Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins (anthropic.com)

×4.16 11 #43 | 1027 points by ahlCVA 1 day ago | 378 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked (twitter.com/opencode)

×10.97 30 #32 | 805 points by pranshuchittora 9 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 (huggingface.co)

×3.92 8 #4 | 743 points by theykk 19 hours ago | 607 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks (mercor.com)

×3.01 3 #59 | 599 points by speckx 1 day ago | 548 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You could have invented transformers from memory (alexwang.ai)

×2.56 44 #14 | 516 points by speckx 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 (openrouter.ai)

×3.33 72 | 513 points by theanonymousone 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time (pv-magazine.com)

×3.50 13 #19 | 508 points by xbmcuser 13 hours ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the Claude Code team does code review (claude.dev)

×3.41 #64 | 456 points by pretext 1 day ago | 456 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day (meidasnews.com)

×7.32 90 | 424 points by DeepLogin 2 hours ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I love software rendering (jamesfmackenzie.com)

×1.80 26 #58 | 369 points by speckx 1 day ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console (github.com/cobanov)

×1.54 1 #69 | 367 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio (apple.com)

×1.72 7 #88 | 362 points by antipaul 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Butlerian Jihad (fandom.com)

×4.05 43 | 358 points by wetwater 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour (nature.com)

×1.81 3 #1 | 357 points by alkyon 9 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waymo in Toronto (waymo.com)

×2.04 6 #80 | 326 points by ChrisArchitect 1 day ago | 440 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases (jakearchibald.com)

×1.66 28 #51 | 320 points by farlight 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG (pele.run)

×2.71 5 #5 | 296 points by dchest 11 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic assigned highest junk credit rating in June (ft.com)

×3.32 13 | 287 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood (engadget.com)

×3.91 12 #39 | 281 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear (arrl.org)

×1.36 35 #48 | 273 points by 7402 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

×1.51 9 #9 | 271 points by crescit_eundo 13 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gold is now the top U.S. export (numismaticnews.net)

×2.51 1 #10 | 265 points by iamnothere 9 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware (llmspeed.dev)

×1.60 33 #22 | 261 points by albinstman 23 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft (starskirmish.com)

×1.34 22 #72 | 242 points by __cayenne__ 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets (github.com/home-assistant)

×3.48 11 | 239 points by trvrprkr 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership (house.gov)

×3.46 1 | 232 points by DeepLogin 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States (smithsonianmag.com)

×1.57 8 #3 | 226 points by sohkamyung 10 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Folders Programming Language (danieltemkin.com)

×1.85 31 | 215 points by gurst 1 day ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix (theregister.com)

×3.65 5 | 212 points by magoghm 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FLUX 3 Image Klein (bfl.ai)

×1.05 42 #47 | 208 points by gmays 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low (gallup.com)

×7.39 6 | 200 points by karakoram 1 day ago | 208 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD (calif.io)

×1.06 30 #73 | 191 points by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion (yahoo.com)

×9.09 63 | 179 points by ck2 13 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Source code of the Estonian online voting system (github.com/valimised)

×1.73 3 #18 | 179 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
/dev/null: social network for developers (dev-null.sh)

×1.58 11 #90 | 173 points by mnapoli 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude (anthropic.com)

×1.00 43 #56 | 172 points by pretext 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Became a Citizen of Japan (derekwessman.com)

×2.81 1 #17 | 170 points by luu 10 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLP-1 may slow biological aging (universityofcalifornia.edu)

×2.39 64 #85 | 171 points by dzink 11 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What on Earth Is Dekton? (worksinprogress.news)

×1.07 27 #86 | 159 points by wawayanda 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon uses AI to monitor union risk in UK warehouses (opendemocracy.net)

×4.09 66 | 152 points by DeepLogin 11 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Israeli settlers attack olive framers & Washington Post journalist in West Bank (theguardian.com)

×24.27 19 | 144 points by 0x54MUR41 22 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser (github.com/mikroverk)

×1.34 13 #25 | 136 points by joakimeriksson 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My old job feels distant now (pinecoder.dev)

×2.52 44 #81 | 133 points by speckx 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game (frozenfractal.com)

×1.05 15 #29 | 132 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing (tomshardware.com)

×4.24 4 #7 | 123 points by guiambros 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Israeli settlers attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank beat French mayor (lemonde.fr)

×15.89 69 | 124 points by Betelbuddy 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel (lwn.net)

