Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Vietnam bans unskippable ads (saigoneer.com)

×5.88 20 #48 | 1532 points by hoherd 1 day ago | 785 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
enclose.horse (enclose.horse)

×4.67 11 #69 | 1147 points by DavidSJ 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout (loworbitsecurity.com)

×3.55 3 | 927 points by illithid0 2 days ago | 428 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far (burkeholland.github.io)

×3.72 7 #38 | 798 points by tbassetto 1 day ago | 1211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention (theregister.com)

×4.36 20 #80 | 725 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 465 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team (github.com/tailwindlabs)

×8.32 9 #11 | 715 points by kevlened 5 hours ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Post-American Internet (pluralistic.net)

×4.45 4 | 556 points by EvanAnderson 1 day ago | 423 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone (github.com/rberg27)

×2.24 26 #75 | 547 points by rbergamini27 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google broke my heart (perishablepress.com)

×3.99 22 | 534 points by ingve 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016) (ucsf.edu)

×2.50 5 #1 | 505 points by aldarion 6 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform (philippdubach.com)

×3.34 15 | 483 points by 7777777phil 1 day ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? (akr.am)

×3.54 18 | 425 points by thefilmore 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
C Is Best (2025) (sqlite.org)

×4.11 1 | 395 points by alexpadula 1 day ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons (caranddriver.com)

×3.45 11 | 373 points by stephc_int13 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities (blgardner.github.io)

×1.64 5 | 362 points by BLGardner 1 day ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time (byteshape.com)

×1.85 21 #43 | 342 points by dataminer 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shipmap.org (shipmap.org)

×2.40 4 #3 | 334 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) (phrack.org)

×1.69 3 #77 | 318 points by krrishd 1 day ago | 214 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year (bloomberg.com)

×4.67 64 #72 | 268 points by toomuchtodo 5 hours ago | 283 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density (donutlab.com)

×2.12 45 | 260 points by aeonfox 1 day ago | 246 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022) (stoppels.ch)

×1.53 42 | 259 points by benhoyt 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes (reuters.com)

×7.80 4 #5 | 254 points by kpw94 2 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A4 Paper Stories (susam.net)

×1.78 5 #13 | 250 points by blenderob 8 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf] (illinois.edu)

×1.58 4 #8 | 249 points by zahrevsky 6 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025? (calnewport.com)

×2.14 53 | 231 points by zdw 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eat Real Food (realfood.gov)

×5.09 1 #6 | 225 points by atestu 4 hours ago | 418 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com (mozilla.org)

×7.04 65 | 225 points by maelito 10 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Strange.website (strange.website)

×1.53 55 | 212 points by abelanger 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016) (lbstanza.org)

×1.45 15 #37 | 211 points by teleforce 8 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
State of the Fin 2026-01-06 (jellyfin.org)

×1.66 19 | 204 points by wise_blood 1 day ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed (jasoneckert.github.io)

×1.33 4 #67 | 200 points by jasoneckert 18 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button (zakhary.dev)

×1.28 51 | 196 points by zakhary 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification (wiley.com)

×1.22 41 #42 | 194 points by PaulHoule 20 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela (ft.com)

×4.31 21 #21 | 185 points by petethomas 12 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Passing of Joe Mancuso (github.com/MasoniteFramework)

×1.20 33 #76 | 185 points by wilsonfiifi 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Video Game Websites in the early 00s (webdesignmuseum.org)

×1.76 17 | 181 points by klaussilveira 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics (booleanbiotech.com)

×0.80 48 #52 | 176 points by sethbannon 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it (arxiv.org)

×1.18 46 #61 | 171 points by matt_d 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files (boingboing.net)

×8.81 71 | 168 points by mikecarlton 7 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is (hecate.pink)

×2.77 2 | 158 points by todsacerdoti 21 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium (dailynous.com)

×4.51 32 #41 | 145 points by loughnane 4 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy (geospy.ai)

×0.82 56 #62 | 142 points by kachapopopow 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner (layandreas.github.io)

×2.06 23 | 141 points by wismwasm 1 day ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall (bbc.com)

×3.38 64 | 135 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in 5 years (pcgamer.com)

×2.51 25 #39 | 134 points by mossTechnician 5 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM Problems Observed in Humans (embd.cc)

