Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM (pixelmelt.dev)

×6.26 11 #36 | 1640 points by pixelmelt 1 day ago | 493 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Migrating from AWS to Hetzner (digitalsociety.coop)

×5.10 35 #48 | 1062 points by pingoo101010 1 day ago | 594 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents (dwarkesh.com)

×4.37 3 #4 | 898 points by ctoth 20 hours ago | 802 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Skills (anthropic.com)

×3.17 #61 | 789 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation (50centadjustedforinflation.com)

×5.29 19 #30 | 687 points by gaws 21 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler (ruby-lang.org)

×3.50 20 #44 | 640 points by sebiw 1 day ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meow.camera (meow.camera)

×3.08 6 #52 | 637 points by southwindcg 1 day ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (simonwillison.net)

×3.44 12 #24 | 597 points by weinzierl 20 hours ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock (techcrunch.com)

×3.90 2 #38 | 529 points by gman83 1 day ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Live Stream from the Namib Desert (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

×2.24 11 #18 | 510 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence (alecmuffett.com)

×3.08 27 #27 | 423 points by alecmuffett 1 day ago | 588 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing (ricklamers.io)

×1.95 2 | 415 points by ricklamers 1 day ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars (restofworld.org)

×2.31 21 #26 | 371 points by belter 1 day ago | 828 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The pivot (antipope.org)

×2.44 8 #14 | 353 points by AndrewDucker 18 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features (torproject.org)

×3.11 6 | 339 points by HelloUsername 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Work by Gary Larson (thefarside.com)

×2.80 6 #10 | 335 points by jkestner 16 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA (eurogamer.net)

×3.75 8 | 320 points by ksec 1 day ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You did no fact checking, and I must scream (shkspr.mobi)

×3.45 49 | 309 points by blenderob 23 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix (doordash.com)

×1.54 13 #90 | 304 points by ChrisArchitect 2 days ago | 667 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network (science.org)

×1.62 2 #43 | 283 points by marshfram 22 hours ago | 226 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js (akarshc.com)

×2.43 16 | 269 points by akarshc 2 days ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codex Is Live in Zed (zed.dev)

×1.46 14 | 266 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare Sandbox SDK (cloudflare.com)

×1.43 32 #64 | 253 points by bentaber 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months (wheresyoured.at)

×5.16 51 | 249 points by chilipepperhott 20 hours ago | 233 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?

×1.65 34 #46 | 245 points by lgats 1 day ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Talent (felixstocker.com)

×1.54 15 | 235 points by BinaryIgor 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders (thegamer.com)

×3.10 22 #57 | 234 points by haunter 19 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) (chriszacharias.com)

×1.99 18 | 210 points by romanhn 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America’s semiconductor boom [video] (youtube.com)

×1.42 13 | 187 points by zdw 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI has a cargo cult problem (ft.com)

×2.49 32 | 170 points by cs702 22 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mysterious Intrigue Around an x86 "Corporate Entity Other Than Intel/AMD" (phoronix.com)

×2.39 31 | 170 points by unsnap_biceps 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker News – The Good Parts (bearblog.dev)

×2.21 23 | 164 points by smartmic 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
./watch (dotslashwatch.com)

×2.34 1 #2 | 159 points by shrx 4 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that (vibe-coded.lol)

×3.59 21 #54 | 159 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
test-ipv6.com will stay online (test-ipv6.com)

×2.51 34 | 154 points by throw0101d 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal (npr.org)

×2.97 7 | 151 points by 8ig8 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source (github.com/OpenMixerProject)

×1.31 4 #5 | 146 points by jdboyd 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US car repossessions surge as more Americans default on auto loans (theguardian.com)

×5.16 46 | 145 points by Physkal 16 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benjie's Humanoid Olympic Games (generalrobots.substack.com)

×0.91 52 #72 | 142 points by robobenjie 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement (arstechnica.com)

×3.94 61 | 137 points by zdw 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lace: A New Kind of Cellular Automata Where Links Matter (novaspivack.com)

×0.91 46 | 135 points by airesearcher 2 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods (nytimes.com)

×2.71 48 | 127 points by mykowebhn 1 day ago | 370 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki, 58 passes away (gamedeveloper.com)

×1.78 12 | 123 points by corvad 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right? (skyvern.com)

×1.13 31 #33 | 120 points by suchintan 19 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, Spec-Kit, and Tessl (martinfowler.com)

×1.11 59 #71 | 117 points by janpio 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments (aiengineering.report)

×1.32 21 #34 | 117 points by waprin 17 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free the Internet: The Tor Project's annual fundraiser (torproject.org)

×2.48 24 | 107 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain (lwn.net)

×0.72 54 #63 | 107 points by signa11 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Unix Executable as a Smalltalk Method [pdf] (wordpress.com)

×0.87 23 #16 | 103 points by pcfwik 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Forgejo v13.0 Is Available (forgejo.org)

