Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ask HN: Where else do you spend time on the internet other than HN?

×0.43 5 | 3 points by Gecko4072 48 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Requests for Startups: Energy

×0.28 | 2 points by NarcisMirandes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are you still using AI code autocomplete?

×0.51 48 | 3 points by jawuilp 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Google Search to begin using opaque redirect URLs on search results

×1.06 66 | 4 points by exploraz 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One MCP directory for all docs.domain.tld (No auth needed)

×0.76 95 | 3 points by respectattentio 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: OpenBSD or FreeBSD?

×0.38 45 | 3 points by simonebrunozzi 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Will RAM / NVMe / Platter Drives ever come back down in price?

×0.35 74 | 3 points by krautburglar 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source in-browser log sanitizer, feedback required

×0.15 | 2 points by andriimb 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is what Open Commonplace legal?

×0.23 | 2 points by VishnuShayeq01 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you using to access x.com at the moment?

×0.22 | 2 points by throwaw12 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Looking for people to follow designing systems to ship code with AI agents

×0.56 112 | 6 points by mutahn 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?

×0.20 | 2 points by JacobWolf 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?

×0.44 128 | 29 points by foota 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Opus 5 is unusable for writing, even internal use. Alternatives/fix?

×1.36 100 | 5 points by m3h 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell

×1.88 127 | 71 points by kaladan 2 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Did Anthropic Bill Me For?

×0.26 154 | 4 points by OhMeadhbh 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anyone in Legal Tech Here?

×0.21 142 | 4 points by bgajjela 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Android OS with Linux level customisation

×0.12 155 | 3 points by KinetiNode 21 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is AI slowing you down?

×1.17 123 | 16 points by charbz 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What business would you build if you couldn't use the internet?

×0.50 140 | 5 points by spking 21 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How I Read Books

×0.32 149 | 12 points by nomilk 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA

×0.29 134 | 8 points by scottndecker 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Talk Like Claude Day

×0.40 158 | 20 points by KenPainter 2 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace (github.com/SWUFE-DB-Group)

×0.46 31 #24 | 6 points by thisispi 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Friend Aaron (rorz.io)

×4.01 31 #85 | 617 points by sarreph 23 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System (vanillaos.org)

×0.57 135 | 33 points by NN708 2 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown (github.com/dragthelake)

×0.91 118 | 61 points by Dramatize 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WFY24 weather widget with hyper-local forecasting (wordpress.org)

×1.02 | 2 points by weatherfun 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BumbleTap – Bind a key to any element, or automate the whole sequence (bumbletap.com)

×0.78 | 2 points by umershahzeb 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zeitgeist Game – guess the date of a HN front page (zeitgeistgame.pages.dev)

×0.52 | 2 points by mstipetic 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notes on Private Trackers (jenn.site)

×1.59 17 | 3 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI? (hnstats.com)

×1.26 12 #13 | 33 points by beekthos 1 hour ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RAG Is Simpler Than You Think (lighthousenewsletter.com)

×1.91 3 #15 | 307 points by j0selit0 7 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My open source project's donations no longer go through my bank account (spliit.app)

×1.95 38 #40 | 12 points by scastiel 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HQ – Your infrastructure as a colony on Mars (local, real data) (github.com/cloudstudio)

×0.68 115 #78 | 3 points by cloudtudio 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why AI Is About to Get 1000x Cheaper (youtube.com)

×1.09 | 2 points by bobstax 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kids outlearn AI–and we still don't know why (technologyreview.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by cdrnsf 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Mutation Is Making It Easier for Drug-Resistant Malaria to Spread (wired.com)

×0.38 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Commercially Available Bike Generators Are Not Sustainable (lowtechmagazine.com)

×1.35 9 | 3 points by baud147258 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro (apple.com)

×2.44 19 | 531 points by runako 1 day ago | 329 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down (ipshipyard.com)

×2.01 75 | 361 points by iand 2 days ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anger, Anxiety and Agency (pocoo.org)

×1.45 113 | 127 points by lumpa 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go (github.com/leodeim)

×0.65 85 | 59 points by ygagaga 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLM-5.3-Flash (z.ai)

×3.37 #2 | 321 points by Philpax 1 hour ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency (qwen.ai)

×2.82 1 #3 | 338 points by tosh 3 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Man reunited with £3.3M lost Bitcoin after 12 years (lbc.co.uk)

×0.68 | 1 points by EndXA 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AgentMachinist, issue to reviewed PR with a SHA-bound spec approval (github.com/vscarpenter)

