Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Robotics Software

×0.32 61 | 3 points by erardaiden 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windmill.dev is not "fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)"

×1.73 11 | 8 points by alpine-rockies 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why is HN missing a "go to top" link on long posts?

×1.19 46 | 4 points by KellyCriterion 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to Relicense an Old Project

×0.25 79 | 3 points by gradschool 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

×1.54 118 | 321 points by sharts 4 days ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: OpenCode no longer including DeepSeek?

×0.30 71 | 7 points by dv35z 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SearXNG running on OpenBSD on a ThinkPad t420

×0.14 | 2 points by open-search 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Authenticated Git-fetch-over-HTTPS against gitlab.com is failing

×0.25 | 2 points by basilgohar 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?

×1.11 72 | 6 points by bah9 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is GitHub Down Again?

×0.99 62 | 11 points by delduca 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

×2.99 104 | 645 points by dhruv3006 4 days ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you keep notes organized across long-running side projects?

×0.38 108 | 5 points by hackerstest 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do teams really need to use GitHub?

×0.46 109 | 5 points by avinoth 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

×3.68 116 | 656 points by stagas 5 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?

×0.49 142 | 52 points by Abh1Works 6 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you need Google ads help?

×0.41 123 | 5 points by cosbgn 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Idea to reduce AI token use at large orgs

×0.46 153 | 5 points by mgav 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you write code on restricted hardware?

×0.19 145 | 4 points by diselody 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why aren't smart people happier? (2022) (experimental-history.com)

×1.80 24 | 248 points by rafaelc 1 day ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SHOW HN: WillItSpam – paste an email, see why it will land in spam (willitspam.com)

×0.80 | 2 points by vladimir-aleksi 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP (github.com/paulsp94)

×0.98 94 | 56 points by paulsp 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mark of the Machine (newyorker.com)

×1.63 30 | 3 points by saikatsg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark (twitter.com/NVIDIAAI)

×1.77 39 | 67 points by dsrtslnd23 7 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (wsj.com)

×2.25 15 | 441 points by EwanG 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Can you tell Wodehouse from a model imitating Wodehouse? (voxoria.ai)

×1.04 131 | 3 points by sanj001 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (github.com/yaroslav)

×0.74 38 #44 | 67 points by ksec 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most of Your Architecture Was Just Expensive Code (leaflet.pub)

×0.49 | 1 points by chadfowler 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI: We're dropping API and credit pricing of GPT-5.6 Sol by over 20% (twitter.com/OpenAI)

×4.10 33 | 7 points by modeless 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30 (icarm.cloud)

×1.10 81 | 101 points by robinhouston 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slack Code (salesforce.com)

×1.54 87 | 78 points by trollied 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Groovebox – self-hosted music library integrated with Discogs and Tidal (github.com/danielfalbo)

×0.57 | 1 points by danielfalbo 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volcanoes That Made History (knowablemagazine.org)

×0.65 73 #58 | 4 points by knowablemag 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon (encore.dev)

×1.14 4 #74 | 142 points by signa11 14 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Huge Breakthrough' in the Math of Imbalance (quantamagazine.org)

×1.54 47 | 3 points by ibobev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders (claude.com)

×1.17 15 #11 | 24 points by garo-pro 2 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)

×0.99 58 #69 | 52 points by olexsmir 13 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla sunsets its Solar Roof tiles (theverge.com)

×3.81 14 #81 | 16 points by doener 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OWASP Agentic Skills Top (owasp.org)

×1.80 16 | 3 points by chha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny (kmbc.com)

×3.52 98 | 134 points by cocacola1 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Risk Engineering (risk-engineering.org)

×1.02 97 | 78 points by throwaw12 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris? (microsoft.com)

×1.28 107 | 77 points by tybulewicz 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Waltier – a generalized version of Cursor's S3 WAL (github.com/danthegoodman1)

×1.02 125 | 3 points by dangoodmanUT 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Just Want to Search (0xsid.com)

×2.07 29 #49 | 88 points by ssiddharth 5 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YC co is organizing an event in SF on AI in regulated industries (getsphere.com)

×1.42 42 | 3 points by gonsanchezs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies (reuters.com)

×5.45 106 | 87 points by thm 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup (theparisreview.org)

×3.03 37 | 5 points by cocacola1 53 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 (theconsensus.dev)

