Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Our position on open-weights models (anthropic.com)

×4.74 31 #68 | 1158 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 1707 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
7.1 Earthquake in Japan (jma.go.jp)

×3.36 18 #41 | 788 points by krembo 1 day ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI companies are shredding rare books (twitter.com/HedgieMarkets)

×6.96 9 | 788 points by anon373839 1 day ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study (lji.org)

×3.56 69 #83 | 628 points by codebyaditya 21 hours ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification (europa.eu)

×7.16 39 #52 | 611 points by doener 20 hours ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Substack writers, you need a website (elizabethtai.com)

×2.71 1 #9 | 555 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codex Security (github.com/openai)

×2.40 #6 | 513 points by bakigul 14 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going? (lockwood.dev)

×2.70 26 | 491 points by tomlockwood 1 day ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes (sebastianraschka.com)

×2.52 3 #15 | 439 points by ModelForge 19 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise (nypost.com)

×5.78 4 | 426 points by softwaredoug 1 day ago | 486 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench (github.com/humanlayer)

×2.32 6 | 397 points by dhorthy 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf] (github.com/MoonshotAI)

×2.97 29 | 390 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months (arstechnica.com)

×4.85 9 | 389 points by quantified 1 day ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped (techdirt.com)

×3.19 30 | 337 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website (sgieurope.com)

×3.07 34 | 334 points by doener 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript (github.com/twalichiewicz)

×2.25 1 #8 | 323 points by twalichiewicz 12 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review (fermisense.com)

×1.87 40 #54 | 323 points by ilreb 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using an open model feels surprisingly good (matthewsaltz.com)

×2.82 5 | 313 points by msaltz 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' (slow-journalism.com)

×1.67 13 #22 | 302 points by speerer 19 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025) (arxiv.org)

×1.88 13 #74 | 296 points by ronfriedhaber 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants (doubleword.ai)

×1.77 52 #88 | 292 points by AnhTho_FR 19 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canceling "Hey" (chadnauseam.com)

×14.18 39 | 287 points by ChadNauseam 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Paged Out #9 [pdf] (pagedout.institute)

×2.14 46 | 279 points by laurensr 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying (ft.com)

×3.38 49 | 276 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (mac-classic.com)

×1.69 7 #10 | 255 points by freediver 14 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deflock Casa Grande (deflockcg.com)

×3.23 61 | 254 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts (macrumors.com)

×5.90 53 | 251 points by thm 1 day ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals (mlugg.co.uk)

×1.51 17 #28 | 247 points by garyhtou 19 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Donate to GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org)

×4.59 62 | 246 points by charliebwrites 16 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Should you wash your solar panels? (incoherency.co.uk)

×1.84 57 | 244 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 (sbcl.org)

×1.32 21 #19 | 239 points by tmtvl 17 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH (microsoft.ai)

×1.65 50 | 239 points by migmartri 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly (unawatch.com)

×2.12 27 #26 | 228 points by pimterry 20 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore (itsmevox.substack.com)

×6.40 5 #71 | 228 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 401 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
User Interfaces of the Demo Scene (datagubbe.se)

×2.39 1 #3 | 224 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude (anthropic.com)

×1.62 6 #36 | 220 points by gslin 17 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Forth (xkcd.com)

×3.56 55 #79 | 220 points by beardyw 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle (tailscale.com)

×1.72 #1 | 217 points by Error6571 6 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6 (apple.com)

×1.49 31 #57 | 205 points by andor 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vehicle Motion Cues (apple.com)

×1.72 43 #84 | 202 points by Austin_Conlon 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences (learnvector.ai)

×2.03 5 #12 | 198 points by ajhai 9 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it (ciphercue.com)

×1.47 54 #37 | 190 points by adulion 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade (apple.com)

×1.40 21 #29 | 183 points by lkurtz 17 hours ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights (fortune.com)

×14.53 18 | 182 points by imzadi 21 hours ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions (spacedaily.com)

×2.22 44 | 182 points by zdw 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library (acm.org)

