Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Redis is open source again (antirez.com)

×6.52 31 | 1890 points by antirez 6 days ago | 781 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone at YouTube needs glasses (jayd.ml)

×6.84 51 | 1420 points by jaydenmilne 1 week ago | 694 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'd rather read the prompt (claytonwramsey.com)

×5.70 12 | 1386 points by claytonwramsey 2 days ago | 836 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds (wsj.com)

×5.17 55 | 1164 points by shayneo 6 days ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything (notashelf.dev)

×4.99 18 #60 | 1087 points by Lunar5227 1 day ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs (felixrieseberg.github.io)

×3.93 20 #43 | 1063 points by felixrieseberg 1 day ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral (thebignewsletter.com)

×5.44 54 | 1027 points by connor11528 6 days ago | 359 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (pcworld.com)

×4.16 69 | 806 points by airstrike 6 days ago | 1020 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Design for 3D-Printing (rahix.de)

×3.68 8 | 801 points by q3k 3 days ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials (micahflee.com)

×4.12 5 | 795 points by micahflee 4 days ago | 333 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools (yle.fi)

×5.02 80 | 789 points by freetonik 1 week ago | 469 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor (breezepdf.com)

×3.56 29 | 775 points by philjohnson 3 days ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Integrations (anthropic.com)

×2.98 64 | 728 points by bryanh 6 days ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week (cnbc.com)

×4.88 81 | 721 points by perihelions 1 week ago | 642 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors (habr.com)

×3.01 87 | 718 points by sochix 1 week ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (googleblog.com)

×3.97 1 #36 | 667 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 646 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Death of Daydreaming (afterbabel.com)

×4.32 6 | 662 points by isolli 2 days ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research (nih.gov)

×4.29 71 | 642 points by m463 6 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B (bloomberg.com)

×2.96 19 #21 | 622 points by swyx 1 day ago | 539 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Accountability Sinks (250bpm.substack.com)

×3.30 46 | 611 points by msustrik 4 days ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evolving OpenAI's Structure (openai.com)

×2.51 13 | 595 points by rohitpaulk 2 days ago | 663 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to live an intellectually rich life (utsavmamoria.substack.com)

×3.29 61 | 577 points by TheLadyParadox 5 days ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt (huffpost.com)

×4.86 27 #64 | 562 points by dredmorbius 2 days ago | 821 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sycophancy in GPT-4o (openai.com)

×2.59 101 | 555 points by dsr12 1 week ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++ (collabora.com)

×3.45 9 #27 | 532 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left (fortune.com)

×3.71 98 | 531 points by andrewfromx 1 week ago | 989 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools (github.com/asgeirtj)

×3.44 4 #25 | 513 points by mike210 21 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails (hardcover.app)

×3.49 43 | 511 points by mike1o1 3 days ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics (anukari.com)

×2.51 60 | 510 points by humbledrone 4 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency (github.com/KoljaB)

×2.56 9 | 504 points by koljab 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers (alexwlchan.net)

×2.13 85 | 504 points by ingve 6 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire (acoup.blog)

×3.73 27 | 503 points by StefanBatory 4 days ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade (dbreunig.com)

×2.89 45 | 485 points by dbreunig 3 days ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model (github.com/XiaomiMiMo)

×1.84 105 | 482 points by thm 1 week ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (hirox-europe.com)

×2.23 93 | 475 points by twalichiewicz 6 days ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment (electrospaces.net)

×3.06 95 | 472 points by Harvesterify 6 days ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US (apple.com)

×3.71 72 | 460 points by macguillicuddy 5 days ago | 344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
India launches attack on 9 sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Jammu and Kashmir (reuters.com)

×5.17 10 #42 | 455 points by alephnerd 21 hours ago | 535 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes (github.com/Jacksaur)

×2.41 44 | 455 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter (wsj.com)

×5.02 106 | 455 points by bko 1 week ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire (bloomberg.com)

×5.25 47 | 454 points by mfiguiere 3 days ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Third party cookies must be removed (w3ctag.github.io)

×2.62 79 | 449 points by pabs3 5 days ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests (arstechnica.com)

×4.25 52 | 442 points by amichail 4 days ago | 442 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Replacing Kubernetes with systemd (2024) (yaakov.online)

