Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

×3.62 6 | 935 points by paveworld 2 days ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

×0.67 90 | 133 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 576 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

×1.12 80 | 270 points by whoishiring 5 days ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Orcah Studio: A local-first video agent that can search your videos

×0.25 83 | 6 points by iliashad 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners

×1.65 33 | 101 points by goldenmember 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you reading to your kids?

×0.44 139 | 21 points by jopizio 6 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Our digital privacy is being aggressively disbanded this week

×0.81 77 | 9 points by Steaglsz 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DOS Game Stunts Port to Linux,Windows,Browser,etc.

×0.14 133 | 3 points by LowLevelMahn 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Muse.ai gets me kicked off fb marketplace

×0.66 126 | 32 points by zcalvin 6 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: OVH price increase for dedicated servers

×0.48 138 | 11 points by esher 4 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chamath says open AI models are "commoditize your complement." Agree?

×0.21 140 | 6 points by Dinuda 3 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pico CSS is no longer maintained (final release v2.1.1)

×0.59 119 | 8 points by anydigital 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones

×0.28 144 | 5 points by Steaglsz 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back (github.com/omlahore)

×4.44 14 | 764 points by privacyisntdead 1 day ago | 537 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects (wikimedia.org)

×4.18 41 | 298 points by brokensegue 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spending on AI is becoming almost impossible for businesses to budget (wsj.com)

×4.20 47 | 59 points by swolpers 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kahawai – An open source, modular media system (kahawai.net)

×2.20 2 | 6 points by berm_ 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI systems could cover up misbehavior (metr.org)

×0.66 | 1 points by ilreb 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Lost World of Soviet PCs (2015) (pcmag.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by sssilver 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Post-training to build better Roblox UIs (castform.com)

×2.14 36 | 3 points by kumama 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Detecting AI ideas, not AI text (unite.ai)

×2.24 32 | 3 points by 50kIters 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades (debugbear.com)

×1.86 5 #30 | 305 points by jgx0 19 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining: Fast Trading, Microwave Connectivity, T. Costs (sci-hub.ru)

×0.59 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If the AI bubble pops, don't bail-out tech (cepr.net)

×0.63 | 1 points by frmersdog 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Flash-Agents – DSH as MCP for Claude (github.com/tomw1808)

×1.14 95 | 4 points by tomw1808 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace (offrun.dev)

×1.09 85 | 78 points by arunbhatia 3 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity (ajmoon.com)

×4.13 24 #19 | 32 points by alex-moon 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally (globalsolaratlas.info)

×0.82 34 #65 | 70 points by stratts 19 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SPrav Job AI Client-side career tool with WebGPU and direct ATS queries (sprav-jobai.vercel.app)

×1.00 | 2 points by SVSPraveen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ramen – self-hosted multi-zone MCP server for Kubernetes(Rust & Python) (github.com/bkraad47)

×1.26 111 | 5 points by bulkguy47 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Recly – turn your watch into a Plaud-style AI recorder (recly.dev)

×1.80 116 | 5 points by rokrokss 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: French Revolutionary Calendar (libcg.so)

×0.94 135 | 3 points by libcg 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oura becomes latest US IPO hopeful to delay listing as market jitters deepen (reuters.com)

×0.90 | 1 points by yakkomajuri 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gnu.org Is Down

×1.42 | 2 points by thegreathir 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Meanwhile Map – what else was happening in the world at the same time (meanwhilemap.com)

×1.64 87 | 5 points by 29b 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Use all Codex Plugins inside Pi (github.com/wileai)

×1.30 115 | 22 points by alexandroskyr 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A replacement motherboard for the iPod mini, 3G and 4G (certainthings.studio)

×1.01 48 | 3 points by seanpod 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HyperCMD, write CLI applications using plain HTML (github.com/fusor-rs)

×2.12 110 | 7 points by andreespirela 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jev schema builder from TypeScript Type with Typia (typia.io)

×0.67 | 1 points by autobe 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia (theguardian.com)

×3.39 20 | 223 points by tosh 1 day ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aldo Coach, a workout log with an AI coach that sees every set (aldo-coach.app)

×0.80 | 2 points by jackchillemi 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer (peterszentkiralyi.eu)

×0.81 24 #13 | 18 points by pentakkusu 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Resurrecting iChat Audio and Video Conferencing (pipetogrep.org)

×1.00 18 #34 | 102 points by thepipetogrep 14 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Personal Agent Protocol (sierra.ai)

×0.95 | 1 points by ilreb 59 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Checklists, masks and mystery: What we know about the plague scare in Russia (cnn.com)

×0.83 | 1 points by mooreds 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Future of Mathematics (wordpress.com)

×1.69 7 | 121 points by smilelamp 22 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DenizliHub – 40 client-side web tools running 100% in the browser (denizlihub.com)