×1.57 39 #30 | 171 points by rbanffy 20 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mondragon Corporation – a federation of co-operatives (wikipedia.org)

×2.86 7 | 171 points by brnt 22 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropeum – Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong? (anthropeum.com)

×1.77 33 #39 | 168 points by bookofjoe 20 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (pcmag.com)

×3.96 20 | 165 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (gregoryszorc.com)

×1.05 60 | 162 points by jcbhmr 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles (eaton-works.com)

×1.23 68 | 162 points by EatonZ 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn (ucsd.edu)

×3.10 56 #82 | 158 points by littlexsparkee 12 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google's Beyond Zero: Enterprise Security for the AI Era (acm.org)

×1.09 53 #58 | 151 points by jordigg 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'd not buy a LG monitor (famkos.net)

×3.73 36 #43 | 145 points by speckx 20 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ReFrame – The EPaper Camera (reframe.camera)

×1.90 6 #16 | 144 points by phil294 11 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland (blinry.org)

×2.37 19 #35 | 137 points by marvinborner 10 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan (lrb.co.uk)

×2.86 51 | 136 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pacing the frontier (pacingthefrontier.com)

×1.97 11 #40 | 130 points by reducesuffering 14 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Artist Who Colored Ghibli (animationobsessive.substack.com)

×2.59 70 | 130 points by herbertl 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API (telnyx.com)

×1.42 61 | 129 points by fionaattelnyx 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uv 0.12.0 (github.com/astral-sh)

×2.82 36 | 127 points by hallvard 15 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max (github.com/gavamedia)

×2.31 23 #66 | 126 points by tito 13 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library (github.com/reflex-dev)

×0.99 35 #46 | 125 points by apetuskey 19 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents (hubble.md)

×1.52 6 #18 | 121 points by handfuloflight 10 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless (modelcontextprotocol.io)

×1.08 23 #45 | 118 points by Eldodi 16 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library (usefeyn.com)

×0.90 75 | 118 points by snyy 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DConf 2026 in London (dconf.org)

×0.85 65 | 117 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Do I Profile eBPF Code? (naveensrinivasan.com)

×0.85 41 #48 | 115 points by snaveen 19 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women (ooni.org)

×2.95 15 | 114 points by miniBill 21 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US DOT deleting bike lane references (npr.org)

×8.12 71 | 111 points by aendruk 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code (github.com/schildep)

×0.89 36 #78 | 109 points by permute 22 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neutrino-1 8B (fermionresearch.com)

×1.34 55 | 108 points by handfuloflight 1 day ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts (arsastronomica.com)

×0.90 54 | 105 points by sweisman 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI (techspot.com)

×5.51 74 | 105 points by leephillips 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Worse on Purpose (worseonpurpose.com)

×3.06 90 | 104 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5 (claude.com)

×1.08 91 | 103 points by croemer 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012) (arxiv.org)

×0.83 44 #61 | 102 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes (abeljansma.nl)

×1.59 13 #44 | 102 points by abelaer 10 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download (github.com/FrigadeHQ)

×1.01 67 | 101 points by pancomplex 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine? (bigthink.com)

×5.22 80 | 94 points by LouisLazaris 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How real are real numbers? (2004) (arxiv.org)

×0.97 86 | 94 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted (github.com/letsseal)

×2.04 87 | 93 points by nsokin 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles (rtings.com)

×4.42 92 | 92 points by cdemer 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do? (thedecisionlab.com)

×1.75 63 | 89 points by rramadass 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't ask an LLM for a confidence score (justinflick.com)

×1.99 72 | 89 points by pamplemeese 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Chrome Arrives on ARM64 Linux, Widevine DRM Included (omgubuntu.co.uk)

×1.24 99 | 86 points by twapi 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EYG: A Programming Language for Humans (crowdhailer.me)

×1.09 69 | 83 points by crowdhailer 1 day ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals (rise-reforming.com)

×0.53 82 | 83 points by george_rose25 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines (github.com/utmapp)

×1.07 61 #63 | 82 points by IndySun 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears (bloomberg.com)

×3.00 93 | 81 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???