Quality News
new | top | ask | show | best | algorithms | about
This is the current Hacker News Front Page, with some additional performance stats. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms
key: ×UpvoteRate (?)   rankDelta (?)
  1. The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.96 | 100 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished (grapheneos.social)
    ×4.28 1 | 26 points by Cider9986 29 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent (meta.com)
    ×2.34 3 | 465 points by yks 11 hours ago | 489 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants (phys.org)
    ×1.03 4 | 95 points by mdp2021 5 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] (nyu.edu)
    ×7.71 6 | 1545 points by procedurecall 1 day ago | 664 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.75 14 | 27 points by cisc 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. How to build a printer (nishantjosh.dev)
    ×2.29 2 | 270 points by cat-whisperer 9 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA (blog.google)
    ×2.13 9 | 540 points by utiiiD 16 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration (openreview.net)
    ×1.01 14 | 145 points by paimapi 9 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Mercury 2.5 (inceptionlabs.ai)
    ×1.64 15 | 181 points by Topfi 10 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing? (dearheadofmine.substack.com)
    ×1.44 1 | 27 points by samclemens 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1) (note.com)
    ×0.93 2 | 24 points by porridgeraisin 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. The origins of Partner’s computer case (racunalniski-muzej.si)
    ×0.85 23 | 26 points by markostamcar 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. 27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter (gpu-lexer.vercel.app)
    ×1.09 10 | 61 points by bpierre 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. I resigned from Anthropic today (twitter.com/hilbertspaess)
    ×11.27 13 | 413 points by yurivish 6 hours ago | 549 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. DaVinci Resolve 21.1 (blackmagicdesign.com)
    ×1.63 13 | 390 points by tosh 17 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. An Accidental Blackboard (martinfowler.com)
    ×0.93 17 | 50 points by saikatsg 6 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited) (thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com)
    ×0.40 19 | 30 points by tobr 4 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI (mathstodon.xyz)
    ×4.05 12 | 318 points by _alternator_ 9 hours ago | 305 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI Has a Discovery Problem (mhacevedo.com)
    ×1.54 6 | 14 points by miguelacevedo 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer (github.com/ayghri)
    ×2.61 6 | 408 points by domhudson 16 hours ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem (openai.com)
    ×6.45 18 | 1229 points by tedsanders 13 hours ago | 982 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses (quesma.com)
    ×1.25 16 | 239 points by stared 16 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016) (acm.org)
    ×0.62 30 | 13 points by rramadass 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. A Topological Picture Book, Rendered (e-infinity.space)
    ×1.31 10 | 90 points by mathgenius 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025) (mit.edu)
    ×0.66 37 | 48 points by neehao 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. We built our house for LAN parties (2024) (lanparty.house)
    ×3.32 15 | 489 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. ChatGPT Images 2.5 (openai.com)
    ×3.11 10 | 323 points by vertigoruntime 12 hours ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster (pointersgonewild.com)
    ×1.04 31 | 118 points by metrofun 14 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Getting phpBB 1.4.4 working in Docker (thran.uk)
    ×0.79 29 | 43 points by HeckFeck 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades (hackaday.com)
    ×1.08 22 | 173 points by zdw 16 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture (glocq.com)
    ×0.72 30 | 65 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs (github.com/argonautlabsai)
    ×1.92 18 | 254 points by Argonautlabs 10 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards (copperhead.sh)
    ×1.21 13 | 225 points by animeshchouhan 17 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Tracing np.add, all the way down (veitheller.de)
    ×0.72 39 | 54 points by luu 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas) (uecker.codeberg.page)
    ×0.65 39 | 70 points by uecker 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization (ishamf.dev)
    ×1.02 6 | 153 points by ifz 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?
