Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Propmpt-genned Rust shell is 13x the Ghostty size

×0.70 26 #35 | 4 points by ykurtov 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?

×0.48 44 | 23 points by nothrowaways 16 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Viable open source Claude Design alternative?

×0.59 34 | 20 points by splatzone 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

×2.52 3 | 288 points by pycassa 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
XS Programming Language

×0.76 66 | 6 points by xs-lang 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...

×2.26 91 | 472 points by mittermayr 1 week ago | 341 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

×1.16 83 | 283 points by david927 4 days ago | 1086 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: When will you be concerned on layoffs?

×1.57 54 | 7 points by piratesAndSons 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

×7.22 72 | 1671 points by CliffStoll 1 week ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude free usage limits are nuts. useless

×1.28 40 | 5 points by paulpauper 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?

×0.80 84 | 34 points by BrunoBernardino 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Starting June 15, claude -p usage will change

×0.42 102 | 7 points by andersonmvd 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Anthropic doing too much vibe coding?

×0.36 106 | 8 points by terabytest 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?

×1.61 75 | 34 points by sochix 3 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to get started in electronic music

×0.53 128 | 17 points by A_Random_Nerd 3 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
agent-dash: TUI for managing Claude Code and OpenCode in tmux

×0.07 150 | 3 points by fdarian 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
delta time (deltatime.life)

×1.45 46 | 89 points by mxfh 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware (github.com/tsirysndr)

×1.00 85 | 122 points by tsiry 5 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks (github.com/Andyyyy64)

×2.90 1 #2 | 45 points by andyyyy64 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude for Legal (github.com/anthropics)

×1.96 23 #20 | 103 points by Einenlum 14 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ICLR 2026 – Institutional Affiliations Dataset and Analysis (github.com/DmytroLopushanskyy)

×0.51 65 #73 | 12 points by stared 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Justice Department Investigation Determines Yale Discriminated Based on Race (justice.gov)

×2.28 54 | 3 points by Claudus 34 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Earliest Known Dentistry Wasn't Done by Our Species (sciencealert.com)

×1.09 | 2 points by janandonly 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs (github.com/darkrishabh)

×0.83 140 | 79 points by darkrishabh 1 week ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HookGuard – scanner for malicious Claude.md and agent config files (github.com/Fredbcx)

×1.06 147 | 3 points by MerriBan 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features (xda-developers.com)

×3.94 6 #54 | 953 points by haunter 1 day ago | 609 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought (agweb.com)

×2.19 38 #83 | 249 points by littlexsparkee 21 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scryve-tools – Unified wallet auth for CKB, EVM, and BTC in one NPM package (github.com/tecmeup123)

×0.48 | 1 points by scryve 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sanjaya – Academic paper discovery and extraction (OpenAlex/Scrapy) (sanjaya-six.vercel.app)

×1.11 | 2 points by oug-t 1 hour ago | 1 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 | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control (openvehicles.com)

×0.87 25 #27 | 80 points by BHSPitMonkey 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Running the second public ODoH relay (numa.rs)

×0.68 29 #64 | 117 points by rdme 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: E2a – Open-source email gateway for AI agents (github.com/Mnexa-AI)

×0.69 103 | 46 points by mnexa 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenSpec – OpenAPI/Swagger explorer with a contract linter (openspec.vercel.app)

×1.06 98 | 3 points by geox 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I solved my study problems by talking to a goose (professorgoose.com)

×1.27 39 #53 | 7 points by polaritymaking 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pipes, Forks, and Zombies (harvard.edu)

×0.61 56 #85 | 44 points by tosh 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Will Not Make Everyone More Productive (vincentschmalbach.com)

×3.14 58 | 5 points by vincent_s 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7 (classic7.lol)

×1.83 5 | 154 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What could Functional Architecture mean? [video] (youtube.com)

×0.57 52 #71 | 10 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Biggest Exploit in Trackmania History [video] (youtube.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by NohatCoder 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Claude Code and Codex Skill for Deliberate Skill Development (github.com/DrCatHicks)

×2.00 36 #52 | 234 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO (wsj.com)

×2.52 29 | 197 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 22 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Latencies and BEIR – Typesense, Meilisearch, Elasticsearch, Amgix Now (amgix.io)

×0.51 | 2 points by kvasserman 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989 (github.com/wojtczyk)

×1.09 115 | 176 points by wojtczyk 1 week ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster (martypc.blogspot.com)

×0.79 59 #43 | 83 points by tambourine_man 21 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scaling As-Of Joins (daft.ai)

×0.50 | 1 points by sammysidhu 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Power up your Domain Specific Language (slangify.org)

