Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

×1.22 15 #83 | 98 points by keymasta 12 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why have we normalized jobs and soft skills bullshit so much?

×3.26 75 | 4 points by thomasjeff1 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

×1.42 112 | 373 points by david927 4 days ago | 1188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

×2.74 54 | 302 points by jakemanger 17 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily?

×0.50 98 | 4 points by osr00 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Co-Founder(s). Do I need any? How would I even find them?

×0.71 93 | 9 points by bhollan 11 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Makes Tokens Expensive?

×0.49 128 | 3 points by mtokarski 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open-sourced jev architecture last year with model,paper and dataset

×2.06 89 | 37 points by nandakishor_ml 23 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Desktop Silently Associates with Common Files

×0.35 135 | 3 points by 3371 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?

×0.48 139 | 14 points by learner_yearner 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can I get insurance for company renting humanoids for parties?

×0.20 145 | 4 points by cpsk 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zuck's bot increased our Vercel bill 10x

×0.46 140 | 7 points by Marciok 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you managing aging relatives passwords?

×0.54 164 | 12 points by rylando 3 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Lesser known features of macOS/iPadOS/iOS/etc. 27

×0.48 144 | 15 points by lucasoshiro 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?

×0.37 161 | 16 points by amichail 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Slow OpenAI Inference on AWS Bedrock

×0.15 165 | 3 points by timedude 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LeanReact: Expressing Composable and Correct React Components in Lean (theoric.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by hargup 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so (theregister.com)

×0.91 | 2 points by myth_drannon 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Bitter Lesson for Data Filtering (arxiv.org)

×2.52 31 | 3 points by nujan_dev 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running OpenBAO on Kubernetes with a CloudNativePG PostgreSQL Back End (cncf.io)

×1.15 | 2 points by geoffbp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Interakt – open-source self-hosted search and AI chat for your website (github.com/alphasolutionsrepo)

×0.51 | 2 points by interakt 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
.agt – The Agent Namespace (agtnames.substack.com)

×0.91 | 2 points by danschmitz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacking OpenAI (hacktron.ai)

×3.71 #1 | 79 points by Handy-Man 1 hour ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The FAA's plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI (techcrunch.com)

×2.19 3 #63 | 19 points by danso 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
This California Educational Juggernaut Doesn't Need the SAT (nytimes.com)

×1.48 55 | 3 points by like_any_other 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band (github.com/callbacked)

×0.90 130 | 121 points by callbacked 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DaiDocs, AI memory as a plain-text file format, not a service (github.com/Kerneta)

×1.60 162 | 7 points by Amin_Rigi 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites (arstechnica.com)

×3.12 12 #45 | 9 points by mmh0000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Figure AI - Helix 2.5 Robot: Zero-Shot Home Generalization (figure.ai)

×1.13 88 #86 | 8 points by agotterer 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: YOLO FPS-per-dollar numbers for edge AI boards ($75-$215) (github.com/chorylee)

×1.36 154 | 4 points by chorylee 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA (global.fujitsu)

×2.39 5 #8 | 538 points by my123 16 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: An open Add/Search evaluation framework for agent memory (agentmemoryleaderboard.ai)

×1.07 | 2 points by IreneAI 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lodestar – Easier Communication with Agents (try-lodestar.com)

×1.13 | 2 points by elushine 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy? (mathoverflow.net)

×1.35 51 #25 | 96 points by jjgreen 12 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Minimal Phone 2 (minimalcompany.com)

×3.42 4 #39 | 12 points by nashashmi 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce" (evanhahn.com)

×1.42 81 #87 | 168 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anderon (IBM) finalizes $1B CHIPS award for US quantum foundry R&D (ibm.com)

×2.47 32 | 3 points by osnium123 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ResolveHQ – A Helpdesk Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2 and Queues (github.com/mirza-rizvi)

×0.59 153 | 72 points by mirza_rizvi 6 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The most important product decision is what you don't build (liamnugent.me)

×1.50 7 #18 | 72 points by ChrisArchitect 7 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Essays of Dario Amodei are why people are worried about artificial intelligence (nytimes.com)

×3.05 3 | 5 points by Alien1Being 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jev plays Roulette Wars on its own (twitter.com/NicoSaraintaris)

×1.13 | 2 points by lafferty 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Don't Like LLMs (martinfowler.com)

×6.11 55 | 209 points by TangerineDream 14 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How good are frontier models at physics? (arxiv.org)

×1.11 85 | 94 points by qt31415926 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kosmic Kart – Mario Kart-style racing with friends in the browser (kosmi.io)

×1.22 146 | 4 points by hauxir 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv and rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition (phoronix.com)

×2.80 16 #46 | 13 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill (github.com/cloudflare)