    ×0.42 34 | 26 points by rietta 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (nytimes.com)
    ×1.46 17 | 165 points by robinhouston 16 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Reverse Engineering an ASIC (kjartanvandriel.github.io)
    ×0.99 28 | 52 points by burekqueen 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. FreeBSD 14.5-Release (freebsd.org)
    ×1.32 39 | 126 points by joshcsimmons 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Getting your hands dirty is good for you (bbc.com)
    ×1.51 24 | 228 points by HatchedLake721 21 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome (deepmind.google)
    ×0.70 47 | 83 points by fady0 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. The two Christian saints who are the Buddha (signoregalilei.com)
    ×1.65 4 | 235 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 175 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound (wordpress.com)
    ×0.70 33 | 95 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Connecting the machines (herdr.dev)
    ×0.67 30 | 79 points by collinmanderson 14 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. GrapheneOS on AI Usage (grapheneos.social)
    ×1.43 66 | 35 points by garo-pro 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts (vale.rocks)
    ×1.42 16 | 233 points by patadune 21 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. GPT3 Writing Code (twitter.com/Altimor)
    ×4.17 33 | 7 points by vinhnx 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C (2025) (arxiv.org)
    ×0.64 32 | 76 points by rramadass 15 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance (harvard.edu)
    ×2.16 46 | 111 points by jodacola 4 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger (techdirt.com)
    ×3.32 24 | 362 points by hn_acker 16 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Mistral raises €3B (mistral.ai)
    ×4.60 20 | 820 points by kuberwastaken 1 day ago | 580 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack (leadedsolder.com)
    ×0.78 80 | 9 points by zdw 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors (jerf.org)
    ×0.71 37 | 42 points by ingve 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Show HN: VolAnti – Open-source acoustic detector for fibre-optic FPV drones (github.com/agamrossen)
    ×0.49 84 | 7 points by agamrossen 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Disappointed Optimists (cwodtke.com)
    ×0.70 41 | 65 points by adrianhoward 15 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. How well do agents use test/verification techniques? (danluu.com)
    ×1.24 50 | 180 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis (weirdgloop.org)
    ×3.22 4 | 545 points by pizzaiolo 1 day ago | 223 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Extracting Steering Vectors from J space (darshanmakwana412.github.io)
    ×0.56 55 | 62 points by martianvoid 18 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Picolibrary: A Small Press (novalis.org)
    ×0.58 68 | 61 points by luu 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s (mcpherrin.ca)
    ×2.25 1 | 492 points by ahlCVA 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Cognition (Devin) raises $2B at $48B valuation (cognition.com)
    ×0.70 79 | 21 points by meco 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
    ×1.55 1 | 246 points by Animats 21 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. "Please Remove All Mannered Prose" and Other LLM Incantations (matthewritch.com)
    ×1.47 61 | 28 points by mdritch 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics (arm.com)
    ×0.61 75 | 81 points by Re-Tails 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Space Force Uniform Is Inspired by Quasi-Satirical Film 'Starship Troopers' (deadline.com)
    ×3.06 26 | 30 points by alex_young 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.31 24 | 57 points by Bender 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. Keep Our Servers Running (archive.org)
    ×3.97 10 | 1035 points by sonicrocketman 2 days ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Flock worker calls police on investigator filming public camera installation (atlantanewsfirst.com)
    ×3.56 12 | 40 points by driverdan 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Y Combinator Early Access Network (ycombinator.com)
    ×0.84 6 | 78 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Meta continues to run ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India (bbc.com)
    ×3.14 34 | 7 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. End-to-end infrastructure for training and inferencing open weight models (appliedcompute.com)
    ×0.70 58 | 72 points by Bluestein 22 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Emacs Bedrock 2.0 (lambdaland.org)
    ×1.82 51 | 184 points by ashton314 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. Our GitHub Actions bill kept climbing, so we moved CI to one box (github.com/senoff)
    ×1.08 60 | 27 points by senoff 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. John Margolies' photographs of roadside America (publicdomainreview.org)
    ×0.99 60 | 124 points by duck 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 (ladybird.org)
    ×2.34 41 | 279 points by exploraz 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. New Yorkers were misled about air quality after 9/11 (nytimes.com)
    ×2.89 21 | 8 points by JMiao 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. Jellyfin 12.0 (jellyfin.org)
    ×4.08 30 | 595 points by 0xC0ncord 1 day ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] (youtube.com)
    ×6.17 8 | 887 points by treve 2 days ago | 993 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby (theverge.com)
    ×5.88 69 | 523 points by sbulaev 14 hours ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits (404media.co)
    ×3.40 52 | 335 points by abraham 16 hours ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Reverse engineering the 2008 LogiCola, a logic drill program (logicola.org)
    ×0.28 72 | 20 points by kotk 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Real photos of young girls were in nudify-app ads on Facebook, Instagram (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.00 14 | 65 points by Bender 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. I Rewrote My Back End in Go in 72 Hours and Cut My AWS Bill by 94% (bajura.online)
    ×2.21 20 | 56 points by odilelof 15 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Simple Is Not Small (jyn.dev)
    ×1.54 46 | 257 points by zdw 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code) (rohanadwankar.github.io)
    ×0.79 56 | 74 points by RohanAdwankar 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode (martypc.blogspot.com)
    ×1.03 64 | 144 points by mariuz 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework (github.com/TauricResearch)
    ×1.04 27 | 116 points by fittingopposite 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Extinct Tasmanian tiger's 'snap' unlike any living mammal's bite (cnn.com)
    ×0.56 71 | 52 points by cisc 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???