Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Viable open source Claude Design alternative?

×0.73 8 | 18 points by splatzone 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?

×0.55 26 | 21 points by nothrowaways 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
XS Programming Language

×0.88 22 | 4 points by xs-lang 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

×2.58 6 | 288 points by pycassa 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: When will you be concerned on layoffs?

×1.70 11 | 4 points by piratesAndSons 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's the hardest part of building a SaaS that users keep paying for?

×0.47 79 | 10 points by specwiseai 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

×2.27 100 | 472 points by mittermayr 6 days ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

×1.15 94 | 282 points by david927 4 days ago | 1083 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

×7.22 82 | 1669 points by CliffStoll 1 week ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?

×0.79 92 | 33 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Starting June 15, claude -p usage will change

×0.44 104 | 7 points by andersonmvd 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Anthropic doing too much vibe coding?

×0.33 111 | 7 points by terabytest 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
agent-dash: TUI for managing Claude Code and OpenCode in tmux

×0.07 160 | 3 points by fdarian 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to get started in electronic music

×0.51 134 | 16 points by A_Random_Nerd 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?

×0.79 141 | 27 points by 0-bad-sectors 4 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB (getadb.com)

×0.44 157 | 39 points by nezaj 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Monghoul – Desktop MongoDB GUI with schema-aware autocomplete and MCP (monghoul.com)

×2.40 127 | 6 points by kontsedal 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The conflation of money and things (lithub.com)

×0.74 33 #41 | 66 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How can Apple deal with the memory shortage? (asymco.com)

×1.13 70 #84 | 127 points by tambourine_man 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo (upi.com)

×7.51 42 | 113 points by thm 11 hours ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure (reuters.com)

×4.21 11 | 68 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 15 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline (mit.edu)

×3.59 16 #26 | 585 points by dmayo 12 hours ago | 651 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent (nltimes.nl)

×3.59 42 | 252 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres FDW: Pushdown is a negotiation (clickhouse.com)

×0.97 52 #69 | 11 points by 4mog 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codex is now available on mobile via ChatGPT app (twitter.com/openai)

×2.02 27 #89 | 35 points by 0xkvyb 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sprite Scaling on the Master System: Building the New on the Ruins of the Old (nicole.express)

×0.65 93 #73 | 4 points by ndr42 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
June 9. Dead man switch and MS RCE drops promised? (deadeclipse666.blogspot.com)

×1.18 58 | 3 points by throw2024 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The other half of AI safety (personalaisafety.com)

×1.43 49 | 97 points by sofiaqt 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mistle – Open-source infrastructure for running sandboxed coding agents (github.com/mistlehq)

×2.11 122 | 6 points by jonathanlowhy 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mochi.js: bun-native high-fidelity browser automation library (mochijs.com)

×0.72 143 | 47 points by ccheshirecat 5 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data (github.com/gyroflow)

×1.24 48 #8 | 7 points by nateb2022 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain (denodell.com)

×2.08 67 #48 | 35 points by cdrnsf 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)

×1.00 95 | 122 points by tsiry 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fuse-stripped-notebooks uses FUSE to make .ipynb better for grep (github.com/bm371613)

×1.14 105 | 3 points by bm371613 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WordPress Lost 19% of the Internet to AI [video] (youtube.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by mgh2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Tested DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash Against Claude Opus 4.7 and Kimi K2.6 (kilo.ai)

×0.43 | 1 points by nl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7 (classic7.lol)

×1.81 2 | 151 points by jandeboevrie 20 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Emacsification of Software (sockpuppet.org)

×2.23 48 #45 | 416 points by rdslw 1 day ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
London's Smallest Public Sculptures (lookup.london)

×0.83 18 #67 | 36 points by susam 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heritability of human life span is ~50% when heritability is redefined (dynomight.net)

×0.91 79 #81 | 115 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Efficiency Moat: Why China Is Beating the U.S. on AI and Everything Else (thebignewsletter.com)

×2.80 33 | 5 points by connor11528 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes (theindex.fyi)

×1.15 103 | 153 points by rocketpastsix 4 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PandoCast: open-source Pandora player to solve an annoyance I had (github.com/lennyxc)

×0.68 | 2 points by lxchase 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hallucinopedia (halupedia.com)

×2.00 113 | 307 points by bstrama 1 week ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Big tech is sacrificing its cashflows to prop up the AI boom (economist.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Browser HTTP Leak Test (raw.githubusercontent.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Monero's Biggest Privacy Upgrade Is Almost Here: Justin Berman on FCMP Stressnet (youtube.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
delta time (deltatime.life)

×1.47 52 | 88 points by mxfh 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICLR 2026 – Institutional Affiliations Dataset and Analysis (github.com/DmytroLopushanskyy)

