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. Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
    ×6.01 | 1297 points by Philpax 7 hours ago | 820 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen (nobelprize.org)
    ×2.29 9 | 453 points by solarist 10 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Berthd (berthd.app)
    ×1.54 9 | 21 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol (dinculescu.dev)
    ×0.94 12 | 111 points by faithraven 6 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage (404media.co)
    ×3.60 2 | 28 points by awoodbeck 29 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Benchmark in Milliseconds (matklad.github.io)
    ×1.05 13 | 101 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
    ×1.13 8 | 81 points by _reza 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
    ×1.93 12 | 256 points by ingve 12 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Mathematics of Geothermal Energy (ebsco.com)
    ×0.55 23 | 56 points by srameshc 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer (peterszentkiralyi.eu)
    ×0.83 24 | 44 points by pentakkusu 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)
    ×1.13 20 | 68 points by mauriziocalo 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
    ×2.27 3 | 362 points by simicd 8 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is overestimated: study (phys.org)
    ×2.64 1 | 270 points by pseudolus 9 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
    ×2.09 24 | 527 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades (debugbear.com)
    ×1.86 26 | 319 points by jgx0 21 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. What's Earth's dominant species by mass? (signoregalilei.com)
    ×2.64 24 | 47 points by surprisetalk 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
    ×0.72 8 | 61 points by yashdotrv 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
    ×1.44 29 | 288 points by ishan0102 22 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
    ×1.40 34 | 261 points by E-Reverance 23 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
    ×1.90 25 | 295 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (tdk.com)
    ×1.10 47 | 110 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. EmbeddingGemma 2 (blog.google)
    ×3.10 29 | 13 points by ilreb 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Erdosproblems.com Succumbs to the AI Onslaught (erdosproblems.com)
    ×1.95 25 | 33 points by pfdietz 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Best-selling Zigbee temperature sensors tested and compared (smarthomescene.com)
    ×1.62 43 | 213 points by walrus01 23 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months (techcrunch.com)
    ×1.54 4 | 134 points by hochmartinez 8 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason (reuters.com)
    ×4.06 18 | 99 points by semiquaver 3 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
    ×1.81 31 | 295 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware (github.com/FeSens)
    ×2.42 24 | 166 points by fsbonetto 4 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The complement of true is true, except when it's false (dryperspective.github.io)
    ×0.73 49 | 66 points by aw1621107 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. The lamps in my house (arslan.io)
    ×2.21 45 | 315 points by farslan 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity (ajmoon.com)
    ×4.02 9 | 118 points by alex-moon 9 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (vals.ai)
    ×2.59 4 | 476 points by outlier99 23 hours ago | 324 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. IBM Cannot Hide the Layoffs Forever (techrights.org)
    ×5.44 20 | 11 points by amcclure 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire (techdirt.com)
    ×3.52 27 | 353 points by beardyw 7 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Why do tech CEOs sound like doomsday cult leaders? (theglobeandmail.com)
    ×3.76 6 | 6 points by Fricken 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl (mastodon.social)
    ×0.74 3 | 46 points by torutofu 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing (pipetogrep.org)
    ×0.97 32 | 104 points by thepipetogrep 16 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers (technologyreview.com)
    ×2.14 8 | 14 points by xnx 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024) (liquidbrain.net)
    ×0.73 31 | 84 points by luu 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (techspot.com)
    ×5.57 9 | 795 points by emptybits 1 day ago | 635 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 (floreal.tech)
    ×0.97 52 | 172 points by Vosporos 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients (ieee.org)
    ×1.00 91 | 108 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Ephemeral Testing (lemire.me)
    ×0.80 55 | 78 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit (github.com/dfd-tud)
    ×0.78 64 | 81 points by greyface- 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. Web Search API (cloudflare.com)
    ×2.48 5 | 582 points by tosh 1 day ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language (vivienhenz.com)
    ×2.51 11 | 272 points by misterchocolat 17 hours ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016) (lizzie.io)
    ×1.18 63 | 138 points by mkornaukhov 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle (gwern.net)
    ×0.64 66 | 57 points by networked 20 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel (nobelprize.org)
    ×1.32 70 | 148 points by lode 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  50. Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025) (danielchasehooper.com)
    ×1.18 74 | 148 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  51. Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr` (haskell.org)
    ×1.08 70 | 145 points by signa11 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  52. ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons (niemanlab.org)
