Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

×3.64 1 #11 | 790 points by paveworld 22 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.

×0.28 | 2 points by LowLevelMahn 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

×0.71 77 | 129 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

×1.12 60 | 265 points by whoishiring 3 days ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you reading?

×2.34 72 | 466 points by dan-bailey 5 days ago | 882 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1)

×0.67 99 | 3 points by anydigital 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Linux is picking up at a rapid pace for AI usage?

×0.70 57 | 4 points by keshwanianup 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?

×0.48 136 | 18 points by jopizio 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?

×0.28 109 | 6 points by Dinuda 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace

×0.71 124 | 30 points by zcalvin 4 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?

×0.62 123 | 17 points by thatonehack 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones

×0.32 128 | 4 points by Steaglsz 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers

×0.33 137 | 6 points by esher 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub mutuals on AI in life sciences or bioinformatics

×0.30 126 | 5 points by arli_ap 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup

×0.26 141 | 8 points by bigfishhk 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Valet – Self-Hosted Cloud Agents with Computers (github.com/dropalltables)

×1.58 107 | 4 points by imbobbytables 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: S3-Accelerator (github.com/danthegoodman1)

×0.72 | 2 points by dangoodmanUT 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Infidel Goes Wild (zarfhome.com)

×1.62 3 #4 | 31 points by tobr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Mainstream media overplaying the threat of AI, or industry underplaying?

×0.55 | 1 points by AbstractH24 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare opens more Enterprise-only features to all customers (cloudflare.com)

×1.63 76 | 48 points by sdko 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shorter.dev – find domain hacks for any name (shorter.dev)

×0.69 | 1 points by aanesn 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pyxel – A Python retro game engine with built-in art and sound editors (github.com/kitao)

×1.15 65 | 98 points by kitao 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound (jevstiller.pages.dev)

×0.71 113 | 67 points by tgluck 5 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill Draper has died (nytimes.com)

×1.99 22 #23 | 62 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New York City should carefully measure a new tree (willmeye.rs)

×0.99 29 #90 | 81 points by willmeyers 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yuekbox Yue2 Music Generator UI (github.com/codenamegary)

×0.86 | 1 points by codenamegary 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE (wieslawsoltes.github.io)

×3.14 8 #10 | 32 points by wiso 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MapLibre Compose, Interactive Vector Maps for Compose Multiplatform (github.com/maplibre)

×1.80 9 | 3 points by sargunv 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: jpm – a JavaScript package manager in Rust, every line by Claude Code (getjpm.sh)

×1.71 86 | 6 points by jtwebman 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic Compliance in Finance (gigacore.in)

×2.09 48 | 3 points by Gigacore 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What happens when AI writes a Bible ver 2.0, geared toward its interest?

×1.73 5 | 3 points by netfortius 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace (offrun.dev)

×1.07 54 | 76 points by arunbhatia 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Enki – Write GPU compute kernels in pure stable Rust (github.com/enkiruntime)

×1.20 111 | 10 points by enki_runtime 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Television – an open source GUI for your agent harness (television.run)

×3.10 114 | 8 points by stlhood 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video] (youtube.com)

×1.07 8 #14 | 40 points by simonjgreen 5 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emitting metadata early makes building/checking Rust up to twice as fast (github.com/PowderworksCode)

×1.50 24 #30 | 122 points by knuckleheads 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FTL: A new operating system for clouds (ftl-os.org)

×1.19 42 #59 | 195 points by romac 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emails to and from Elon Musk that have been made public (elonemails.com)

×5.46 58 | 31 points by measurablefunc 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor (github.com/kvoltmer)

×1.11 64 | 150 points by vltmrkls 2 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dataviz, ranked daily from GitHub, NPM, PyPI and CRAN (awesomedataviz.com)

×0.74 17 | 11 points by javierluraschi 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Results from the ASIC puzzle (janestreet.com)

×1.48 5 #9 | 67 points by eru 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war (thebulletin.org)

×2.39 15 #32 | 8 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gold Steadies as Softer Inflation Cuts Fed Hike Bets (coinmarketcap.com)

×1.20 | 2 points by joeymabia1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents (fortune.com)

×3.64 2 #58 | 382 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 691 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What new cat ownership data says about Americans (washingtonpost.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You (youtube.com)

×4.07 68 | 41 points by tukunjil 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Every click on this page draws a new Maurer rose (maricakes.de)

×0.54 | 1 points by jantuss 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scoop: White House monitors suspected plague outbreak in Russia (axios.com)

