Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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LLM Inevitabilism (tomrenner.com)

×6.74 55 | 1749 points by SwoopsFromAbove 1 week ago | 1623 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kiro: A new agentic IDE (kiro.dev)

×4.36 77 | 1056 points by QuinnyPig 1 week ago | 461 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA (ostechnix.com)

×6.40 61 | 992 points by marcodiego 6 days ago | 612 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games (pcgamer.com)

×4.75 34 | 928 points by freedomben 4 days ago | 896 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors” (twitter.com/_ZachGriff)

×5.94 29 | 855 points by RebeccaTheDev 4 days ago | 507 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say (washingtonpost.com)

×3.15 7 #53 | 779 points by spenvo 1 day ago | 416 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reflections on OpenAI (calv.info)

×3.84 79 | 759 points by calvinfo 1 week ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Firefox (kau.sh)

×4.95 36 #56 | 725 points by Vinnl 22 hours ago | 426 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer (prm.ua)

×4.67 74 | 679 points by doener 1 week ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action (openai.com)

×2.87 59 | 678 points by Topfi 5 days ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat (mistral.ai)

×2.90 62 | 656 points by pember 5 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
XMLUI (jonudell.net)

×2.57 9 | 608 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL (matthieulc.com)

×2.54 91 | 601 points by cataPhil 1 week ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Self-Hosting Setup (codecaptured.com)

×2.82 45 | 600 points by mirdaki 4 days ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TrackWeight: Turn your MacBook's trackpad into a digital weighing scale (github.com/KrishKrosh)

×2.71 26 | 597 points by wtcactus 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The United States withdraws from UNESCO (state.gov)

×6.32 79 | 591 points by layer8 19 hours ago | 774 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update (antirez.com)

×3.12 15 | 585 points by antirez 2 days ago | 405 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds (sfstandard.com)

×4.33 107 | 580 points by danso 1 week ago | 526 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world (qwenlm.github.io)

×3.21 1 #2 | 575 points by danielhanchen 12 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 (cloudflare.com)

×2.84 87 | 573 points by nomaxx117 1 week ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Death by AI (davebarry.substack.com)

×4.18 36 | 567 points by ano-ther 3 days ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ozzy Osbourne has died (bbc.co.uk)

×11.13 58 #63 | 559 points by fantunes 15 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes (dynomight.net)

×3.24 7 | 558 points by zdw 5 days ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple's MLX adding CUDA support (github.com/ml-explore)

×2.35 106 | 547 points by nsagent 1 week ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE (eff.org)

×4.03 109 | 545 points by exiguus 1 week ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US (arstechnica.com)

×3.67 20 | 542 points by azalemeth 1 day ago | 407 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic (github.com/openai)

×3.01 16 #49 | 541 points by edent 1 day ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"

×4.63 97 | 540 points by bookofjoe 1 week ago | 371 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobody knows how to build with AI yet (worksonmymachine.substack.com)

×3.09 41 | 521 points by Stwerner 3 days ago | 397 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini with Deep Think achieves gold-medal standard at the IMO (deepmind.google)

×3.88 21 | 520 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AccountingBench: Evaluating LLMs on real long-horizon business tasks (penrose.com)

×2.50 22 | 518 points by rickcarlino 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction (techcrunch.com)

×2.39 81 | 517 points by boulos 6 days ago | 386 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf (cognition.ai)

×2.40 112 | 501 points by alazsengul 1 week ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uv: Running a script with dependencies (astral.sh)

×2.60 15 #69 | 493 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks? (lumafield.com)

×2.38 22 #88 | 492 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022) (endtimes.dev)

×3.02 48 | 492 points by truxs 4 days ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 (twitter.com/alexwei_)

×2.59 49 | 476 points by Davidzheng 4 days ago | 698 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm switching to Python and actually liking it (cesarsotovalero.net)

×3.60 94 | 460 points by cesarsotovalero 1 week ago | 689 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head (the-nerve-blog.ghost.io)

×2.48 104 | 457 points by mprast 1 week ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022) (smallandroidphone.com)

×2.64 86 | 455 points by asimops 6 days ago | 683 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024) (michaelbastos.com)

×3.74 73 | 448 points by mbastos 5 days ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet (bozmen.io)

×2.26 66 | 446 points by barisozmen 5 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hand: open-source Robot Hand (github.com/pollen-robotics)

×1.98 76 | 442 points by vineethy 5 days ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fstrings.wtf (fstrings.wtf)

×2.53 52 | 431 points by darkamaul 3 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network