×2.48 3 | 428 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 350 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The vocal effects of Daft Punk (bjango.com)

×2.37 9 | 424 points by qzervaas 2 days ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help (linkedin.com)

×5.79 28 #77 | 423 points by indigodaddy 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020) (massivesci.com)

×2.30 73 | 413 points by smusamashah 5 days ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry (leonarddavid.com)

×1.93 70 | 405 points by Wingman4l7 4 days ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
International Workers' Day (wikipedia.org)

×3.50 92 | 400 points by pera 6 days ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps (google.com)

×4.97 75 | 399 points by pk97 5 days ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative (blu-ray.com)

×2.17 5 #76 | 398 points by bredren 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek-Prover-V2 (github.com/deepseek-ai)

×2.39 110 | 395 points by meetpateltech 1 week ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI (wired.com)

×5.45 11 | 394 points by mekpro 2 days ago | 335 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When flat rate movers won't answer your calls (aphyr.com)

×3.74 48 | 391 points by kevincox 3 days ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order (cpb.org)

×4.98 77 | 391 points by coloneltcb 5 days ago | 554 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VVVVVV Source Code (github.com/TerryCavanagh)

×3.38 5 #33 | 390 points by radeeyate 18 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (jetbrains.com)

×3.71 5 #11 | 389 points by AlexeyBrin 5 hours ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Suno v4.5 (suno.com)

×3.42 78 | 389 points by platers 5 days ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why can't HTML alone do includes? (frontendmasters.com)

×2.64 56 | 388 points by susam 4 days ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An appeal to Apple from Anukari (anukari.com)

×3.12 19 #57 | 385 points by humbledrone 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mercury: Commercial-scale diffusion language model (inceptionlabs.ai)

×1.65 107 | 385 points by HyprMusic 6 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer (waymo.com)

×3.34 90 | 383 points by prossercj 5 days ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

×1.65 33 #23 | 382 points by willbryk 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often (minimaxir.com)

×2.62 3 | 379 points by minimaxir 2 days ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job (kraken.com)

×2.29 94 | 379 points by 2bluesc 6 days ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)

×2.88 8 #12 | 372 points by cempaka 5 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China (apnews.com)

×2.67 83 | 359 points by Alifatisk 5 days ago | 237 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Minimum Viable Blog (ostwilkens.se)

×2.19 63 | 357 points by jlundberg 4 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year (techcrunch.com)

×3.40 113 | 355 points by GeekyBear 6 days ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack (fabulous.systems)

×2.13 91 | 352 points by DoctorOW 5 days ago | 275 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (zed.dev)

×4.45 2 #13 | 341 points by vquemener 11 hours ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"AI-first" is the new Return To Office (anildash.com)

×4.13 120 | 335 points by LorenDB 1 week ago | 216 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Alabama landline that keeps ringing (oxfordamerican.org)

×1.68 42 | 334 points by bookofjoe 3 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pwning the Ladybird Browser (jessie.cafe)

×1.73 114 | 331 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What went wrong with wireless USB (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

×1.75 50 | 329 points by goldenskye 3 days ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages (blog.google)

×1.60 119 | 327 points by saikatsg 1 week ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024) (den.dev)

×2.67 17 | 313 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages (404media.co)

×5.28 97 | 312 points by lurkersince2013 5 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Getting things “done” in large tech companies (seangoedecke.com)

×3.26 22 | 304 points by swah 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival (linkwarden.app)

×1.52 109 | 301 points by FireInsight 6 days ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers (theregister.com)

×2.23 117 | 301 points by dotcoma 6 days ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: My AI Native Resume (jakegaylor.com)

×1.92 33 | 294 points by jhgaylor 2 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots (hedgehogreview.com)

×1.99 35 | 293 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 312 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy (osuosl.org)

×2.27 126 | 289 points by aendruk 6 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Meets WinDBG (svnscha.de)

×1.50 30 | 285 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis (chris-martin.org)

×3.98 108 | 285 points by dralley 6 days ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free (localforge.dev)

×2.07 112 | 285 points by avetiszakharyan 6 days ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE) (github.com/Anemll)

×1.61 66 | 283 points by behnamoh 4 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits (arstechnica.com)

×2.33 100 | 280 points by Tomte 5 days ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral history (quantamagazine.org)

×2.21 116 | 275 points by mathgenius 6 days ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???