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Avg Comment Velocity
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Avg Comment Ratio
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Engagement by Story Type
Type Stories Avg Score Avg Comments Cmt/Pt Avg HRCB Score Distribution
link 1501 154.5 99.7 0.65 +0.18
show 225 201.4 67.7 0.34 +0.23
ask 54 850.7 311.5 0.37 +0.32
calibration 15 0 0
# Story Peak Cmts Gain Vel pt/h Vel cm/h C/Pt HRCB Trajectory
1 IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range i... (www.dropsitenews.com) 2050 928 +4 2.5 5.1 0.45 +0.50
2046
2050
2 I'm helping my dog vibe code games (www.calebleak.com) 1093 368 +1 0.6 0 0.34 +0.13
1092
1093
3 Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft softwa... (therecord.media) 804 395 +142 18.5 9.5 0.49 +0.33
662
804
4 Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But Then Gemini C... (trufflesecurity.com) 756 151 +749 25 3.5 0.20 +0.27
7
756
5 Never buy a .online domain (www.0xsid.com) 733 452 +144 21.5 21 0.62 +0.04
589
733
6 Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate pri... (www.thebignewsletter.com) 673 269 +38 3 2 0.40 +0.59
635
673
7 New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes (www.marginalia.nu) 668 553 +192 37 33 0.83 +0.44
476
668
8 OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an ide... (vmfunc.re) 644 197 +0 0 0 0.31 +0.60
644
644
9 Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge (time.com) 633 300 +2 1.3 0 0.47 +0.06
631
633
10 Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston (www.apple.com) 623 658 +7 1.3 2.7 1.06 +0.14
616
623
11 Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness (pi.dev) 575 296 +13 1.3 1.3 0.51 +0.27
562
575
12 I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10... (wordglyph.xyz) 550 194 +12 1 0 0.35 +0.14
538
550
13 Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer (spectrum.ieee.org) 522 164 +465 70 33.5 0.31 +0.24
57
522
14 Claude Code Remote Control (code.claude.com) 521 308 +95 17 13 0.59 +0.30
426
521
15 How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week (blog.cloudflare.com) 513 222 +1 0.6 0 0.43 +0.24
512
513
16 US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty init... (www.reuters.com) 498 437 +152 28 21.5 0.88 -0.14
346
498
17 Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US... (arstechnica.com) 462 410 +190 38 48.5 0.89 +0.19
272
462
18 Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Regis... (keepandroidopen.org) 446 372 +2 1.3 0 0.83
444
446
19 Discord cuts ties with identity verification softw... (fortune.com) 442 324 +0 0 0 0.73 +0.03
442
442
20 Nearby Glasses (github.com) 420 202 +2 1.3 0.6 0.48 +0.17
418
420
21 Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective (worksinprogress.co) 371 534 +142 15 23 1.44 -0.08
229
371
22 Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Pro... (hacks.mozilla.org) 365 157 +0 0 0 0.43 +0.41
365
365
23 Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion (www.inceptionlabs.ai) 340 124 +7 2.7 0 0.36 -0.45
333
340
24 Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times (www.mariannefeng.com) 327 89 +0 0 0 0.27 +0.14
327
327
25 Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing t... (github.com) 321 61 +0 0 0 0.19 +0.16
321
321
26 Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – highe... (github.com) 311 74 +3 0 1.3 0.24 +0.18
308
311
27 Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown (blogs.windows.com) 296 443 +225 31 49 1.50 +0.12
71
296
28 Tech Companies Shouldn't Be Bullied into Doing Sur... (www.eff.org) 296 100 +293 39 10.5 0.34 +0.86
3
296
