Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?

×0.45 18 | 14 points by itsjeremiahs 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Porting a clearing-house money market to a smart contract

×1.01 | 2 points by citizensinan 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode

×0.47 61 | 11 points by xnx 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?

×1.02 48 | 151 points by semidror 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?

×0.25 65 | 7 points by kooldeep7 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Should we still learn coding?

×0.45 69 | 11 points by NarcisMirandes 18 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Which is cheaper: ChatGPT tokens or a 2nd Pro 20x subscription?

×0.15 93 | 3 points by yesitcan 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do your teams share and distribute agent skills?

×0.11 | 2 points by juanviera23 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD

×0.45 81 | 5 points by xeonmc 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Claude CLI asks for feedback, responding authorizes conversation capture

×0.63 90 | 21 points by mmaunder 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why does it matter if no one reads your novel as long as the AIs do?

×0.56 95 | 10 points by amichail 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

×0.88 100 | 121 points by keymasta 5 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Ideas for getting more GitHub stars?

×0.57 86 | 3 points by NatalieTrono 13 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Claude 20x actually 20x?

×0.38 92 | 6 points by ko3us 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?

×0.59 99 | 46 points by mdwelsh 3 days ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Dead Internet

×0.76 87 | 15 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What do you expect from the next 5 years of AI?

×0.92 83 | 8 points by msuniverse2026 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Remember N8n? Anyone?

×0.40 137 | 14 points by sankalpdomore 4 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

×2.46 84 | 318 points by jakemanger 5 days ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm addicted to buying domains for my vibe-coded apps that get 0 visitors

×1.24 94 | 10 points by arpanghoshal 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How people are testing AI agents?

×0.57 96 | 5 points by sanathbhat 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Diablo 4 on Ubuntu?

×0.07 145 | 3 points by herodoturtle 2 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenDecision – a 400M zero-shot model makes local decisions, plays Doom (deepanwadhwa.github.io)

×2.27 108 | 6 points by dwa3592 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake (melashri.net)

×2.78 2 #2 | 20 points by elashri 42 minutes ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solitaire Alone Together (solitairealonetogether.com)

×1.30 19 #46 | 141 points by eieio 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do GitHub Copilot and Anthropic Claude compare in cost?

×1.43 | 2 points by erwindegroot 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI Changed How We Write Code. Why Hasn’t Code Review Changed? (github.com/otobongfp)

×0.90 133 | 3 points by otobong 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees (404media.co)

×3.77 1 #10 | 600 points by spenvo 15 hours ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why (ai-rete-rag.com)

×0.40 55 #55 | 37 points by ZaharaHussain 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024) (gregorygundersen.com)

×0.63 59 #74 | 62 points by fuzzythinker 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Foremerge – Catch intent conflicts between parallel coding agents (github.com/naw103)

×0.43 71 | 45 points by foremerge 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Markdown in /src (htmx.org)

×1.28 11 #30 | 134 points by perrygeo 15 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Listening to loud music on a Singapore bus? It'll cost you (cnn.com)

×1.32 | 2 points by edward 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A restored PDP-11/83 serving this page on 211BSD Unix (pdp1173.com)

×0.94 55 | 98 points by davepl 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Semantic Search for Zotero Local (github.com/ilDon)

×0.56 | 1 points by ildon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Python Workers are now generally available (cloudflare.com)

×1.61 15 | 266 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LARP Capital – Prestige as a Service (larpcapital.us)

×0.96 80 | 3 points by vknar 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hack – my Hacker News mobile client now lets you block AI posts

×1.97 76 | 7 points by busymom0 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (cryptocellar.org)

×2.66 8 #6 | 658 points by sohkamyung 19 hours ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster (minimaxir.com)

×0.89 30 #44 | 99 points by mooreds 17 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fleabox (github.com/jaksa76)

×0.84 | 1 points by jaksa 5 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"What is still exciting in tech?" (merveilles.town)

×0.63 | 1 points by gum_wobble 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Augustofaces: Pareidolia Fine Art (augusto.at)

×0.70 31 #77 | 12 points by luu 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts (arstechnica.com)

×3.85 48 | 7 points by joozio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't Use AI to Write (paulbakker.io)

×2.61 53 | 146 points by eigenBasis 2 days ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I wrote a custom assembler for CHIP-8 in C++ (github.com/Tackx)

×0.69 109 | 28 points by tack1234 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ArchiveBox v0.9 released with new native apps and 50 new plugins (sweeting.me)

×1.72 34 #54 | 36 points by nikisweeting 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-6 Sol and Luna push the cost efficiency frontier by halving token cost (artificialanalysis.ai)

