Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes (beige.party)

×9.00 66 | 1310 points by mraniki 1 day ago | 286 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices (notebookcheck.net)

×8.65 6 #11 | 975 points by chris_overseas 10 hours ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice (github.com/zedeus)

×4.79 6 #32 | 878 points by zImPatrick 1 day ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Keep Our Servers Running (archive.org)

×3.51 7 #2 | 816 points by sonicrocketman 14 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil (space.com)

×4.27 5 | 735 points by bookmtn 1 day ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025) (dtrace.org)

×2.99 6 #42 | 691 points by cyb0rg0 1 day ago | 422 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone (cloudinabottle.org)

×2.78 3 #82 | 628 points by zplizzi 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A/I shuts down (keepitfree.ai)

×3.86 14 #57 | 610 points by captainmuon 1 day ago | 511 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight (isaraerospace.com)

×2.77 17 #52 | 601 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings (lapcatsoftware.com)

×4.71 5 #86 | 601 points by ExMachina73 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The revolt of the reader (dtrace.org)

×2.94 18 #75 | 594 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 294 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asahi Linux on M3 (asahilinux.org)

×3.50 16 #38 | 537 points by mdp2021 1 day ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Real Luxuries In Life (feld.com)

×3.92 19 | 517 points by tosh 2 days ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Alien Mind (openai.com)

×2.81 7 #46 | 450 points by tosh 1 day ago | 438 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
De-Brainrot Vacations (devz.cl)

×2.64 11 #12 | 408 points by DanielVZ 5 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Doomscrolling ourselves to death (edwest.co.uk)

×2.51 2 #74 | 405 points by shubhamjain 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs as a Cognitive Virus (arxiv.org)

×2.90 26 | 391 points by canjobear 1 day ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard (grapheneos.social)

×2.13 16 #25 | 383 points by Cider9986 21 hours ago | 239 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis (techaro.lol)

×1.84 26 #23 | 338 points by xena 21 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers (itsfoss.com)

×4.47 29 #44 | 306 points by ivell 12 hours ago | 248 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes (austinhenley.com)

×1.48 15 #22 | 296 points by azhenley 18 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes (variety.com)

×3.34 26 #37 | 279 points by cianmm 8 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue (github.com/zedeus)

×4.77 19 | 268 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

×1.67 23 #24 | 259 points by imadtaieber 18 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-6 Astra on robot arms (robocurve.org)

×2.18 32 | 238 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules (motherjones.com)

×7.21 18 | 227 points by vrganj 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
bzip3 (github.com/iczelia)

×1.95 3 #1 | 219 points by tosh 4 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements (theregister.com)

×2.38 7 #15 | 214 points by mdp2021 6 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI (openai.com)

×1.48 55 #39 | 199 points by iamsyr 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Splash-free urinals (2025) (oup.com)

×1.90 10 #17 | 180 points by u1hcw9nx 5 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones (wsj.com)

×4.05 45 | 178 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programming is Art (orchidfiles.com)

×2.05 16 #36 | 173 points by theorchid 9 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader (theatlantic.com)

×2.52 13 #26 | 162 points by samizdis 7 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How I feel about AI (tuxen.de)

×3.05 15 | 162 points by qznc 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics (mathathonchallenge.com)

×1.14 10 #4 | 157 points by astroanax 8 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings (cordcuttersnews.com)

×2.41 11 #47 | 155 points by dmitrygr 13 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI, Tools and Transformation (ben-evans.com)

×1.22 55 #78 | 153 points by firexcy 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Live map of public transport in Belgium (openbaarvervoerbelgie.be)

×1.09 10 #9 | 151 points by coinfused 9 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I changed my license (bergie.iki.fi)

×1.80 28 | 151 points by jllyhill 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9 (netbsd.org)

×0.86 65 #43 | 145 points by jaypatelani 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] (youtube.com)

×7.84 14 | 132 points by treve 17 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded (wordpress.com)

×1.09 66 #77 | 126 points by vermaden 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (techemails.com)

×5.56 17 #19 | 123 points by highfrequency 2 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one (kepter.app)

