Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?

×0.89 57 | 158 points by sochix 2 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?

×3.99 27 | 62 points by klez 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Mindie.dev is scraping emails from profiles to send spam

×1.25 51 | 19 points by stackghost 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SlothDB is an OLAP DB ahead of DuckDB on Clickbench SQL database in C++20

×0.13 66 | 3 points by souravroy78 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What LLM models are you using and why?

×0.54 60 | 8 points by rubyn00bie 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

×2.21 85 | 475 points by mittermayr 1 week ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

×2.16 59 | 296 points by pycassa 4 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

×7.16 64 | 1674 points by CliffStoll 1 week ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

×1.17 79 | 288 points by david927 1 week ago | 1100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Note-taking software,Novel ideas

×0.26 103 | 5 points by huaqing 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Viable open source Claude Design alternative?

×0.48 97 | 23 points by splatzone 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you still spend time maintaining Claude.md / AGENTS.md files?

×1.76 80 | 8 points by david_d8912 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?

×0.40 94 | 28 points by nothrowaways 3 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Can I take Meta to court for banning business Insta or FB account?

×0.61 95 | 13 points by milanspeaks 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What happened to the movie "Pirates of the Silicon Valley"

×0.71 99 | 11 points by acossta 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?

×0.90 100 | 43 points by BrunoBernardino 4 days ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025) (ieee.org)

×1.85 3 #1 | 66 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Review: Cultivated Salmon (justismills.substack.com)

×0.87 | 1 points by networked 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Installing a Payphone at My House (bert.org)

×0.65 | 1 points by skinfaxi 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prepare for an AI Jobs Apocalypse (economist.com)

×2.48 61 | 30 points by wiseowise 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Protein Shortage Is Coming (theatlantic.com)

×1.43 19 #70 | 16 points by paulpauper 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002) (joelonsoftware.com)

×0.93 | 1 points by oldmanrahul 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit (techspot.com)

×4.82 89 | 540 points by nolok 8 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)

×1.09 108 | 177 points by wojtczyk 1 week ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise (thestateofbrand.com)

×3.23 42 #52 | 355 points by mooreds 10 hours ago | 363 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't Answer the First Question (lalitm.com)

×1.99 23 | 3 points by logickkk1 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Migrated from Laravel to Maravelith, and to Maravel (medium.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by marius-ciclistu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TongueType – Local, privacy-focused Whisper dictation for macOS (tonguetype.app)

×1.45 125 | 5 points by claviska 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Schanuel's Conjecture and the Semantics of Triton's FPSan (hatsya.com)

×0.34 35 #17 | 14 points by c1ccccc1 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93 (nytimes.com)

×3.80 62 | 5 points by rdl 36 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft is retiring Teams' Together Mode (theverge.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by adunk 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quit: A Human-in-the-Loop Platform for AI Research Automation (github.com/Mr-XcHan)

×0.42 | 1 points by isxinchen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I, Dota 4 by Blurpi [video] (youtube.com)

×0.41 | 1 points by ThoAppelsin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Neural window manager, neural network moving windows from mouse actions (lusob.github.io)

×1.50 150 | 7 points by lusob 4 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS (jvns.ca)

×3.34 8 #46 | 651 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 369 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days (twitter.com/steipete)

×4.62 21 | 156 points by eamag 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques (petapixel.com)

×4.03 55 | 56 points by ZeljkoS 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Serene Bach – a Go weblog engine that runs as CGI or HTTP (github.com/serendipitynz)

×0.59 86 | 3 points by takkyun 18 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gox – Strict static analyzer for Go designed for LLM-written code (github.com/mentasystems)

×2.45 151 | 6 points by kidandcat 4 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests (wiley.com)

×0.97 13 #5 | 27 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Colossus: The Forbin Project (wikipedia.org)

×1.42 26 #23 | 203 points by doener 20 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prowl: Native macOS codings agent orchestrator (tangled.org)

×0.90 | 1 points by nerdypepper 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan Team Successfully Test Engine for Mach 5 Aircraft, Eyeing 2HR Trip to US (mainichi.jp)

×1.22 | 2 points by karakoram 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dwarkesh in the Datacenter (marginalrevolution.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem (tilde.run)

×1.09 107 | 205 points by ozkatz 1 week ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Burn, baby, burn (those tokens) (github.com/dtnewman)

×3.04 50 | 130 points by dtnewman 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Openvid – open-source cinematic screen recorder and mockup editor (github.com/CristianOlivera1)

×1.05 141 | 5 points by cristianolivera 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rcarmo/iOS-terax-AI: Personal fork of Terax for integration with iOS-Linux-kit (github.com/rcarmo)