×2.62 75 | 134 points by js216 5 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs (chipsandcheese.com)

×0.79 46 #65 | 131 points by rbanffy 23 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video] (youtube.com)

×2.44 11 | 129 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dude, where's my supersonic jet? (rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com)

×0.97 32 #88 | 129 points by noleary 1 day ago | 290 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill to Eliminate H-1B Visa Program Introduced in Congress (newsweek.com)

×9.13 20 | 127 points by ekropotin 15 hours ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing (arxiv.org)

×0.84 45 #70 | 121 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SMTP Tunnel – A SOCKS5 proxy disguised as email traffic to bypass DPI (github.com/x011)

×1.02 36 #49 | 120 points by lobito25 17 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection (scenelist.org)

×0.89 56 | 118 points by achairapart 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders (nytimes.com)

×5.19 37 | 117 points by lordleft 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle (psychotechnology.substack.com)

×1.19 8 #16 | 113 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A (intel.com)

×1.31 74 | 113 points by osnium123 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most websites don't need cookie consent banners (block81.com)

×2.53 12 | 111 points by pickup191 20 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are we tired of social media? (2025) (danielbrendel.com)

×1.70 31 #85 | 109 points by foxiel 23 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says (nprillinois.org)

×1.11 6 #9 | 107 points by toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On the slow death of scaling (ssrn.com)

×0.90 39 #54 | 106 points by sethbannon 17 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016) (techcrunch.com)

×0.97 48 #84 | 98 points by bobbiechen 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program (adafruit.com)

×0.92 56 #56 | 97 points by ptorrone 20 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Boston Dynamics and DeepMind form new AI partnership (bostondynamics.com)

×1.43 85 | 94 points by mfiguiere 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Many hells of WebDAV (candid.dev)

×1.05 9 #14 | 91 points by candiddevmike 5 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill communists (twitter.com/JTLonsdale)

×6.87 44 | 90 points by clanky 1 day ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket (tomshardware.com)

×1.86 46 | 90 points by speckx 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens (socket.dev)

×1.10 9 #2 | 85 points by feross 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU (ekzhang.com)

×1.05 47 | 79 points by ekzhang 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole (pcloadletter.dev)

×5.55 64 | 78 points by ronbenton 6 hours ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery

×0.39 84 #59 | 75 points by denizkavi 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64 (github.com/kressler)

×0.69 60 | 74 points by mattgodbolt 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during conference (techcrunch.com)

×7.56 79 | 74 points by ryandrake 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics (obsessivefacts.com)

×0.73 63 | 73 points by rickcarlino 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents (github.com/marcoaapfortes)

×0.58 53 #86 | 73 points by marcoaapfortes 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML (github.com/bigskysoftware)

×2.98 23 | 71 points by tosh 11 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Lego smart-play system (lego.com)

×2.90 61 | 71 points by acoye 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect (oregonlive.com)

×4.14 70 | 71 points by speckx 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice (bbc.com)

×4.63 22 | 69 points by 1659447091 11 hours ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why German Strings Are Everywhere? (cedardb.com)

×1.89 69 | 69 points by byt3h3ad 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI (github.com/shakedlokits)

×0.95 59 | 68 points by shuka 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Keeping Syria connected during war: Surviving ISIS and Intelligence (syriauntold.com)

×1.16 92 | 68 points by oavioklein 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025) (carette.xyz)

×1.82 66 | 66 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code CLI Broken (github.com/anthropics)

×2.00 4 #7 | 64 points by sneilan1 1 hour ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System (schmidtsciences.org)

×0.71 9 #64 | 64 points by pppone 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Be Less Awkward (experimental-history.com)

×2.57 54 #87 | 64 points by zdw 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The data center boom is concentrated in the U.S. (ieee.org)

×2.34 34 | 63 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google will now only release Android source code twice a year (androidauthority.com)

×3.60 57 | 62 points by tripdout 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Loongarch Improvements with Box64 (box86.org)

×0.58 62 | 62 points by aaronday 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientific production in the era of large language models [pdf] (gwern.net)

×0.79 89 | 62 points by nkko 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A tab hoarder's journey to sanity (twitter.com/borisandcrispin)

×1.15 9 #26 | 61 points by borisandcrispin 3 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???