Story ranking for the past week

  1. GPT-6 Astra | 1987
  2. .name Termination | 530
  3. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board | 1279
  4. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 | 1382
  5. Creepy Crawlies | 708
  6. “I just chose words carefully” | 353
  7. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber | 662
  8. Audacity 4.0 | 262
  9. Hang on to Your Firefox | 531
  10. AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link | 280
  11. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? | 1045
  12. Fastpotify | 566
  13. California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law | 408
  14. Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO | 616
  15. Playa Phone | 233
  16. A note on subscription prices from LWN | 150
  17. Muse Spark 1.3 | 448
  18. Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s | 223
  19. I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs | 165
  20. Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived | 307
  21. Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] | 85
  22. I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system | 172
  23. OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor | 139
  24. Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS | 204
  25. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem | 357
  26. Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users | 270
  27. Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year | 235
  28. Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root | 547
  29. Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" | 486
  30. Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them | 249
  31. Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio | 594
  32. Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? | 243
  33. The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice | 251
  34. Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI | 122
  35. Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business | 359
  36. European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy | 203
  37. FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses | 293
  38. The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] | 356
  39. DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions | 105
  40. The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now | 319
  41. Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap | 179
  42. Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras | 349
  43. Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions | 235
  44. The browser's main thread is expensive | 150
  45. Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge | 92
  46. Bug Blindness | 285
  47. GPU World | 283
  48. I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked | 239
  49. Pre-Release of Polars 2.0 | 136
  50. A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] | 65
  51. Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode | 121
  52. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? | 688
  53. A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history | 105
  54. Hy4 preview | 257
  55. American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died | 163
  56. Restroom Archive | 86
  57. Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive | 224
  58. Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search | 72
  59. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly | 131
  60. Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% | 122
  61. Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination | 276
  62. ChatGPT outage – Resolved | 318
  63. Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread | 265
  64. Haiku R1/beta6 has been released | 106
  65. Hacking IKEA Furniture | 276
  66. Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 | 181
  67. Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private | 285
  68. Understanding ChatGPT Work | 197
  69. Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat | 452
  70. Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them | 145
  71. Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle | 143
  72. Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga | 48
  73. Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU | 489
  74. Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended | 218
  75. K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models | 126
  76. GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE) | 197
  77. Fable 5.1 World Modeling | 102
  78. My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini | 195
  79. Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face | 106
  80. Shutting down our public encrypted DNS | 141
  81. VC isn't VC anymore | 247
  82. True Rate of Unemployment | 358
  83. Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS | 98
  84. Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems | 309
  85. Exit the Cave | 110
  86. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope | 102
  87. I wanna live an NPC life | 272
  88. The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks | 109
  89. No AI Fridays | 209
  90. Run macOS Software on Linux | 94
  91. Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out | 147
  92. Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI | 263
  93. Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI | 84
  94. What I learned from my mom (1941-2026) | 11
  95. Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond | 283
  96. The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations | 197
  97. OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra | 253
  98. METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack | 232
  99. Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer | 97
  100. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence | 59