Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic.com)

×6.26 20 #44 | 1730 points by craigmart 1 day ago | 1346 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection (mybricklog.com)

×5.31 20 #49 | 1297 points by philips 1 day ago | 587 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The dead economy theory (owenmcgrann.com)

×4.05 2 #2 | 797 points by WillDaSilva 12 hours ago | 982 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I am retiring from tech to live offline (openpath.quest)

×5.12 37 #43 | 763 points by PinkG 13 hours ago | 523 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Please Use AI (shawnsmucker.substack.com)

×9.87 81 | 721 points by garycomtois 14 hours ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GTA 6 Developers Unionize (rockstarintel.com)

×4.45 15 #24 | 601 points by AndrewKemendo 12 hours ago | 415 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits (tomshardware.com)

×4.65 34 #87 | 533 points by possibilistic 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025) (winans.io)

×2.74 28 #85 | 529 points by mattrighetti 1 day ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM (latimes.com)

×4.93 27 #18 | 513 points by brandonb 1 day ago | 708 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks (lenz.io)

×3.06 12 | 503 points by kostaj 1 day ago | 345 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cars collect a startling amount of data about you (bbc.com)

×3.10 42 #83 | 482 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test (twitter.com/nasaspaceflight)

×3.23 19 #65 | 475 points by enraged_camel 1 day ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave (hallucinate.site)

×2.19 14 | 435 points by stagas 2 days ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SQLite is all you need for durable workflows (obeli.sk)

×2.03 4 #3 | 424 points by tomasol 10 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion (github.com/robinostlund)

×2.90 25 #68 | 375 points by Kwastie 22 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue (scalex.dev)

×1.77 2 | 374 points by Wirbelwind 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation (anthropic.com)

×3.19 11 | 359 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Various LLM Smells (shvbsle.in)

×2.70 15 | 355 points by speckx 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building durable workflows on Postgres (dbos.dev)

×1.91 10 | 344 points by KraftyOne 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products (bbc.co.uk)

×2.40 1 | 344 points by jjp 1 day ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes (itsfoss.com)

×3.20 7 | 336 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit (koenvangilst.nl)

×1.77 8 #7 | 324 points by vnglst 11 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you (buildingbetter.tech)

×2.64 30 | 323 points by ankitg12 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade? (mastrojs.github.io)

×2.32 10 #21 | 304 points by xyzal 17 hours ago | 263 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' (greenend.org.uk)

×1.71 6 | 299 points by speckx 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New York passes pied-a-terre tax (cnbc.com)

×5.79 6 | 277 points by proofofcontempt 1 day ago | 434 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You can just say it (noperator.dev)

×3.97 16 #19 | 262 points by antirez 6 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims (sfstandard.com)

×2.89 16 | 260 points by drewda 1 day ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12 (jeffgeerling.com)

×1.93 10 #12 | 246 points by watermelon0 13 hours ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance' (bloomberg.com)

×4.68 71 | 240 points by leopoldj 13 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024) (science.org)

×1.68 3 | 238 points by o4c 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions (fortune.com)

×4.03 | 230 points by ianrahman 1 day ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Permanent Upper Crow (jasonwu.ink)

×1.26 23 | 214 points by whiteblossom 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding (inkandswitch.com)

×1.12 10 #16 | 210 points by justinweiss 13 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act' (invenglobal.com)

×2.19 13 #25 | 209 points by TechTechTech 8 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static fire test (arstechnica.com)

×2.84 20 | 209 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump (theregister.com)

×4.50 19 #33 | 208 points by Cider9986 8 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's compile Quake like it's 1997 (fabiensanglard.net)

×1.87 24 #50 | 205 points by goranmoomin 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request (kog.ai)

×1.43 14 #36 | 200 points by NicoConstant 18 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Is a Dickover? (daringfireball.net)

×6.34 16 #17 | 183 points by tambourine_man 4 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code (claude.com)

×1.49 59 #51 | 168 points by mil22 1 day ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI sticker shock hits corporate America (axios.com)

×3.75 47 | 167 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T (liquid.ai)

×1.82 15 #15 | 166 points by simjnd 12 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We should be more tired than the model (vickiboykis.com)

×1.18 21 #26 | 161 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On Rendering Diffs (pierre.computer)

×1.51 2 #20 | 151 points by amadeus 9 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building (commonedge.org)

