Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1182 points by jamesberthoty | 965 comments
StepSecurity blog post reporting that @ctrl/tinycolor and 40+ npm packages were compromised by self-propagating malware that steals cloud credentials.
1090 points by Qem | 856 comments
Middle East Eye news article reporting that a UN commission of inquiry concluded Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a report its authors say could inform an ICJ ruling.
909 points by mihau | 151 comments
A blog post by blinry listing fifty things they explored and did with a software defined radio across the electromagnetic spectrum.
904 points by slu | 333 comments
Gavi VaccinesWork article reporting a Danish nationwide study showing HPV types 16 and 18 nearly eliminated after the vaccine roll-out.
886 points by heavyset_go | 284 comments
A Reddit r/TOR post about a man jailed for three years after refusing FBI demands to decrypt his Tor node; the captured page is a Reddit network-policy block.
683 points by ChrisArchitect | 705 comments
Waymo blog post announcing it received a pilot permit for commercial robotaxi operations at San Francisco International Airport, starting with employee testing.
426 points by minki_the_avali | 184 comments
A forum post on LenOwO describing how the original DOOM engine crashed after running for 2.5 years on real hardware due to an ever-incrementing demo variable.
424 points by Twixes | 207 comments
Adam Silver blog post discussing whether UIs should label user content with "Your" or "My", arguing that often no prefix is needed.
413 points by Mgtyalx | 606 comments
Wall Street Journal article on U.S. investors and the Trump administration nearing a deal with China over TikTok's U.S. operations; page shows a captcha.
412 points by uptown | 125 comments
New York Times obituary reporting the death of actor and director Robert Redford; the page loaded a captcha challenge instead of the article.
402 points by meetpateltech | 201 comments
Neal.fun's "I'm Not a Robot," a browser game of increasingly absurd CAPTCHA-style levels, starting with a reCAPTCHA checkbox.
338 points by davidscoville | 536 comments
A Substack post by David Scoville recounting how he lost $130,000 to scammers using a fake Google call, spoofed Google email, and authenticator sync.
333 points by jerlam | 142 comments
Apple support page describing the security content and fixed vulnerabilities in iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5.
320 points by lwhsiao | 129 comments
Noctua article explaining how to make the Framework Desktop computer run quieter using Noctua fans and cooling components.
259 points by sebg | 69 comments
236 points by mkurz | 122 comments
177 points by pillars | 7 comments
![Screenshot of mccue.dev: Public static void main(String[] args) is dead](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/16/ed092b1a-177d-47de-84aa-74a68088efa1.jpg)
144 points by todsacerdoti | 273 comments
141 points by xnhbx | 32 comments
140 points by thangqt | 42 comments
97 points by neehao | 13 comments
94 points by speckx | 59 comments
80 points by matt_d | 41 comments
![Screenshot of thelearningjourneyebooks.com: The Linux Process Journey (2023) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/16/6294a6d7-174f-4634-9aae-df6ea1795b86.jpg)
67 points by thekuanysh | 32 comments
51 points by taubek | 38 comments
