Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

×1.34 56 | 290 points by mlaux 3 days ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you get your first users for an MVP?

×0.26 62 | 8 points by amina124 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: React Native or Flutter when the back end is Node?

×0.18 70 | 5 points by rearview 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: JEV for K1 Tax Forms

×0.11 91 | 3 points by GoRudy 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are people doing with their OpenClaw set ups now?

×0.55 71 | 17 points by will10pa 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Management is forcing us to use AI

×0.70 63 | 17 points by aksjfveoq 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?

×0.45 94 | 33 points by shriy-singh 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
macOS 27: ifconfig command no longer prints hardware MAC address

×0.30 100 | 6 points by luckman212 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?

×0.31 126 | 12 points by sathomasga 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I was impressed by Jev, please explain why I shouldn't be

×0.64 81 | 13 points by effisfor 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?

×0.17 113 | 5 points by beerglass 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you getting inference for personal projects?

×0.16 129 | 3 points by variety8675 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: OpenAI $500 ProMax plan listed in API

×0.49 104 | 29 points by GustavHartz 4 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?

×0.75 115 | 16 points by consumer451 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?

×0.50 102 | 10 points by SMAAART 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode

×0.47 132 | 20 points by xnx 6 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound (jevstiller.pages.dev)

×1.07 | 2 points by tgluck 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Low Poly Earth – The whole planet in 3D, built from OpenStreetMap data (lowpolyearth.pages.dev)

×1.08 74 | 5 points by blueblazin 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CodeDiff – Fast (<100ms), robust (99.95%) syntax-aware code diff (github.com/ivankovic)

×0.86 | 2 points by FabCH 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Personal Manga / Story Recaps (terragohan.github.io)

×0.57 | 2 points by helpprotactiniu 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser (stateofutopia.com)

×1.40 15 #25 | 263 points by logicallee 19 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why browsers need a native API for open-weight models (medium.com)

×0.69 | 1 points by kenzic 16 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights (jvns.ca)

×1.11 34 | 207 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red (jev-pokemon.vercel.app)

×1.29 57 | 278 points by pancomplex 3 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I checked 1M free proxies – 1 in 5 working ones injected scripts (github.com/maximilianfeix)

×1.80 117 | 10 points by taventix 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Opaline – Analytics for Claude Code and Codex Sessions (opaline.so)

×0.83 | 1 points by evrendom 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock (colo.to)

×4.92 56 | 1074 points by Eric_Gullichsen 1 day ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about (hackeratlas.com)

×0.99 72 | 86 points by andrearitossa 4 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Durable Actor Session Protocol (dasp-protocol.github.io)

×6.48 61 | 16 points by mikehostetler 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)

×1.04 88 | 152 points by florianstandhar 1 week ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Publish a Notion database as a Next.js blog (github.com/loriscomba97)

×1.88 34 | 3 points by loriscomba 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures (ihatethefuture.com)

×2.03 21 | 276 points by pxx 1 day ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firebase SDK is CRASHING ALLLL iOS Apps, since today morning (twitter.com/GergelyOrosz)

×4.28 38 #49 | 115 points by pranshuchittora 5 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013) (asawicki.info)

×1.03 47 #81 | 173 points by ibobev 2 days ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decapsulation: Breaking Java Strong Encapsulation (coekaerts.be)

×0.90 | 1 points by theanonymousone 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CKKS – Encryption and Decryption (jeremykun.com)

×0.86 | 1 points by surprisetalk 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gamma-Band Auditory Steady-State Response and Attention: A Systemic Review (nih.gov)

×0.72 | 1 points by andsoitis 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jeb: Turn any OpenAI API into a decision model (github.com/chand1012)

×0.56 | 1 points by chand1012 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS (tomshardware.com)

×5.10 5 #8 | 184 points by mywacaday 2 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland (startup-nights.ch)

×0.94 11 #22 | 37 points by sschueller 6 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jev-Like Model Learns to Cook (rlafuente.com)

×0.85 122 | 3 points by andes314 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted (aresluna.org)

×3.02 8 | 384 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Geneva – CLI video editor and compositor with a native HTML/CSS engine (github.com/geneva-render)

×0.90 83 | 4 points by fbnt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sonnet 5.5 (anthropic.com)

×5.17 20 #34 | 841 points by D2OQZG8l5BI1S06 20 hours ago | 570 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society? (theeducatorsroom.com)

×3.82 9 | 142 points by obscurette 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Interactive Diesel Price Forecaster (sightspinner.ai)

×0.80 66 | 3 points by sightspinner 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner (derekthompson.org)

