | 245
9. No Graphics API | 160
10. AI will make formal verification go mainstream | 408
11. Thin desires are eating life | 255
12. I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me | 501
13. Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions | 804
14. iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] | 436
15. This is not the future | 401
16. Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies | 415
17. Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges | 800
18. Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options | 526
19. “Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number | 300
20. Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices | 156
21. OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI | 322
22. Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo | 886
23. If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? | 994
24. macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt | 291
25. Tell HN: HN was down | 295
26. No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter | 299
27. Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment | 453
28. GPT Image 1.5 | 247
29. SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image | 107
30. French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video] | 301
31. 40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity | 202
32. VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits | 318
33. Coursera to combine with Udemy | 292
34. “Are you the one?” is free money | 115
35. Nokia N900 Necromancy | 190
36. Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming? | 464
37. Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders | 139
38. Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions | 2
39. Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide | 343
40. What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? | 334
41. Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial | 473
42. Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 | 883
43. Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | 1421
44. Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why | 188
45. Adafruit: Arduino’s Rules Are ‘Incompatible With Open Source’ | 248
46. Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case | 342
47. Rats Play DOOM | 159
48. Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools | 528
49. AI agents are starting to eat SaaS | 383
50. Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free | 644
51. UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16 | 455
52. Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system | 192
53. Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES | 162
54. SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns | 113
55. Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres | 435
56. JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet | 318
57. Litestream VFS | 83
58. Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content | 342
59. I tried Gleam for Advent of Code | 209
60. The Tor Project is switching to Rust | 267
61. Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components | 224
62. GNU Unifont | 79
63. An SVG is all you need | 147
64. Craft software that makes people feel something | 183
65. Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C | 155
66. Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union | 368
67. Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop | 314
68. Disney making $1B investment in OpenAI, will allow characters on Sora AI | 2
69. Rob Reiner has died | 238
70. Elevated errors across many models | 154
71. Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates | 318
72. Unscii | 57
73. Koralm Railway | 197
74. Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice | 65
75. CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat | 236
76. A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images | 63
77. I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model | 123
78. Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's | 146
79. Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted | 315
80. I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero | 206
81. My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) | 189
82. SoundCloud has banned VPN access | 207
83. Google removes Sci-Hub domains from U.S. search results due to dated court order | 65
84. Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith | 250
85. Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100 | 92
86. Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable | 142
87. Sega Channel: VGHF Recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and More) | 45
88. Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems | 161
89. The tiniest yet real telescope I've built | 72
90. The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora | 500
91. How SQLite is tested | 73
92. Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People | 36
93. Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem | 182
94. Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years | 220
95. I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours | 135
96. AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2 | 120
97. MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies | 190
98. GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over | 231
99. Claude CLI deleted my home directory and wiped my Mac | 214
100. Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch | 44