Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth (scienceclock.com)

×3.98 7 #42 | 1047 points by ashishgupta2209 1 day ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg (ziglang.org)

×4.73 32 #51 | 855 points by todsacerdoti 22 hours ago | 790 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bring bathroom doors back to hotels (bringbackdoors.com)

×4.67 33 #64 | 772 points by bariumbitmap 1 day ago | 640 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Penpot: The Open-Source Figma (github.com/penpot)

×3.37 6 #34 | 684 points by selvan 22 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop (arstechnica.com)

×4.20 51 | 574 points by cyclecount 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030 (ft.com)

×4.37 28 | 540 points by akira_067 1 day ago | 563 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linux Kernel Explorer (reverser.dev)

×2.76 10 #14 | 521 points by tanelpoder 18 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I don't care how well your "AI" works (fokus.cool)

×5.09 8 | 476 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 753 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

×5.23 10 #13 | 474 points by prodigycorp 7 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't Download Apps (calebjay.com)

×4.87 32 | 409 points by speckx 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
S&box is now an open source game engine (sbox.game)

×2.11 10 #68 | 406 points by MaximilianEmel 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DIY NAS: 2026 Edition (briancmoses.com)

×2.13 19 #19 | 384 points by sashk 21 hours ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding (github.com/addyosmani)

×2.00 5 #65 | 382 points by ayoisaiah 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you (replaceyourboss.ai)

×4.89 39 #41 | 364 points by _tk_ 5 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We're losing our voice to LLMs (tonyalicea.dev)

×3.75 39 #48 | 327 points by TonyAlicea10 9 hours ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 (qualcomm.com)

×1.82 4 #3 | 311 points by mfilion 8 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life (quantamagazine.org)

×1.54 9 | 286 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why (xda-developers.com)

×2.60 4 | 258 points by binarycrusader 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy (simonandschuster.com)

×8.42 15 #54 | 252 points by brunohaid 17 hours ago | 201 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TPUs vs. GPUs and why Google is positioned to win AI race in the long term (uncoveralpha.com)

×3.49 3 #17 | 242 points by vegasbrianc 10 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Statistical Process Control in Python (timothyfraser.com)

×1.13 24 | 222 points by lifeisstillgood 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens (nytimes.com)

×8.25 30 | 221 points by nxobject 21 hours ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices (nyansatan.github.io)

×1.32 38 #44 | 207 points by OuterVale 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025 (stanford.edu)

×1.42 49 | 201 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mixpanel Security Breach (mixpanel.com)

×1.61 25 #21 | 198 points by jaredwiener 17 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes (theconversation.com)

×1.24 17 #49 | 192 points by PikelEmi 13 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year (reuters.com)

×2.97 18 #28 | 190 points by toomuchtodo 7 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Music eases surgery and speeds recovery, study finds (bbc.com)

×1.38 28 #29 | 188 points by 1659447091 19 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fara-7B: An efficient agentic model for computer use (github.com/microsoft)

×1.41 11 #83 | 177 points by maxloh 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign (medium.com)

×2.57 21 | 176 points by wjsdj2009 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020) (rykap.com)

×1.21 24 #25 | 175 points by memalign 16 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models (shujisado.org)

×1.67 #30 | 174 points by jonymo 11 hours ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being 'AI free' (theverge.com)

×3.09 56 #61 | 160 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window (tyler.io)

×1.49 42 #59 | 157 points by donatj 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare outage should not have happened (ebellani.github.io)

×1.90 17 | 156 points by b-man 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From blood sugar to brain relief: GLP-1 therapy slashes migraine frequency (medlink.com)

×1.71 22 | 153 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012) (wordpress.com)

×1.02 54 | 149 points by exvi 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament (techradar.com)

×4.66 5 | 141 points by mseri 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LinkedIn is loud, and corporate is hell (ramones.dev)

×2.42 2 #2 | 140 points by austinallegro 3 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coq: The World's Best Macro Assembler? (2013) [pdf] (nickbenton.name)

×1.07 53 #24 | 138 points by addaon 19 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AdBlock and Signal are for terrorists, according to French govt (2023) [video] (youtube.com)

×2.98 1 | 137 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support (phoronix.com)

×5.63 28 | 130 points by mikece 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Crews claim Boring Company failed to pay workers and snubbed OSHA concerns (nashvillebanner.com)

×3.66 15 | 128 points by breve 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kagi Hub Belgrade (kagi.com)

×3.69 40 | 128 points by _se 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Image Diffusion Models Exhibit Emergent Temporal Propagation in Videos (arxiv.org)

×0.88 52 | 123 points by 50kIters 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
C100 Developer Terminal (caligra.com)

×1.24 43 #56 | 120 points by matthewsinclair 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Generative Burrito Test (generativist.com)

