Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

×0.56 | 19 points by tree666 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

×1.77 10 | 121 points by meander_water 23 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

×2.02 8 | 453 points by e-topy 4 days ago | 686 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yuku – A fast, spec-compliant JavaScript parser written in Zig

×0.50 69 | 3 points by arshadyaseen 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What would you do with an AI model capable of continuous learning?

×0.54 74 | 4 points by jballanc 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IMDB created my account for merely visiting the site

×1.87 57 | 8 points by astr0n0m3r 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

×1.20 96 | 132 points by lazarkap 3 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?

×0.21 112 | 16 points by ed_elliott_asc 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?

×0.50 115 | 12 points by orbanlevi 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?

×0.31 123 | 3 points by dandaka 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different

×1.07 103 | 99 points by tinchox6 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hybrid Attention

×0.39 110 | 40 points by JohannaAlmeida 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going?

×0.17 127 | 6 points by kjok 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks?

×0.53 131 | 9 points by sjt-at-rev 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Early precursor signals observed before incidents (RTT/DNS/HTTP telemetry)

×0.13 | 2 points by ravensystems 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic banned Pi, a third party harness

×0.26 140 | 3 points by rapiz 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: S3(AWS) vs R2(CF)–Which is better?

×0.41 126 | 4 points by wasimsk 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Alternatives to Claude (Code)?

×1.08 137 | 13 points by vixalien 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Compact multi-port network setup (2.5G / 10G / SFP+) – looking for feedback

×0.18 142 | 3 points by Qotom 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

×1.01 138 | 23 points by p-o 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineering departments from China laid off at Red Hat

×4.32 34 | 17 points by NBS060 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you orchestrating multi-agent AI workflows in production?

×0.31 141 | 8 points by swrly 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free models you can use with your OpenClaw (no credit card needed)

×0.31 139 | 5 points by stosssik 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent (cssstudio.ai)

×0.99 32 #41 | 150 points by SirHound 19 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crude: The Journey Of Oil (2007) [video] (youtube.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by measurablefunc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PeerDrop – P2P file sharing across devices (github.com/jj10133)

×0.41 | 2 points by jj_3 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read (oj-hn.com)

×1.02 48 | 137 points by latchkey 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Process Manager for Autonomous AI Agents (botctl.dev)

×0.82 52 | 58 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HWMonitor and CPU-Z downloads compromised [video] (youtube.com)

×0.74 | 1 points by ddtaylor 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ETH Zurich demonstrates 17,000 qubit array with 99.91% fidelity (ethz.ch)

×1.03 | 2 points by joko42 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some LLM routers are injecting malicious tool calls (twitter.com/fried_rice)

×2.18 18 | 4 points by kotobuki 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mnml.page – Minimalist one-page websites for freelancers (mnml.page)

×0.69 | 2 points by yurigokoryan 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VFX HQ: Visual Effects Headquarters (2000) (vfxhq.com)

×0.48 57 #20 | 5 points by exvi 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hi. Professional C/C++ programmer here (twitter.com/robertgraham)

×0.91 | 1 points by tosh 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024) (sam-burns.com)

×2.35 30 | 780 points by sam-bee 2 days ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The King James Bible deserved a better website (officialkingjamesbible.com)

×2.45 132 | 11 points by L23234 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You can't trust Privacy and Security (eclecticlight.co)

×0.73 | 1 points by frizlab 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Metamath C (github.com/digama0)

×0.42 | 1 points by smj-edison 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slipping up Slippi with spectator RCE (khang06.github.io)

×0.42 | 1 points by khangaroo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JSON with Commas and Comments (nigeltao.github.io)

×1.07 | 2 points by chirsz 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies (willhelps.org)

×0.98 22 | 140 points by willmeyers 18 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Every AI writing tool sounds the same, this one sounds like you (toneswap.app)

×0.44 | 1 points by cammyjr 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy (thelettersfromleo.com)

×6.83 74 | 433 points by frm88 14 hours ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What game engines know about data that databases forgot (nockawa.github.io)

×1.75 32 | 82 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)

2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection (github.com/aloshdenny)

×1.11 14 #14 | 137 points by _tk_ 10 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months (reddit.com)

×4.00 52 #72 | 147 points by speckx 8 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Help Keep Thunderbird Alive (thunderbird.net)

×3.07 41 #76 | 538 points by playfultones 23 hours ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the Trivy supply chain attack harvested credentials from secrets managers (vaultproof.dev)

