Story ranking for the past week

  1. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent | 1128
  2. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | 588
  3. Appearing productive in the workplace | 640
  4. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated | 242
  5. Talking to strangers at the gym | 751
  6. VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage | 850
  7. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce | 928
  8. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies | 758
  9. Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data | 613
  10. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users | 295
  11. Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons | 510
  12. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit | 440
  13. AI slop is killing online communities | 705
  14. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE | 314
  15. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like | 874
  16. Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions | 167
  17. The map that keeps Burning Man honest | 345
  18. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved | 408
  19. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay | 693
  20. Zig → Rust porting guide | 539
  21. Programming Still Sucks | 323
  22. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | 327
  23. DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro | 280
  24. StarFighter 16-Inch | 378
  25. Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged | 338
  26. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | 368
  27. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format | 192
  28. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused | 233
  29. Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac | 303
  30. Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers | 242
  31. Dav2d | 191
  32. Let's Buy Spirit Air | 577
  33. The bottleneck was never the code | 407
  34. Agents need control flow, not more prompts | 285
  35. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday | 111
  36. Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 | 532
  37. New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag | 554
  38. A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking | 277
  39. Do_not_track | 167
  40. AI didn't delete your database, you did | 302
  41. Three Inverse Laws of AI | 349
  42. NetHack 5.0.0 | 180
  43. US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants | 168
  44. I am worried about Bun | 349
  45. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale | 146
  46. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX | 479
  47. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense | 325
  48. This Month in Ladybird – April 2026 | 150
  49. OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors | 473
  50. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement | 450
  51. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs | 267
  52. Knitting bullshit | 206
  53. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% | 790
  54. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal | 152
  55. BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth | 158
  56. Train Your Own LLM from Scratch | 50
  57. CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog” | 61
  58. A desktop made for one | 264
  59. Six years perfecting maps on watchOS | 119
  60. Agentic Coding Is a Trap | 374
  61. Async Rust never left the MVP state | 260
  62. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet | 318
  63. A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury | 230
  64. Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved | 262
  65. Why TUIs are back | 420
  66. An Introduction to Meshtastic | 155
  67. Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA | 425
  68. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields | 237
  69. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing | 269
  70. Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard | 337
  71. Days without GitHub incidents | 169
  72. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria | 306
  73. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy | 449
  74. Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge | 219
  75. Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?) | 68
  76. Agent Skills | 211
  77. Write some software, give it away for free | 271
  78. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS | 44
  79. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text | 119
  80. Inkscape 1.4.4 | 107
  81. Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me | 120
  82. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... | 276
  83. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview | 156
  84. Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks | 380
  85. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school | 537
  86. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken | 115
  87. AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights | 178
  88. I want to live like Costco people | 709
  89. Mojo 1.0 Beta | 211
  90. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] | 94
  91. Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold | 266
  92. California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws | 356
  93. Cartoon Network Flash Games | 104
  94. Southwest Headquarters Tour | 99
  95. AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields | 144
  96. Redis array: short story of a long development process | 110
  97. How Monero’s proof of work works | 225
  98. Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan | 145
  99. The fun has been optimized out of the Internet | 277
  100. AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures | 128