×0.57 51 #54 | 9 points by stared 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Git for AI Agents (github.com/regent-vcs)

×1.01 119 | 126 points by doshay 6 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Tree House: A voyage to the source of a backyard dream (laphamsquarterly.org)

×0.58 49 #60 | 69 points by Caiero 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Didn't Ask for This Internet (angelabenton.substack.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by ethanplant 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cisco workforce reductions (cisco.com)

×2.50 7 | 264 points by ahmedomran8 1 day ago | 304 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grok Build (x.ai)

×4.23 51 | 87 points by meetpateltech 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RISC-V Router (start9.com)

×1.11 15 #10 | 86 points by janandonly 7 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenSpec – OpenAPI/Swagger explorer with a contract linter (openspec.vercel.app)

×1.07 88 | 3 points by geox 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop (vouchatlas.com)

×1.32 118 | 75 points by canergl 5 days ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 (calif.io)

×1.94 8 #4 | 292 points by quadrige 9 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions (vt.edu)

×2.78 4 #12 | 124 points by littlexsparkee 5 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references (twitter.com/tdietterich)

×5.59 13 #15 | 354 points by gjuggler 7 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What if websites were callable like APIs? (github.com/weekend-project-space)

×1.21 | 2 points by zhugeyangyang 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ratify Protocol – prove who authorized an AI agent, offline, in <1ms (github.com/identities-ai)

×0.92 137 | 4 points by chuks 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts (theregister.com)

×3.85 14 #20 | 146 points by sohkamyung 5 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
15% of AI agent skill files carry hardcoded credentials with DB write access (securityboulevard.com)

×1.81 25 | 4 points by Armor1AI 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation (anthropic.com)

×1.88 41 | 120 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
German intelligence offices snub Palantir software (dw.com)

×3.56 44 | 71 points by abawany 8 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Saying Goodbye to one line of APL (homewithinnowhere.com)

×0.82 77 #37 | 81 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gargoyle, a Decade Later (lospino.so)

×0.45 | 1 points by jalospinoso 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Petri – Drop-in Postgres image that forks a DB per test (github.com/taktekhq)

×1.05 117 | 4 points by nizarmah 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vim file browser that runs in separate terminal (github.com/hoffa)

×1.34 128 | 5 points by crehn 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UFerris a Versatile Learner Board for Rust Embedded Beginners (theembeddedrustacean.com)

×0.78 23 #11 | 13 points by stmw 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Linux LPE, 5.10 and above (ptrace_may_access mm-NULL + pidfd_getfd) (github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork)

×3.20 38 | 10 points by Tiberium 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 3D-Agent – AI that edits Blender scenes through the Python API (3d-agent.com)

×0.84 101 | 3 points by gsunshinel 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms (github.com/nooga)

×1.78 99 | 281 points by marcingas 5 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heads up: new Google support scam uses a REAL email from Google: sysadmin (reddit.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by freediver 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I resurrected the web from the past and it got weird (slopcities.com)

×1.73 15 | 3 points by ZenBlender 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCP Is Not Enough (mukulsingh105.github.io)

×1.23 55 | 3 points by azhenley 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leaving GitHub for Forgejo (jorijn.com)

×3.35 9 | 620 points by jorijn 1 day ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news (niemanlab.org)

×2.54 15 | 112 points by giuliomagnifico 16 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Get dopamine from real action instead of doomscrolling (visionary-path.com)

×1.20 96 | 4 points by DaryaHr 13 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Find vendors used by any company (sub-processors.com)

×1.08 76 #31 | 3 points by chatmasta 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development (github.com/DrCatHicks)

×2.04 42 #44 | 224 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EditLens: Quantifying the extent of AI editing in text (2025) (arxiv.org)

×0.34 78 #53 | 26 points by horseradish 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bumble Is Removing the Swipe Feature, Will Use AI in New Launch (eonline.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by mgh2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Showing the same info in 248 different UI (infiniwa.com)

×0.29 133 | 3 points by ym705 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DAGraph – local-first reactive graph from arithmetic to OLAP SQL (dagraph.com)

×1.39 121 | 6 points by notfirstpost 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Halgorithem – Catching AI Hallucinations Using Trees, No AI in Pipeline (github.com/TangibleResearch)

×1.15 85 | 5 points by amitabhi 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kunobi 1.0 – A local-first Kubernetes workspace for GitOps teams (kunobi.ninja)

×1.64 132 | 5 points by kunobi 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HYPD – AI co-pilot for marketers running Google Ads (hypd.ai)

×1.70 147 | 4 points by cionut 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater (phys.org)

×0.72 40 #27 | 78 points by gmays 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???