×0.81 16 #30 | 52 points by eatonphil 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode (interconnected.org)

×0.54 46 #45 | 11 points by bobbiechen 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rise of the Software Factory (terezatizkova.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by starlightttt 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games (github.com/katiahayati)

×1.31 121 | 159 points by wkfauna 2 days ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Encrypt messages locally into self-contained links (diaryof.me)

×1.59 149 | 4 points by cryptographical 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude (ghinda.com)

×1.78 4 #2 | 40 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What we lost when search stopped making us think (8ball.space)

×1.15 55 | 84 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study (rathbiotaclan.com)

×2.95 6 | 348 points by Akasci 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ez – a macOS command runner that flags when a command gets slower (github.com/urtti)

×0.99 158 | 5 points by frankbyte 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)

×12.85 69 | 1604 points by speckx 1 day ago | 368 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The August 17 outage (github.blog)

×2.62 28 #87 | 621 points by 0xedb 1 day ago | 728 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waiter, there's a watermark in my slop (zgp.org)

×1.07 | 2 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The US techlash is real (ft.com)

×2.90 31 #79 | 43 points by thm 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Diffview, a fast Git diff viewer written in Rust (github.com/sleipner42)

×1.29 120 | 3 points by sleipner42 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sitmap – a World in Conflict inspired map maker for Cold War scenarios (tomaytotomato.github.io)

×0.99 140 | 9 points by tomaytotomato 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM (rust-glancer.github.io)

×2.34 1 | 4 points by matklad 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust (winonapost.com)

×1.86 38 #67 | 95 points by erikschoster 6 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero (techcrunch.com)

×2.32 #68 | 3 points by dthread3 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (mikekasberg.com)

×0.79 74 | 105 points by speckx 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bounded GenAI metrics from Otel traces with O raw prompts (github.com/llm-measurement)

×1.61 84 | 4 points by kwisatzh 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes (github.com/alibaba)

×0.92 26 | 14 points by forrestly 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (jakesaunders.dev)

×1.06 8 #20 | 56 points by jakelsaunders94 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When the shortage is the strategy (nooneshappy.com)

×2.00 13 #38 | 45 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)

×3.94 12 #82 | 1003 points by emctech 1 day ago | 325 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Burning Mesh: off-grid Meshtastic network for Burning Man (burningmesh.org)

×1.56 | 2 points by gourneau 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Your Next Long-Haul Layover May Be in Seoul, Not Dubai (nytimes.com)

×1.11 | 2 points by bookofjoe 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Step 1: Build Everything (insideainative.com)

×1.10 | 2 points by mmayernick 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours (doub.ly)

×0.97 89 | 75 points by knaught 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Organizational Cognition: Why the Next AI Moat Won't Be Intelligence (chinmayrelkar.github.io)

×0.43 | 2 points by Chnmy 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (pointinthecloud.com)

×1.51 #15 | 79 points by colinprince 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reachpad – make applications you can share instantly (reachpad.dev)

×0.55 | 1 points by sakuraiben 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to compromise your system with a job interview (codedge.de)

×1.23 60 | 177 points by codedge 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. government debt passes $40T, more than doubling in a decade (cnbc.com)

×4.59 122 | 73 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS (desktopcolors.com)

×1.11 137 | 166 points by vlowrian 4 days ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fsel –. a Rust TUI launcher, fuzzy picker and clipboard browser (github.com/Mjoyufull)

×1.93 135 | 5 points by Rikona_Kurasaki 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Verified business dashboards inside ChatGPT and Claude via MCP Apps (corpusiq.io)

×0.88 | 2 points by corpusiq_io 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent (github.com/proliferate-ai)

×0.87 2 #47 | 33 points by pablo24602 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (paculdo.com)

×1.09 35 #52 | 102 points by surprisetalk 13 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24 (github.com/emacs-mirror)

×2.60 20 | 62 points by birdculture 12 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models (modelmap.cc)

×0.92 128 | 113 points by lizhaoliu 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (precastreinforced.co.uk)

×1.86 6 #27 | 184 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000) (super-nova.co.jp)

×0.38 23 #19 | 13 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Agent Access Model (cloudflare.com)

×0.69 79 #53 | 3 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'The young ones are the best ones': Meta's alleged effort to hook kids (latimes.com)

×0.74 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???