Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1633 points by pixelmelt | 493 comments
Blog post describing how the author reverse-engineered and bypassed the DRM on Amazon's Kindle web reader to read purchased books outside the official app.
739 points by meetpateltech | 391 comments
Anthropic product announcement introducing Claude Skills, packaged instructions and resources that Claude can load to perform specialized tasks.
718 points by lelandfe | 379 comments
ProPublica investigation into how Intuit used lobbying, the revolving door, and dark patterns to block free government tax filing for 20 years.
433 points by trinsic2 | 286 comments
Blog post by Scott Larson arguing that Windows 10's retirement reflects Microsoft's shift toward user surveillance in newer Windows versions.
400 points by ricklamers | 253 comments
Blog post by Rick Lamers testing a suspected Gemini 3.0 model via Google AI Studio's A/B feature, using SVG generation as a quality proxy.
366 points by birdculture | 64 comments
Raymond Chen's Old New Thing post explaining why a screenshot of a video pasted into Paint on old Windows appeared to keep playing the video.
354 points by theanirudh | 113 comments
Official Elixir blog post announcing the v1.19 release, with enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects.
353 points by pjmlp | 268 comments
AP News article reporting that journalists turned in their Pentagon access badges and left rather than accept new reporting restrictions.
348 points by emixam | 131 comments
Landing page for Hyperflask, a beta full-stack Python web framework built on Flask and Htmx covering dev environment, UI, and deployment.
256 points by meetpateltech | 55 comments
250 points by denysvitali | 61 comments
239 points by bentaber | 85 comments
208 points by BinaryIgor | 88 comments
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173 points by zdw | 108 comments
38 points by lairv | 7 comments