Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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DeepSeek-R1 (github.com/deepseek-ai)

×6.07 #39 | 1626 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 604 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No Calls (keygen.sh)

×1.85 | 1588 points by ezekg 5 days ago | 516 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
David Lynch has died (variety.com)

×1.92 | 1182 points by wut42 5 days ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok goes dark in the US (techcrunch.com)

×5.91 | 1175 points by mfiguiere 3 days ago | 2435 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms (github.com/hackermondev)

×4.88 #4 | 1133 points by hackermondev 15 hours ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobody cares (grantslatton.com)

×3.30 | 1048 points by fzliu 1 week ago | 969 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam (romanzipp.com)

×4.02 | 1046 points by romanzipp 4 days ago | 642 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Met Paul Graham Once (okayfail.com)

×11.67 | 1023 points by DamonHD 1 day ago | 736 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline (cnbc.com)

×3.72 | 957 points by kjhughes 4 days ago | 2553 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FFmpeg by Example (ffmpegbyexample.com)

×1.85 | 901 points by piyushsthr 1 week ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon (twitter.com/Free_Ross)

×6.05 #1 | 789 points by Ozarkian 6 hours ago | 818 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] (youtube.com)

×2.22 | 780 points by HelloUsername 5 days ago | 970 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research (hindenburgresearch.com)

×1.78 | 770 points by toomuchtodo 6 days ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users (nbcnews.com)

×3.19 | 742 points by Leary 2 days ago | 2432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ditched the algorithm for RSS (joeyehand.com)

×1.84 | 732 points by DearNarwhal 5 days ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday (reuters.com)

×0.79 | 685 points by xnhbx 6 days ago | 1782 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's time to make computing personal again (vintagecomputing.com)

×3.85 | 683 points by mariuz 2 days ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers (zadzmo.org)

×1.38 | 683 points by blendergeek 5 days ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Starship Flight 7 (spacex.com)

×0.99 | 672 points by chinathrow 5 days ago | 721 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back (howtogeek.com)

×5.75 | 624 points by Vinnl 1 week ago | 519 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UK's hardware talent is being wasted (josef.cn)

×3.18 | 620 points by sebg 2 days ago | 1118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mixxx: GPL DJ Software (mixxx.org)

×2.57 #65 | 613 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited? (mattsayar.com)

×0.77 | 603 points by MattSayar 6 days ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable (xeiaso.net)

×5.71 | 602 points by OptionOfT 3 days ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So you want to build your own data center (railway.com)

×3.06 | 587 points by dban 4 days ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers (apnews.com)

×3.97 #2 | 567 points by tedsanders 8 hours ago | 604 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VS Code Pets (github.com/tonybaloney)

×2.92 | 536 points by vortex_ape 3 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units (isd-project.github.io)

×2.36 | 534 points by kai-tub 3 days ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect (rossmanngroup.com)

×2.55 | 528 points by pabs3 2 days ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I am (not) a failure: Lessons learned from six failed startup attempts (rongarret.info)

×2.57 #73 | 510 points by lisper 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is the world becoming uninsurable? (charleshughsmith.substack.com)

×2.06 | 507 points by spking 5 days ago | 1210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle (lcamtuf.substack.com)

×2.31 | 505 points by zdw 4 days ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf] (tiiny.site)

×1.93 | 505 points by late 5 days ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In the belly of the MrBeast (kevinmunger.substack.com)

×2.80 | 505 points by stafford_beer 1 week ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google’s OAuth login doesn’t protect against purchasing a failed startup domain (trufflesecurity.com)

×0.97 | 503 points by simiones 1 week ago | 285 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Take the pedals off the bike (fortressofdoors.com)

×1.60 | 492 points by bemmu 1 week ago | 446 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat (ssno.cc)

×2.25 #51 | 490 points by deverton 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith (vincentschmalbach.com)

×4.71 #67 | 489 points by vincent_s 20 hours ago | 374 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab (tomshardware.com)

×0.52 | 487 points by rbanffy 1 week ago | 471 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nevada court shuts down police use of federal loophole for civil forfeiture (ij.org)

×1.06 | 472 points by greyface- 1 week ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI (lesswrong.com)

×3.79 | 471 points by wujerry2000 2 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza (reuters.com)

×1.47 | 460 points by dnsbty 6 days ago | 1296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oh Shit, Git? (ohshitgit.com)