×0.88 97 | 3 points by denizlihub 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated (phys.org)

×2.64 3 #15 | 221 points by pseudolus 6 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort (smyck.net)

×1.32 1 #88 | 105 points by hukl 21 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM-Complete: The next 700 programming languages (chrisdone.com)

×1.72 | 2 points by speckx 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to head into VR without wearing a headset (kyushu-u.ac.jp)

×0.63 | 1 points by Betelbuddy 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sideloop – Re-sign sideloaded iOS apps over Wi-Fi before they expire (github.com/filippofinke)

×1.21 89 | 4 points by filippofinke 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Made an open-source Lego AI generator (github.com/anteloc)

×1.40 79 | 166 points by antelocnova 3 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DevBoard – a simpler ClickUp for small dev teams, native apps and MCP (getdevboard.app)

×1.01 98 | 5 points by darkobacic 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl (mastodon.social)

×0.77 5 #28 | 40 points by torutofu 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data (cpr.dk)

×2.62 2 #67 | 494 points by clan 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft makes repo's for Learn documentation private, now what? (ourcloudnetwork.com)

×0.87 | 1 points by speckx 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches? (gnome.org)

×1.59 42 | 69 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TLDRs newsletter converter that gets all the important links (christianheilmann.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by speckx 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kcc, a C compiler built solo with an LLM on $100/mo boot Linux kernel (github.com/LiterateDrivenDevelopment)

×1.41 | 2 points by temo_pacheco 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bio ML Tools in the Browser (athanortools.com)

×0.94 | 2 points by the__alchemist 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge (techspot.com)

×5.63 6 #39 | 782 points by emptybits 1 day ago | 618 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight (techspot.com)

×2.95 42 #49 | 35 points by healsdata 1 hour ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chrome's Response to Recent ccTLD Registry Hijacks (blog.google)

×2.09 | 2 points by agwa 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's a Boundary Negotiation, and They're Losing (theadamthomas.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by speckx 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Minigraf – An embedded, bi-temporal graph database in Rust (github.com/project-minigraf)

×0.64 65 | 37 points by adityamukho 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vibivibi – End-to-end encrypted sharing of Coding Agent sessions (vibivibi.com)

×1.22 107 | 4 points by hyluo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using A.I. and machine learning to decode communication of sperm whales (blue-continuum.com)

×1.00 3 #72 | 63 points by dnetesn 13 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS (github.com/allenv0)

×1.14 64 #89 | 173 points by allenleee 2 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to deal with AI "true believer" leadership at work

×1.45 | 2 points by microflash 55 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scrutinized (pluralistic.net)

×0.58 | 1 points by hn_acker 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" (techspot.com)

×4.67 19 | 60 points by hefner1456 20 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MailAccess – the true Email OSINT framework (mailaccess.pro)

×25.34 70 | 54 points by coding-maniac 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse (cbc.ca)

×6.04 16 | 78 points by rdmuser 21 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)

×0.69 2 #17 | 46 points by yashdotrv 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (tdk.com)

×1.14 33 #24 | 97 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple and a hacker's future (stratechery.com)

×1.85 14 #68 | 285 points by maguay 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust (github.com/rui314)

×2.31 8 | 242 points by roflcopter69 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors (smarthomescene.com)

×1.55 35 #26 | 187 points by walrus01 20 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Photopea creator weighs in on Photosuite project (github.com/eolix)

×3.54 29 #87 | 138 points by montag 17 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fighting the chip shortage with old school cooperative multitasking on GPUs (muna.ai)

×0.79 | 1 points by floathub 11 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Audionaut – an open-source cross-platform multitrack audio editor (github.com/kvoltmer)

×1.12 82 | 152 points by vltmrkls 4 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Machine Learning and the Destabilization of Buddhist Psychology (2020) [video] (youtube.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by ttttannenbaum 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gutsy – Tiny model for typed decisions on CPU (Jev style) (github.com/kouhxp)

×1.42 64 | 3 points by mrkn1 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: EtherPK – an Obsidian and Logseq alternative with prose and blocks (github.com/appsoftwareltd)

×1.88 100 | 5 points by gb2d_hn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap (frn.sh)

×1.49 68 #75 | 113 points by shellpipe 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PhreshOS – OS for Web Apps (github.com/PhreshOS)

×0.92 134 | 10 points by zouhirdx 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SuperLocalMemory 4.0 "Governed Memory Operating System for AI Agents" (arxiv.org)

×1.56 128 | 5 points by vpbhardwaj 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)

×0.97 18 #14 | 35 points by mauriziocalo 5 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vyasa – WordPress Alternative in Rust (vyasa.site)

×1.43 | 2 points by techgopal 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???