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# Hacker News (2012-05-20–2026-02-03) Lobste.rs (2012-06-30–2026-02-03)
1 Stephen Hawking has died The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
[discussion] 2018-03-14 | S: 6015 C: 436 [discussion] 2025-10-27 | S: 338 C: 45
2 A Message to Our Customers backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
[discussion] 2016-02-17 | S: 5771 C: 967 [discussion] 2024-03-29 | S: 314 C: 297
3 OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman What an unprocessed photo looks like
[discussion] 2023-11-17 | S: 5640 C: 2501 [discussion] 2025-12-28 | S: 284 C: 19
4 Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise Migrating The Zig Organization from GitHub to Codeberg
[discussion] 2024-03-29 | S: 4365 C: 1700 [discussion] 2025-11-27 | S: 283 C: 184
5 YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA Message from the family of Bram Moolenaar (he passed away)
[discussion] 2020-10-23 | S: 4240 C: 1443 [discussion] 2023-08-05 | S: 262 C: 26
6 Mechanical Watch Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
[discussion] 2022-05-04 | S: 4173 C: 410 [discussion] 2026-01-20 | S: 246 C: 29
7 Bram Moolenaar has died systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
[discussion] 2023-08-05 | S: 4155 C: 411 [discussion] 2025-07-08 | S: 244 C: 136
8 Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
[discussion] 2017-02-19 | S: 4107 C: 1013 [discussion] 2020-12-25 | S: 242 C: 41
9 Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf] They're putting blue food coloring in everything
[discussion] 2021-04-05 | S: 4103 C: 932 [discussion] 2025-07-20 | S: 242 C: 34
10 GPT-4 Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
[discussion] 2023-03-14 | S: 4022 C: 2459 [discussion] 2026-01-27 | S: 236 C: 55
11 How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
[discussion] 2021-02-28 | S: 3883 C: 697 [discussion] 2026-01-05 | S: 234 C: 72
12 Bye, Amazon Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
[discussion] 2020-05-04 | S: 3816 C: 1097 [discussion] 2025-12-26 | S: 225 C: 118
13 Kevin Mitnick has died Lobster burntsushi has left the site, algorithm detecting standing might be off
[discussion] 2023-07-19 | S: 3656 C: 601 [discussion] 2021-06-01 | S: 224 C: 279
14 Every Google result now looks like an ad In 2024, please switch to Firefox
[discussion] 2020-01-21 | S: 3592 C: 972 [discussion] 2024-01-02 | S: 219 C: 135
15 Sora: Creating video from text Ghostty 1.0
[discussion] 2024-02-15 | S: 3572 C: 2182 [discussion] 2024-12-26 | S: 217 C: 65
16 A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now
[discussion] 2021-09-16 | S: 3431 C: 712 [discussion] 2025-06-05 | S: 215 C: 72
17 F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower?
[discussion] 2017-12-14 | S: 3384 C: 1431 [discussion] 2025-08-09 | S: 212 C: 98
18 Apollo will close down on June 30th sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha
[discussion] 2023-06-08 | S: 3367 C: 1595 [discussion] 2018-11-15 | S: 210 C: 87
19 GitHub, fuck your name change You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome
[discussion] 2021-03-17 | S: 3353 C: 2007 [discussion] 2025-08-28 | S: 208 C: 58
20 Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” YouTube-DL repository taken down from GitHub by RIAA due to DMCA request
[discussion] 2023-02-15 | S: 3297 C: 1630 [discussion] 2020-10-23 | S: 203 C: 106
21 Switch from Chrome to Firefox term.everything: Run any GUI app in the terminal
[discussion] 2019-05-30 | S: 3287 C: 983 [discussion] 2025-09-09 | S: 198 C: 34
22 Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
[discussion] 2025-12-09 | S: 3287 C: 938 [discussion] 2023-05-11 | S: 198 C: 24
23 Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory "They introduce kernel bugs on purpose"
[discussion] 2017-02-23 | S: 3238 C: 992 [discussion] 2021-04-21 | S: 194 C: 97
24 Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year Ruby Central’s Attack on RubyGems
[discussion] 2025-09-18 | S: 3217 C: 1394 [discussion] 2025-09-19 | S: 193 C: 114
25 “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser
[discussion] 2021-11-17 | S: 3189 C: 860 [discussion] 2025-09-30 | S: 193 C: 77

