Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

×0.77 92 | 158 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What art would you like to express?

×0.37 4 | 5 points by d4ng 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is a good advice for someone looking to fractional hire a team?

×0.10 81 | 4 points by vanessa1211 12 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

×1.02 83 | 232 points by whoishiring 4 days ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously

×0.49 90 | 27 points by alexwwang 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes

×0.08 | 2 points by spottedmarley 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Did GitHub remove the stargazers list?

×0.64 114 | 24 points by reconnecting 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anybody tried Laguna S 2.1 (by Poolside)?

×0.23 104 | 7 points by spottedmarley 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links

×2.61 73 | 107 points by vivzkestrel 2 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Poker and Liar's Dice over Bluetooth Low Energy

×0.31 118 | 5 points by yincrash 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS (textlog.cc)

×1.19 23 #18 | 127 points by stagas 13 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why are all the amounts values negative? (bankstatementconverter.com)

×0.96 34 #19 | 28 points by 4pkjai 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open (herdr.dev)

×1.47 6 #83 | 273 points by collinmanderson 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership (nbcnews.com)

×2.17 17 | 174 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A free mini game that makes you a smarter fly fisherperson (read-the-water.netlify.app)

×0.43 57 | 21 points by mpc75 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: An AI agent that trades inside limits you set, starting on paper (quantsignals.xyz)

×0.92 120 | 17 points by henryzhangpku 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MacSurf and the State of AI Assisted Projects (patreon.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by mplsllc 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cop who used police system to snoop for info on crook pals sentenced (theregister.com)

×1.75 22 | 3 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out (macchaffee.com)

×2.04 | 2 points by birdculture 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Man Running from Cheyenne Cops Tries to Break into Laramie County Jail (cowboystatedaily.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Collapse OS - Bootstrap post-collapse technology (collapseos.org)

×0.50 | 1 points by sedatk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses (bbc.co.uk)

×2.13 21 | 53 points by CaRDiaK 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ReadMyStatement – Where did the money go? (readmystatement.com)

×0.58 | 2 points by nadermx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sidebar – a private ESP32 intercom for five kids, no accounts (sundaradnus.ca)

×3.25 78 | 11 points by nonstopnonsense 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Diffing Binary Files (withkord.com)

×1.35 112 | 19 points by wennyyustalim 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linux Patched for Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability (phoronix.com)

×1.28 | 2 points by Bender 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 (eco3min.fr)

×4.43 64 | 79 points by brandonb 7 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM (geosona.com)

×1.13 74 | 40 points by gste 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them (makeuseof.com)

×1.82 7 #67 | 253 points by baranul 1 day ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparable information rates across the human communicative niche (nih.gov)

×0.45 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice (sciencealert.com)

×1.28 28 #17 | 80 points by jnord 11 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Simplest CMS you'll ever need. Manage content right in your GitHub repository (pagescms.org)

×2.66 55 | 3 points by Leftium 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"I built a speed/distance tracker for my hamster, uploads to his Strava account" (reddit.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by zdw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Samudra Manthana, an asymmetric strategy board game in the browser (itch.io)

×0.49 | 1 points by sharang33 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Lefts – a domain specific language for building creative ML models (nsmat.github.io)

×2.00 64 | 6 points by niksmather 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning (github.com/matt-w-horn)

×0.87 106 | 22 points by spectraldrift 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone (github.com/garagehq)

×0.85 103 | 119 points by NickySlicks 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language (github.com/Wyzer-Lang)

×1.19 4 #28 | 168 points by v0id_isgood 11 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way (sciencedaily.com)

×0.92 63 #79 | 94 points by jandrewrogers 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day (frame.work)

×2.19 14 #81 | 141 points by RobinHirst11 18 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Turnfeed – a social feed inside ChatGPT (chatgpt.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by TheodorNEngoy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Metabase SQLi zero-day exploited in customer data-theft attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

×1.26 | 2 points by sbulaev 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings (mainichi.jp)

×3.67 43 | 77 points by m463 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)

×2.54 10 #32 | 25 points by ilamont 3 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ten ways I've Sped Up Sonic on the Amiga 1200 (patreon.com)

×1.08 14 #62 | 9 points by fidotron 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)

×2.87 14 #77 | 936 points by xtreak29 2 days ago | 590 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Musk Refuses Ukrainian Request to Enable Starlink for Deep Strikes Inside Russia (united24media.com)

