Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Any Open Source projects in need of documentation writer?

×1.00 4 #40 | 12 points by tree666 1 hour ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What would you do with an AI model capable of continuous learning?

×0.95 3 | 4 points by jballanc 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?

×1.84 | 116 points by meander_water 16 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?

×2.01 10 | 447 points by e-topy 4 days ago | 678 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IMDB created my account for merely visiting the site

×3.38 5 | 8 points by astr0n0m3r 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?

×1.22 100 | 132 points by lazarkap 3 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should AI credits be refunded on mistakes?

×0.22 110 | 16 points by ed_elliott_asc 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Local-first meetings recorder and transcriber?

×0.37 113 | 3 points by dandaka 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you manage your digital legacy for after you die?

×0.47 118 | 11 points by orbanlevi 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different

×1.07 104 | 99 points by tinchox6 3 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hybrid Attention

×0.39 111 | 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?

×0.18 127 | 6 points by kjok 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineering departments from China laid off at Red Hat

×3.48 3 | 12 points by NBS060 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Early precursor signals observed before incidents (RTT/DNS/HTTP telemetry)

×0.13 | 2 points by ravensystems 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: S3(AWS) vs R2(CF)–Which is better?

×0.43 125 | 4 points by wasimsk 22 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic banned Pi, a third party harness

×0.27 142 | 3 points by rapiz 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks?

×0.55 136 | 9 points by sjt-at-rev 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code limits are starting to feel like a psychological trick

×0.32 143 | 7 points by trinsic2 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Alternatives to Claude (Code)?

×1.12 140 | 13 points by vixalien 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Compact multi-port network setup (2.5G / 10G / SFP+) – looking for feedback

×0.19 147 | 3 points by Qotom 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

×1.02 141 | 23 points by p-o 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you orchestrating multi-agent AI workflows in production?

×0.31 144 | 8 points by swrly 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free models you can use with your OpenClaw (no credit card needed)

×0.18 146 | 3 points by stosssik 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Upwork Inc. violates its own DMARC and SPF policy

×0.26 145 | 8 points by tmcdos 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence (meta.com)

×1.55 43 #55 | 387 points by chabons 1 day ago | 366 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1.9B year old bedrock will soon house first permanent nuclear waste site (apnews.com)

×2.05 7 | 4 points by voxadam 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I've sold out (mariozechner.at)

×3.38 39 | 297 points by doppp 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Guruka.com – free guided mediations. No signup, private, works offline (guruka.com)

×0.91 77 #49 | 21 points by eummm 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work (github.com/arman-bd)

×3.45 70 | 902 points by armanified 4 days ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built Dirac, Hash Anchored AST native coding agent, costs -64.8 pct (github.com/dirac-run)

×0.44 | 2 points by GodelNumbering 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Help Keep Thunderbird Alive (thunderbird.net)

×2.98 3 #29 | 508 points by playfultones 17 hours ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Glasses Got Worse on Purpose (beehiiv.com)

×3.30 16 #54 | 52 points by chrisaycock 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue (nickvecchioni.github.io)

×3.02 1 #88 | 414 points by nickvec 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Warren Weaver and New Science Instruments (republicofscience.substack.com)

×0.91 | 1 points by paulpauper 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Train Your Judgement (emilkowal.ski)

×1.06 | 2 points by cristinacordova 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AgentMint – Open-source OWASP compliance for AI agent tool calls (github.com/aniketh-maddipati)

×1.69 75 | 5 points by keertahacker 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Finalrun – Spec-driven testing using English and vision for mobile apps (github.com/final-run)

×0.41 119 | 28 points by ashish004 2 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made an app to live longer (free, open source, no tracking) (apple.com)

×0.57 | 2 points by bdav24 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers (gadgetreview.com)

×2.75 24 #28 | 239 points by rmason 4 hours ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rust based eBook library for Python, with MIT license (github.com/arc53)

×1.13 72 #42 | 4 points by larry-the-agent 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source security at Astral (astral.sh)

×1.74 2 #56 | 351 points by vinhnx 20 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A complete GPT language model in ~600 lines of C#, zero dependencies (github.com/milanm)

×1.06 76 #65 | 15 points by evo_9 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs playing Texas Hold'em: Opus busted first, Grok won (github.com/sagaripte)

×2.04 | 2 points by sagari 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server (acme.com)

×1.82 93 | 68 points by mjyut 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off (9to5mac.com)

×3.78 51 | 64 points by gardaani 20 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BrokenClaw Part 5: GPT-5.4 Edition (Prompt Injection) (veganmosfet.codeberg.page)

