Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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sshole (sshhole.com)

×10.24 25 #42 | 2918 points by josemrb 1 day ago | 734 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code sends your email address to websites (github.com/anthropics)

×6.04 16 #38 | 1563 points by motoroco 1 day ago | 501 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production (nbcnews.com)

×5.09 1 #4 | 938 points by PLenz 17 hours ago | 1796 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Search for everyone (kagi.com)

×3.79 39 | 747 points by elashri 1 day ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (cve.org)

×3.11 11 #65 | 704 points by kuberwastaken 1 day ago | 276 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI (github.com/ppmpreetham)

×3.12 22 #47 | 690 points by ppmpreetham 22 hours ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Goodbye from Salon (salon.com)

×4.33 33 | 641 points by mkeeter 1 day ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS (github.com/PrivSec-dev)

×3.22 21 #44 | 628 points by microtonal 20 hours ago | 411 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alpine Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass (alpinelinux.org)

×2.75 14 | 626 points by pantalaimon 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory (reuters.com)

×5.53 35 #67 | 573 points by 1659447091 22 hours ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support (motorolanews.com)

×2.71 12 | 572 points by monneyboi 1 day ago | 402 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wish tech companies knew more about me (exotext.com)

×3.06 5 | 550 points by freetonik 1 day ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue (yahoo.com)

×4.14 18 #83 | 502 points by randycupertino 1 day ago | 224 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM (theverge.com)

×4.04 11 | 483 points by archb 1 day ago | 421 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Window Sweaters (github.com/saragordic)

×2.18 1 | 451 points by nickswalker 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Libghostty 1.0 (mitchellh.com)

×4.12 #1 | 438 points by mfiguiere 6 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost (hightouch.com)

×2.27 #2 | 407 points by theanomaly 10 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Hackintosh Reborn (naut.ca)

×2.04 3 | 402 points by rubatuga 1 day ago | 235 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Download your favourite YouTube videos (criminallyvulgar.dev)

×2.05 16 | 395 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deus Ex (filfre.net)

×2.39 31 #45 | 348 points by cybersoyuz 14 hours ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research (openai.com)

×2.21 37 | 341 points by lucrbvi 1 day ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCP Explained (mcp-explained.com)

×1.72 29 #80 | 334 points by rwilinski 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash (blog.google)

×1.66 4 #26 | 311 points by thisisauserid 16 hours ago | 225 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet (mit.edu)

×2.20 36 #33 | 311 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pwn.college (pwn.college)

×2.03 21 #52 | 311 points by tripdout 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028 (reuters.com)

×1.58 2 #9 | 309 points by ChrisArchitect 12 hours ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RIP Cybertruck (wired.com)

×5.86 65 | 301 points by voxadam 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Awesome repositories are no longer awesome (erikgahner.github.io)

×2.13 34 | 300 points by erikgahner 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inkling 2 Small (thinkingmachines.ai)

×1.86 | 285 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more (servo.org)

×1.29 29 | 267 points by iamnothere 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T (bloomberg.com)

×3.60 16 #34 | 265 points by dgellow 13 hours ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Obscure audio codec is a perfect fit for the N64 (phoboslab.org)

×1.51 51 #78 | 261 points by frostbyte7 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is dramatically accelerating AI research (planned-obsolescence.org)

×2.35 8 #14 | 252 points by yurivish 9 hours ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM (openssh.org)

×1.43 44 | 250 points by selckin 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative (metaebene.me)

×1.66 28 #39 | 248 points by luoc 22 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed (euronews.com)

×2.62 19 | 234 points by rdmuser 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nasdaq plummets 4% into correction territory (cnbc.com)

×3.09 33 | 225 points by kristianp 1 day ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI (kevinboone.me)

×1.45 11 #16 | 209 points by LaSombra 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2 (pwn.ai)

×1.46 4 #8 | 205 points by SerCe 10 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?

×2.02 22 #64 | 193 points by linsomniac 14 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious (lesswrong.com)

×2.61 35 #58 | 188 points by porridgeraisin 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My psychophysics as a bilateral cochlear implant user (claude.ai)

×1.23 46 | 186 points by mi-rae 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base (baidu.com)

×0.94 60 | 186 points by pretext 1 day ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability (hachyderm.io)

×2.66 59 | 184 points by Animux 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM (firenook.dev)

×1.22 25 | 169 points by sanjevirau 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016) (pensoft.net)

×1.18 31 #41 | 168 points by hitekker 19 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap (worldstrike.fun)

×1.47 5 #77 | 167 points by n4ze3m 22 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
$2.5T has been wiped from US stocks (finlaws.substack.com)