29 Steel Bank Common Lisp (www.sbcl.org) 286 107 +0 0 0 0.37 +0.52
286
286
30 RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials... (arstechnica.com) 285 221 +283 50.5 18.5 0.78 +0.18
2
285
31 Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs (simonlermen.substack.com) 279 203 +159 18.5 12 0.73 -0.31
120
279
32 How Will OpenAI Compete? (www.ben-evans.com) 272 372 +269 24.5 9 1.37 +0.24
3
272
33 The Om Programming Language (www.om-language.com) 271 75 +107 21 4 0.28 +0.29
164
271
34 How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996... (web.archive.org) 270 43 +50 8.5 2 0.16 0.00
220
270
35 The First Fully General Computer Action Model (si.inc) 262 69 +226 33.9 7.3 0.26 -0.01
36
262
36 AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war... (www.newscientist.com) 241 246 +95 18 17 1.02 +0.27
146
241
37 LLM=True (blog.codemine.be) 240 141 +42 1.5 1 0.59 +0.13
198
240
38 Making MCP cheaper via CLI (kanyilmaz.me) 238 98 +227 25.5 19.5 0.41 +0.15
11
238
39 First Website (info.cern.ch) 238 64 +236 31.3 7.1 0.27 +0.71
2
238
40 Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter (stripe.com) 232 238 +0 0 0 1.03 +0.14
232
232
41 Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go (github.com) 210 95 +83 15 7 0.45 +0.17
127
210
42 Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents ... (llmskirmish.com) 208 74 +28 2.5 1 0.36 +0.24
180
208
43 Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development ... (github.com) 200 70 +0 0 0 0.35 +0.13
200
200
44 Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAI... (github.com) 199 129 +0 0 2 0.65 +0.21
199
199
45 Artist who "paints" portraits on glass by hitting ... (simonbergerart.com) 183 81 +171 23.2 5.6 0.44 +0.02
12
183
46 Banned in California (www.bannedincalifornia.org) 181 202 +179 69.2 74.7 1.12 -0.33
2
181
47 Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that tea... (respectify.org) 176 162 +171 24 39.5 0.92 +0.46
5
176
48 100M-Row Challenge with PHP (github.com) 174 95 +16 2 4 0.55 +0.20
158
174
49 GNU Texmacs (www.texmacs.org) 172 48 +93 14.5 4 0.28 +0.61
79
172
50 Japanese Death Poems (www.secretorum.life) 157 44 +24 7 3 0.28 +0.24
133
157
51 Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Su... (www.disruptionbanking.com) 153 56 +150 68.5 23 0.37 +0.17
3
153
52 The Misuses of the University (www.publicbooks.org) 149 114 +61 9 7 0.77 +0.44
88
149
53 Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dict... (www.linguabase.org) 144 264 +12 1.5 4.5 1.83 +0.10
132
144
54 Racket v9.1 (blog.racket-lang.org) 138 15 +30 11.5 1 0.11 +0.38
108
138
55 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March 137 188 +0 0 0 1.37
137
137
56 I don't know how you get here from "predict the ne... (www.grumpy-economist.com) 136 185 +134 52 57.1 1.36
2
136
57 Turing Completeness of GNU find (arxiv.org) 124 26 +12 6 0.5 0.21 +0.27
112
124
58 Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Insi... (github.com) 124 53 +36 5.5 2 0.43 +0.16
88
124
59 Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterpris... (thenewstack.io) 120 72 +15 5.5 1 0.60 -0.14
105
120
60 Why isn't LA repaving streets? (lapublicpress.org) 118 257 +79 19.8 55.2 2.18 +0.11
39
118
61 Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experim... (www.linum.ai) 117 15 +111 17 1.5 0.13 +0.39
6
117
62 Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distra... (www.clocksimulator.com) 114 82 +42 6.5 0.5 0.72 +0.21
72
114
63 Dissecting the CPU-memory relationship in garbage ... (norlinder.nu) 96 26 +91 10.4 4.2 0.27 +0.32
5
96
64 The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) (quod.lib.umich.edu) 89 63 +86 10.5 1 0.71 +0.53
3
89
