Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1167 points by mriguy | 1459 comments
Reuters news article reporting that the Trump administration will impose a $100,000 fee on H-1B worker visas, according to the White House.
![Screenshot of pup-e.com: Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/19/7938d5f7-b4ea-4b96-a9a4-8699861883cc.jpg)
651 points by jolux | 220 comments
A PDF statement by longtime RubyGems maintainer Ellen (duckinator) describing how Ruby Central took control of the RubyGems GitHub enterprise and removed maintainers in September 2025.
568 points by kaladin-jasnah | 271 comments
Deno blog post asking for $200k in GoFundMe donations to fund its legal challenge to Oracle's JavaScript trademark.
495 points by Leftium | 216 comments
A Windows ReadMe newsletter post by Chris Hoffman recommending YouTube downloader tools and explaining how Google pressure keeps tech outlets from covering them.
476 points by saeedesmaili | 226 comments
Obsidian blog post explaining how the note-taking app minimizes dependencies and other design choices to reduce the risk of software supply chain attacks.
454 points by sampo | 146 comments
Smithsonian magazine article on Iberian harvester ant queens that lay eggs hatching into both their own species and builder harvester ants, seemingly by cloning males.
427 points by chilipepperhott | 154 comments
A blog post by Elijah Potter explaining Markov chains as early language models and how they generate text.
406 points by speckx | 297 comments
Jeff Geerling blog post reviewing a $3000 Raspberry Pi cluster built for AI workloads and explaining why he regrets building it.
345 points by dtj1123 | 300 comments
Homepage of Nostr, an open decentralized protocol of clients and relays for publishing and spreading information without corporate or government control.
326 points by ncarlson | 329 comments
An Ask HN thread asking people who have been unemployed for over two years how they are coping, with commenters sharing their experiences.
258 points by angst | 212 comments
99 points by danielfalbo | 75 comments
83 points by phamtrongthang | 32 comments
61 points by thomasjb | 59 comments
![Screenshot of kevinbryanecon.com: The Economic Impacts of AI: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/19/f161db93-3d9b-4bd4-b3de-2941a0192d89.jpg)
53 points by mooreds | 16 comments
50 points by arnon | 37 comments
41 points by surprisetalk | 48 comments
41 points by pseudolus | 3 comments