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# Hacker News (2012-05-20–2026-02-03) Lobste.rs (2012-06-30–2026-02-03)
1 Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
[discussion] 2025-02-28 | S: 2865 C: 4877 [discussion] 2024-03-29 | S: 314 C: 297
2 Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. I am disappointed in the AI discourse
[discussion] 2020-11-07 | S: 3089 C: 4576 [discussion] 2025-05-28 | S: 163 C: 285
3 Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes Lobster burntsushi has left the site, algorithm detecting standing might be off
[discussion] 2026-01-03 | S: 1743 C: 4498 [discussion] 2021-06-01 | S: 224 C: 279
4 U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
[discussion] 2025-06-22 | S: 1219 C: 3728 [discussion] 2026-01-11 | S: 140 C: 279
5 Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler You're thinking about passkeys wrong
[discussion] 2021-01-10 | S: 1058 C: 3676 [discussion] 2025-01-29 | S: 35 C: 255
6 US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU Retiring from the Rust for Linux project
[discussion] 2025-04-02 | S: 1802 C: 3467 [discussion] 2024-08-29 | S: 153 C: 224
7 Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade Passkeys are incompatible with open-source software
[discussion] 2022-06-24 | S: 1765 C: 3463 [discussion] 2025-09-01 | S: 99 C: 220
8 Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
[discussion] 2022-04-25 | S: 2250 C: 3279 [discussion] 2025-05-14 | S: 116 C: 219
9 Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser for Windows 10
[discussion] 2025-09-10 | S: 1042 C: 3105 [discussion] 2018-12-04 | S: 23 C: 219
10 YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud Remove Richard Stallman
[discussion] 2020-12-09 | S: 1183 C: 3064 [discussion] 2019-09-18 | S: 16 C: 207
11 Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
[discussion] 2022-04-14 | S: 2688 C: 2996 [discussion] 2025-02-13 | S: 118 C: 204
12 The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE I am leaving LLVM
[discussion] 2025-02-02 | S: 1561 C: 2822 [discussion] 2018-05-03 | S: 58 C: 201
13 Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer why not matrix?
[discussion] 2023-06-05 | S: 2567 C: 2807 [discussion] 2023-09-07 | S: 60 C: 192
14 My AI skeptic friends are all nuts We need more of Richard Stallman, not less
[discussion] 2025-06-02 | S: 2226 C: 2721 [discussion] 2023-06-19 | S: 52 C: 185
15 Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco Migrating The Zig Organization from GitHub to Codeberg
[discussion] 2023-04-05 | S: 1301 C: 2705 [discussion] 2025-11-27 | S: 283 C: 184
16 UK votes to leave EU Upcoming Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main
[discussion] 2016-06-24 | S: 3125 C: 2530 [discussion] 2020-11-17 | S: 93 C: 182
17 Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
[discussion] 2025-01-17 | S: 944 C: 2502 [discussion] 2025-11-19 | S: 71 C: 180
18 OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust
[discussion] 2023-11-17 | S: 5640 C: 2501 [discussion] 2025-02-19 | S: 148 C: 176
19 U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly Does current AI represent a dead end?
[discussion] 2024-03-21 | S: 2516 C: 2472 [discussion] 2024-12-27 | S: 55 C: 175
20 GPT-4 Firefox adds terms of use
[discussion] 2023-03-14 | S: 4022 C: 2459 [discussion] 2025-02-27 | S: 133 C: 166
21 Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
[discussion] 2023-03-12 | S: 1691 C: 2459 [discussion] 2025-11-11 | S: 101 C: 166
22 Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union They all use it
[discussion] 2024-01-25 | S: 2073 C: 2428 [discussion] 2024-11-20 | S: 53 C: 164
23 U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests Rust, Zig, and the Futility of "Replacing" C
[discussion] 2021-01-06 | S: 1986 C: 2422 [discussion] 2021-02-28 | S: 49 C: 163
24 GPT-5 Fair Source
[discussion] 2025-08-07 | S: 2018 C: 2421 [discussion] 2024-08-06 | S: 8 C: 163
25 TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users Use plaintext email
[discussion] 2025-01-19 | S: 738 C: 2414 [discussion] 2019-07-24 | S: 111 C: 156

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