×4.76 36 | 162 points by madihaa 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election (wsj.com)

×4.61 48 | 162 points by armcat 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web (github.com/anomalyco)

×1.73 8 #49 | 159 points by mik3y 13 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sodium-ion batteries approach cost parity with LFP (pv-magazine.com)

×2.03 23 #27 | 158 points by doener 6 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years (github.com/Unleash)

×1.27 31 #40 | 151 points by ivarconr 18 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pangram Image 1.0 (pangram.com)

×1.20 59 #81 | 148 points by gmays 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them? (scotthelme.co.uk)

×1.92 21 #56 | 147 points by speckx 11 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Being a kid making games in the early 2000s (jaytholen.net)

×1.37 76 | 146 points by farmerbb 2 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Image of our satellite-choked night skies (kottke.org)

×1.97 58 | 143 points by amatheus 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Devvm.dev: One VM for every project (devvm.dev)

×1.50 17 #22 | 140 points by luispa 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk (cbc.ca)

×2.01 24 #88 | 127 points by blakesterz 15 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Democrats launching congressional investigations into SpaceXAI, META and Apple (washingtonpost.com)

×9.12 58 | 125 points by pretext 10 hours ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Kubernetes Engine (NVKE) (github.com/dsx-ai-factory)

×0.87 48 #69 | 123 points by gkapur 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3 (github.com/rivet-dev)

×0.61 82 #72 | 118 points by NathanFlurry 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011) (norvig.com)

×1.10 54 #30 | 117 points by andsoitis 18 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We can do better than line-buffered output (nullprogram.com)

×1.02 67 | 111 points by zdw 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign (infohawk.com)

×1.22 13 #24 | 109 points by fiej 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kalshi court losses pile up as judges refuse to block state gambling laws (arstechnica.com)

×3.76 45 | 107 points by Analemma_ 11 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub's new Git storage architecture (github.blog)

×2.51 17 #21 | 104 points by DAlperin 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a Multi-Agent System from Scratch: Architecture Patterns (kadhar.dev)

×0.96 69 | 103 points by kadharmfn 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs (arxiv.org)

×1.05 16 #32 | 101 points by handfuloflight 11 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California Gov Newsom commutes death sentences for all 548 people on death row (bbc.com)

×4.85 62 | 98 points by tosh 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app (shayon.work)

×4.09 68 | 98 points by yewenjie 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero Hour: Telling time was a matter of survival and strategy during WWI (2014) (laphamsquarterly.org)

×0.92 33 #50 | 97 points by NaOH 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Stacks Project, Formalized in Lean (axiommath.ai)

×0.70 71 | 97 points by namanbnsl 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tencent launches Hy4 (tencent.com)

×0.92 65 | 95 points by gmays 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic IPO valuation talks drop to $1.3T (epyhia.com)

×4.12 35 | 93 points by arbuge 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe Coding Keypad (keychron.com)

×1.70 73 | 92 points by ta988 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude (anthropic.com)

×1.39 51 #57 | 91 points by ersinesen 20 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Major Investors Are Skeptical Anthropic IPO Can Achieve $1.5T Valuation (wsj.com)

×4.39 53 | 90 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stroq – a local audit of what your coding agent did and why (github.com/AGGIB)

×0.71 75 | 90 points by agybay_07 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FAA begins retiring decades old floppy disks from air traffic control (faa.gov)

×1.29 15 | 89 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft is winding down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity (reuters.com)

×2.76 26 #79 | 88 points by brazukadev 11 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West (josef.cn)

×1.70 13 #18 | 87 points by josefchen 4 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT silently passes data between connectors and the bounty wants an ID card (openai.com)

×1.61 31 #51 | 84 points by Aldipower 7 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App (cert-in.org.in)

×0.87 37 #82 | 84 points by qtqtqt 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla and SpaceX lose over $420B in combined market cap in the two days (techlaws.pages.dev)

×4.46 51 | 83 points by Pepitobombito 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Replit rebuilt its sandbox engine with microVMs (replit.com)

×1.07 14 #36 | 80 points by gaplong 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters (multifamilydive.com)

×2.02 10 #6 | 77 points by raybb 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier (village.dev)

×1.41 52 | 77 points by kevin_hu 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
As the Japanese countryside empties out, wildlife is disappearing (yale.edu)

×1.42 14 #63 | 75 points by rdmuser 10 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Size-It-Up (Game) (magnitudle.com)

×0.79 25 #37 | 75 points by whoishiding 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where each U.S. state gets its tax revenue from (visualcapitalist.com)

×2.63 4 | 71 points by peter_d_sherman 14 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???