Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
552 points by mufty | 275 comments
A 2019 blog post by Geoffrey Litt arguing that browser extensions are underrated as a way for users to customize and modify the software they use.
417 points by bsdz | 297 comments
CNN news article about a Hong Kong finance worker who paid out $25 million after a video call with scammers using a deepfake of the company's CFO.
414 points by wscourge | 271 comments
A User Experience Stack Exchange question asking why the mouse pointer cursor is tilted rather than straight, and whether it is a legacy design choice.
411 points by tplrbv | 72 comments
A long blog post analyzing how a small ~10M parameter transformer trained from Karpathy's tutorial turns attention outputs into next-token predictions.
384 points by mnvrth | 281 comments
A personal blog post arguing that Apple doesn't care for developers and that the author should write code for the web instead.
360 points by notamy | 698 comments
TorrentFreak article on a Netflix SEC filing stating that online piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly.
359 points by FLpxpyJ | 90 comments
Homepage of Stract, an independent open-source, non-profit web search engine with customizable 'optics' for tailoring results.
326 points by drcwpl | 238 comments
A Medium essay by Mark Johnson explaining why Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in his life.
287 points by tl | 182 comments
222 points by Brajeshwar | 488 comments
173 points by cwillu | 97 comments
148 points by ksbrooksjr | 36 comments
144 points by zdw | 125 comments
123 points by pseudolus | 50 comments
120 points by rntn | 46 comments
119 points by 6581 | 42 comments
115 points by todsacerdoti | 64 comments
111 points by FLpxpyJ | 24 comments
104 points by lnyan | 11 comments
96 points by gspanos | 98 comments
73 points by deeshee | 35 comments
63 points by davikr | 73 comments
50 points by ingve | 38 comments
50 points by pepys | 37 comments