×2.58 | 458 points by Anon84 5 days ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too (bearblog.dev)

×4.23 | 455 points by emschwartz 4 days ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers? (gitbutler.com)

×2.52 | 436 points by birdculture 2 days ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly (migdal.pl)

×1.06 | 436 points by stared 1 week ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its schools (2023) (apnews.com)

×0.62 | 425 points by redbell 6 days ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods (bloomberg.com)

×0.91 | 424 points by toomuchtodo 6 days ago | 565 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M (claudio.uk)

×0.79 | 420 points by csantini 6 days ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Build a Database in 3000 Lines with 0 Dependencies (build-your-own.org)

×2.80 | 417 points by not_a_boat 5 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds (gizmodo.com)

×2.40 | 417 points by belter 1 week ago | 406 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Home Loss File System (google.com)

×0.71 | 412 points by borski 1 week ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon (mcsweeneys.net)

×0.70 | 408 points by ohjeez 6 days ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge (forgejo.org)

×2.14 | 384 points by thunderbong 3 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM car (neilzone.co.uk)

×1.95 #86 | 383 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket (arstechnica.com)

×2.49 | 376 points by johnneville 5 days ago | 265 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable? (goodtechthings.com)

×2.18 | 372 points by forrestbrazeal 1 week ago | 1344 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

×1.64 #81 | 361 points by proberts 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search (github.blog)

×2.66 | 361 points by julius-fx 5 days ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?

×2.87 #36 | 359 points by recvonline 17 hours ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000% (fortune.com)

×1.25 | 359 points by this_weekend 6 days ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kalman Filter Tutorial (kalmanfilter.net)

×1.91 | 351 points by ColinWright 3 days ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021) (subanima.org)

×2.05 | 341 points by ohjeez 3 days ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

×3.35 #20 | 336 points by prettyblocks 11 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace (theverge.com)

×0.94 | 334 points by lars_francke 6 days ago | 458 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem (cerebras.ai)

×0.59 | 330 points by jwan584 6 days ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again (ninkovic.dev)

×2.84 #85 | 322 points by nemwiz 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996) (amasci.com)

×1.92 #10 | 317 points by Simon_O_Rourke 13 hours ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brood War Korean Translations (sourcedive.net)

×1.60 | 313 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers (collegetowns.substack.com)

×2.97 | 310 points by raybb 1 week ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learn Yjs Interactively (yjs.dev)

×1.01 | 309 points by paulgb 5 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Did Elon Musk Appear to Sieg Heil at Trump Inauguration? (jpost.com)

×51.70 | 301 points by sundaeofshock 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds (johnwalker.nl)

×2.81 | 292 points by rekl 2 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative AI on learning motivation (wiley.com)

×2.11 #40 | 291 points by freddier 17 hours ago | 278 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make (petapixel.com)

×1.72 #64 | 288 points by wallflower 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thoughts on a month with Devin (answer.ai)

×1.29 | 279 points by swyx 5 days ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) (wtfhappenedin1971.com)

×0.46 | 276 points by lr0 6 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm (marian42.de)

×1.79 | 276 points by klaussilveira 1 week ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Haskell: A Great Procedural Language (entropicthoughts.com)

×1.66 | 274 points by kqr 3 days ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Please don't force dark mode (iamvishnu.com)

×4.15 | 269 points by vishnuharidas 2 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption (cryptographyengineering.com)

×1.70 | 268 points by chmaynard 5 days ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study (nutraingredients-asia.com)

×2.20 | 266 points by hilux 4 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Road signs to help people limit radiation exposure in contaminated areas (theautopian.com)

×0.49 | 266 points by colinprince 1 week ago | 199 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024 (db-engines.com)

×2.42 | 263 points by plaur782 1 week ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some things to expect in 2025 (lwn.net)

×0.86 | 258 points by signa11 5 days ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using coding skills to make passive income (coryzue.com)

×2.94 | 258 points by czue 1 week ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research (science.org)

×2.26 #45 | 257 points by XzetaU8 18 hours ago | 419 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help (smithsonianmag.com)

×1.77 | 257 points by lemonberry 4 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky (technologyreview.com)

×2.17 #87 | 255 points by srameshc 3 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram (chrisalemany.ca)

×18.83 | 254 points by vool 21 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???