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These are the current stories on the Hacker News Front page ranked by the raw score produced by the HN formula, with no moderation penalties or bonuses applied. This makes the impact of moderation on the HN frontpage visible (e.g. off-topic/non-tech stories are ranked higher). Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms
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  1. OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent (opencode.ai)
    ×3.95 #1 | 851 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety (googleblog.com)
    ×3.11 89 | 91 points by dfordp11 5 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords (pbxscience.com)
    ×3.16 48 #51 | 111 points by akersten 6 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme (therecord.media)
    ×2.78 87 | 47 points by nstj 3 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Our commitment to Windows quality (windows.com)
    ×3.38 22 #27 | 534 points by hadrien01 16 hours ago | 965 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service (deepdelver.substack.com)
    ×5.46 24 #30 | 699 points by freddykruger 19 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. I'm OK being left behind, thanks (shkspr.mobi)
    ×6.81 48 #55 | 875 points by coinfused 21 hours ago | 708 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record (eff.org)
    ×4.31 9 #17 | 38 points by pabs3 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Mamba-3 (together.ai)
    ×1.64 7 #2 | 135 points by matt_d 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Chuck Norris has died (variety.com)
    ×7.24 49 #59 | 723 points by mp3il 21 hours ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell (atuin.sh)
    ×2.61 11 #22 | 7 points by cenanozen 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO webapp clone (github.com/eggricesoy)
    ×1.30 5 #7 | 60 points by notcodingtoday 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022) (nippon.com)
    ×2.45 9 #4 | 285 points by cainxinth 14 hours ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ghostling (github.com/ghostty-org)
    ×2.17 8 #6 | 229 points by bjornroberg 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Molly Guard (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)
    ×1.29 10 #5 | 114 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Elon Musk misled Twitter investors, jury finds (bbc.co.uk)
    ×6.24 75 | 8 points by iamflimflam1 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster (openui.com)
    ×1.67 8 #9 | 221 points by zahlekhan 13 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. FFmpeg 101 (2024) (igalia.com)
    ×1.43 15 #3 | 91 points by vinhnx 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app (lemonde.fr)
    ×2.70 4 #23 | 571 points by MrDresden 22 hours ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI Slop Is Infiltrating Online Children's Content (undark.org)
    ×2.70 37 #57 | 5 points by jruohonen 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot (forbes.com)
    ×3.21 22 #43 | 353 points by pera 20 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Linux Applications Programming by Example: The Fundamental APIs (2nd Edition) (github.com/arnoldrobbins)
    ×1.18 14 #8 | 105 points by teleforce 11 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. ArXiv declares independence from Cornell (science.org)
    ×3.02 5 #28 | 761 points by bookstore-romeo 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Padel Chess – tactical simulator for padel (padelchess.me)
    ×0.99 14 #10 | 28 points by AlexGerasim 5 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Big Win for Open Source as Germany Backs Open Document Format (itsfoss.com)
    ×3.11 66 | 4 points by giuliomagnifico 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild (practical.engineering)
    ×1.98 15 #11 | 363 points by michaefe 22 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025) (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.78 26 #53 | 326 points by felineflock 21 hours ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers' (portlandtribune.com)
    ×3.16 63 | 260 points by nxobject 19 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×1.40 11 #18 | 74 points by randycupertino 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Liberated Systemd (github.com/jeffrey-sardina)
    ×2.96 61 | 12 points by gasull 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004) (ucsd.edu)
    ×1.08 18 #13 | 50 points by rvnx 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Attention Residuals (github.com/MoonshotAI)
    ×1.27 20 #12 | 181 points by GaggiX 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Astral to Join OpenAI (astral.sh)
    ×5.14 9 #42 | 1455 points by ibraheemdev 1 day ago | 882 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers (electrek.co)
    ×3.50 57 | 176 points by ironyman 17 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps (arstechnica.com)
    ×4.66 5 #40 | 1154 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 1234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI (windowscentral.com)
    ×3.47 20 #56 | 33 points by steviey19 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video] (twitter.com/toddsaunders)
    ×1.42 18 #19 | 60 points by mighty-fine 10 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Show HN: We built a terminal-only Bluesky / AT Proto client written in Fortran (github.com/FormerLab)
    ×0.85 23 #15 | 87 points by FormerLabFred 13 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. VisiCalc Reconstructed (zserge.com)
    ×1.11 15 #24 | 211 points by ingve 20 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Apple: Accelerate your machine learning workloads with the M5 and A19 GPUs (youtube.com)
    ×2.32 51 | 3 points by de_aztec 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it (hey.com)
    ×3.87 50 | 103 points by FireBy2024 14 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System (sharpai.org)
    ×2.69 49 | 160 points by aegis_camera 18 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Afroman found not liable in defamation case (nypost.com)
    ×6.19 22 #65 | 1229 points by antonymoose 2 days ago | 710 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The worst volume control UI in the world (2017) (uxdesign.cc)
