Story ranking for the past week

  1. Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent | 1139
  2. Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license | 591
  3. Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated | 251
  4. Appearing productive in the workplace | 645
  5. Talking to strangers at the gym | 753
  6. Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users | 567
  7. Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce | 983
  8. Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler | 431
  9. Poland is now among the 20 largest economies | 855
  10. Local AI needs to be the norm | 409
  11. Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data | 633
  12. David Attenborough's 100th Birthday | 162
  13. Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit | 464
  14. AI slop is killing online communities | 719
  15. Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE | 328
  16. Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like | 882
  17. Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions | 167
  18. The map that keeps Burning Man honest | 349
  19. DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved | 409
  20. I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left | 520
  21. Programming Still Sucks | 329
  22. Zig → Rust porting guide | 547
  23. GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay | 693
  24. Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged | 360
  25. Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc | 674
  26. A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro | 519
  27. Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters | 328
  28. Internet Archive Switzerland | 108
  29. StarFighter 16-Inch | 385
  30. SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format | 192
  31. Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy | 369
  32. Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused | 232
  33. Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac | 304
  34. EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" | 433
  35. Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers | 246
  36. A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking | 292
  37. Agents need control flow, not more prompts | 292
  38. The bottleneck was never the code | 412
  39. Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 | 533
  40. I’ve banned query strings | 284
  41. AI didn't delete your database, you did | 302
  42. Three Inverse Laws of AI | 349
  43. Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer | 283
  44. US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants | 169
  45. I am worried about Bun | 349
  46. Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML | 270
  47. An Introduction to Meshtastic | 185
  48. Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense | 330
  49. How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale | 146
  50. Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX | 482
  51. OpenAI’s WebRTC problem | 147
  52. DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal | 157
  53. Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement | 452
  54. Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs | 269
  55. Knitting bullshit | 206
  56. Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14% | 800
  57. Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES | 122
  58. Train Your Own LLM from Scratch | 50
  59. LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate | 189
  60. Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... | 328
  61. Async Rust never left the MVP state | 264
  62. Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable | 516
  63. iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet | 318
  64. Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved | 262
  65. AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures | 170
  66. Cartoon Network Flash Games | 129
  67. The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism | 377
  68. Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA | 437
  69. Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn) | 102
  70. Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning | 213
  71. Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard | 376
  72. IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields | 238
  73. Mythical Man Month | 208
  74. Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria | 313
  75. Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels | 275
  76. When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing | 273
  77. Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school | 622
  78. Days without GitHub incidents | 170
  79. California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy | 449
  80. Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?) | 68
  81. Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview | 167
  82. Agent Skills | 211
  83. Write some software, give it away for free | 271
  84. Mojo 1.0 Beta | 236
  85. Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text | 119
  86. Multi-stroke text effect in CSS | 44
  87. Inkscape 1.4.4 | 107
  88. Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms | 149
  89. Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me | 120
  90. Debian must ship reproducible packages | 151
  91. I want to live like Costco people | 719
  92. The One Dollar Counterfeiter | 134
  93. Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks | 380
  94. GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch | 126
  95. YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken | 116
  96. US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos | 528
  97. EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video] | 94
  98. Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging | 221
  99. Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold | 267
  100. Space Cadet Pinball on Linux | 109