Story ranking for the past week

  1. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access | 239
  2. Backing up Spotify | 675
  3. Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video] | 495
  4. Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files | 350
  5. Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest | 321
  6. We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack | 434
  7. Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed | 579
  8. AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas' | 532
  9. Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS | 369
  10. Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? | 819
  11. History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts | 417
  12. Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work | 659
  13. Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves | 467
  14. CSS Grid Lanes | 226
  15. Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters | 181
  16. Mistral OCR 3 | 129
  17. Go ahead, self-host Postgres | 396
  18. The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt | 275
  19. Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks | 338
  20. Classical statues were not painted horribly | 330
  21. GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust | 131
  22. 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 | 227
  23. Please just try HTMX | 502
  24. Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers | 324
  25. I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero | 408
  26. Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025 | 210
  27. Tell HN: HN was down | 327
  28. US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified | 517
  29. Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics | 118
  30. A guide to local coding models | 350
  31. Coursera to combine with Udemy | 377
  32. GPT-5.2-Codex | 317
  33. Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features | 546
  34. Logging sucks | 224
  35. Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? | 466
  36. I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone | 549
  37. Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud | 494
  38. Claude Code gets native LSP support | 326
  39. Gut bacteria from amphibians and reptiles achieve tumor elimination in mice | 138
  40. NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power | 207
  41. Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels | 57
  42. Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed | 297
  43. Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell | 547
  44. The Illustrated Transformer | 85
  45. How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips | 605
  46. It's Always TCP_NODELAY | 168
  47. Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does | 290
  48. Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything | 111
  49. If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014) | 247
  50. Ruby website redesigned | 184
  51. Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates | 73
  52. Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990) | 141
  53. GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability | 229
  54. Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach | 277
  55. Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18 | 153
  56. We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better) | 232
  57. Jimmy Lai Is a Martyr for Freedom | 235
  58. Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth? | 121
  59. LLM Year in Review | 146
  60. CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally | 309
  61. A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images | 97
  62. After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up | 323
  63. You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving | 404
  64. TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy | 122
  65. Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study | 497
  66. X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents | 76
  67. 8-bit Boléro | 46
  68. Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors | 95
  69. You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser | 100
  70. Charles Proxy | 119
  71. Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks | 236
  72. NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut | 152
  73. OpenSCAD is kinda neat | 248
  74. Deliberate Internet Shutdowns | 168
  75. TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse | 378
  76. How SQLite is tested | 82
  77. Lotusbail npm package found to be harvesting WhatsApp messages and contacts | 210
  78. Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams | 450
  79. Claude in Chrome | 191
  80. Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat | 96
  81. OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer | 76
  82. Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN | 152
  83. Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title | 124
  84. Programming languages used for music | 103
  85. Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal | 101
  86. 10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13 | 115
  87. Skills Officially Comes to Codex | 129
  88. Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases | 118
  89. Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes | 151
  90. What makes you senior | 138
  91. A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote | 169
  92. Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem | 170
  93. Big GPUs don't need big PCs | 122
  94. Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf | 141
  95. The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 | 177
  96. Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe | 182
  97. Graphite is joining Cursor | 253
  98. iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA | 228
  99. How getting richer made teenagers less free | 324
  100. The Garbage Collection Handbook | 51