Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [fixed] (csoonline.com)

×7.76 76 #88 | 1878 points by healsdata 1 day ago | 1041 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
But what if I want a faster horse? (exotext.com)

×5.95 68 | 1476 points by saeedesmaili 5 days ago | 609 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations (reddit.com)

×7.84 66 | 1408 points by scaredpelican 2 days ago | 568 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes (harvard.edu)

×9.27 15 | 1348 points by impish9208 2 days ago | 1385 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta (dropsitenews.com)

×7.86 72 | 1191 points by jbegley 5 days ago | 935 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data (npr.org)

×7.52 9 #62 | 1041 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 497 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Googler... ex-Googler (nerdy.dev)

×5.21 90 #76 | 1033 points by namukang 4 days ago | 968 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google is winning on every AI front (thealgorithmicbridge.com)

×5.09 71 | 974 points by vinhnx 4 days ago | 806 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator (filiph.github.io)

×3.36 8 #57 | 870 points by filiph 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money (data-and-politics.ghost.io)

×6.84 77 | 789 points by pulisse 4 days ago | 453 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Garfield Minus Garfield (garfieldminusgarfield.net)

×3.15 100 | 771 points by mike1o1 6 days ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs (geoffreylitt.com)

×3.16 17 | 770 points by stevekrouse 2 days ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to win an argument with a toddler (seths.blog)

×3.92 24 | 684 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 502 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-4.1 in the API (openai.com)

×2.65 18 | 672 points by maheshrijal 2 days ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak (knowyourmeme.com)

×3.42 33 #41 | 666 points by LookAtThatBacon 1 day ago | 929 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Reddit bot drove me insane (posthuman.blog)

×8.61 63 | 666 points by erhmmmm 3 days ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open guide to equity compensation (github.com/jlevy)

×2.88 56 | 640 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic (washingtonpost.com)

×5.68 78 | 617 points by perihelions 4 days ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back (molsonhart.com)

×5.59 33 #38 | 614 points by putzdown 1 day ago | 831 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source and self hostable/private file converter (vert.sh)

×2.63 82 | 592 points by sandybonks 4 days ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nice things with SVG (fuma-nama.vercel.app)

×2.40 81 | 564 points by fmerian 4 days ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash (petapixel.com)

×3.19 102 | 548 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 726 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine (github.com/deepseek-ai)

×2.24 35 | 544 points by Palmik 2 days ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte (reuters.com)

×3.93 103 | 509 points by oldprogrammer2 5 days ago | 641 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everything wrong with MCP (sshh.io)

×2.62 61 | 503 points by sshh12 3 days ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Live Map of the London Underground (londonunderground.live)

×2.33 106 | 498 points by LourensT 5 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines (techcrunch.com)

×4.05 109 | 496 points by noleary 6 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the U.S. became a science superpower (steveblank.com)

×2.80 4 | 449 points by groseje 1 day ago | 473 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI o3 and o4-mini (openai.com)

×4.83 11 #17 | 444 points by maheshrijal 10 hours ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility (lwn.net)

×1.61 107 | 431 points by voxadam 5 days ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court (axios.com)

×2.12 42 | 430 points by c420 2 days ago | 318 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of (jeffgeerling.com)

×2.42 84 | 426 points by sksxihve 4 days ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You might not need WebSockets (hntrl.io)

×2.06 104 | 414 points by hntrl 5 days ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PEP 750 – Template Strings (python.org)

×2.80 119 | 410 points by grep_it 6 days ago | 316 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs (bloomberg.com)

×4.41 94 | 405 points by tosh 4 days ago | 882 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days (digicert.com)

×2.62 15 #9 | 384 points by crtasm 16 hours ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Story Behind “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them” (thecoder.cafe)

×1.76 123 | 377 points by Kerrick 6 days ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JSLinux (bellard.org)

×2.23 38 #86 | 376 points by TechTechTech 2 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured (404media.co)

×2.60 125 | 376 points by jaredwiener 6 days ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's easier than ever to de-censor videos (jeffgeerling.com)

×3.51 6 | 375 points by DamonHD 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads (searchengineland.com)

×2.86 38 | 374 points by rexbee 2 days ago | 688 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a (grapheneos.social)

×1.90 88 | 370 points by moelf 4 days ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How many supernova explode every year? (beehiiv.com)

×2.01 19 | 364 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Default styles for h1 elements are changing (mozilla.org)

×1.86 120 | 363 points by soheilpro 6 days ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emacs Lisp Elements (protesilaos.com)