×1.04 15 #41 | 124 points by farlight 10 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What was a Token Ring network? (dfarq.homeip.net)

×1.04 55 #75 | 122 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents (fortune.com)

×3.38 61 | 121 points by DASD 11 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Artificial intelligence is capitalism's final destination (equator.org)

×6.94 43 | 121 points by tirumaraiselvan 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop (anuragbhatia.com)

×0.96 48 #84 | 115 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nine-Inch Snails (theatlantic.com)

×1.18 44 #62 | 114 points by zdw 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
C++26: The New Debugging Header (sandordargo.com)

×0.84 31 #87 | 109 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Super Intelligence (si.gov)

×4.79 31 | 103 points by wiradikusuma 15 hours ago | 182 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: High-quality duck audio synthesizer (celphase.github.io)

×1.06 17 #16 | 100 points by celphase 10 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chrome and Edge are removing XSLT: what breaks and what does not (doctor-seo.net)

×1.19 10 #27 | 99 points by croes 7 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program (readergrev.com)

×1.29 42 | 99 points by paimapi 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024) (davidv.dev)

×1.28 38 #21 | 97 points by pmoriarty 14 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps (github.com/openai)

×1.74 19 #12 | 96 points by AIorNot 9 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Formalize All of Mathematics (wordpress.com)

×1.19 49 | 95 points by practal 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic Console overcharged my card 100x due to internationalization input bug

×1.88 44 | 88 points by rsorto 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JDK 28 (openjdk.org)

×2.52 17 #30 | 84 points by ejboy 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A story of WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns and a damaged flash memory chip (of0x.cc)

×0.81 68 #42 | 84 points by michidk 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package (lwn.net)

×1.65 63 | 84 points by signa11 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GifCities (gifcities.org)

×0.93 46 | 82 points by augury 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The history of development of Norton Commander (2011) (softpanorama.org)

×1.29 23 #50 | 73 points by Michelangelo11 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla's new Roadster makes a flying debut, hitting 60 MPH in under a second (foxbusiness.com)

×4.62 62 | 70 points by nsoonhui 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The insider trading you're allowed to do (coached.com)

×1.59 65 | 69 points by rohanm93 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla makes cars that fly? [video] (youtube.com)

×3.43 71 | 69 points by merinpapz10 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election (reuters.com)

×3.99 51 | 67 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Teams is a red flag (raed.dev)

×4.29 30 #44 | 65 points by Raed667 15 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated (mashable.com)

×5.50 40 | 63 points by greenchair 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla unveils 'flying' Roadster with SpaceX thrusters [video] (youtube.com)

×3.99 58 | 63 points by skadamat 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers (cmu.edu)

×1.06 1 #37 | 62 points by azhenley 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Israeli settlers attack European diplomats in the West Bank (ft.com)

×8.84 57 | 61 points by michaelhillaert 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The future of programming (1982) (acm.org)

×0.94 32 #33 | 60 points by vismit2000 12 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Fatal Flaw of 911 (themarshallproject.org)

×0.92 53 | 60 points by plunge 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: rStation – A shared research lab for your AI agents (rstation.ai)

×0.87 60 | 58 points by stephenchung 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot (phillyvoice.com)

×6.98 83 | 57 points by johnnyApplePRNG 4 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why harnesses matter for energy (and token) efficiency (neuralwatt.com)

×1.37 52 | 56 points by ccgibson 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to make System 1 LLMs show System 2 competencies? (wiley.com)

×0.69 61 | 56 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware" (pluralistic.net)

×3.22 25 | 54 points by samizdis 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chicago-Area Cops Helped HSI Spy on Minnesota Anti-ICE Activists (wired.com)

×2.76 54 | 54 points by chaps 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Tame" boar and deer are instinctively adapting to the wolf in the Netherlands (nos.nl)

×0.92 45 #53 | 53 points by felipevb 18 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Parin – A 2D game engine between raylib and Godot, written in Dlang (github.com/Kapendev)

×0.78 28 #26 | 53 points by Kapendev 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed (filippo.io)

×1.49 55 | 52 points by aburan28 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine (telegraph.co.uk)

×7.13 56 | 51 points by defly 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Seized server Autistici/Inventati (A/I) in Amsterdam for U.S. authorities (nltimes.nl)

×1.90 66 | 50 points by oriettaxx 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bark: The Toll-Free BBS for 90s Teens (bityard.net)

×0.74 68 | 48 points by bityard 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"In every study that considered the question" (aresluna.org)

×1.58 36 | 47 points by zdw 23 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???