×2.14 28 | 4 points by vscarpenter 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Layer for robotics dataset quality (calibrarobotics.com)

×2.35 30 | 5 points by omertt27 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines (itch.io)

×1.06 90 | 148 points by Gorsefound 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I use Home Assistant to automate and monitor my aquariums (michaelharley.net)

×1.16 53 #60 | 7 points by speckx 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to stay positive (in the age of AI) (youtube.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by fallinditch 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project (openstreetmap.us)

×0.94 11 #21 | 139 points by altilunium 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs (arstechnica.com)

×1.57 21 | 3 points by LaSombra 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Strange People but Very Smart (voiceinthemachine.com)

×1.03 | 2 points by burrito_brain 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike (businessinsider.com)

×3.22 61 | 123 points by DGAP 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia (openai.com)

×4.78 38 | 89 points by sam_lowry_ 8 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reachpad CLI – Spin up free sandboxes in seconds to develop apps (github.com/Reachpad)

×1.50 132 | 4 points by sakuraiben 16 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ramp Built Inspect (pragmaticengineer.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by AnhTho_FR 25 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PlaceRoot – keyless map tools for AI agents (places, geocode, routing) (github.com/chuofringer)

×0.49 | 1 points by placeroot 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We need to ask ourselves: why are we addicted to our phones? (disassociated.com)

×0.45 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a tool that finds people asking for what you sell (reachfa.st)

×0.46 | 1 points by sc4p1n 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Player vs. Computer – fight your computer in my web game (github.com/Rubinoslaw)

×1.15 157 | 3 points by PolishDevelop22 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A curmudgeon tries a language server (entropicthoughts.com)

×0.66 12 #16 | 56 points by crescit_eundo 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy (johan-sjolen.github.io)

×0.71 17 #31 | 69 points by lichtenberger 7 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) (openai.com)

×2.19 79 | 336 points by tosh 2 days ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here (gatesnotes.com)

×3.26 78 | 110 points by ilamont 3 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Web Game "Player vs. Computer" (github.com/Rubinoslaw)

×1.19 92 | 3 points by PolishDevelop22 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS (fdeploy.com)

×0.51 97 | 33 points by dt3ft 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Round Rects Are Everywhere (folklore.org)

×1.46 11 | 3 points by romanhn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward (archive.org)

×1.10 106 | 160 points by signor_bosco 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is a Harsh Mistress (acm.org)

×1.27 #20 | 48 points by fscaramuzza 2 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children (reuters.com)

×4.73 29 #32 | 282 points by bhouston 2 hours ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where did all the public bathrooms go? (jstor.org)

×2.06 73 | 344 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 801 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A TUI for Inspecting Snowflake Tasks (github.com/ben-nour)

×0.39 | 2 points by regexman1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: UseCOS – Free, client-side Canadian tax,mortgage, and legal calculators (usecos.app)

×0.69 | 1 points by sunnyvictoria 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Radian UI a copy-paste React components with a synced Figma kit (radianui.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by Ashmit72 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta to pay $17B, overhaul Facebook and Instagram (latimes.com)

×1.80 12 #53 | 6 points by gamblor956 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Buy a VPN pass with an HTTP request (x402, no account) (le-vpn.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by votkon 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird (sebsite.pw)

×1.71 6 | 179 points by rbanffy 18 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ModelMRI – see inside a local LLM, VLM or robot policy while it runs (github.com/muhammadmahadazher)

×0.54 89 | 3 points by mma_88 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Code Stitcher – Apply any LLM output to your local codebase

×1.21 109 | 3 points by aihatterer 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents (sreenathmenon.com)

×0.88 5 #10 | 32 points by sreenathmenon 1 hour ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM (github.com/swimmingbrain)

×1.03 31 #89 | 110 points by swimmingbrain 17 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The A.I. Debt Binge Is Endangering the Economy (nytimes.com)

×2.49 31 | 4 points by jbegley 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines (boydkane.com)

×1.28 103 | 190 points by zdw 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A single homepage link you can buy until someone pays $1 more (mostexpensivelink.com)

×0.52 | 2 points by MrBricks 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Routebase – One OpenAPI spec drives your docs, mocks, tests, monitors (routebase.dev)

×1.26 61 #79 | 6 points by driedl 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emergent Misaligned Communication in Long-Horizon Multi-Agent LLM Commerce (arxiv.org)

×0.84 | 1 points by lukaspetersson 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Liesegang Rings (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

×1.23 | 2 points by crescit_eundo 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China's Manufacturing Advantage, Explained [video] (youtube.com)

×1.20 | 2 points by dgellow 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???