    ×1.59 30 #14 | 141 points by andsoitis 18 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Java is fast, code might not be (jvogel.me)
    ×2.08 3 #48 | 205 points by siegers 21 hours ago | 212 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Operation Cast Thy Bread (wikipedia.org)
    ×4.05 29 #75 | 16 points by throw310822 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Why One Key Shouldn't Rule Them All: Threshold Signatures for the Rest of Us (mann.blog)
    ×0.99 21 #26 | 11 points by eamann 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Lent and Lisp (leancrew.com)
    ×0.93 23 #25 | 61 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Ozempic Is About to Go Generic for Billions of People (nytimes.com)
    ×3.47 13 #62 | 41 points by jmsflknr 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL (twitter.com/fynnso)
    ×3.84 41 | 264 points by mirzap 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Turing Award Honors Bennett and Brassard for Quantum Information Science (acm.org)
    ×0.83 35 #16 | 41 points by throw0101d 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US Military system (reuters.com)
    ×4.64 22 #74 | 50 points by abawany 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. 90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective (mollywhite.net)
    ×1.94 18 #71 | 129 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Having Kids (2019) (paulgraham.com)
    ×2.34 16 #70 | 151 points by Anon84 20 hours ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Germany Mandates ODF for Public Administration (linuxiac.com)
    ×3.82 36 | 164 points by mvdwoord 21 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Parallel Perl – Autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT (petamem.com)
    ×0.98 22 #34 | 133 points by bmn__ 19 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout (entsoe.eu)
    ×1.03 28 #29 | 197 points by Rygian 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment (purl.dev)
    ×0.95 4 #54 | 29 points by bpierre 9 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Push events into a running session with channels (claude.com)
    ×1.91 32 | 393 points by jasonjmcghee 1 day ago | 244 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Your Site Content Is Powering AI. Your Bank Account Has No Idea (medium.com)
    ×1.93 31 | 3 points by emem_ndon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode (github.com/anomalyco)
    ×5.33 30 | 470 points by _squared_ 1 day ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Regex Blaster (mdp.github.io)
    ×1.19 16 #46 | 146 points by mdp 23 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Show HN: Red Grid Link – peer-to-peer team tracking over Bluetooth, no servers (github.com/RedGridTactical)
    ×0.67 30 #33 | 45 points by redgridtactical 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB (github.com/KittenML)
    ×2.22 5 #69 | 536 points by rohan_joshi 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser (define.app)
    ×0.77 21 #86 | 61 points by johndamaia 15 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Flash-KMeans: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact K-Means (arxiv.org)
    ×1.03 3 #63 | 179 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The Social Smolnet (ploum.net)
    ×0.94 36 #31 | 125 points by aebtebeten 22 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Heisuke Hironaka Has Died (yomiuri.co.jp)
    ×0.87 33 #35 | 32 points by pfortuny 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. The Story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay (2020) (sydney-yaeko.com)
    ×0.42 48 #21 | 5 points by NaOH 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? (omar.yt)
    ×3.91 21 | 314 points by omarroth 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. An FAQ on Reinforcement Learning Environments (epoch.ai)
    ×0.72 26 #45 | 40 points by dcre 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable proximity alerts (github.com/FormerLab)
    ×0.77 20 #52 | 49 points by FormerLabFred 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found (trustedsec.com)
    ×1.69 6 #67 | 288 points by nyxgeek 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. “Your frustration is the product” (daringfireball.net)
    ×3.65 3 #77 | 588 points by llm_nerd 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor
    ×1.65 16 | 80 points by yifanlu 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost (github.com/RasKrebs)
    ×1.28 40 #36 | 148 points by raskrebs 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Add age verification to accounts service (gitlab.freedesktop.org)
    ×1.15 4 #81 | 8 points by e145bc455f1 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. The Soul of a Pedicab Driver (sheldonbrown.com)
    ×1.11 39 #39 | 151 points by haritha-j 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice (northwestern.edu)
    ×1.34 12 | 110 points by gmays 22 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. Ask HN: what’s your favorite line in your Claude/agents.md files?
    ×0.56 11 | 3 points by khasan222 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011) (github.com/mattmanning)
    ×1.63 15 #66 | 272 points by robotnikman 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Debian's 2026 Election Accidentally Has Only One Candidate (plimmie.substack.com)
    ×1.98 9 | 3 points by limp_diskit 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Waymo Safety Impact (waymo.com)
    ×2.62 4 #79 | 346 points by xnx 1 day ago | 395 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches (bbc.com)
    ×2.51 4 #80 | 455 points by mosura 1 day ago | 844 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Sexual Harassment by Japan Railways Staff and Japan's Accessibility Barriers
    ×2.28 6 | 5 points by LemurianHiro 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg (ayosec.github.io)
    ×1.27 45 #41 | 176 points by nolta 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel (carryology.com)
    ×1.86 #87 | 336 points by greedo 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers (github.com/cockpit-project)
    ×1.56 3 | 321 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Work_mem: It's a Trap (mydbanotebook.org)
    ×0.73 40 #49 | 41 points by enz 14 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.19 1 | 4 points by joozio 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???