    ×3.93 26 | 533 points by rdmuser 21 hours ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  53. ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers (bbc.co.uk)
    ×1.01 7 | 61 points by helsinkiandrew 10 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  54. Developer Survey 2026 (stackoverflow.co)
    ×2.41 3 | 19 points by hk__2 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  55. Martian chaos terrain (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.01 79 | 113 points by tiagod 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  56. An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot (princeton.edu)
    ×1.00 31 | 104 points by leecoursey 20 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  57. Show HN: Entombed in a Raycaster (stelabouras.com)
    ×0.50 59 | 36 points by stelabouras 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  58. The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (gnome.org)
    ×1.01 79 | 59 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  59. We ported the original Doom to SQL (cedardb.com)
    ×2.27 35 | 323 points by Vaslo 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  60. Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers (github.com/ahmetomerv)
    ×0.74 45 | 55 points by ahmetomer 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  61. Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear (github.com/rsutcliffe)
    ×0.76 64 | 85 points by delphidolphin 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  62. Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation (techcrunch.com)
    ×0.88 15 | 11 points by gmays 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  63. Mosquitoes Are a Choice (worksinprogress.news)
    ×0.91 92 | 38 points by abe94 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  64. JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025 (helgilibrary.com)
    ×4.48 59 | 554 points by thw_9a83c 8 hours ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  65. Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf] (nivdayan.github.io)
    ×0.62 73 | 33 points by ibobev 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  66. Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data (cpr.dk)
    ×2.62 6 | 497 points by clan 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  67. The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists (worksinprogress.co)
    ×2.26 17 | 272 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 229 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  68. Apple and a hacker's future (stratechery.com)
    ×1.85 20 | 287 points by maguay 1 day ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  69. A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap (frn.sh)
    ×1.46 77 | 113 points by shellpipe 1 day ago | 165 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  70. What Is Codemode (pocoo.org)
    ×1.50 4 | 18 points by Tomte 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  71. Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.03 41 | 202 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  72. Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning (almostimplemented.github.io)
    ×1.01 56 | 49 points by ishan0102 21 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  73. ExplainDB: A Database System Built for Understandability (github.com/explaindb)
    ×0.75 75 | 78 points by pykello 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  74. Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)
    ×0.82 33 | 72 points by stratts 21 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  75. cp: -r or -R? (movq.de)
    ×1.46 87 | 144 points by zdw 2 days ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  76. Nvidia's Olympus Core: Pushing Server Single Threaded Performance Boundaries (chipsandcheese.com)
    ×0.95 80 | 11 points by pella 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  77. Remote Live vs. Pre-Recorded Exercise Training for Chronic Low Back Pain (RCT) (nih.gov)
    ×0.49 19 | 11 points by chavasorani 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  78. Mystery Function (codeset.ai)
    ×0.59 74 | 52 points by andre15silva 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  79. RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)
    3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  80. The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news (lenfestinstitute.org)
    ×0.87 70 | 86 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  81. Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)
    ×1.30 46 | 31 points by procedurecall 16 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  82. Using A.I. and machine learning to decode communication of sperm whales (blue-continuum.com)
    ×0.99 4 | 64 points by dnetesn 15 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  83. Fundamentals of circadian entrainment by light (2021) (sagepub.com)
    ×0.45 62 | 11 points by NaOH 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  84. Germany: Ex-spy chief arrested for espionage (dw.com)
    ×3.09 8 | 48 points by Tomte 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  85. Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses (barrons.com)
    ×2.51 | 174 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  86. Blindsight (Watts Novel) (wikipedia.org)
    ×1.81 68 | 130 points by mooreds 2 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  87. Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)
    ×1.14 66 | 174 points by allenleee 2 days ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  88. Using Theme park rides and smartphones for demonstrating Newtonian mechanics (iop.org)
    ×0.34 63 | 15 points by bryanrasmussen 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  89. Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com/PowderworksCode)
    ×1.32 70 | 155 points by knuckleheads 2 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  90. A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE (wieslawsoltes.github.io)
    ×2.52 16 | 413 points by wiso 2 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???