Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ask HN: Are you using a custom harness?

×1.06 | 2 points by japhyr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?

×0.50 23 | 27 points by jahala 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?

×5.53 88 | 97 points by mellosty 2 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?

×0.79 37 | 26 points by learner_yearner 17 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?

×0.15 65 | 6 points by weinzierl 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites

×0.77 56 | 29 points by TekMol 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Antrophic tightened usage limits?

×0.33 | 2 points by lukan 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you using AI in your personal life?

×0.51 90 | 3 points by whall6 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Sitting on unused OpenAI / Anthropic / AWS credits that will expire?

×0.12 94 | 3 points by xiaomaijj 19 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?

×0.56 66 | 8 points by arm32 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should I be polite to my agent or should I treat it like shit?

×0.35 86 | 4 points by d--b 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I Need Advice

×0.60 70 | 15 points by TuxedoBuddy 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?

×0.18 83 | 5 points by lucasov 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's your iPhone Duo experience so far?

×0.34 102 | 3 points by dgellow 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Expericencing an issue in Gmail where emails do not delete in Firefox

×0.17 121 | 9 points by rc_kas 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: I know Firefox has update when it starts to glitch

×0.23 119 | 4 points by majkinetor 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?

×0.47 110 | 32 points by olalonde 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you still read clean code and software architecture books?

×0.36 112 | 20 points by pelcg 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why big LLMs use "it's not A, it is B" pattern? Shared dataset supplier?

×0.90 79 | 11 points by jumasheff 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DietPi v10.8 has been released

×0.20 105 | 19 points by stephanstsdietp 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Old.reddit.com Gone

×1.07 73 | 32 points by Balgair 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why is pagination gone on "Ask HN", and showing only 19 items?

×0.25 100 | 8 points by bigwheels 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slow Cloudflare Connections

×0.04 141 | 3 points by bryonyoni 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: T'was the night of Claude Reset and quota left: Funniest app you built?

×0.35 116 | 10 points by julianpye 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia

×0.37 131 | 7 points by justforfunhere 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet (inventor7777.github.io)

×1.14 45 #51 | 177 points by inventor7777 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibewright (github.com/neodk2004)

×0.92 | 1 points by neodk 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How a Children’s Book Got Me Reading Again (pagecord.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by minhajkhan1 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions (cyberplace.social)

×7.03 3 #5 | 31 points by dsr_ 24 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Keplearn: Extract Equations from Data in Seconds (github.com/owls-on-wires)

×0.86 32 #63 | 95 points by owls-on-wires 21 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everything Rhymes with Porcelain (worksinprogress.co)

×0.53 46 #89 | 25 points by cromulent 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages (huggingface.co)

×1.47 45 | 133 points by wondersky 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's now official, tech is the new tobacco (cailinoconnor.substack.com)

×4.09 51 | 89 points by aanet 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Proc-CLI – An agent-friendly CLI tool for process and port management (proc-cli.com)

×0.56 117 | 24 points by yazeedaloyoun 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance (arkm.com)

×5.90 4 #2 | 1442 points by Tiberium 13 hours ago | 938 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If IPv4 were land (iptrust.co)

×1.65 18 #27 | 295 points by rokostik 23 hours ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What we know so far about Spain train crash (bbc.com)

×1.59 39 #28 | 216 points by ZeljkoS 23 hours ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks (skypilot.ai)

×0.91 27 #45 | 137 points by wondersky 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Google determines the names for bodies of water in Google Earth (2008) (googleblog.com)

×1.72 2 #61 | 233 points by terminalbraid 23 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lecture on exponential time hypothesis by Ryan O'Donnell (youtube.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by rnbnnnn 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful (fig.blue)

×1.25 32 | 118 points by nathanfig 18 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal (github.com/da-luce)

×1.52 2 #11 | 155 points by nvmdbljstm 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from (trakkr.ai)

×1.04 26 #38 | 166 points by mektrik 20 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Full Python 3.15 Implemented in 25k LoC C11

×1.32 97 | 9 points by soasme 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AgentTrust – Zero-trust security and human approvals for AI agents (github.com/SRN0129)

×0.96 130 | 16 points by SRN0129 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy (washingtonpost.com)

×2.94 34 #68 | 306 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zwitch macOS App Switcher (free) (apple.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by frnk-km 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Antigenic operating system for my AI agents Claude Code, open claw, codex etc. (github.com/Dodaios)

×0.62 | 1 points by Dodaios 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Duotone icon library with 2.5k+ icons and 250 flags, RTL aware (github.com/andrsrxn)

×0.96 129 | 6 points by andrsrxn 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month (stackexchange.com)

