Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
2140 points by grepsedawk | 459 comments
Blog post by Ally Piechowski describing five git commands to find churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns before reading a codebase.
1847 points by blkhp19 | 314 comments
A developer blog post describing how the author ported Mac OS X 10.0.4 to run natively on the Nintendo Wii's PowerPC hardware.
1299 points by pluc | 418 comments
Product page for Little Snitch for Linux by Objective Development, a tool that shows which applications make network connections and lets users block them.
1213 points by super256 | 446 comments
SourceForge forum post by VeraCrypt developer Mounir Idrassi giving a project update, including that Microsoft terminated the account used to sign Windows drivers and the bootloader.
700 points by giuliomagnifico | 399 comments
CNET article examining why US cities are canceling Flock Safety surveillance camera contracts, covering the technology, laws, and privacy concerns.
601 points by surprisetalk | 161 comments
Terry Bisson's 1991 short science fiction story "They're Made Out of Meat," hosted on the author's website.
564 points by pabs3 | 549 comments
Aphyr's essay "The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess," the opening of a multi-part series reflecting critically on LLMs and machine learning's societal effects.
558 points by jfirebaugh | 692 comments
New York Times article in which a reporter investigates the identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, pointing toward Adam Back; the capture shows a captcha page.
541 points by ra | 545 comments
Škoda Storyboard article introducing DuoBell, a bicycle bell designed so its sound cuts through active noise-cancelling headphones to alert pedestrians.
501 points by donohoe | 186 comments
404 Media article reporting that Microsoft terminated VeraCrypt's developer account, halting the encryption software's Windows updates.
399 points by alex_be | 54 comments
KalmanFilter.NET, a tutorial site introducing the Kalman filter algorithm with intuitive examples such as radar tracking, promoting an accompanying book.
394 points by anonfunction | 158 comments
A single-page tracker showing whether the Strait of Hormuz is open, with daily ship transit counts from IMF PortWatch and a map of vessel positions.
387 points by WerWolv | 46 comments
A blog post introducing USB concepts for software developers and explaining how to write userspace USB drivers, with C++ examples.
372 points by chabons | 351 comments
Meta AI blog post announcing Muse Spark, a new model from Meta Superintelligence Labs framed as a step toward personal superintelligence.
350 points by nickvec | 171 comments
Personal blog post describing unexplained $180 Claude Max Extra Usage charges and over a month without a response from Anthropic support.
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347 points by tetrisgm | 120 comments
YouTube video of the Revision 2026 demoparty PC Demo competition, linked at the timestamp of Razor1911's entry.
345 points by geox | 67 comments
AP News article about volunteers digitizing Chicago fan Aadam Jacobs's recordings of about 10,000 concerts and posting them to the Internet Archive.
342 points by coolwulf | 63 comments
Interactive web app showing a simulated 3D cockpit view following a live flight (DAL123 near JFK) with altitude, speed, heading and minimap.
327 points by CharlesW | 108 comments
The Drive news article reporting John Deere will pay $99 million in a right-to-repair settlement and offer repair tools to third parties for 10 years.
278 points by baely | 74 comments
206 points by doppp | 125 comments
128 points by frizlab | 57 comments
117 points by adocomplete | 53 comments
93 points by speckx | 74 comments
69 points by zdw | 68 comments
52 points by doppp | 24 comments
41 points by walterbell | 11 comments
35 points by Foxboron | 4 comments
34 points by jodah | 11 comments
