Story ranking for the past week

  1. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent | 1099
  2. Talking to strangers at the gym | 749
  3. VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage | 850
  4. Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw" | 719
  5. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | 400
  6. Appearing productive in the workplace | 373
  7. Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants | 1054
  8. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons | 508
  9. Why does it take so long to release black fan versions? | 299
  10. Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle? | 350
  11. Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions | 164
  12. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved | 403
  13. Zig → Rust porting guide | 534
  14. How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt] | 251
  15. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay | 689
  16. The gay jailbreak technique (2025) | 258
  17. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro | 280
  18. DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier | 392
  19. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | 324
  20. Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API | 231
  21. StarFighter 16-Inch | 355
  22. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused | 230
  23. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | 355
  24. Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac | 301
  25. Dav2d | 188
  26. Ti-84 Evo | 481
  27. For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions | 549
  28. Let's Buy Spirit Air | 574
  29. Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 | 529
  30. New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag | 553
  31. Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables | 166
  32. The bottleneck was never the code | 351
  33. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like | 581
  34. Do_not_track | 167
  35. AI didn't delete your database, you did | 298
  36. How an oil refinery works | 191
  37. Three Inverse Laws of AI | 346
  38. NetHack 5.0.0 | 180
  39. Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs | 432
  40. Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga | 227
  41. US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants | 166
  42. I am worried about Bun | 345
  43. This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 | 149
  44. OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors | 473
  45. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale | 144
  46. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs | 262
  47. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth | 158
  48. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% | 758
  49. City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo | 123
  50. Ask.com has closed | 239
  51. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement | 414
  52. Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library | 177
  53. Train Your Own LLM from Scratch | 50
  54. New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming | 272
  55. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” | 57
  56. A desktop made for one | 262
  57. Six years perfecting maps on watchOS | 119
  58. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX | 398
  59. Agentic Coding Is a Trap | 370
  60. Knitting bullshit | 187
  61. Async Rust never left the MVP state | 255
  62. LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions | 219
  63. A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury | 227
  64. Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved | 262
  65. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet | 316
  66. Why TUIs are back | 419
  67. AI uses less water than the public thinks | 396
  68. Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026? | 293
  69. Grok 4.3 | 530
  70. Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months | 475
  71. Days without GitHub incidents | 167
  72. Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app | 321
  73. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields | 229
  74. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing | 266
  75. Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?) | 68
  76. Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge | 218
  77. Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers | 131
  78. Agent Skills | 209
  79. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy | 439
  80. Write some software, give it away for free | 257
  81. I built a Game Boy emulator in F# | 77
  82. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS | 44
  83. Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks | 372
  84. Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me | 109
  85. AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights | 178
  86. Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold | 264
  87. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken | 109
  88. Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE | 209
  89. California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws | 355
  90. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] | 93
  91. Southwest Headquarters Tour | 99
  92. Redis array: short story of a long development process | 109
  93. How Monero’s proof of work works | 225
  94. Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan | 144
  95. The fun has been optimized out of the Internet | 277
  96. U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets | 107
  97. Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to | 182
  98. GCC 16 has been released | 52
  99. PyInfra 3.8.0 | 104
  100. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) | 471