×2.63 32 | 4 points by CharlesW 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm excited for Intel after testing the XPS 13 (jeffgeerling.com)

×1.82 18 | 3 points by isagues 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Clef – spaced repetition for piano over MIDI (playclef.com)

×0.82 80 | 3 points by danieldratschuk 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM (github.com/wie-project)

×1.27 95 | 253 points by vlad_kalinkin 5 days ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (theguardian.com)

×3.04 #25 | 711 points by boplicity 23 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work (jacobin.com)

×4.81 40 | 89 points by ughitsaaron 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Remembrane – agent memory in one SQLite file, zero dependencies (github.com/satyasairay)

×1.27 70 | 9 points by satyasairay 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Guarded Methods in OCaml (xvw.lol)

×1.18 11 #9 | 48 points by birdculture 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top (arstechnica.com)

×2.04 17 #78 | 4 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off” (gamedev.place)

×1.24 16 #88 | 191 points by luu 1 day ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Project Lana attempts to formalize hard to understand Mochizuki's IUT in Lean (anabelian.org)

×1.85 | 2 points by ur-whale 13 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)

×2.17 45 | 3 points by tekknolagi 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023) (lse.ac.uk)

×5.34 80 | 170 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Elevators (john.fun)

×5.84 67 | 1674 points by Jrh0203 1 week ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public." (aresluna.org)

×1.80 71 #53 | 52 points by colinprince 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From unchecked AI spend to complete control: How Rippling built AI Spend Console (rippling.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by jaredwiener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)

×2.24 47 | 620 points by automatoney 3 days ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rodeo – a robot that earns its own electricity (github.com/IERoboticsAILab)

×1.06 87 | 3 points by edcafenet 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door (github.com/ArcaEge)

×0.95 115 | 96 points by arcaege 5 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Humor Arena – Which frontier model is funniest? (laugh.so)

×2.17 122 | 10 points by killiandunne1 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BMW Rolling Out In-Car Spam (heise.de)

×3.75 18 #37 | 26 points by lschueller 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lynn Hill – First free ascent of the sheer rock face of The Nose on El Capitan (wikipedia.org)

×1.81 11 | 3 points by gurjeet 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: XSAF – Extra Small Agent Framework (ilha.build)

×3.12 79 | 7 points by ryuzyy 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Photo to Video AI – Animate a photo with a motion prompt (phototovideo-ai.net)

×0.64 | 2 points by zduoduo 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars (newyorker.com)

×1.19 | 2 points by petethomas 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python (github.com/kamalfarahani)

×0.70 140 | 37 points by kamalf 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code: Starting August 14, auto mode will be the default permission mode (twitter.com/ClaudeDevs)

×1.57 8 #52 | 14 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies (github.com/tanrax)

×0.39 82 | 5 points by andros 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: La Vieja Contra El Dibu – Penalty Shootout Game vs. Dibu Martínez (laviejacontraeldibu.app)

×0.29 | 2 points by alanzhan 22 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: S3mini v1 – Tiny and fast S3 client, no-deps, for Node, Bun, Cloudflare (codeberg.org)

×1.41 135 | 4 points by Peter_J 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)

×2.41 29 #10 | 6 points by moelf 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (malisper.me)

×1.95 10 #13 | 229 points by poly2it 12 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Atomic Clocks (nist.gov)

×1.10 46 #35 | 126 points by teleforce 19 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties (githubstatus.com)

×3.67 34 | 114 points by Jeaye 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ARF – a record format for AI evaluation runs, with reproducible digests (korvo.xyz)

×1.38 123 | 3 points by akshay_bhardwaj 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite (kedge.dev)

×1.13 132 | 141 points by wgjordan 1 week ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface (typestax.com)

×0.53 61 #33 | 49 points by jasim 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't (crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com)

×2.65 #75 | 687 points by DarkContinent 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cpdlc over ATN-B1 Vulnerabilities (cisa.gov)

×0.56 | 1 points by anonymousiam 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: If you had to relearn Emacs today, how would you?

×1.17 | 2 points by Varelion 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices (deepseek.com)

×5.35 53 | 84 points by miroljub 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A browser game for experimenting with cellular societies (alirizasaral.com)

×1.33 138 | 3 points by alirizasaral 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot (fastcompany.com)

×5.07 70 | 158 points by rwmj 10 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more (github.com/pradipta)

×0.79 85 | 35 points by pradiptasarma 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???