Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
759 points by bswud | 422 comments
A Works in Progress Issue 16 article by Javid Lakha on how lab-grown diamonds became purer and far cheaper than mined diamonds.
593 points by Shank | 270 comments
ACM Digital Library page for a WWW '24 research paper finding that QUIC underperforms TCP-based HTTP/2 on high-bandwidth networks.
582 points by hardwaregeek | 453 comments
Blog post by GitHub cofounder Scott Chacon explaining how GitHub became the dominant code hosting platform.
581 points by birriel | 163 comments
Variety obituary reporting that actor James Earl Jones, known as the voice of Darth Vader, died at age 93.
580 points by mfiguiere | 1484 comments
Apple Newsroom press release announcing the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max with the A18 Pro chip, larger displays, Camera Control, and improved battery life.
564 points by LorenDB | 488 comments
Julio Merino's Blog System/5 post comparing the design of Windows NT with Unix and asking what made NT advanced and whether that still holds.
416 points by mef | 739 comments
Matthew Ball essay from September 2024 analyzing the business economics, revenue, and profitability of OnlyFans.
411 points by lg_rocket | 167 comments
Techdirt article on a coalition including Consumer Reports and iFixit urging the FTC to act against companies that degrade hardware via software updates or paywalls.
364 points by steveridout | 42 comments
Blog post by Giliam de Carpentier describing the Carpentopod, a wireless walking wooden coffee table built from software-optimized leg mechanisms.
345 points by surprisetalk | 226 comments
Jacob Filipp's Project Hammer page, offering a dataset of Canadian grocery prices aimed at reducing collusion in the grocery sector.
303 points by samlambert | 62 comments
175 points by latexr | 358 comments
154 points by _Microft | 54 comments
149 points by craigkerstiens | 25 comments
108 points by theshrike79 | 70 comments
104 points by pryelluw | 115 comments
102 points by ciconia | 27 comments
91 points by mooreds | 20 comments
77 points by mooreds | 43 comments
73 points by kotaKat | 62 comments