×1.09 18 #30 | 151 points by surprisetalk 15 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot (iisc.ac.in)

×0.94 58 | 146 points by kunalsin9h 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Announcing Rust 1.96 (rust-lang.org)

×2.94 29 | 143 points by adamch 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025) (dutchreview.com)

×0.89 11 #67 | 138 points by dotcoma 16 hours ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The UK government's Low Value Purchase System is a waste of time (shkspr.mobi)

×1.11 36 | 135 points by ColinWright 16 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCP is dead? (quandri.io)

×2.13 1 #9 | 130 points by nadis 5 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rothko for your current weather conditions (joonas.wtf)

×1.58 9 #34 | 128 points by jxmorris12 9 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock (ipvm.com)

×1.68 45 | 119 points by jhonovich 1 day ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We replaced Zendesk (tradecore.com)

×3.91 51 | 118 points by Liriel 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV (tvexplorer.live)

×1.33 7 #27 | 117 points by dtagames 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care (404media.co)

×1.52 28 #79 | 115 points by pavel_lishin 14 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Social Animus (justine.lol)

×1.59 71 #62 | 113 points by jart 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin (minimaxir.com)

×1.04 46 #22 | 112 points by freediver 17 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA (github.com/jmaczan)

×1.22 8 #13 | 110 points by yu3zhou4 8 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bitburner, programming-based incremental game (bitburner-official.github.io)

×0.88 49 | 110 points by agmater 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Expertise in the age of AI (moderndescartes.com)

×1.14 19 #39 | 106 points by brilee 14 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime (github.com/bytecodealliance)

×0.85 55 #88 | 105 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching (mpi.nl)

×0.85 42 #69 | 104 points by vi_sextus_vi 1 day ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots (theverge.com)

×1.06 17 #10 | 101 points by evilsimon 9 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding? (construction-physics.com)

×1.57 51 #74 | 99 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager (github.com/HeidiSQL)

×1.24 38 #75 | 96 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone used my open source project to phish people (andrej.sh)

×1.14 27 #37 | 94 points by andrejsshell 15 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EV Stupidity Checklist (hypercritical.co)

×4.37 74 | 93 points by pchristensen 6 hours ago | 99 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act (europa.eu)

×2.05 67 | 92 points by MrDresden 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks (techcrunch.com)

×1.61 19 #58 | 91 points by wapasta 10 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Current Crisis: What's Happening to Science in America (science.org)

×2.82 53 | 91 points by etiam 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is this sustainable? (jamiehurst.co.uk)

×1.14 8 | 90 points by ColinEberhardt 18 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Lone Lisp Heap (matheusmoreira.com)

×0.99 54 | 88 points by stevekemp 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants (scientificamerican.com)

×4.73 9 #11 | 82 points by jordanpg 2 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

×1.30 8 #64 | 83 points by ColinWright 15 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
About LLMs at Zig Days (kristoff.it)

×1.60 57 | 82 points by kristoff_it 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ktx – Open-source executable context layer for data agents (github.com/Kaelio)

×0.55 63 | 82 points by lucamrtl 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Local Git remotes (cblgh.org)

×0.77 20 #46 | 80 points by surprisetalk 14 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Garnix (A Nix CI) is shutting down (nixos.org)

×0.68 46 | 77 points by agnishom 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft's stance on zero day exploits is a dumpster fire of their own making (doublepulsar.com)

×3.22 62 | 75 points by _tk_ 1 day ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Last Technical Interview (medium.com)

×2.13 16 #48 | 73 points by headalgorithm 8 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness (zot.sh)

×1.18 4 #32 | 73 points by patriceckhart 9 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Hates You (sfgate.com)

×4.34 61 | 73 points by speckx 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells (github.com/scanaislop)

×1.17 18 | 72 points by Heavykenny 14 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores (ft.com)

×2.52 55 | 71 points by mmarian 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents (roundtable.ai)

×0.68 34 #29 | 68 points by timshell 12 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft data suggests using AI is more expensive than hiring people (yahoo.com)

×2.59 50 | 66 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Gentoo? (gentoo.org)

×1.97 56 | 66 points by akhuettel 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Creusot helps you prove your Rust code is correct (github.com/creusot-rs)

×1.03 68 | 66 points by fanf2 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust (thewalrus.ca)

×4.20 37 #72 | 61 points by Teever 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???