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 Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection (ieee.org)
    ×4.21 | 671 points by oldnetguy 4 hours ago | 551 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Ladybird Browser adopts Rust (ladybird.org)
    ×3.99 | 766 points by adius 7 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
    ×1.35 10 | 26 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. 'Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity: Ancient DNA study (science.org)
    ×1.32 15 | 42 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. A simple web we own (rsdoiel.github.io)
    ×1.27 1 | 92 points by speckx 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app (github.com/pgdogdev)
    ×1.51 10 | 50 points by levkk 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel (chrisbrunet.com)
    ×2.41 7 | 415 points by qsi 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Show HN: Sowbot – open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS) (sowbot.co.uk)
    ×1.17 16 | 31 points by Sabrees 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Hadrius (YC W23) Is Hiring Designers Who Code (ycombinator.com)
    1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) (sabrinas.space)
    ×1.67 3 | 154 points by montenegrohugo 4 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics (ieee.org)
    ×1.78 16 | 310 points by mhb 11 hours ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer (magicalmushroom.com)
    ×1.96 17 | 243 points by microflash 10 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index (anthropic.com)
    ×1.07 24 | 22 points by armcat 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (newscientist.com)
    ×1.30 22 | 15 points by nixass 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix (play0ad.com)
    ×1.85 23 | 280 points by jonbaer 14 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Emulating Goto in Scheme with Continuations (pyrope.net)
    ×0.50 29 | 25 points by usually 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. femtolisp: A lightweight, robust, scheme-like Lisp implementation (github.com/JeffBezanson)
    ×1.08 15 | 73 points by tosh 5 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later (npr.org)
    ×2.56 12 | 52 points by BostonFern 1 hour ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video] (youtube.com)
    ×2.13 8 | 33 points by delduca 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Benchmarks for concurrent hash map implementations in Go (github.com/puzpuzpuz)
    ×0.67 21 | 27 points by platzhirsch 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025) (iop.org)
    ×0.65 37 | 63 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives (reddit.com)
    ×2.42 5 | 23 points by HelloUsername 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Show HN: AI Timeline – 171 LLMs from Transformer (2017) to GPT-5.3 (2026) (llm-timeline.com)
    ×1.00 34 | 77 points by ai_bot 9 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. What Is a Centipawn Advantage? (win-vector.com)
    ×0.61 32 | 41 points by jmount 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. My journey to the microwave alternate timeline (lesswrong.com)
    ×2.28 37 | 336 points by jstanley 20 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard (hawksley.org)
    ×5.36 3 | 1422 points by saeedesmaili 23 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Ed's Stratego Site (edcollins.com)
    ×0.86 20 | 15 points by Torwald 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies (ewtnnews.com)
    ×3.68 13 | 459 points by josephcsible 11 hours ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf] (r2.dev)
    ×1.42 11 | 99 points by sagyam 5 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Microspeak: Escrow (microsoft.com)
    ×0.30 49 | 14 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours, in 2025 (andrewkchan.dev)
    ×1.75 40 | 117 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why the EU's AI Act is about to become enterprises' biggest compliance challenge (techpinions.com)
    ×1.47 8 | 8 points by swolpers 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030 (reuters.com)
    ×3.63 12 | 16 points by pieterr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Six Math Essentials (wordpress.com)
    ×1.91 38 | 289 points by digital55 23 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. NASA uses Mars Helicopter's SoC for rover navigation upgrade (theregister.com)
    ×1.61 10 | 39 points by LorenDB 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile (dinkomarinac.dev)
    ×0.78 42 | 33 points by dinko7 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw (google.dev)
    ×4.65 7 | 754 points by srigi 19 hours ago | 644 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Deplatform Yourself (pluralistic.net)
    ×2.25 16 | 12 points by hn_acker 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables (futurism.com)
    ×2.76 11 | 7 points by latexr 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Hetzner (European hosting provider) to increase prices by up to 38% (reddit.com)
    ×4.78 35 | 386 points by doener 6 hours ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok (joinloops.org)
    ×2.62 10 | 540 points by Gooblebrai 23 hours ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Writing code is cheap now (simonwillison.net)
    ×2.69 39 | 58 points by swolpers 1 hour ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable (cia-factbook-archive.fly.dev)
    ×2.27 10 | 444 points by MilkMp 21 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Fix your tools (ochagavia.nl)
    ×1.38 36 | 261 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. How to train your program verifier (risemsr.github.io)
    ×0.68 48 | 73 points by matt_d 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Hey I almost got scammed by Google (columbia.edu)
