Story ranking for the past week

  1. When did Google get so weird? | 1110
  2. Gemini 4 Argon | 1133
  3. Pi 1.0 | 338
  4. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock | 458
  5. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price | 947
  6. Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS | 583
  7. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah | 919
  8. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? | 388
  9. Sonnet 5.5 | 614
  10. Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over | 733
  11. America.gov | 732
  12. Dots: Always-on agents | 639
  13. Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face | 472
  14. Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free | 295
  15. Pirating the Pirates | 385
  16. You said no MCP | 360
  17. Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI | 623
  18. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs | 277
  19. Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models | 145
  20. I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband | 241
  21. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent | 332
  22. Ember-1 | 249
  23. Coding is not solved | 543
  24. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms | 224
  25. DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers | 428
  26. StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta | 147
  27. Windows 11½ | 180
  28. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive | 304
  29. Does Georgism work? Five years later | 522
  30. September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy | 386
  31. PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock | 292
  32. U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk | 899
  33. macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess | 354
  34. Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform | 173
  35. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat | 256
  36. Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election | 303
  37. Ask HN: What are you reading? | 866
  38. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm | 472
  39. AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity | 398
  40. Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story | 120
  41. A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] | 139
  42. Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case | 107
  43. Platform-independent SIMD in Go | 152
  44. Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things | 119
  45. The AI Race Just Got Awkward | 455
  46. We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians | 502
  47. ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 | 898
  48. Go Concurrency Distilled | 187
  49. Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites | 107
  50. Flip Fluid on Flip Dots | 26
  51. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed | 292
  52. There are no "rogue" AI agents | 269
  53. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops | 983
  54. US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS | 394
  55. The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent | 239
  56. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries | 300
  57. On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted | 346
  58. Tells of a Slop UI | 243
  59. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal | 168
  60. A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work | 90
  61. Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant | 337
  62. MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta | 305
  63. Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git | 109
  64. Factorio that you can touch | 127
  65. Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | 117
  66. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs | 347
  67. Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 | 401
  68. Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display | 50
  69. PS5 Relapse Exploit | 254
  70. Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks | 155
  71. Pi Durable | 39
  72. Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC | 190
  73. The last time my family was replaced by technology | 627
  74. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub | 177
  75. DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) | 116
  76. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart | 394
  77. Fuck Android Developer Verification Program | 131
  78. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi | 137
  79. Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake | 306
  80. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records | 127
  81. What even is an OS now? | 478
  82. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests | 402
  83. World Labs is Joining AMD | 121
  84. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing | 241
  85. RIP, vector database | 82
  86. Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026 | 113
  87. SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today | 366
  88. Tcl/Tk 9.1 | 143
  89. The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025) | 160
  90. Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality? | 234
  91. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life | 107
  92. Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it? | 302
  93. Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream | 92
  94. 1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds | 155
  95. Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards | 57
  96. First Principles Thinking | 138
  97. Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini | 121
  98. MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser | 113
  99. Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red | 124
  100. U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels | 169