Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Where are people finding GPU capacity?

×0.28 28 | 3 points by adilhafeez 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's the current best research/understanding of healthy weight loss?

×0.88 | 2 points by simonebrunozzi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

×1.47 77 | 323 points by sharts 5 days ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

×2.96 70 | 648 points by dhruv3006 5 days ago | 435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: At what point does "clean architecture" become technical debt?

×0.35 62 | 4 points by kiops 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Continue coding agent is dead. Alternatives?

×0.15 90 | 3 points by roscas 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

×3.64 74 | 658 points by stagas 6 days ago | 202 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?

×0.48 115 | 52 points by Abh1Works 1 week ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windmill.dev is not "fully open-sourced (AGPLv3)"

×0.68 93 | 9 points by alpine-rockies 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why does the US government search through people's phones at the border?

×1.24 65 | 13 points by roschdal 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?

×1.81 83 | 17 points by bah9 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: OpenCode no longer including DeepSeek?

×0.28 101 | 8 points by dv35z 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robotics Software

×0.14 129 | 3 points by erardaiden 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why is HN missing a "go to top" link on long posts?

×0.45 117 | 4 points by KellyCriterion 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is the evidence for a stock market bubble in AI?

×1.05 72 | 10 points by roschdal 18 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to Relicense an Old Project

×0.19 132 | 3 points by gradschool 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SearXNG running on OpenBSD on a ThinkPad t420

×0.11 | 2 points by open-search 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Authenticated Git-fetch-over-HTTPS against gitlab.com is failing

×0.18 | 2 points by basilgohar 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scrap (twitter.com/moxie)

×2.51 #1 | 290 points by tosh 6 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NetBSD and my life (2005) (netbsd.org)

×1.11 4 #4 | 88 points by gnyeki 5 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust (winonapost.com)

×2.04 34 | 111 points by erikschoster 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

×3.17 15 | 76 points by walrus01 23 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized (marginalutility.dev)

×0.70 112 | 70 points by mcclowes 5 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
typ.ing (typ.ing)

×2.33 4 #8 | 165 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture (mythic.ai)

×0.86 11 #30 | 43 points by janandonly 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025) (zeux.io)

×0.70 36 #63 | 60 points by corysama 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From Mega-Machines to Mega-Algorithms (2015) (thenewinquiry.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by measurablefunc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io)

×0.88 37 | 95 points by rhgraysonii 4 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gspot: Gcloud auth monitoring for long-running coding agents (github.com/Somnora)

×0.79 | 1 points by Somnora 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Made Me Faster. I'm Not Sure It Made Me Better (medium.com)

×1.36 14 | 4 points by raynchad 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Better Batteries (matklad.github.io)

×0.96 68 | 58 points by olexsmir 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it (radi8.dev)

×0.72 78 | 60 points by radeeyate 2 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (ycombinator.com)

1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
People of ACM – Russ Cox (acm.org)

×1.15 41 #53 | 166 points by signa11 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ESP32 Firmware Development with Docker Sandboxes (docker.com)

×1.15 40 #71 | 49 points by mfranzon 19 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Visual way to understand things in parallel (wondering.app)

×2.01 100 | 7 points by ak2411 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera (san.com)

×5.75 47 | 688 points by throw7 1 day ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (2007) (kleppmann.com)

×1.56 42 | 90 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha (nebraskapublicmedia.org)

×4.97 23 | 75 points by rendx 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dynamical dark energy and the week that broke cosmology (perimeterinstitute.ca)

×1.05 8 #26 | 39 points by rznicolet 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New MCP Roadmap (modelcontextprotocol.io)

×1.61 11 #28 | 171 points by pentagrama 11 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat (matklad.github.io)

×1.31 35 #43 | 146 points by chilipepperhott 23 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't ask me my f*#&ing name (runninganddancing.substack.com)

×2.34 44 | 3 points by HakuGulati 55 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
People vs. the AI Overlords (anarc.at)

×0.55 | 1 points by edward 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free, non-profit crypto AML screening – no key, no trial (publicaml.org)

×1.38 121 | 5 points by publicaml 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (quantumi.sh)

×2.07 #5 | 292 points by jemoka 9 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop Making TUIs (sockpuppet.org)

×3.59 29 #33 | 380 points by underdeserver 1 day ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers (cloudflare.com)

×0.86 42 #68 | 75 points by albertpedersen 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0 (github.com/yaroslav)