×1.96 98 | 349 points by robenkleene 4 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal (github.com/openai)

×2.34 4 #4 | 347 points by mfiguiere 9 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Strengths Are Your Weaknesses (terriblesoftware.org)

×2.07 118 | 345 points by kiyanwang 5 days ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Playing in the Creek (hgreer.com)

×1.81 122 | 345 points by c1ccccc1 5 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2 (blog.google)

×1.60 3 | 344 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses (tomsguide.com)

×3.18 92 | 343 points by T-A 4 days ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022) (arstechnica.com)

×3.83 9 #12 | 341 points by voxadam 7 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014) (theappendix.net)

×1.66 15 #5 | 340 points by arbesman 12 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch (hodinkee.com)

×1.79 110 | 331 points by bookofjoe 5 days ago | 342 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023) (stevana.github.io)

×1.60 114 | 328 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication (blog.google)

×1.78 62 | 322 points by alphabetting 2 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WebTUI – A CSS Library That Brings the Beauty of Terminal UIs to the Browser (ironclad.sh)

×2.40 97 | 320 points by IroncladDev 4 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacking a Smart Home Device (2024) (jmswrnr.com)

×1.54 39 | 311 points by walterbell 2 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anubis Works (xeiaso.net)

×2.48 99 | 311 points by evacchi 4 days ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI is building a social network? (theverge.com)

×2.04 6 | 310 points by noleary 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation (intel.com)

×1.85 47 | 309 points by voxadam 2 days ago | 227 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Attention K-Mart Shoppers (archive.org)

×2.57 28 #44 | 306 points by rpmisms 11 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The dark side of the Moomins (newstatesman.com)

×1.61 85 | 306 points by SebaSeba 3 days ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
.localhost Domains (inclouds.space)

×2.52 133 | 301 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CVE Foundation (thecvefoundation.org)

×3.58 1 #26 | 298 points by layer8 14 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Big Book of R (bigbookofr.com)

×1.37 132 | 288 points by sebg 6 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Whenever: Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python (github.com/ariebovenberg)

×1.65 90 | 286 points by pkkm 3 days ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Is Entropy? (jasonfantl.com)

×1.70 57 | 285 points by jfantl 2 days ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports (signalbloom.ai)

×1.85 79 | 285 points by GodelNumbering 3 days ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I Program in Lisp (funcall.blogspot.com)

×1.81 127 | 283 points by ska80 5 days ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Fennel? (fennel-lang.org)

×1.65 87 | 277 points by behnamoh 3 days ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules (muppetlabs.com)

×1.67 134 | 276 points by spudlyo 6 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto (theglobeandmail.com)

×1.80 14 | 273 points by bookmtn 2 days ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported (nytimes.com)

×27.36 64 | 271 points by dougb5 2 days ago | 250 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kermit: A typeface for kids (microsoft.design)

×2.18 9 #19 | 270 points by nmcfarl 14 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kezurou-Kai #39 (bigsandwoodworking.com)

×1.34 74 | 268 points by nabla9 2 days ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015) (culture.pl)

×1.91 95 | 267 points by m-hodges 5 days ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google to embrace MCP (techcrunch.com)

×1.52 67 | 267 points by thoughtpeddler 6 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SQLite File Format Viewer (sqlite-internal.pages.dev)

×1.76 65 | 266 points by ilumanty 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace (science.org)

×2.13 124 | 258 points by pmags 5 days ago | 293 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Datastar: Web Framework for the Future? (chrismalek.me)

×1.63 126 | 255 points by 1659447091 5 days ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Clolog (github.com/bobschrag)

×1.16 11 | 253 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications (github.com/humanlayer)

×2.03 14 #7 | 252 points by dhorthy 10 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust to C compiler – 95.9% test pass rate, odd platforms (fractalfir.github.io)

×1.66 117 | 252 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JSX over the Wire (overreacted.io)

×1.79 8 | 251 points by danabramov 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch (dogac.dev)

×1.37 52 | 247 points by dogacel 5 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs (2024) (arxiv.org)

×1.30 32 | 243 points by doener 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Palestinian activist arrested by ICE while expecting U.S. citizenship interview (cbc.ca)

×15.34 54 | 239 points by colinprince 2 days ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in words of four letters or less (1999) (muppetlabs.com)

×1.62 80 | 239 points by signa11 2 days ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I bought a Mac (loganius.org)

×2.26 83 | 237 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to bike across the country (brooks.team)

×2.08 66 | 236 points by benjbrooks 2 days ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???