Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?

×3.68 15 #19 | 37 points by klez 1 hour ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?

×0.97 58 #74 | 148 points by sochix 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

×2.22 63 | 293 points by pycassa 3 days ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

×2.23 87 | 474 points by mittermayr 1 week ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Note-taking software,Novel ideas

×0.12 | 2 points by huaqing 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

×1.16 80 | 285 points by david927 6 days ago | 1097 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

×7.18 70 | 1671 points by CliffStoll 1 week ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Viable open source Claude Design alternative?

×0.47 90 | 21 points by splatzone 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What happened to ssh-audit.com?

×0.18 102 | 3 points by Bender 21 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?

×0.36 86 | 25 points by nothrowaways 2 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Load testing in your infra, not cloud

×0.14 121 | 3 points by vitalicset 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
XS Programming Language

×0.51 114 | 8 points by xs-lang 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Can I take Meta to court for banning business Insta or FB account?

×0.46 82 | 9 points by milanspeaks 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What happened to the movie "Pirates of the Silicon Valley"

×0.66 83 | 9 points by acossta 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?

×0.82 99 | 38 points by BrunoBernardino 3 days ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks (lareviewofbooks.org)

×0.79 20 #14 | 37 points by Caiero 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dutch government objects to proposed US law restricting ASML's China exports (reuters.com)

×6.67 64 | 11 points by jonbaer 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Git for AI Agents (github.com/regent-vcs)

×1.02 126 | 128 points by doshay 1 week ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FixMyNPM, CLI to fix your insecure npm config (github.com/madhugb)

×1.20 139 | 10 points by madospace 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (jvns.ca)

×3.39 5 #10 | 390 points by mpweiher 14 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)

×1.10 18 #12 | 189 points by 44za12 14 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Charity – Categorical programming language (1998) (github.com/mietek)

×0.54 69 #53 | 29 points by matteodelabre 15 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microscale Thermite Reaction (harvard.edu)

×0.73 37 | 73 points by krunck 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LightningTrack – Issue tracker built for AI-assisted development (lightningtrack.io)

×0.30 | 2 points by garyeterry 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme (quantamagazine.org)

×1.47 27 #33 | 206 points by sohkamyung 23 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is this site named Antipope? (antipope.org)

×2.64 57 #65 | 73 points by turadg 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We built a zero-telemetry Native Rust AI engine. (Ghost Lock included) (github.com/jrabbass)

×0.66 | 1 points by jrabbass 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wish You Were Her (nplusonemag.com)

×1.92 36 | 3 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Executives are blaming layoffs on AI, but it is not the main driver (yahoo.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by wslh 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops (grapheneos.org)

×2.40 59 | 107 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM Policy for Rust Compiler (github.com/rust-lang)

×1.85 65 | 98 points by liyanage 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recreation of the 1956 IPL-I version of the Logic Theorist theorem prover (github.com/dmoews)

×0.83 20 #22 | 18 points by abrax3141 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI's eyes to help with component inspections (sandia.gov)

×0.68 | 1 points by hhs 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: nbpipe – A lightweight workflow runner for Jupyter notebooks (github.com/ngafar)

×0.47 | 1 points by nawazgafar 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks (github.com/Andyyyy64)

×2.36 5 | 282 points by andyyyy64 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gigacatalyst – Extend your SaaS with an embedded AI builder

×0.44 101 | 60 points by namanyayg 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)

×1.09 125 | 205 points by ozkatz 1 week ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021) (dynomight.net)

×1.35 28 #42 | 183 points by tomjakubowski 23 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Liquid Breathing (wikipedia.org)

×0.47 | 1 points by Markoff 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We've made the world too complicated (bearblog.dev)

×3.90 24 #17 | 153 points by James72689 15 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again (seangoedecke.com)

×2.96 14 #25 | 194 points by Brajeshwar 8 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Local, reviewable repo memory for coding agents (github.com/aictx)

×1.90 15 | 3 points by Yannetto 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better (gutenberg.org)

×4.18 9 #15 | 1150 points by JSeiko 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vulnerability Cve-2026-7412 (gcve.eu)

×0.47 | 1 points by anonyoum 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rust but Lisp (github.com/ThatXliner)

×1.50 94 | 214 points by thatxliner 1 week ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server (blocksandfiles.com)

×0.92 10 #3 | 102 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus (edna.land)

×1.04 35 #41 | 99 points by ednaordinary 18 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows (jpain.io)