×2.49 14 | 6 points by librasteve 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Court upholds discrimination ruling after male excluded from female-only app (abc.net.au)

×1.41 31 | 3 points by wrwr 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DAGraph – local-first reactive graph from arithmetic to OLAP SQL (dagraph.com)

×1.38 121 | 6 points by notfirstpost 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hashiverse, an open-source decentralized social network in Rust (hashiverse.com)

×0.38 | 2 points by jamesjardine 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact (rsc.org)

×0.99 51 #76 | 101 points by efavdb 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chinese short dramas became AI content machines (technologyreview.com)

×0.87 | 1 points by joozio 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Clippy can send emails, write excel sheets, and interact with any application (clippyai.app)

×1.58 | 2 points by AmDab 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stochastic Parrots: Frequently Unasked Questions (medium.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by edent 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find (wired.com)

×0.89 | 2 points by aleksjess 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending (androidauthority.com)

×2.55 29 #60 | 19 points by 01-_- 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: RAG-LCC – config-driven RAG framework for fast experimentation (github.com/HarinezumIgel)

×0.50 | 1 points by HarinezumIgel 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads (theverge.com)

×2.82 26 | 193 points by logickkk1 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A simple Claude skin for ChatGPT (github.com/dmd)

×1.61 86 | 7 points by dmd 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: JDS – a Copilot skill suite for structuring AI coding behavior (github.com/josipmusa)

×0.80 75 | 7 points by anaq42 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FixMyNPM, CLI to fix your insecure npm config (github.com/madhugb)

×1.21 108 | 10 points by madospace 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Chrome extension that blocks API keys from being pasted into AI tools (github.com/carlgaopapi-png)

×1.64 131 | 5 points by shiqingao 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward (github.com/microsoft)

×1.37 27 #31 | 104 points by whatever3 16 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is making me dumb (jpain.io)

×5.03 40 #55 | 492 points by Eighth 16 hours ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025) (fredchan.org)

×2.40 9 #82 | 612 points by speckx 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
S-100 Virtual Workbench (grantmestrength.github.io)

×0.82 56 | 130 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems (atalaykutlay.com)

×0.88 74 | 87 points by akutlay 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea (techcrunch.com)

×1.51 60 | 85 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools (andreafortuna.org)

×0.78 69 | 76 points by speckx 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Velonus – Open-source AppSec scanner that deduplicates SAST noise (github.com/AliAmmar15)

×0.35 62 #57 | 12 points by AliAmmar15 10 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NanoTDB – Golang Append-Only Time Series DB (github.com/aymanhs)

×1.50 | 2 points by aymanhs72 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OrcaSheets, local first analytics engine to process billions of rows (orcasheets.ai)

×1.32 | 2 points by ydgandhi 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pairfuse – Professional Photoshoots for Couples (pairfuse.com)

×0.33 | 1 points by katerina198b 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A desire for a loud car correlates with higher scores on psychopathy and sadism (ug.edu.pl)

×5.61 43 | 120 points by doener 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory (hghalebi.github.io)

×1.13 8 #5 | 40 points by adamnemecek 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Geography is four-dimensional (sive.rs)

×2.53 19 #25 | 17 points by galfarragem 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Roman Letters (romanletters.org)

×2.06 38 #90 | 14 points by diodorus 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Galileo's Basilisk (writeas.com)

×1.21 | 2 points by l0b0 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Browse 61 3D Printable Robots (orobot.io)

×1.17 70 | 13 points by xanderjanz 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claude-pee: use Claude -p without the programmatic usage credit pool (github.com/sbhattap)

×2.04 107 | 6 points by subarnab 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Find vendors used by any company (sub-processors.com)

×0.52 66 #58 | 9 points by chatmasta 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scorched Earth 2000 – Web (scorch2000.com)

×1.86 3 #74 | 375 points by meshko 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Duplicate Detection and Remediation (codeberg.org)

×0.52 | 1 points by modinfo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI zombification of universities (thenewcritic.com)

×3.12 56 | 185 points by rmdmphilosopher 16 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs (bitplane.net)

×1.42 59 | 93 points by davidsong 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Andy Jassy Is Rewriting Amazon's Playbook for the AI Age (bloomberg.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by thm 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kog AI – Building a Real-Time Inference Stack on AMD Instinct GPUs [video] (youtube.com)

×3.88 40 | 7 points by NicoConstant 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent (dailyprincetonian.com)

×2.49 8 | 381 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 595 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Neural window manager, neural network moving windows from mouse actions (lusob.github.io)

×1.53 113 | 7 points by lusob 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts (theregister.com)

×3.53 12 #32 | 243 points by sohkamyung 12 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???