Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

×2.31 14 #28 | 201 points by modelcroissant 9 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session

×0.74 10 | 3 points by agentseal 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: May be a basic question, but how can I use AI well?

×1.06 56 | 4 points by jdw64 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a real-time AR plane spotter, here's the math that makes it work

×0.20 68 | 3 points by ananddhruv29 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

×1.95 53 | 336 points by misterchocolat 3 days ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?

×0.76 74 | 58 points by fnoef 2 days ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

×4.59 44 | 826 points by morpheuskafka 5 days ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?

×0.51 87 | 9 points by canterburry 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month

×0.80 80 | 78 points by absurdwebsite 3 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post?

×0.20 84 | 5 points by tuvix 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does magic link authentication use HTML canvassing?

×0.24 100 | 3 points by trinsic2 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: ChatAi web-based session notation?

×0.11 | 2 points by xtiansimon 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?

×1.14 85 | 23 points by throwaw12 2 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?

×1.29 104 | 16 points by arikusi 2 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?

×0.59 91 | 31 points by fny 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?

×0.83 118 | 25 points by RockstarSprain 4 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error

×1.00 112 | 13 points by ascarola 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?

×0.49 107 | 6 points by s_u_d_o 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Security Incident at Porter (YC S20)

×0.51 110 | 6 points by leetrout 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you using LLMs in production?

×0.69 122 | 13 points by Anon84 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you search the web programmatically these days?

×0.83 116 | 6 points by coreyp_1 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Durable Object alarm loop: $34k in 8 days, zero users, no platform warning

×2.35 103 | 30 points by thewillmoss 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Advice for tracking down a listening device?

×0.48 129 | 9 points by comrade1234 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Teaching life skills through games, am I crazy?

×0.10 | 2 points by shivaniShimpi_ 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?

×0.60 126 | 13 points by wasimsk 3 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allows you to fix to specific model version

×0.88 120 | 27 points by baobabKoodaa 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Claude Getting Worse?

×0.84 138 | 9 points by sahli 4 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?

×1.34 117 | 16 points by smonk108 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to highlight talent from untraditional backgrounds?

×0.48 143 | 6 points by etherus 3 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub gave webhook secrets away in webhook call

×0.61 139 | 12 points by time4tea 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing

×0.60 99 | 18 points by limalabs 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: As an Australian, is it possible to get a remote US role?

×0.26 160 | 4 points by apatheticonion 4 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How can I support the AI resistance movement financially?

×3.20 62 | 12 points by roschdal 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.

×3.03 115 | 43 points by ssiddharth 5 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Omi – watches your screen, hears conversations, tells you what to do (github.com/BasedHardware)

×1.61 124 | 18 points by kodjima33 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Created OpenClaw – Peter Steinberger, TedTalk, YT) (youtube.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by hbarka 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wind and solar power surge across the Mountain West as demand tests the grid (kunr.org)

×0.55 | 1 points by Bender 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy (exe.dev)

×1.11 | 2 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)

×0.92 38 #31 | 107 points by tyleo 18 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 (eff.org)

×2.93 16 #42 | 166 points by nobody9999 11 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bronx officials try to rein social media 'takeovers' after events turn chaotic (gothamist.com)

×1.29 | 2 points by gnabgib 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America will come to regret its war on taxes (economist.com)

×5.81 10 | 76 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List (therepository.email)

×1.54 36 #52 | 49 points by mooreds 4 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies (fastcompany.com)

×2.79 63 | 42 points by doctaj 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gave Claude a casino bankroll – it gambles till it's too broke to think (letaigamble.com)

×1.92 98 | 38 points by mackbrowne 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a music theory course with games and spaced repetition (gitori.com)

×1.48 142 | 5 points by udit99 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When old HTML5 dreams become reality – field generator in a nutshell (neocities.org)

×0.49 | 1 points by rogmash 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (npr.org)

×2.09 15 | 83 points by nuke-web3 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Opus 4.7 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)

×13.50 54 | 33 points by Topfi 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nilbox – Run OpenClaw without exposing your API tokens (nilbox.run)