×0.56 | 1 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taming the ML Firehose: Scaling Feature Consistency (uber.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by iamsyr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Analysis of Games from Chess Olympiad with Opus 5.5 and Stockfish (unremarkable.info)

×0.49 | 1 points by myle 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ju Ju Tsu A book about jj / jujutstu (arialdo.codeberg.page)

×1.98 #47 | 3 points by fanf2 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rickub – The Smartest Git in the Universe (rickub.com)

×0.81 124 | 25 points by ssaboum 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A garden and photovoltaic panels on the roof of the house [video] (youtube.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by moltean 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Father of The Elder Scrolls" Julian LeFay has passed away (2025) (gamesradar.com)

×2.90 38 | 4 points by anotherhue 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Observe – local semantic code search that admits when grep beats it (github.com/tritsystem)

×0.51 | 1 points by gbranaa4 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A GeoJSON viewer that checks the bbox you declared (9revolution9.com)

×2.42 120 | 5 points by glassonion999 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A fast, offline Markdown viewer for macOS built in Swift (github.com/temir-dev)

×1.00 75 | 3 points by tim_tairov 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Differential – a TUI diff reviewer with semantic grouping (github.com/thepartly)

×0.64 128 | 3 points by gogoout 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heretic removes restrictions from language models (heretic-project.org)

×1.75 40 #90 | 269 points by Bluestein 2 days ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I used to get paid to hang out with famous people (blackbirdspyplane.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by pr337h4m 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bastardica – Create bastard web fonts (mitpit.com)

×1.91 143 | 5 points by MitPitt 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discourse (open source forums) adds Discord-style voice and video calls (discourse.org)

×1.22 | 2 points by Scaled 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recursive self-improvement of AI research agents (arxiv.org)

×1.20 | 2 points by sbulaev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage (reddit.com)

×2.32 21 | 236 points by ano-ther 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WavexAI – Unlimited tokens for a fixed cost (wavexai.dev)

×2.15 62 | 6 points by wilsprouse 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv)

×1.02 32 #53 | 68 points by namuorg 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic classifiers prohibit kernel development (twitter.com/TheAhmadOsman)

×2.12 18 #85 | 14 points by nullbio 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS (aliyuncs.com)

×0.84 | 1 points by nthypes 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Newdo – a todo list where the list is an output, not an input (beaverminds.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by shaanjus4u 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ambits – agentic grep/rg tool will history tracking (github.com/joshLong145)

×0.95 132 | 5 points by joshLong145 2 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Positive emotions toward AI outweigh negative ones in 34 out of 37 countries (gallup.com)

×0.77 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AiNetProfit (ainetprofit.com)

×0.66 | 1 points by weeber 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vacate a drone restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents (eff.org)

×1.51 10 | 90 points by hn_acker 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B (verda.com)

×1.21 10 | 86 points by cmrdporcupine 23 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Npunlock – Run custom C kernels for Intel NPUs (github.com/hsfzxjy)

×0.70 11 #11 | 21 points by hsfzxjy 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco (lawrence.lu)

×1.17 21 #45 | 189 points by plun9 22 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Attention is all you have (alicegg.tech)

×4.34 19 #64 | 1047 points by zer0tonin 1 day ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nemotron-H: A Family of Accurate, Efficient Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Models (nvidia.com)

×0.84 | 1 points by Bluestein 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Blackgit – use Git to only download those cared files (github.com/zhuzhonghua)

×0.80 113 | 4 points by zhonghua 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jev Projects Listing Site (jevable.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by Bluestein 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a site for my 42 km walk across 30 Tokyo stations (tonymanh.space)

×0.51 | 1 points by tonymanh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jev-Leftpad (github.com/f)

×1.96 38 | 233 points by fka 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenMCP – An open, code-first fork of the Model Context Protocol (github.com/enclawed)

×0.84 72 | 8 points by enclawed 18 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jev in 25 Lines of Python (nobodywho.ai)

×3.32 #1 | 112 points by bashbjorn 2 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024) (usenix.org)

×0.86 8 #7 | 51 points by segfaultbuserr 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy (techradar.com)

×4.45 21 #32 | 721 points by MC995 18 hours ago | 521 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Americans Are About to Lose Access to Prescriptions from Canada (wsj.com)

×3.42 21 #84 | 17 points by baran 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvitop: A better top for Nvidia GPUs (github.com/XuehaiPan)

×0.54 | 1 points by Nina_antalpha 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max) (artificialanalysis.ai)

×1.68 5 #16 | 289 points by theanonymousone 16 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A running app that turns your runs to a garden (apple.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by Utkarshn101 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???