×1.83 9 #80 | 103 points by birdculture 19 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NeXT Computer Offices (archive.org)

×2.48 11 #55 | 102 points by walterbell 13 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WebMCP (github.com/jasonjmcghee)

×1.08 31 #25 | 101 points by sanj 16 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo (chipsandcheese.com)

×1.52 12 #11 | 100 points by zdw 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Metropolis 1998 lets you design every building in an isometric, pixel-art city (2024) (arstechnica.com)

×1.62 2 | 96 points by YesBox 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids? (ucsd.edu)

×0.84 43 | 96 points by gmays 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

×1.23 11 | 95 points by thepianodan 1 day ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete (bloodinthemachine.com)

×3.61 47 | 95 points by FromTheArchives 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SWE-Grep and SWE-Grep-Mini: RL for Fast Multi-Turn Context Retrieval (cognition.ai)

×1.09 53 | 95 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost (blogsystem5.substack.com)

×2.77 1 #1 | 88 points by AlexeyBrin 1 hour ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jeep wrangler owners waiting for answers week after an update bricked their cars (thedrive.com)

×2.60 12 #65 | 89 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows 11 update breaks localhost, prompting mass uninstall workaround (theregister.com)

×3.29 51 | 83 points by baobun 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
4000 gone: Inside NASA's brain drain (planetary.org)

×3.49 55 | 81 points by awnird 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zorin OS 18 (zorin.com)

×2.05 7 | 80 points by pentagrama 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Republicans use deepfake video of Chuck Schumer in new attack ad (theguardian.com)

×5.84 16 | 78 points by asib 17 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Game over. AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there (garymarcus.substack.com)

×5.90 7 #8 | 76 points by FromTheArchives 43 minutes ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Promoted on Sunday, Fired on Monday: Inside a NASA Office's Sudden Closure (planetary.org)

×2.08 11 #79 | 71 points by ironyman 15 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Marc Benioff: I no longer believe National Guard is needed for SF (cnbc.com)

×5.84 15 | 69 points by donsupreme 16 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Email bombs exploit lax authentication in Zendesk (krebsonsecurity.com)

×0.70 51 #62 | 67 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ron Conway Resigns Salesforce Foundation over Benioff's National Guard Comments (politico.com)

×6.07 56 | 67 points by rurp 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kagi Specials (kagi.com)

×3.04 32 #49 | 65 points by wofo 17 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Improving the Trustworthiness of JavaScript on the Web (cloudflare.com)

×0.89 64 | 64 points by doomrobo 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California to begin selling affordable state-branded insulin beginning next year (apnews.com)

×4.33 58 | 63 points by toomuchtodo 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple M4 Series Feature Support (asahilinux.org)

×1.60 59 | 63 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OnlyJPG – Client-Side PNG/HEIC/AVIF/PDF/etc to JPG (onlyjpg.com)

×0.80 27 | 60 points by johnnyApplePRNG 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When you opened a screen shot of a video in Paint, the video was playing in it (microsoft.com)

×3.07 60 | 59 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Accelerating authoritarian dynamics: Assessment of democratic decline (steadystate1.substack.com)

×4.54 54 | 58 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia DGX Spark and Apple Mac Studio = 4x Faster LLM Inference with EXO 1.0 (exolabs.net)

×1.68 57 | 58 points by edelsohn 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What in the world is going on at Supabase?

×3.03 61 | 57 points by DANmode 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Endorsing easily disproven claims linked to prioritizing symbolic strength (theconversation.com)

×1.55 17 | 56 points by Archelaos 23 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New computer model helps reveal how the brain both adapts and misfires (tufts.edu)

×0.55 64 #76 | 56 points by XzetaU8 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Majority AI View (anildash.com)

×2.60 40 #77 | 54 points by Bogdanp 9 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan asks OpenAI to keep Sora 2's hands off anime IP (theregister.com)

×4.37 24 #84 | 50 points by maxloh 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ServiceRadar – open-source Network Observability Platform (github.com/carverauto)

×0.71 34 #32 | 49 points by carverauto 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents (propublica.org)

×7.25 68 | 49 points by ceejayoz 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fast calculation of the distance to cubic Bezier curves on the GPU (pkh.me)

×1.39 4 #6 | 47 points by ux 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch" (neowin.net)

×6.08 73 | 47 points by bundie 5 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference (nytimes.com)

×6.27 19 | 47 points by tptacek 13 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google's $1,800 foldable phone is first smartphone to explode in durability test (fortune.com)

×2.24 21 | 47 points by HiroProtagonist 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RTFM: A Real-Time Frame Model (worldlabs.ai)

×2.62 72 | 44 points by lairv 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Datapizza AI – Lightweight open source framework for GenAI apps (github.com/datapizza-labs)

×18.39 41 | 40 points by f_raffoni 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???