×0.79 29 #84 | 16 points by Rial_Labs 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A cartographer's attempt to realistically map Tolkien's world (intofarlands.com)

×0.98 85 | 162 points by intofarlands 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com/arman-bd)

×3.45 60 | 902 points by armanified 4 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig – Incremental Compilation with LLVM (ziglang.org)

×0.45 | 1 points by Retro_Dev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS (github.com/matthartman)

×1.67 66 | 465 points by MattHart88 3 days ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Instant Thumbnail for File Url (thedrive.ai)

×1.13 99 | 3 points by sftechdude 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will I ever own a zettaflop? (geohot.github.io)

×1.67 7 #23 | 78 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month (chatgpt.com)

×3.82 65 | 203 points by strongpigeon 12 hours ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 301 bytes (github.com/meribold)

×0.69 58 | 62 points by meribold 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GitWell – Rust CLI that recovers abandoned intentions from Git history (crates.io)

×0.77 | 2 points by DavidCanHelp 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git (gitbutler.com)

×2.43 12 #6 | 63 points by ellieh 5 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Pokit Meter (pokitmeter.com)

×0.82 | 1 points by aquir 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We fingerprinted 178 AI models' writing styles and similarity clusters (rival.tips)

×1.15 75 | 76 points by nuancedev 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator (nytimes.com)

×3.60 13 #81 | 602 points by jfirebaugh 1 day ago | 792 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
They're made out of meat (1991) (terrybisson.com)

×2.22 3 #83 | 623 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Entity Component System (wikipedia.org)

×0.76 | 1 points by tosh 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent Tuning, using recursion to achieve predictable agent output (github.com/adam-s)

×1.89 68 | 5 points by dataviz1000 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Control your X/Twitter feed using a small on-device LLM (imbue.com)

×6.20 59 | 14 points by kanjun 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors (claude.com)

×2.13 92 | 61 points by kylestanfield 2 days ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a navigation app that displays weather along the route (navimodo.com)

×0.76 84 | 55 points by vkatluri 3 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer (elastiq.ch)

×1.37 15 #7 | 190 points by rickcarlino 10 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a framework-agnostic Ruby gem (and making sure it doesn't break) (masilotti.com)

×0.46 65 #53 | 49 points by joemasilotti 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source security at Astral (astral.sh)

×1.74 9 #69 | 355 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eyes on the Solar System – Artemis (nasa.gov)

×0.42 | 1 points by memalign 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence (meta.com)

×1.55 6 | 388 points by chabons 1 day ago | 367 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement (eaw.app)

×1.18 15 #12 | 177 points by rickcarlino 12 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gen Z workers are intentionally sabotaging their company's AI rollout (fortune.com)

×1.71 | 2 points by dingi 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents (github.com/kitfunso)

×0.95 97 | 128 points by kitfunso 3 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once (govauctions.app)

×1.48 77 | 318 points by player_piano 3 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built an open source multi-agent harness in Go (github.com/AndreBaltazar8)

×1.00 135 | 3 points by AndreBaltazar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
States are struggling to meet their clean energy goals Data centers are to blame (apnews.com)

×1.56 40 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google's AI Overviews spew false answers per hour, bombshell study reveals (nypost.com)

×2.17 6 #55 | 20 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Negative effects of artificial sweeteners may pass on to next generation (eurekalert.org)

×1.01 | 2 points by XzetaU8 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API (github.com/skrun-dev)

×0.65 76 | 59 points by frizull 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Unicode Steganography (patrickvuscan.com)

×0.54 82 | 55 points by PatrickVuscan 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Modo – I built an open-source alternative to Kiro, Cursor, and Windsurf (github.com/mohshomis)

×0.81 111 | 100 points by mohshomis 4 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Weird Clocks (specr.net)

×1.44 119 | 52 points by vunderba 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCP Servers (awesomemcpservers.ai)

×0.48 | 2 points by sh_tomer 13 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent (github.com/jure)

×0.78 44 #31 | 138 points by juretriglav 18 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vulnpocalypse: AI, Open Source, and the Race to Remediate (resilientcyber.io)

×0.40 | 1 points by chillax 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Am I German or Autistic? (millermanschool.com)

×5.07 51 | 247 points by doener 18 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters (playlists.at)

×1.66 90 | 321 points by nevernothing 4 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???