65 Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw (tachyon.so) 88 84 +6 3.4 4 0.95 +0.49
82
88
66 Cl-kawa: Scheme on Java on Common Lisp (github.com) 86 19 +12 6.3 0 0.22 +0.27
74
86
67 Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just giv... 78 86 +1 0.6 1.3 1.10
77
78
68 An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop (aircada.com) 76 45 +75 8.5 5 0.59 +0.46
1
76
69 I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can... (github.com) 75 62 +24 4.4 3.8 0.83 -0.19
51
75
70 Text-Based Google Directions (gdir.telae.net) 73 21 +39 5 2 0.29 +0.59
34
73
71 PL/0 (en.wikipedia.org) 70 17 +23 4.5 1.5 0.24 +0.43
47
70
72 Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send... 70 23 +63 52.5 19.2 0.33
7
70
73 Topological Naming Problem (wiki.freecad.org) 69 30 +18 5 1 0.43 +0.06
51
69
74 Access to a Shared Unix Computer (tilde.club) 68 22 +64 11 3.5 0.32 +0.66
4
68
75 You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google... (www.heltweg.org) 65 55 +64 142.2 122.2 0.85
1
65
76 Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine wi... (github.com) 55 7 +53 10 0.5 0.13 +0.15
2
55
77 Confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters (paultendo.github.io) 54 38 +2 1 0.5 0.70 +0.30
52
54
78 Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access... (www.motherjones.com) 54 8 +50 19.3 3.1 0.15 +0.55
4
54
79 Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (www.wsj.com) 53 40 +51 37.8 28.9 0.75 -0.34
2
53
80 The Hydrogen Truck Problem Isn't the Truck (www.mikeayles.com) 52 63 +48 10.1 8.6 1.21 +0.16
4
52
81 Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for plannin... (app.teamout.com) 52 57 +24 3 4.5 1.10 -0.19
28
52
82 LibreOffice resumes work on its self-hosted Google... (www.xda-developers.com) 51 1 +10 4 0 0.02 +0.07
41
51
83 Show HN: Scheme-langserver – Digest incomplete cod... (github.com) 50 1 +12 0 0 0.02 -0.11
38
50
84 Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism (david.alvarezrosa.com) 50 23 +39 8 4.5 0.46 +0.12
11
50
85 Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of ... (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) 47 59 +45 15.7 15.7 1.26 +0.20
2
47
86 Ask HN: Chromebook leads for K-8 school in need? 45 44 +0 0 0 0.98
45
45
87 RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in... (www.collabora.com) 44 3 +39 5.1 0 0.07 +0.40
5
44
88 Gauss's Weekday Algorithm, Visualized (lukasmetzner.github.io) 41 7 +38 10.1 1.5 0.17 +0.15
3
41
89 ChatGPT finds an error in Terence Tao's math resea... 41 8 +0 0 0 0.20
41
41
90 What Pressure Does to an Athlete's Body (www.theatlantic.com) 38 9 +35 4.5 0.5 0.24
3
38
91 Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from ... (gitlab.com) 38 14 +36 30 11.7 0.37
2
38
92 The History of a Security Hole (www.os2museum.com) 37 2 +3 0.5 0 0.05 +0.27
34
37
93 The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their ... (lithub.com) 37 11 +34 4.5 1 0.30
3
37
94 PA Bench: Evaluating Frontier Models on Multi-Tab ... (vibrantlabs.com) 34 5 +31 3.1 1.6 0.15 +0.03
3
34
95 Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi? 33 24 +0 0 0 0.73
33
33
96 Ask HN: How do you know if AI agents will choose y... 32 23 +0 0 0 0.72
32
32
97 Self-improving software won't produce Skynet (contalign.jefflunt.com) 32 38 +29 6.6 3.5 1.19
3
32
98 Show HN: Sgai – Goal-driven multi-agent software d... (github.com) 31 18 +11 1.5 0 0.58 +0.29
20
31
99 Hiring Engineers When AI Writes Our Code (www.tolans.com) 30 2 +3 3.3 1.1 0.07
27
30
100 Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience (www.better-hub.com) 29 30 +27 16.7 18.5 1.03
2
29
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