×2.45 18 | 4 points by colinhb 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In the wake of closure, a digital archive of animated materials appears online (filmstories.co.uk)

×1.12 | 2 points by rdmuser 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I open-sourced the gradient picker from our design editor (github.com/rishimohan)

×0.49 | 1 points by zinx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf] (aleph-alpha.com)

×1.58 24 | 109 points by yu3zhou4 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Snip – Terminal notes app that Claude can read and write via MCP (github.com/jerichosiahaya)

×0.89 | 2 points by ikigaineo 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (github.com/omlahore)

×3.91 2 #3 | 261 points by privacyisntdead 3 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux (phoronix.com)

×2.57 20 #22 | 451 points by speckx 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system (github.com/vlang)

×1.48 4 #74 | 5 points by tosh 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exam of the Month: All Souls Prize Fellowship Exam (alexanderhthompson.substack.com)

×1.37 | 2 points by nicksont 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New York Times Saved $45M with Tax Break It Faults Meta for Using (freebeacon.substack.com)

×3.02 36 | 5 points by CGMthrowaway 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com/sshah03)

×1.06 134 | 15 points by sshah03 4 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust (getartcraft.com)

×2.90 64 | 3 points by aghuang 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"No Vendor Lock-In" Is Code for "No Product" (ferran.sh)

×1.61 | 2 points by ferran9908 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Runescape but its a parody of SF (fogscape.vercel.app)

×0.54 | 1 points by pbmango 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Build with Python – a beginner course where your code draws (scimigo.com)

×0.55 24 #8 | 19 points by davidwshao 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Minsky machine in ncurses terminfo (seriot.ch)

×0.84 3 #44 | 29 points by beefburger 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Three AI agents, two countries, and one uneven world wide web (royapakzad.substack.com)

×0.57 53 #79 | 40 points by effects 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot (arduino.cc)

×0.84 88 | 133 points by gvuksic 5 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bise – a multi-agent harness, made for humans (bise.dev)

×1.86 121 | 10 points by gvergnaud 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leaving Substack

×1.86 | 2 points by GianFabien 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase (neowin.net)

×3.65 19 | 116 points by bundie 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' (techcrunch.com)

×5.12 57 | 474 points by sbulaev 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Outis – Fight AI spam by sending fake "user unknown" bounce emails (github.com/dtonon)

×1.24 145 | 3 points by dtonon 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer (github.com/mikesart)

×1.01 3 #66 | 71 points by luu 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm Calling for a Pause in the Development of the Universal Bone Dissolver (theatlantic.com)

×2.94 32 | 5 points by rmason 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Our AI Midwife (astralcodexten.com)

×3.63 42 | 63 points by eatitraw 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code (claude.dev)

×2.44 9 | 231 points by saikatsg 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Former SR-71 engineer talks NASA's Blackbird revival program (twz.com)

×1.39 50 #34 | 102 points by rkagerer 19 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We're working on a new RuneScape MMO (runescape.com)

×1.67 6 #61 | 148 points by droidjj 20 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gen Z is betting on sports. Experts warn of the risks (cnbc.com)

×1.97 8 | 3 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)

×1.82 92 | 319 points by safaelmali 1 week ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tiny Brutalism (itch.io)

×2.04 52 #89 | 212 points by abetusk 2 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? (computationalcomplexity.org)

×1.05 | 2 points by ilreb 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare OHTTP gateway (cloudflare.com)

×1.48 35 | 201 points by est 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Typst 0.15 Contains Multitudes (typst.app)

×2.15 32 #60 | 6 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Power of Coincidence (theatlantic.com)

×1.40 | 2 points by andsoitis 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Baloo, self-hosted AI code review for GitHub (github.com/bluebear-io)

×1.09 | 2 points by amirshk80 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source Git server that runs on Cloudflare Workers (github.com/choyiny)

×0.64 | 2 points by choyiny 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (tdk.com)

×1.45 53 | 37 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Yantra – an LALR(1) parser generator for C++ (github.com/TantrixAuto)

×0.51 110 | 33 points by renjipanicker 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s (github.com/lostmsu)

×0.76 115 | 56 points by lostmsu 5 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Using 2D DFT, dithering, etc. to maximize eInk manga image quality (github.com/ciromattia)

×1.00 100 | 83 points by seam_carver 6 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: figma-server, the solution to Figma's hostility towards agents (github.com/ctxrs)

×1.20 144 | 3 points by ripped_britches 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???