×4.64 17 #59 | 789 points by babelfish 1 day ago | 718 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Interconcept Space (enricobottazzi.github.io)

×0.49 | 1 points by demivoleegaston 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880 (electrek.co)

×3.04 53 | 95 points by metadat 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Witnessory – a signed record of the web's move to post-quantum crypto (witnessory.org)

×0.64 75 | 6 points by parthod0x 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Python on My Wrist (tildeweb.nl)

×1.12 14 #22 | 58 points by roywashere 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IgE disruptor for food allergy with Claude-enabled antibody design [pdf] (divergencelabs.com)

×0.46 60 #42 | 48 points by matco11 16 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI doubles ChatGPT Pro usage limits after backlash over planned 50% cut (bleepingcomputer.com)

×1.39 | 2 points by entryleveljobsc 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Convert OST to PST (perfectdatasolutions.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by tieanderson 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made an interactive Sakura tree that runs in the browser (nozomi-xi.vercel.app)

×1.32 103 | 9 points by mohabbat_vlx 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Radio-in-a-box: Self-hosted internet radio with Icecast, Liquidsoap and Rust CLI (github.com/skorotkiewicz)

×0.89 37 #84 | 6 points by modinfo 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months (electrek.co)

×2.32 28 #85 | 275 points by ljf 1 day ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
For Love (Of Typography) (aresluna.org)

×0.60 | 1 points by frizlab 39 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements (wired.com)

×9.20 37 | 1187 points by zzzeek 1 day ago | 1003 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nasscad – local-first 3D CAD for browser and Windows (nasscad.com)

×0.42 78 | 26 points by Nasser-13 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Great American Rascal: Tom Sawyer at 150 (claremontreviewofbooks.com)

×0.65 21 #41 | 73 points by beatstop 13 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chained PHP2Shell exploit roots 25 servers, including US Government servers (dreamgroup.com)

×1.72 12 #62 | 315 points by 882542F3884314B 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini 4 Carbon (blog.google)

×4.26 30 #79 | 1007 points by acossta 1 day ago | 799 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Self-Described 'Junkie' Rode Synthetic Drugs to Oblivion – and Fame (nytimes.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections (arstechnica.com)

×7.12 32 | 169 points by jacquesm 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Parley – coding-agent sessions that collaborate over IRC (github.com/colinsurprenant)

×1.00 122 | 4 points by colinsurprenant 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers Swipe Millions from Polymarket Users in Latest Security Breach (wsj.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by brunojppb 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Generate (animated) QR Codes straight in your terminal (github.com/Y2Z)

×0.35 127 | 3 points by snshn 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reduce: A Daily Puzzle (reduce.games)

×1.46 | 2 points by moonshot5 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997 (dvy.io)

×1.77 62 | 406 points by davidbarker 4 days ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ROAL – AI phone host for restaurants that builds itself from your site (tryroal.com)

×1.27 101 | 3 points by vamsi920 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I refuse to pay for business email on every side project (github.com/sums001)

×0.57 | 1 points by sumitgautam0101 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leak website releases data on DHS employees (reuters.com)

×2.16 38 | 134 points by wondersky 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CleanCode – Claude Code and Codex collaborating on one canvas (github.com/chen-985211)

×0.69 136 | 4 points by Tide-N 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meshtrike – An offline, zero-internet-permission mesh messenger (github.com/meshtrike0)

×0.83 | 1 points by meshtrike 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fiwu: Protect yourself from open source softwares and web applications (github.com/Smile-SA)

×0.61 | 1 points by saifalterway 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model (github.com/flamerix-ai)

×4.75 45 | 567 points by NikZaal 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Milwaukee Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history (cnn.com)

×3.13 36 | 91 points by skeptrune 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DistractFree-Chrome extension and web app to stop doomscrolling (distractfree.site)

×0.74 | 2 points by ramthokane 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The New Way to Make AI UGC Ads in 2026 (aivideosugc.com)

×1.08 118 | 7 points by tuongbadke 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons? (nullpt.rs)

×5.85 27 #58 | 1556 points by hazebooth 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nielsen Animation Day 2026 Reports (animationmagazine.net)

×0.52 | 1 points by vishnukvmd 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sylphide OS: a general-purpose OS for microcontroller-based computers (freehackers.org)

×0.69 37 #37 | 69 points by iamnothere 14 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS (smsofdeath.com)

×1.96 18 #48 | 321 points by MarkBlah 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MacoraOne – A C bytecode VM, language runtimes, and developer tools (github.com/MacoraOne)

×0.66 | 1 points by macoraone 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5 (divagr.com)

×2.82 19 #66 | 688 points by csmantle 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments (surgehq.ai)

×1.31 31 #87 | 257 points by landonxi 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???