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Daily ranking · strictly above median
  1. 388664
    Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
  2. 161755
    Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN
  3. 228322
    Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
  4. 210272
    The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
  5. 143151
    Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare
  6. 2497
    Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
  7. 1265
    If we stop, we lose
  8. 64140
    AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracy
  9. 83111
    Landline phones will switch off across Britland in 100 days, no extensions
  10. 13695
    A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income
  11. 52225
    Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother
  12. 49166
    Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020
  13. 4865
    Apple captures 50% of consumer revenue of the top half of the S&P 500
  14. 11578
    Bidirectional charging during grid outages
  15. 443
    An outsider's perspective on Scion and Mononoke
    Also discussed: Hacker News · 0 comments
  16. 38109
    One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems
  17. 435
    You can’t find 10x developers, but you can build 10x organizations
  18. 034
    What Good Incident Response Looks Like
  19. 822
    Pratt parsing is a black box
  20. 23119
    Understanding Email Encryption (2025)
  21. 221
    Why China's Social Credit System Is Facing Inside Warnings Over AI Surveillance
  22. 4530
    US Jobs Pickup May Keep Fed on Track to Hike Rates Again
  23. 5337
    OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust
  24. 227
    XKCD and Fourier
  25. 2039
    The staggering $446M Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized
  26. 3529
    Pi Is the Last Harness
  27. 417
    London Meetup - Nov 2026
  28. 5843
    The Ocean 'Was the Color of Chocolate.' Mexico Declares War on Seaweed.
  29. 118
    so i guess everyone uses llms to think now
  30. 2079
    Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems)
  31. 1048
    Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards
  32. 015
    Work on GEFS (the Good Enough File System) for OpenBSD progresses
  33. 2315
    Proposed data centre will release 23 Hiroshima atomic bomb worth of energy a day
  34. 014
    groff/troff macros: ms, mm, me or mom
  35. 1275
    A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral
  36. 010
    Optimizing a Spin-Lock
  37. 721
    Brian May, Queen guitarist and Astrophysicist
  38. 419
    Muse AI agent is a commercial surveillance network disguised as an AI assistant
  39. 826
    Bastard
  40. 126
    John Leeson (the voice of K9) has died
  41. 010
    Zig: From Beginner to Slightly Less Beginner
  42. 28
    Introduction to Programming in ATS
  43. 226
    Criminal arrest warrant for OSINT troll Jesse Nickles
  44. 17
    A Specialised Haskell Processor on FPGA
    Also discussed: Hacker News · 1 comments
  45. 911
    A 90% Chance of AI Saving Humanity
  46. 26
    Beating the compiler at signed 32-bit division
  47. 311
    Juan Atkins, pioneer of Detroit techno sound, dies aged 64
  48. 09
    Non-Determinism and Overcount on Modern Hardware Performance Counter Implementations
  49. 213
    Heretic 2.0 Released: Training-free language model modification
  50. 111
    SpaceX Blocked NATO Satellite to Assist Russian Intercept
  51. 1412
    Show HN: Vela, a New Linux Desktop Environment
  52. 28
    AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist says
  53. 1330
    Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019)
  54. 16
    Proton's AI manifesto for software engineering
  55. 767
    Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed
  56. 25
    The Future of the Internet
  57. 16
    Nine Killed After a Learjet Crashes in Palm Beach County, Florida
  58. 111
    'No industry has been as criminal as the pharmaceutical industry'
  59. 36
    Windows 95 is still being used to sort eggs in Germany
  60. 26
    Slopstructions
  61. 35
    Proton Subreddit, Community-Moderated
  62. 08
    Astronomy Picture of the Day: Colors of the Moon
  63. 05
    10 Years on Mastodon
  64. 05
    Star Trek Writers' Guides. (2024)
  65. 05
    Ask HN: Starlink Emails Leaked?
  66. 18
    I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats
  67. 06
    The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily the Largest in Kernel History
  68. 15
    IShowSpeed Became the Most Influential Streamer in the World
  69. 18
    Previously untranslated Einstein paper in English
  70. 511
    Chinese markets lose trillions as race for AI supremacy with US takes its toll
  71. 1639
    Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo
  72. 05
    Applebee's exposed customers' personal data with database password in app
  73. 06
    AI Software Clones Are Coming for Big-Name Companies Like Adobe
  74. 36
    OccupySaaS – They laid us off. We're rebuilding their SaaS
  75. 06
    Constructing a Quine from Kleene's Second Recursion Theorem
    Also discussed: Hacker News · 1 comments
  76. 05
    DIY AI Lockpicking Robot: ESP32 and Claude AI Opens Any Lock [video]
  77. 05
    Show HN: A browser game where you navigate home to Earth using pulsars
  78. 16
    'We came back from hell', say Ukrainians after years in Russia-occupied city
  79. 15
    Show HN: Egres, A Postgres-compatible database for heavy, multi-tenant workloads
  80. 05
    A brief history of just-in-time (2003)
    Also discussed: Hacker News · 2 comments
  81. 05
    Indian ISPs found to be DNS Hijacking
  82. 15
    Terence Tao: The Year Math Changed Forever
  83. 012
    The first life and death of Italian computing (1954 – 1964)
  84. 26
    Speeding up GPU copies by permuting iteration spaces, or, optimising the identity function
  85. 76
    OpenAI's blow to mathematicians: They have annihilated my field of research
  86. 57
    Tell HN: ChatGPT and Codex usage will be combined
  87. 46
    James Mickens' Talk: A Sober Analysis of AI Impact (LABScon '26)
  88. 247
    Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup
  89. 05
    Effective Type: Part 1
  90. 27
    Amazon made the AUX input on older Alexa devices less useful
  91. 27
    When AI writes almost all code, what happens to software engineering?