×4.47 75 | 428 points by HoyaSaxa 5 days ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production (utkarshkanwat.com)

×3.83 27 | 417 points by Dachande663 3 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming” (vidarholen.net)

×2.19 3 | 416 points by r4um 4 days ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM architecture comparison (sebastianraschka.com)

×2.60 31 | 414 points by mdp2021 3 days ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality (elpais.com)

×3.06 30 | 411 points by geox 3 days ago | 774 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users (techcrunch.com)

×3.93 72 | 404 points by mfiguiere 5 days ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Altermagnets: The first new type of magnet in nearly a century (newscientist.com)

×1.81 95 | 403 points by Brajeshwar 6 days ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code (tomshardware.com)

×4.06 17 | 398 points by harambae 2 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures (bearblog.dev)

×2.40 78 | 390 points by dejavucoder 5 days ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling (samsung.com)

×1.98 20 | 386 points by simonebrunozzi 2 days ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141 (wordpress.com)

×1.96 105 | 384 points by Bogdanp 1 week ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't animate height (granola.ai)

×2.64 4 #18 | 378 points by birdculture 17 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras (eff.org)

×3.45 46 | 376 points by xoa 3 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP (arstechnica.com)

×3.15 121 | 370 points by LorenDB 1 week ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics (paulkedrosky.com)

×3.08 64 | 365 points by throw0101c 4 days ago | 352 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why (johnwhiles.com)

×2.91 122 | 363 points by jwhiles 1 week ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jujutsu for busy devs (maddie.wtf)

×2.64 20 #83 | 362 points by Bogdanp 1 day ago | 501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience (myvolvoex90.com)

×5.46 47 #54 | 361 points by prova_modena 13 hours ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts (dragas.net)

×1.77 50 | 360 points by Bogdanp 3 days ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date (caltech.edu)

×1.55 120 | 360 points by Eduard 1 week ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions (assemblingamerica.substack.com)

×2.29 123 | 359 points by namlem 1 week ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock (nist.gov)

×1.44 114 | 352 points by voxadam 1 week ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension (github.com/aws)

×1.89 108 | 350 points by ForHackernews 1 week ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
lsr: ls with io_uring (rockorager.dev)

×1.59 70 | 349 points by mpweiher 4 days ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TODOs aren't for doing (sophiebits.com)

×2.43 8 #21 | 346 points by todsacerdoti 19 hours ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps (smithsonianmag.com)

×1.87 98 | 343 points by arbesman 6 days ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tough news for our UK users (janitorai.com)

×4.51 23 | 333 points by airhangerf15 2 days ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement (cnbc.com)

×2.31 67 | 332 points by rntn 4 days ago | 514 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education (moritz-mander.de)

×3.21 90 | 331 points by cheesepaint 5 days ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Helix Editor 25.07 (helix-editor.com)

×2.72 116 | 331 points by matrixhelix 1 week ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where's Firefox going next? (mozilla.org)

×2.42 115 | 327 points by ReadCarlBarks 1 week ago | 541 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blender 4.5 LTS (blender.org)

×2.98 117 | 327 points by obdev 1 week ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020) (mymodernmet.com)

×2.10 127 | 327 points by NaOH 1 week ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dog Walk: Blender Studio's official game project (itch.io)

×2.82 124 | 325 points by doener 1 week ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG (morphik.ai)

×1.96 8 | 323 points by Adityav369 1 day ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Perfume reviews (gwern.net)

×1.91 88 | 323 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Facts don't change minds, structure does (vasily.cc)

×2.91 15 #42 | 322 points by staph 17 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis (sciencenews.org)

×3.44 68 | 317 points by bookofjoe 4 days ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is killing the web – can anything save it? (economist.com)

×3.30 42 | 314 points by edward 3 days ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's rude to show AI output to people (distantprovince.by)

×6.89 53 | 313 points by distantprovince 3 days ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All AI models might be the same (jxmo.io)

×2.17 89 | 311 points by jxmorris12 5 days ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asynchrony is not concurrency (kristoff.it)

×1.48 69 | 309 points by kristoff_it 4 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency (lewiscampbell.tech)

×1.98 82 | 307 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Local LLMs versus offline Wikipedia (evanhahn.com)

×1.99 54 | 306 points by EvanHahn 3 days ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Simulating hand-drawn motion with SVG filters (camillovisini.com)

×2.15 28 | 304 points by camillovisini 6 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of mitochondrial disease (bbc.com)

×2.09 63 | 299 points by 1659447091 6 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???