×0.70 53 | 76 points by ksec 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PgExtAssure – pre-admission security evidence for PostgreSQL extensions (github.com/borborich)

×1.43 84 | 5 points by borborich 17 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game (micdrop.gg)

×0.74 127 | 92 points by johnsillings 6 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optical Earth – Earth as the human eye would see it (opticalearth.com)

×2.03 3 | 3 points by afterglowreader 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rackast, a screen recorder with a built in editor, made with Tauri (rackast.com)

×0.81 | 2 points by SzegiRoli 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ameliorate (ameliorate.app)

×1.39 4 #44 | 79 points by hakkikonu 11 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory (jakesaunders.dev)

×1.17 34 #83 | 114 points by jakelsaunders94 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker News RSS (hnrss.github.io)

×1.54 | 2 points by sillysaurusx 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
As Flock battles public scrutiny, other surveillance companies see an opening (npr.org)

×0.63 | 1 points by 1659447091 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
iPhone 18 Pro Could Get a Signature New Color – Here's What the Latest Leaks Sug (moztako.me)

×0.54 | 1 points by cecyev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes (github.com/alibaba)

×1.05 85 | 16 points by forrestly 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Diffview, a fast Git diff viewer written in Rust (github.com/sleipner42)

×1.26 144 | 3 points by sleipner42 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (reuters.com)

×1.58 10 #10 | 98 points by olalonde 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
QEMU, now with almost full NeXT Black/M68K hardware support (github.com/blanham)

×1.41 35 #61 | 6 points by wmlive 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Masked Man Was Scaring Philadelphians. Then He Picked the Wrong Woman (nytimes.com)

×1.51 | 2 points by whack 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call? (bbc.com)

×3.85 50 | 69 points by amelius 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A simple budget app focused on how much you can spend each day (coinsbucket.com)

×0.87 146 | 3 points by vitormargis 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code (twitter.com/argofowl)

×3.79 28 #35 | 160 points by matthieu_bl 7 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using an old Android phone as a music player (monocyte.blog)

×0.84 50 #86 | 61 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it (github.com/aravpanwar)

×0.74 58 | 52 points by unprovable 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ServerKit - Self-hosted control panel for apps, Docker, and databases (github.com/jhd3197)

×1.02 113 | 3 points by jhd3197 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model) (pianoify.net)

×0.61 43 #41 | 20 points by jardy 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automakers Keep Adding Screens, but Buyers Want Something Else (autoblog.com)

×1.60 | 2 points by delichon 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What retailers are doing with tariff refunds (yahoo.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by BiraIgnacio 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Structo – Claude Code for short form writing (redbeardlab.com)

×1.30 | 2 points by siscia 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Some People Are Born with Devastating Gene Conditions–and Never Get Sick (nationalgeographic.com)

×1.92 1 | 3 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021) (computer.org)

×0.85 18 #25 | 114 points by asdefghyk 14 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slop Debt (arpitbhayani.me)

×2.91 30 #84 | 13 points by valyala 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Real AI Crash Will Start This Year (quoththeraven.substack.com)

×3.02 49 | 4 points by samizdis 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations (chenxiachan.github.io)

×1.18 123 | 136 points by chatchan 1 week ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stelm – A BYOC canvas for AWS infra (stelm.dev)

×0.57 | 1 points by tredex 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
436× faster exact state updates with a disk-backed incremental Merkle tree (github.com/yangofzeal)

×0.54 | 1 points by msyang2004_82 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU (mathstodon.xyz)

×2.23 40 | 189 points by u1hcw9nx 2 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What we lost when search stopped making us think (8ball.space)

×1.17 41 | 87 points by speckx 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser (duckdb.org)

×0.84 49 | 75 points by karma_daemon 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents (argentic.network)

×0.31 111 | 9 points by Ag0146 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Streambench – Native Mac Client for Kafka and NATS (streambench.app)

×0.42 122 | 13 points by valentinprgnd 1 week ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree (nautil.us)

×0.96 16 #22 | 54 points by Anon84 8 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jane Street took $15B hit in July tied to Situational Awareness (reuters.com)

×3.26 38 #75 | 6 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free Brain-Computer Interface in Udemy (reddit.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by Christiangmer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built an extension that autofills workday job apps locally (restdayextension.com)

×0.88 | 2 points by angelm-tech 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate (lapcatsoftware.com)

×1.36 10 #12 | 157 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???