×0.78 64 | 8 points by veganmosfet 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting (github.com/4RH1T3CT0R7)

×0.72 112 | 66 points by 4RH1T3CT0R 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology (cnet.com)

×3.37 13 #83 | 744 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hosted AI API Gateway – smart routing across Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more (lxg2it.com)

×0.39 | 1 points by sea-gold 2 hours ago | 2 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers (colaptop.pages.dev)

×2.24 1 #16 | 133 points by argentum47 6 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EFF is leaving X (eff.org)

×8.68 21 #22 | 1066 points by gregsadetsky 7 hours ago | 891 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy (bbc.com)

×1.14 27 #26 | 180 points by eigenspace 14 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
They're made out of meat (1991) (terrybisson.com)

×2.22 10 #75 | 619 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SmolVM – open-source sandbox for coding and computer-use agents (github.com/CelestoAI)

×2.43 40 | 4 points by theaniketmaurya 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Samsung's 2026 Q1 profit increased eightfold to a record $38B (reuters.com)

×2.66 9 | 6 points by itopaloglu83 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers (werwolv.net)

×1.60 9 #71 | 392 points by WerWolv 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Unicode Steganography (patrickvuscan.com)

×0.54 82 | 55 points by PatrickVuscan 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent (github.com/jure)

×0.75 35 #25 | 119 points by juretriglav 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) – On-call runbooks, automated (relvy.ai)

×0.28 81 #39 | 37 points by behat 12 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Expanding Swift's IDE Support (swift.org)

×0.85 72 #68 | 135 points by frizlab 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bespoke OLAP: Using AI to Synthesize Workload-Specific DBMS Engines from Scratch (ucbskyadrs.github.io)

×0.46 | 1 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benchmarking LLMs with Marimo Pair (ericmjl.github.io)

×0.41 | 1 points by akshayka 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Managed Agents (claude.com)

×2.80 46 | 166 points by adocomplete 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AgentDM – Agent to agent messaging over MCP and A2A (agentdm.ai)

×1.50 97 | 4 points by alxstn 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Explore the Silk Roads through an interactive map (intofarlands.com)

×0.49 87 | 47 points by intofarlands 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The King James Bible deserved a better website (officialkingjamesbible.com)

×2.45 137 | 11 points by L23234 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead (davidoks.blog)

×1.51 4 #1 | 89 points by powera 2 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How bonds ended the Civil War - and led to the rise of J.P. Morgan (barrons.com)

×1.45 18 | 3 points by hhs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2 (railway.com)

×1.46 62 | 211 points by bundie 1 day ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware (npr.org)

×3.59 96 | 68 points by dnemmers 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent Tuning, using recursion to achieve predictable agent output (github.com/adam-s)

×1.77 15 | 4 points by dataviz1000 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet? (ishormuzopenyet.com)

×3.83 26 | 447 points by anonfunction 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU (arxiv.org)

×1.18 30 | 322 points by chrsw 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read (oj-hn.com)

×0.99 54 | 133 points by latchkey 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage? (lzon.ca)

×4.83 15 #17 | 191 points by jpmitchell 3 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ghost Jobs Tracker (ghostjobs.vercel.app)

×1.53 20 | 3 points by ddmichael 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a local data lake for AI powered data engineering and analytics (stream-sock-3f5.notion.site)

×2.68 103 | 12 points by vpfaiz 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robots Eat Cars (endeff.com)

×1.02 13 #8 | 31 points by JMill 2 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture (aphyr.com)

×1.67 14 #34 | 105 points by aphyr 6 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again (korigamik.dev)

×1.62 28 #47 | 81 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Importance of Being Idle (theamericanscholar.org)

×1.89 9 #80 | 301 points by Caiero 23 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists have uncovered a "blind spot" in the research on rising seas (yale.edu)

×1.36 | 2 points by bluerooibos 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MS Aspire – Open-source stack, streamlined (aspire.dev)

×0.41 | 1 points by evo_9 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EFF Logs Out of X (twitter.com/EFF)

×4.99 44 | 63 points by nord73 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: chop.ax – strip sites down to just their content (chop.ax)

×1.88 58 | 4 points by foax 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What does it mean to “write like you talk”? (arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

×1.04 77 #67 | 95 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JSIR: A High-Level IR for JavaScript (llvm.org)

×0.79 91 | 83 points by nnx 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Real-time AI (audio/video in, voice out) on an M3 Pro with Gemma E2B (github.com/fikrikarim)

×1.72 94 | 292 points by karimf 4 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BAREmail – minimalist Gmail client for bad WiFi (github.com/matt-virgo)

×0.90 90 | 44 points by Virgo_matt 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???