×1.89 41 #65 | 196 points by donk8r 23 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member' (bloomberg.com)

×5.62 104 | 83 points by helsinkiandrew 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Endless Museum, Wikipedia as a walkable museum (theendlessmuseum.com)

×1.75 106 | 4 points by edwardbonnett 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Warp – Run DeepSeek v4.1 Flash with 5 GB of RAM at 3.77 tok/s (github.com/sqliteai)

×4.02 149 | 13 points by marcobambini 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain (sci.news)

×0.72 44 #19 | 40 points by embedding-shape 7 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How SpaceX Streamlined the Raptor Engine (construction-physics.com)

×1.84 68 #40 | 20 points by JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Towards Self-Driving Codebases (detail.dev)

×1.49 12 #43 | 105 points by wilhelmklopp 11 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Developing provably correct Rust code with Verus (amazon.science)

×1.21 62 #71 | 158 points by Betelbuddy 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Natural General Intelligence (naturalgeneralintelligence.ai)

×1.22 | 2 points by jbegley 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cache-Tax (github.com/karanb192)

×1.08 | 2 points by handfuloflight 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code from Source (claude-code-from-source.com)

×3.05 52 | 16 points by pykello 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms (egbert.net)

×1.15 48 #72 | 134 points by egberts1 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres (rohanbansal.com)

×2.80 5 #73 | 670 points by polyphilz 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Bitterest Lesson (typesafe.ai)

×1.06 | 2 points by emersonmacro 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DDns: Endpoint-aware DNS resolution beyond IP addresses (dhttp.net)

×1.14 | 2 points by Arya_xiaofan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Low-Cost Servers for AI and Developers (rawhq.io)

×1.65 26 | 3 points by eulerpoolapi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing (mistral.ai)

×2.86 21 | 581 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background (github.com/pizza-bot-app)

×0.79 125 | 59 points by jd_ 2 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The DeepMind Institute (deepmind.com)

×1.53 73 | 180 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ear Training Exercise (clarena.app)

×0.38 | 2 points by AlexFromClarena 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app (flat.social)

×0.87 15 #81 | 94 points by pawelwentpawel 15 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Great Tea Race of 1866 (wikipedia.org)

×2.15 4 | 4 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields (reuters.com)

×6.12 56 | 181 points by wslh 1 day ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior (nytimes.com)

×4.55 70 | 96 points by jbegley 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Graph RAG in Postgres. New facts replace older facts (github.com/crajah)

×1.10 | 2 points by chandanrajah 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google auto-banned my Bug Hunter account for exposing their fake "Delete" button (medium.com)

×2.71 1 #84 | 5 points by Bitu79 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data

×1.12 | 2 points by justavalidman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From Operations to a Robot Arm (huggingface.co)

×1.76 80 | 3 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression (zartbot.github.io)

×2.29 47 | 127 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a browser tool that creates newspaper and book text match cuts (papereffects.site)

×2.25 76 | 5 points by AhmedDionic 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask A Monk – A digital wilderness for thoughts with no immediate answer (askamonk.online)

×1.21 11 #11 | 17 points by 13613288957 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple detectives solved mystery of ancient tree and rewrote the history of fruit (scientificamerican.com)

×1.11 29 #16 | 10 points by nkurz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Is LPO, NPO, CPO? Knowledge of Optical Interconnect Technologies (fiber-mart.com)

×0.98 | 2 points by peter_d_sherman 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fingerprinting Network Honeypots with Weighted Behavioral Scoring Engine (meetcyber.net)

×0.88 | 2 points by ls1911 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source AI teammates with their own computer (runerrand.dev)

×1.35 109 | 6 points by shiqimei 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free GitHub Action that scans PR diffs for malicious code, not quality (github.com/marketplace)

×0.83 | 2 points by arsalsajjad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers Used Anthropic's Claude to Break into OpenAI (wsj.com)

×5.86 18 | 11 points by impish9208 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AttaLambda: a language where types and data are made of untyped lambdas (attalambda.com)

×0.85 110 | 43 points by kserrec 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: dishlist – my favorite things on the menu (apple.com)

×1.03 | 2 points by coopers 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pull every comment out of a Google Sheet, in the browser (bensunter.com)

×0.21 156 | 6 points by bsunter2 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Netflix documentary led to resurrecting a 9/11 memorial (gwintrob.com)

×1.49 78 #75 | 10 points by rafaelc 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)

×2.42 61 #78 | 63 points by joeriddles 6 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make an educated guess on Fermi-style trivia questions (playdaily.org)

×0.89 59 | 3 points by emmanator3000 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nowmine (nowmine.site)

×2.54 47 | 3 points by tjjune 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alternatives to milk are losing moomentum (economist.com)

×1.13 | 2 points by andsoitis 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???