Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
945 points by saint11 | 145 comments
GitHub repository for copyparty, a portable single-file server with resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexing and thumbnails.
![Screenshot of bbc.com: ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/7/28/84b40873-5940-4cc7-acbf-521a26e4248b.jpg)
807 points by nathanyz | 884 comments
BBC News video interview with a former worker at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site who says he witnessed war crimes in Gaza.
771 points by timje1 | 237 comments
A protest site that takes a UK postcode and generates an AI mockup of the local MP's driving licence, mocking the Online Safety Act's ID checks.
633 points by surprisetalk | 338 comments
Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay "Face it: you're a crazy person," subtitled "why your brain needs a boxcutter."
611 points by mmarian | 920 comments
Financial Times article reporting a surge in VPN use in the UK as new online safety rules take effect.
569 points by thebestmoshe | 647 comments
HN post sharing Anthropic's announcement of new weekly usage limits for Claude Code subscribers starting August 28, alongside existing 5-hour limits.
513 points by frizlab | 252 comments
Blog post by Jeff Johnson of Underpass App Company about the "Sign in with Google" prompts shown on sites like Yelp and how they behave in Chrome.
507 points by qsort | 161 comments
A Mastodon post by Terence Tao contrasting blue-team (building) and red-team (vulnerability-finding) roles, applied to how LLMs might be used.
449 points by mrzool | 385 comments
Polygon news article on gamers mass-emailing and calling Visa and Mastercard to protest payment-processor pressure on Steam and itch.io over adult games.
402 points by eric-burel | 78 comments
A Hugging Face Space hosting a visual, intuitive guide explaining how embeddings work in large language models.
401 points by Bogdanp | 120 comments
Blog post by Maister describing the design of PyroWave, a custom ultra-low-latency video codec for game streaming.
354 points by pseudolus | 234 comments
The Register article reporting that Debian 13 "Trixie" switches to 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures to avoid the year 2038 problem.
332 points by MBCook | 135 comments
New Atlas article reporting FDA approval of Yeztugo (lenacapavir), a twice-yearly injectable HIV prevention drug, and its planned global rollout.
214 points by pppone | 40 comments
181 points by mdhb | 47 comments
133 points by Stevvo | 26 comments
104 points by carlotasoto | 14 comments
94 points by 0xedb | 78 comments
74 points by jsnider3 | 41 comments
73 points by Bogdanp | 32 comments
68 points by prismatic | 26 comments
62 points by 90s_dev | 39 comments
59 points by surprisetalk | 86 comments
52 points by surprisetalk | 8 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Living with an Apple Lisa [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/8/1/5be8908d-af7b-42bb-b602-3d72595dbb56.jpg)
46 points by zdw | 3 comments
27 points by throwachimera | 38 comments
![Screenshot of asahilinux.org: Generative AI. "Slop Generators, are unsuitable for use [ ]"](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/7/28/2813e4e4-a768-43fd-b030-775ca3a54ccf.jpg)
20 points by rzk | 4 comments