| 1. | +0.90 | 717 | 1308 | 59% | 'Like we were lesser humans': Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture (www.aljazeera.com) | +0.90 | ND | ND | High | +0.78 |
| 2. | +0.76 | 743 | 827 | 49% | ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation (www.aclu.org) | +0.94 | +0.50 | +0.64 | High | +0.90 |
| 3. | +0.72 | 655 | 198 | 98% | OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine (vmfunc.re) | +0.75 | +0.70 | +0.19 | Medium | +0.43 |
| 4. | +0.72 | 1475 | 969 | 37% | ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data (www.eff.org) | +0.70 | +0.75 | -0.19 | Medium | +0.65 |
| 5. | +0.71 | 0 | 0 | 64% | [CAL] Human Rights Watch (EP-3) (www.hrw.org) | +0.72 | +0.70 | +0.12 | Medium | +0.78 |
| 6. | +0.70 | 814 | 311 | 41% | PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds (www.engadget.com) | +0.70 | ND | ND | High | +0.48 |
| 7. | +0.70 | 815 | 532 | 44% | Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks (theconversation.com) | +0.70 | ND | ND | High | +0.58 |
| 8. | +0.65 | 1036 | 360 | 54% | Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral (www.thebignewsletter.com) | +0.65 | ND | ND | High | +0.68 |
| 9. | +0.64 | 798 | 316 | 37% | German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal (www.politico.eu) | +0.60 | +0.70 | -0.26 | High | +0.42 |
| 10. | +0.60 | 779 | 387 | 30% | 23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing (www.engadget.com) | +0.60 | ND | ND | High | +0.41 |
| 11. | +0.56 | 1516 | 629 | 56% | What we talk about when we talk about sideloading (f-droid.org) | +0.60 | +0.50 | +0.24 | Medium | +0.58 |
| 12. | +0.54 | 221 | 99 | 29% | Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification (github.com) | +0.60 | +0.40 | +0.35 | High | +0.18 |
| 13. | +0.54 | 2 | 0 | 52% | City of Rings (archive.org) | +0.50 | +0.60 | -0.24 | Low | +0.56 |
| 14. | +0.53 | 163 | 138 | 38% | F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026 (f-droid.org) | +0.50 | +0.60 | -0.24 | Medium | +0.54 |
| 15. | +0.53 | 1747 | 760 | 32% | FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions (www.ftc.gov) | +0.60 | +0.50 | +0.24 | High | +0.48 |
| 16. | +0.52 | 1214 | 960 | 25% | Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta (www.dropsitenews.com) | +0.60 | +0.40 | +0.35 | Medium | +0.58 |
| 17. | +0.50 | 460 | 378 | 54% | Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution (keepandroidopen.org) | +0.50 | ND | ND | Medium | +0.56 |
| 18. | +0.50 | 741 | 613 | 43% | Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians (www.zdnet.com) | +0.50 | ND | ND | Medium | +0.65 |
| 19. | +0.50 | 1630 | 625 | 14% | US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data (www.zdnet.com) | +0.50 | ND | ND | Medium | +0.46 |
| 20. | +0.50 | 1471 | 554 | 54% | The Machine Fired Me (idiallo.com) | +0.50 | ND | ND | High | +0.40 |
| 21. | +0.48 | 1291 | 212 | 36% | Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat (www.eff.org) | +0.60 | +0.30 | +0.42 | High | +0.47 |
| 22. | +0.47 | 88 | 16 | 52% | Optophone (en.wikipedia.org) | +0.45 | +0.50 | -0.16 | Medium | +0.48 |
| 23. | +0.42 | 1587 | 632 | 23% | 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea (arstechnica.com) | +0.50 | +0.30 | +0.32 | Medium | +0.39 |
| 24. | +0.42 | 1186 | 786 | 48% | Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads (www.propublica.org) | +0.50 | +0.30 | +0.32 | Medium | +0.63 |
| 25. | +0.41 | 691 | 287 | 39% | Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy (www.thebignewsletter.com) | +0.45 | +0.35 | +0.21 | Medium | +0.55 |
| 26. | +0.40 | 769 | 237 | 40% | Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets (mchap.io) | +0.40 | ND | ND | Medium | +0.43 |
| 27. | +0.40 | 3387 | 925 | 48% | Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates | +0.40 | ND | ND | Medium | +0.46 |
| 28. | +0.37 | 14 | 1 | 58% | The Appeal and Reality of Recycling LoRAs with Adaptive Merging (arxiv.org) | +0.35 | +0.40 | -0.14 | Medium | +0.40 |
| 29. | +0.36 | 3270 | 473 | 45% | Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare? | +0.30 | +0.40 | -0.20 | Low | +0.47 |
| 30. | +0.34 | 729 | 492 | 57% | I've locked myself out of my digital life (shkspr.mobi) | +0.50 | +0.10 | +0.45 | High | +0.46 |