Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
790 points by oumua_don17 | 377 comments
Robert Heaton's blog post describing PySkyWiFi, a hack that tunnels internet traffic through an airline airmiles profile field to get free in-flight wi-fi.
711 points by develatio | 285 comments
An X (Twitter) post claiming Google Chrome exposes a browser API that is only accessible to pages on *.google.com domains; the post content did not load.
430 points by jcbhmr | 276 comments
Documentation homepage for Rye, a Python project and package management tool from Astral that handles Python installs, dependencies, and virtualenvs.
411 points by skilled | 179 comments
Stackdiary news article reporting that Linksys Velop mesh routers transmit Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to servers in the US.
358 points by Sirupsen | 63 comments
Launch blog post by turbopuffer's CEO explaining why they built a vector and full-text search engine on object storage to cut search infrastructure costs.
326 points by samspenc | 349 comments
The Register article reporting that a judge dismissed most claims, including the DMCA claim, in the class-action copyright lawsuit against GitHub Copilot, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
322 points by Sean-Der | 61 comments
GitHub repository for BitWHIP, a command-line native WebRTC agent written in Rust for low-latency desktop streaming and screen sharing.
169 points by smartmic | 28 comments
139 points by cdata | 31 comments
123 points by behdad | 40 comments
![Screenshot of harold.thimbleby.net: Don't use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/7/9/97fd092e-808e-4113-bb56-994985409d6e.jpg)
87 points by nurettin | 70 comments
83 points by sumnole | 89 comments
52 points by hackoo | 11 comments
46 points by astlouis44 | 8 comments
41 points by mpweiher | 38 comments