×2.56 32 #72 | 123 points by maltch 22 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet (twitter.com/Liquid_BTC)

×2.41 2 #89 | 121 points by felipelalli 19 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke (vancouverisawesome.com)

×7.58 50 | 115 points by anigbrowl 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? (mbmccoy.dev)

×1.16 60 #30 | 113 points by _alternator_ 19 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay (wholelottanothing.org)

×2.26 14 | 109 points by gumby 22 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings (arxiv.org)

×0.85 68 #35 | 108 points by ur-whale 21 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video] (youtube.com)

×1.58 63 | 107 points by stefan_ 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2026 Hugo Awards (thehugoawards.org)

×1.66 59 #66 | 106 points by signa11 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs (vllm.ai)

×0.94 15 #13 | 102 points by ankitg12 8 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Old Person Smell' (theguardian.com)

×2.41 37 | 100 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Site Is Closed on Sundays (robweychert.com)

×2.56 53 | 100 points by edent 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post (gettogether.dev)

×0.94 41 #41 | 98 points by nchudleigh 16 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple (github.com/marsbos)

×0.66 53 #54 | 97 points by bosmarcel 21 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Research carried out using NetBSD (netbsd.org)

×0.75 57 #64 | 97 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?

×1.35 27 #65 | 97 points by usernametaken29 17 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

×1.18 11 #28 | 94 points by maxim-fin 6 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta (theguardian.com)

×4.95 58 | 94 points by domhudson 10 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system (piie.com)

×2.99 7 | 93 points by boshomi 19 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I refused to train the AI that could replace me (restofworld.org)

×3.66 23 | 90 points by colinprince 13 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent (arstechnica.com)

×1.58 5 #29 | 83 points by joozio 7 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs (github.com/timgordontg)

×0.83 10 #63 | 78 points by timgordontg 13 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows 11's "special" developer edition looks like another marketing misfire (neowin.net)

×2.97 24 | 78 points by bundie 20 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents (github.com/okf-memory)

×1.11 67 | 78 points by okf_memory 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran 'because it isn't a war' (telegraph.co.uk)

×11.26 68 | 77 points by embedding-shape 6 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS (github.com/scastiel)

×0.84 39 | 76 points by scastiel 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Play GTA Vice City in the Browser (quenq.com)

×2.34 62 | 76 points by rzk 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014) (wordpress.com)

×0.58 71 | 74 points by gmays 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark (kuber.studio)

×1.29 40 | 73 points by kuberwastaken 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set (thurrott.com)

×2.38 8 #14 | 69 points by neogodless 2 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The pencil case model of creativity (uu.nl)

×0.67 55 #90 | 68 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering (shukla.io)

×0.80 48 | 67 points by BinRoo 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't Use a gmail.com Address (crookedtimber.org)

×2.89 56 | 66 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The many mysteries and lessons of the Bayeux tapestry (economist.com)

×0.66 49 | 64 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Impedance Matching (2017) (edge.org)

×0.65 16 #18 | 63 points by muti 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alberta (Canada) slaps punitive tax on solar panels (albertapolitics.ca)

×1.96 43 | 63 points by cmrdporcupine 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums (techpolicy.press)

×2.86 73 | 61 points by cdrnsf 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The moral panic over data centres is foolish (economist.com)

×4.25 77 | 61 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one (electrek.co)

×3.90 39 #49 | 60 points by jijojv 3 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds (mceglowski.substack.com)

×1.36 61 #87 | 60 points by worldvoyageur 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users

×1.93 #3 | 57 points by spwa4 1 hour ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs (dreamstation.systems)

×1.94 75 | 57 points by robinpie 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
D2 Is Non-Profit (d2lang.com)

×0.96 64 #68 | 51 points by alixanderwang 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security (oxide.computer)

×0.59 61 #51 | 50 points by cyb0rg0 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything (xylon.me.uk)

×3.85 38 | 50 points by xylon 22 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here (economist.com)

×3.09 49 | 49 points by MrBuddyCasino 7 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward (isaraerospace.com)

×0.70 81 | 49 points by t43562 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google skates (pluralistic.net)

×2.56 83 | 48 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???