×0.73 128 | 3 points by rednakta 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Technological Republic, in Brief (twitter.com/PalantirTech)

×2.53 32 | 4 points by d_silin 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Coelanox – auditable inference runtime in Rust (BERT runs today) (coelanox.com)

×0.71 97 | 3 points by Shark1n4Suit 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians (ctvnews.ca)

×9.64 87 | 80 points by Teever 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bookmark Tool in Common Lisp (github.com/ediw8311xht)

×0.41 | 2 points by landdate 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Irl.rent – What renters pay, not what's listed in SF

×2.22 88 | 12 points by rajatady 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)

×2.88 25 #26 | 513 points by RickJWagner 1 day ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU age verification app: "Worry-free package" with security vulnerabilities (heise.de)

×2.26 6 #79 | 32 points by _tk_ 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Demo of Ephemeral CDN – serve any temporary file instantly (taonexus.com)

×0.94 | 1 points by logicallee 2 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Model Council (github.com/bruce249)

×0.54 | 1 points by vignesh_146 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do you handle product screenshots at multiple sizes? (simplshot.com)

×1.17 | 2 points by atlemo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: StockFit API – structured SEC EDGAR data with a free tier (stockfit.io)

×2.05 153 | 7 points by areimann 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Deepgram releases Deepgram CLI (`dg`) an agent-aware CLI (deepgram.com)

×1.02 151 | 4 points by lukeocodes 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page (twitter.com/weezerOSINT)

×3.18 3 #5 | 174 points by Tiberium 3 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)

×4.12 6 #34 | 847 points by yusufusta 1 day ago | 417 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)

×2.45 7 #63 | 412 points by tkhattra 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bot-to-Bot Commerce Report (dialtoneapp.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by fcpguru 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maine Said No to New Data Centers. Other States Are Racing to Follow (motherjones.com)

×2.52 66 | 40 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction (pcgamer.com)

×2.36 12 #17 | 82 points by Brajeshwar 3 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)

×1.05 46 #56 | 114 points by wicket 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Wall of Shame (gagor.pro)

×0.66 | 1 points by ___timor___ 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Dangers of Reusing Protobuf Definitions: Critical Code Exec in Protobuf.js (endorlabs.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)

×4.10 13 | 87 points by pjmlp 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny (theins.press)

×4.20 33 #45 | 75 points by dralley 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ibogaine, LSD and Psilocybin: Trump's New Order a Medical 'Turning Point' (military.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pyra – a Python toolchain experiment inspired by uv and Bun (github.com/treyorr)

×0.94 95 | 10 points by trey-orr 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I turned my MacBook notch into a live Claude Code dashboard (github.com/devmegablaster)

×2.64 108 | 8 points by devmegablaster 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On (vlad.website)

×0.81 36 #36 | 49 points by PaulHoule 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists (ipvm.com)

×5.18 26 | 84 points by jhonovich 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents (github.com/dropseed)

×0.75 92 | 94 points by focom 5 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Link Shortener – Itlinks.me (itlinks.me)

×0.59 | 2 points by IgorStojanov 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Waputer – The WebAssembly Computer (waputer.app)

×1.75 125 | 5 points by marcandrysco 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sagas vs. Process Managers (eventsourcingdb.io)

×0.61 | 1 points by goloroden 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services (clickhouse.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by saisrirampur 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone (arstechnica.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rapid-MLX – Run local LLMs on Mac, 2-3x faster than alternatives (github.com/raullenchai)

×1.38 86 | 6 points by raullen 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using a USB switch as a full KVM (hsiao.dev)

×1.79 58 | 54 points by lwhsiao 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sudomake Friends, personalized AI personas in a Telegram group chat (github.com/audiodude)

×1.17 140 | 7 points by audiodude 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A tool to calculate LLM model API costs when coding (the-designengineer.com)

×0.76 147 | 4 points by canxerian 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) (teamchong.github.io)

×1.07 12 #18 | 58 points by teamchong 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe (theverge.com)

×2.85 28 #37 | 127 points by tambourine_man 4 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???