Story ranking for the past week

  1. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | 95
  2. LLMs reward expertise | 572
  3. Mario Meets Pareto | 167
  4. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers | 1295
  5. Discovery Loop | 597
  6. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon | 704
  7. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects | 880
  8. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers | 540
  9. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | 929
  10. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health | 426
  11. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog | 465
  12. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 470
  13. Devtools must be open source | 233
  14. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? | 374
  15. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc | 769
  16. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't | 215
  17. Taste Is All That's Left | 539
  18. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work | 331
  19. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments | 276
  20. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | 938
  21. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones | 99
  22. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics | 333
  23. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours | 266
  24. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | 352
  25. Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage | 293
  26. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code | 444
  27. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK | 378
  28. Zed DeltaDB | 312
  29. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out | 489
  30. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability | 412
  31. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) | 6
  32. My server is a phone now | 237
  33. Fastmail offers EU data region | 288
  34. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking | 278
  35. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 | 252
  36. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation | 133
  37. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux | 519
  38. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM | 395
  39. FFmpeg 9.0 | 97
  40. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website | 417
  41. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] | 443
  42. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage | 522
  43. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones | 129
  44. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing | 211
  45. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava | 99
  46. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | 122
  47. _for-sale DNS records | 161
  48. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face | 407
  49. Assembly Hall of Shame | 110
  50. Twenty Years of Pandoc | 53
  51. Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak | 418
  52. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update | 207
  53. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded | 212
  54. All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen | 248
  55. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library | 155
  56. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI | 283
  57. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X | 108
  58. U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war | 723
  59. Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time | 332
  60. NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year | 82
  61. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs | 102
  62. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind | 1
  63. Dithered QR Codes | 41
  64. U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal | 353
  65. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative | 161
  66. App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours | 238
  67. Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | 76
  68. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs | 245
  69. Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) | 82
  70. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video | 94
  71. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 | 263
  72. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection | 65
  73. We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled | 246
  74. Waymo in Dallas | 729
  75. Harness engineering for self-improvement | 79
  76. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search | 194
  77. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD | 171
  78. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery | 268
  79. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo | 475
  80. libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months | 73
  81. I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel | 237
  82. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users | 278
  83. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone | 142
  84. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale | 264
  85. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide | 503
  86. Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days | 263
  87. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun | 63
  88. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls | 137
  89. Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard | 242
  90. Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet | 9
  91. Position: LLMs Can't Jump | 213
  92. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength | 213
  93. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol | 247
  94. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI | 249
  95. Apple is getting this wrong | 295
  96. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects | 54
  97. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open | 187
  98. Everything you do is being recorded | 217
  99. Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale | 66
  100. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In | 110