    ×1.55 3 | 7 points by sega_sai 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)
    ×0.76 53 | 73 points by zdw 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. How close are we to a vision for 2010? (shkspr.mobi)
    ×1.02 47 | 58 points by ColinWright 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Hello Worg, the Org-Mode Community (orgmode.org)
    ×1.08 54 | 145 points by dargscisyhp 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. What I learned designing a barebones UI engine (madebymohammed.com)
    ×0.91 39 | 65 points by teleforce 14 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.74 39 | 64 points by oldnetguy 2 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. A NASA Engineer Discovered a World of Semi Truck Aerodynamics by Accident (thedrive.com)
    ×0.89 17 | 53 points by PaulHoule 8 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel" (prql-lang.org)
    ×0.91 1 | 59 points by dmit 7 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler (oxc.rs)
    ×1.69 2 | 232 points by modinfo 15 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon (governance.fyi)
    ×1.95 16 | 38 points by crescit_eundo 4 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic (hayzam.com)
    ×0.86 52 | 123 points by vermaden 23 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Landlines are ringing in homes again. Why parents are happy about that (cnn.com)
    ×1.47 8 | 14 points by empressplay 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS (shuru.run)
    ×1.34 25 | 204 points by harshdoesdev 23 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love (hackernews.love)
    ×3.20 33 | 174 points by ohong 8 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. QRTape – Audio Playback from Paper Tape with Computer Vision (2021) (theresistornetwork.com)
    ×0.40 28 | 26 points by austinallegro 8 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser (pieter.com)
    ×1.25 43 | 145 points by jalev 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Git's Magic Files (nesbitt.io)
    ×1.41 47 | 173 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Dow drops 600 points as confusion grows after U.S. tariffs (cnbc.com)
    ×3.98 29 | 27 points by Betelbuddy 3 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. Attention Media ≠ Social Networks (susam.net)
    ×2.68 3 | 627 points by susam 1 day ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good (httptoolkit.com)
    ×1.68 58 | 7 points by pimterry 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Scheme 9 from Empty Space (2014) (t3x.org)
    ×0.80 69 | 12 points by emigre 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. Coal plant owners say DOE 'emergency' order to run it violates Constitution (utilitydive.com)
    ×3.35 2 | 9 points by geox 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Using the new bridges of FreeBSD 15 (feld.me)
    ×0.82 28 | 105 points by vermaden 19 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. South Carolina Hospitals Aren't Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions (propublica.org)
    ×1.68 23 | 4 points by digital55 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents (github.com/quailyquaily)
    ×0.64 36 | 62 points by lyricat 16 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums (popsci.com)
    ×2.37 4 | 389 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map (xweather.com)
    ×1.22 33 | 175 points by unstyledcontent 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. Show HN: A geometric analysis of Chopin's Prelude No. 4 using 3D topology (github.com/jimishol)
    ×0.49 49 | 47 points by jimishol 18 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work (github.com/FreHu)
    ×0.79 41 | 102 points by frehu 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015) (acm.org)
    ×1.35 45 | 77 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS (voxjong.com)
    ×0.85 43 | 117 points by rofko 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Keep Android Open (f-droid.org)
    ×7.80 7 | 2210 points by LorenDB 3 days ago | 723 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. GLP-1 Second-Order Effects
    ×1.29 43 | 10 points by 7777777phil 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. What's the best way to learn a new language? (bbc.com)
    ×1.16 59 | 105 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker (twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen)
    ×1.63 11 | 159 points by simplesort 23 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation (404media.co)
    ×1.52 6 | 70 points by trinsic2 14 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt (nytsoi.net)
    ×1.79 49 | 80 points by Ndymium 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over (thelocalstack.eu)
    ×6.06 1 | 1447 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 488 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Black-White Array: fast, ordered and based on with O(log N) memory allocations (github.com/dronnix)
    ×0.57 57 | 41 points by platzhirsch 23 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. The Geometry of Tostitos Scoops (zocomputer.io)
    ×0.89 48 | 47 points by kousun12 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Rhythms the Compendium: Life aboard an aircraft carrier (2021) (wordpress.com)
    ×0.50 41 | 27 points by cwillu 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet (fmhy.net)
    ×2.98 43 | 242 points by con 14 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI (acm.org)
    ×1.28 42 | 32 points by dnw 18 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov (twitter.com/Pirat_Nation)
    ×3.01 12 | 204 points by akyuu 22 hours ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023) (adamj.eu)
    ×1.55 67 | 190 points by frou_dh 2 days ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???