×0.51 | 1 points by rcarmo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (theregister.com)

×3.41 2 | 273 points by _____k 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs (mand.is)

×1.15 37 | 96 points by meysamazad 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In Defense of Operation Market Garden (secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com)

×1.31 | 2 points by baud147258 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Outbound (steampowered.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta to cut 8000 employees despite $26B Q1 net income (moneywise.com)

×6.63 58 | 33 points by stackghost 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hermes-agentmemory, pull-model episodic memory with real deletes (github.com/MukundaKatta)

×1.22 89 | 5 points by mukundakatta 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web (github.com/bring-shrubbery)

×0.97 130 | 185 points by bring-shrubbery 2 weeks ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer (templatical.com)

×1.11 113 | 169 points by oahmadov 1 week ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015) (rogerebert.com)

×1.29 18 #6 | 38 points by walterbell 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: JDS – a Copilot skill suite for structuring AI coding behavior (github.com/josipmusa)

×0.79 126 | 8 points by anaq42 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: X open sourced their algorithm (xalgorithm.xyz)

×1.32 128 | 4 points by hsnrique 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I don't think AI will make your processes go faster (frederickvanbrabant.com)

×2.50 4 #10 | 446 points by TheEdonian 10 hours ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I tried to make Claude make me money on open-source bounties (github.com/ztc00)

×2.36 44 | 37 points by ztc00 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bear spray is exploding in the trash near Yellowstone National Park (sfgate.com)

×1.74 43 | 26 points by turtlegrids 19 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claude64, a Commodore 64 client for Claude (github.com/theletterf)

×1.71 106 | 7 points by theletterf 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TinySearch - Give small LLMs fast web access without context bloat (github.com/MarcellM01)

×0.66 140 | 3 points by MarcellM01 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB (getadb.com)

×0.44 146 | 39 points by nezaj 1 week ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Pure-Python Computer Vision Library That's Fast and Minimal (github.com/abhiTronix)

×0.44 | 1 points by abhiTronix 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Strava for AI coding – analytics on your Copilot/Claude/Codex usage (github.com/microsoft)

×1.51 78 | 8 points by aymenfurter 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Raybeam – A better way to screen share on macOS (raybeam.live)

×1.18 127 | 4 points by fisc 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud (fixelsmith.com)

×3.10 17 | 319 points by redbell 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Erlang/OTP 29.0 (erlang.org)

×2.14 26 | 251 points by pyinstallwoes 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Accelerate – Embedded language for high-performance array computations (github.com/AccelerateHS)

×0.79 49 #80 | 89 points by tosh 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution (github.com/chiennv2000)

×1.86 29 | 239 points by FranckDernoncou 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sanjaya – Academic paper discovery and extraction (OpenAlex/Scrapy) (sanjaya-six.vercel.app)

×0.83 148 | 3 points by oug-t 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video] (fosdem.org)

×1.26 11 #2 | 125 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter (williamangel.net)

×2.47 6 #20 | 281 points by datadrivenangel 10 hours ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A nicer voltmeter clock (lcamtuf.substack.com)

×1.83 21 #24 | 301 points by surprisetalk 23 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is a Separator (nvegater.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by nvegater 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN:Android runs interactive in a browser – no root, no VM, no KVM, no QEMU (youtube.com)

×1.14 | 2 points by sahraoui8487 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Once Upon a Time in (New) Math (ssmcis-columbia.github.io)

×1.03 | 2 points by he11ow 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management (github.com/GlycemicGPT)

×0.87 68 | 64 points by jlengelbrecht 2 days ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Roman Letters (romanletters.org)

×1.34 30 #42 | 92 points by diodorus 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic's $1.5B Settlement with Publishers (abhishek-shankar.com)

×0.95 | 1 points by catstyler 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand (independent.co.uk)

×2.22 13 | 115 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OnlyCats – TikTok for Cats (onlycats.cc)

×3.77 70 | 28 points by stagas 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands (github.com/sleuth-io)

×0.83 65 | 49 points by detkin 2 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Chuddy, self-hosted media downloading, translation and OCR Telegram bot (github.com/kivirnz)

×1.66 133 | 4 points by kivir 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Marketer (ycombinator.com)

1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WHO warns nicotine pouch brands targeting youth as sales surge (who.int)

×2.52 22 | 5 points by geox 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022) (gwern.net)

×2.54 48 | 121 points by Ariarule 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Codiff, a local diff review tool (github.com/nkzw-tech)

×2.06 33 | 25 points by cpojer 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???