×3.50 2 #3 | 317 points by barry-cotter 2 hours ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My City Just Banned Flock After My Wrongful Stop Made National News (thedrive.com)

×3.15 24 #70 | 22 points by Markoff 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ember-1 (fireworks.ai)

×2.39 1 #80 | 582 points by gmays 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GoDrop – one curl turns a file into a URL your agent can paste (godrop.sh)

×0.55 | 1 points by fatihbaltaci 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com/reladraw)

×2.12 36 | 404 points by jpwalsh234 2 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source agent runtime using your ChatGPT or Claude subscription (github.com/noclickapp)

×0.55 | 2 points by dhruvyads 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jevgpt – reinventing the wheel with another wheel

×1.10 99 | 26 points by kunggaochicken 5 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a post-mortem debugger for native Windows x64/x86 crashes (forensicdbg.com)

×0.52 119 | 37 points by Loren_SL 5 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'” (bookofrevenue.com)

×1.03 38 #60 | 165 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Highlights from Git 2.56 (github.blog)

×1.01 55 #79 | 10 points by soheilpro 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MacUp – keep CLI tools up to date from the menu bar (patriciobcs.com)

×1.85 103 | 6 points by patriciobcs 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web (alvarezrosa.com)

×2.35 1 | 348 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?' (nytimes.com)

×3.66 25 | 146 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Cyber-OSINT model released (twitter.com/0x0SojalSec)

×1.28 20 #33 | 41 points by soltanov 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cities' Morphology (csh.ac.at)

×0.56 | 1 points by user_7832 55 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Device Linking to Eavesdrop on WhatsApp and Signal (schneier.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by mdp2021 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Corral kill every command your agent starts (github.com/Cardinal44)

×0.55 | 2 points by CG144 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vanish moves heavy computation off your laptop (vanishcompute.com)

×1.17 111 | 4 points by fcesco 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: InkVec Studio – In-browser, SOTA, WASM based (rust) vectorizer (hf.space)

×1.31 112 | 4 points by stefatorus 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI risk is not sentience by computers, it is negligence by humans (seattletimes.com)

×2.74 3 #87 | 25 points by ianmosher 10 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Micron to Double General-Purpose DRAM Capacity per Server (micron.com)

×0.81 | 1 points by haebom 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A longer exhale may push your brain toward bolder decisions (sciencedaily.com)

×0.84 | 1 points by samso26 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening (northeastern.edu)

×1.63 | 2 points by DeepLogin 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What're You Reading?

×2.18 54 | 3 points by dan-bailey 20 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025) (inkandswitch.com)

×1.09 24 | 156 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones (archaeologymag.com)

×0.94 36 #28 | 153 points by yusufaytas 18 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mistral CEO says U.S. AI safety debate masks competitors' 'negligence' (cnbc.com)

×2.58 8 #73 | 5 points by cramer4next 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet (cloudflare.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by ewpratten 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stepgate – AI agents that can't skip steps, in one portable file (github.com/Chaarangan)

×1.21 107 | 4 points by charangan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What I did at Recurse Center (thill.me)

×0.95 44 #86 | 126 points by bingden 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Knewbee, a daily game about what you agreed to when you clicked "Agree" (knewbee.web.app)

×0.71 | 1 points by root_theory 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
José Valim: Designing a Language You Can Maintain for Decades [audio] (maintainable.fm)

×0.81 | 1 points by mooreds 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CRDTs are not enough: From CRDTs to a local-first sync engine (loro.dev)

×0.56 | 1 points by czx111331 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games (github.com/brumar)

×0.88 67 | 75 points by brumar 2 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent (cnbc.com)

×1.63 36 #31 | 206 points by jonbaer 22 hours ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (plcred.org)

×0.63 29 #72 | 54 points by embedding-shape 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi (loficities.com)

×1.79 17 #85 | 311 points by safaelmali 1 day ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US bans $1 Billion in Canadian imports, including alcohol, dairy and motorcycles (apnews.com)

×2.05 29 | 3 points by ck2 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ParkourNote – A research workspace, built solo in a month with Claude (parkourlabs.io)

×1.00 120 | 3 points by sushiwang 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Squint – Drag a box on your screen and ask AI about it (heysquint.com)

×1.39 116 | 4 points by splurf 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs (calnewport.com)

×5.37 25 #42 | 548 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops (lolchat.rip)

×1.20 1 #46 | 120 points by henrychannel 13 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A bookshelf of rare company documents and out-of-print tech books (rare-books.vercel.app)

×1.83 84 | 11 points by miletus 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra (bluegraph.io)

×0.48 41 #77 | 16 points by polytap 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???