×2.98 65 #66 | 90 points by speckx 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Transported' book review: Lost in a musical daydream (wsj.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by hhs 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sanjaya – Academic paper discovery and extraction (OpenAlex/Scrapy) (sanjaya-six.vercel.app)

×0.83 134 | 3 points by oug-t 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claude-stash – an idea queue for Claude Code (github.com/AmirSoleimani)

×1.19 143 | 4 points by Amirso 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Content-defined chunking added to Bazel (buildbuddy.io)

×0.82 15 #8 | 11 points by siggi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan (gardinerbryant.com)

×1.40 33 #61 | 86 points by Kate0CoolLibby 21 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zerostack – Tiny Rust Coding Agent in 8MB of RAM (github.com/gi-dellav)

×1.98 30 | 3 points by gidellav 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee? (worseonpurpose.com)

×4.95 23 | 163 points by prawn 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Browser based sythesizer, drum machine and squencer (github.com/madmonk13)

×1.55 73 | 18 points by madmonk 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)

×1.09 127 | 177 points by wojtczyk 1 week ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)

×0.97 140 | 185 points by bring-shrubbery 1 week ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Were Ancient Greco-Roman Curse Tablets? (history.com)

×0.41 68 #44 | 15 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs (mand.is)

×1.13 8 #45 | 84 points by meysamazad 10 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California (arstechnica.com)

×3.90 11 #47 | 563 points by Lihh27 1 day ago | 389 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Singapore Foreign Minister's Keynote at AI Engineer Singapore (youtube.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by doppp 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claude64, a Commodore 64 client for Claude (github.com/theletterf)

×1.60 89 | 6 points by theletterf 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Browse 61 3D Printable Robots (orobot.io)

×1.23 104 | 14 points by xanderjanz 2 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10 (projectzero.google)

×1.82 25 #37 | 428 points by happyhardcore 1 day ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month (techcrunch.com)

×1.26 | 2 points by ent101 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Built a Website for Embedded Software Engineering Interview Preparation (srnvl.github.io)

×1.13 | 2 points by sangramnavale 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Got ghosted by tech companies so I built a tool to track ghost jobs (csvfirst.pythonanywhere.com)

×1.07 17 | 3 points by ktmartin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Doomscroll the Goverment's UFO Files as One Gigantic Microfilm (hypergrid.systems)

×1.68 133 | 24 points by keepamovin 4 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust" (github.com/oven-sh)

×4.28 5 #58 | 463 points by ndiddy 1 day ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
White monkeys to make Chinese business look more global (theguardian.com)

×0.64 | 1 points by andsoitis 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open WebUI: Jupyter code execution works despite ENABLE_CODE_EXECUTION=false (github.com/open-webui)

×0.56 | 1 points by logickkk1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding Singleflight in Go (codingexplorations.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by ghostbit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploring Chemistry in Four Dimensions (4denthusiast.net)

×0.50 | 1 points by onestay42 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VisiSign – $0.10 per envelope e-signatures with no monthly fee (visisign.app)

×1.34 85 | 6 points by rdoneill 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Revos – architecture checks for AI-generated code (github.com/mattykry)

×0.97 115 | 4 points by Mattykry 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format (kabir.au)

×2.28 9 #13 | 326 points by frays 16 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals (wordpress.com)

×0.82 54 #43 | 122 points by lukeplato 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Neural window manager, neural network moving windows from mouse actions (lusob.github.io)

×1.50 146 | 7 points by lusob 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (github.com/cactus-compute)

×2.91 68 #77 | 756 points by HenryNdubuaku 4 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A checkbox to enable the Django debug toolbar (mdk.fr)

×0.54 | 1 points by julienpalard 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge bars Kars4Kids from broadcasting 'misleading' ads in California (nytimes.com)

×2.13 20 | 114 points by xnx 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud (fixelsmith.com)

×3.14 20 #68 | 308 points by redbell 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The nuclear-physics infrastructure behind PET scans (lanl.gov)

×0.59 63 #80 | 56 points by LAsteNERD 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Irst Apple M5 memory exploit discovered using Anthropic AI (tomshardware.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by Timofeibu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Artist Kit – One-Page Website Builder for DJs and Music Artists (artistkit.co)

×1.06 1 | 3 points by truetaurus 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Technofascism (third-bit.com)

×12.37 81 | 122 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OrcaSheets, local first analytics engine to process billions of rows (orcasheets.ai)

×1.33 118 | 5 points by ydgandhi 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How does your team capture decisions and action items after meetings?

×1.06 | 2 points by Skm-12 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Share your shell and show your tricked-out terminals (arstechnica.com)

×1.08 | 2 points by twilight-code 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???