×1.59 66 | 116 points by pathdependent 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Functional Data Structures and Algorithms: a Proof Assistant Approach (fdsa-book.net)

×1.06 46 #46 | 106 points by SchwKatze 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade (autoblog.com)

×4.58 4 | 105 points by whynotmaybe 22 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video] (youtube.com)

×5.85 58 | 104 points by wolfgangbabad 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line (github.com/chr15m)

×0.90 13 #20 | 100 points by chr15m 9 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs” (abzglobal.net)

×2.51 13 | 100 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AirDrop support for Pixel 10 likely exists because of the EU ruling (9to5google.com)

×2.84 23 | 100 points by joejohnson 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The input stack on Linux: An end-to-end architecture overview (venam.net)

×1.16 8 #31 | 99 points by venamresm__ 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slop Detective – Fight the Slop Syndicate (kagi.com)

×1.56 42 | 98 points by speckx 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Underrated reasons to be thankful V (dynomight.net)

×1.60 1 #7 | 97 points by numeri 3 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Memories of .us (computer.rip)

×1.40 5 #10 | 95 points by sabas_ge 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Feedback doesn't scale (another.rodeo)

×1.58 6 #11 | 94 points by ohjeez 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf] (github.com/deepseek-ai)

×2.27 7 #15 | 90 points by fspeech 4 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team (cendyne.dev)

×5.44 46 | 89 points by speckx 1 day ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A temporary victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control (mullvad.net)

×2.17 64 #71 | 87 points by AlgebraFox 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers (scaleway.com)

×1.71 45 | 87 points by Lwrless 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The most male and female reasons to end up hospital (leobenedictus.substack.com)

×4.06 35 | 84 points by speckx 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users (github.com/x011)

×4.60 73 #78 | 81 points by lobito25 3 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU council reaches position on Chat Control (europa.eu)

×6.71 61 | 81 points by Aldipower 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Protect Public School Students from Surveillance of Off-Campus Speech (eff.org)

×2.87 16 #50 | 79 points by hn_acker 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland (energy-storage.news)

×1.75 #1 | 77 points by doener 1 hour ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks (mergify.com)

×1.88 63 | 77 points by remyduthu 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix (afranca.com.br)

×5.28 38 | 75 points by jslakro 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests (arstechnica.com)

×2.72 59 | 73 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Strong Consistency? (brooker.co.za)

×1.02 17 #12 | 72 points by SchwKatze 6 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SyncKit – Offline-first sync engine (Rust/WASM and TypeScript) (github.com/Dancode-188)

×1.45 2 #43 | 71 points by danbitengo 9 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cherry gives up German production and wants to sell core division (heise.de)

×3.05 71 | 70 points by jsheard 6 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The gruesome new data on tech jobs (businessinsider.com)

×3.96 74 | 70 points by pseudolus 2 days ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China Has Three Reusable Rockets Ready for Their Debut Flights (china-in-space.com)

×1.99 50 | 69 points by speckx 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Justice dept. requires RealPage end sharing competitively sensitive information (justice.gov)

×1.95 60 | 68 points by phkahler 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery (wordpress.org)

×1.09 73 | 66 points by cr1st1an 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AGI is not possible even in 10 years (medium.com)

×8.55 26 | 65 points by MindBreaker2605 11 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Compressed filesystems à la language models (grohan.co)

×0.77 65 #74 | 64 points by grohan 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Collabora Online Desktop Released with Improved UI from LibreOffice (collaboraonline.com)

×1.78 59 #63 | 63 points by nogajun 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MkSlides – Markdown to slides with a similar workflow to MkDocs (github.com/MartenBE)

×0.79 29 #35 | 62 points by MartenBE 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What to know about a recent Mixpanel security incident (openai.com)

×9.21 16 | 61 points by meetpateltech 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bonsai_term: A library for building dynamic terminal apps by Jane Street (github.com/janestreet)

×0.95 56 #67 | 61 points by azhenley 23 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MIT study finds AI can replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce (cnbc.com)

×4.36 62 | 61 points by tiahura 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BebboSSH: SSH2 implementation for Amiga systems (68000, GPLv3) (franke.ms)

×0.64 75 | 61 points by snvzz 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DSP 101 Part 1: An Introductory Course in DSP System Design (analog.com)

×1.06 35 #90 | 59 points by teleforce 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Last Issue of "ECMAScript News" (ecmascript.news)

×0.70 50 #52 | 57 points by Klaster_1 18 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government (videogamesindustrymemo.com)

×5.50 40 | 56 points by HelloUsername 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI needs to raise $207B by 2030 so it can continue to lose money (ft.com)

×4.67 76 | 54 points by cebert 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platter (tomshardware.com)

×2.07 54 | 53 points by elorant 7 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???