Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age (agelesslinux.org)

×4.79 52 | 800 points by nateb2022 1 day ago | 586 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of Canadians (michaelgeist.ca)

×3.38 #1 | 398 points by opengrass 5 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor (github.com/novatic14)

×2.77 20 #46 | 382 points by ZacnyLos 16 hours ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chrome DevTools MCP (chrome.com)

×2.18 2 #2 | 370 points by xnx 7 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ (charlespetzold.com)

×3.14 35 #72 | 353 points by ingve 18 hours ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable (mit.edu)

×3.21 17 | 352 points by inaros 1 day ago | 377 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How kernel anti-cheats work (s4dbrd.github.io)

×2.38 2 #61 | 341 points by davikr 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The 49MB web page (thatshubham.com)

×2.73 2 #3 | 335 points by kermatt 7 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rack-mount hydroponics (lj.am)

×1.87 3 #54 | 332 points by cdrnsf 22 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015) (r2d3.us)

×1.77 6 #24 | 322 points by vismit2000 16 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all (sebi.io)

×2.53 #69 | 301 points by sebi_io 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one (tomshardware.com)

×3.07 24 | 281 points by edward 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025) (westernmt.news)

×1.50 10 | 271 points by bilsbie 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM Architecture Gallery (sebastianraschka.com)

×2.42 3 #7 | 265 points by tzury 8 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
XML is a cheap DSL (unplannedobsolescence.com)

×1.79 21 | 265 points by y1n0 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform (office.eu)

×4.51 38 #47 | 261 points by campuscodi 8 hours ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

×3.29 16 #34 | 259 points by svara 10 hours ago | 443 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCP is dead; long live MCP (chrlschn.dev)

×2.31 23 #55 | 259 points by CharlieDigital 1 day ago | 191 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war (twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC)

×16.80 10 | 250 points by theahura 1 day ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude March 2026 usage promotion (claude.com)

×2.46 11 | 243 points by weldu 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GIMP 3.2 released (gimp.org)

×3.82 9 | 239 points by F3nd0 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager (isaacfreund.com)

×1.77 12 #10 | 233 points by dpassens 11 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories (aikido.dev)

×1.71 17 #14 | 232 points by robinhouston 13 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product (macbudkowski.com)

×2.27 14 #48 | 231 points by kiwieater 14 hours ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harold and George Destroy the World (tomclancy.info)

×3.29 58 | 226 points by tclancy 14 hours ago | 287 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Marketing for Founders (github.com/EdoStra)

×1.79 2 | 226 points by jimsojim 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm (robertsdotpm.github.io)

×1.69 7 #73 | 208 points by Uptrenda 23 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust (github.com/xodn348)

×1.10 4 #90 | 205 points by xodn348 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning (smithsonianmag.com)

×1.51 5 | 193 points by 1659447091 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grandparents are glued to their phones [video] (bbc.com)

×2.72 27 #44 | 190 points by tartoran 9 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion

×5.34 50 | 190 points by fred1268 14 hours ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nasdaq's Shame (keubiko.substack.com)

×4.80 14 #16 | 186 points by imichael 4 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV (hollywoodreporter.com)

×4.33 27 #41 | 187 points by Amorymeltzer 8 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023) (zuthof.nl)

×1.04 17 #12 | 182 points by walterbell 11 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft (airbus.com)

×1.55 3 #85 | 177 points by phasnox 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March (technode.global)

×3.84 19 | 172 points by ninadwrites 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam (openttd.org)

×1.54 7 | 171 points by canpan 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content (stripes.com)

×2.89 36 #80 | 170 points by geox 14 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An ode to bzip (purplesyringa.moe)

×1.13 30 | 167 points by signa11 1 day ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Please do not A/B test my workflow (backnotprop.com)

×2.82 47 | 166 points by ramoz 1 day ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023) (csis.org)

×1.56 63 #83 | 166 points by msuniverse2026 1 day ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nmap in the movies (2008) (nmap.org)

×1.93 29 | 165 points by homebrewer 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold (bbc.com)

×1.21 2 #78 | 162 points by tartoran 1 day ago | 231 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launching the Claude Partner Network (anthropic.com)

×1.57 15 | 158 points by gmays 1 day ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sunsetting Jazzband (jazzband.co)

×1.48 31 | 150 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben (spiegel.de)

×2.10 45 | 148 points by sebastian_z 1 day ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads (atgreen.github.io)

×1.17 12 | 142 points by anonzzzies 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop Sloppypasta (stopsloppypasta.ai)

×3.09 8 #15 | 141 points by namnnumbr 9 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Megadev: A Development Kit for the Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD Hardware (github.com/drojaazu)

×0.95 64 #86 | 136 points by XzetaU8 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis (theculturenewspaper.com)

×1.46 17 #33 | 132 points by RickJWagner 14 hours ago | 424 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GitAgent – An open standard that turns any Git repo into an AI agent (gitagent.sh)

×1.27 54 | 131 points by sivasurend 1 day ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier (robenglander.com)

×6.17 51 | 128 points by birdculture 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learning athletic humanoid tennis skills from imperfect human motion data (zzk273.github.io)

×1.37 22 #18 | 127 points by danielmorozoff 11 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first

×1.11 37 | 123 points by katspaugh 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UBI as a productivity dividend (scottsantens.substack.com)

×3.48 49 | 122 points by 2noame 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5 (nullr0ute.com)

×0.98 53 #74 | 117 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's time to move your docs in the repo (dein.fr)

×1.80 39 | 114 points by gregdoesit 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI (hostilevolume.com)

×0.92 59 #75 | 113 points by Velocifyer 1 day ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Library of Short Stories (libraryofshortstories.com)

×1.17 53 #76 | 111 points by debo_ 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FCC chairman threatens TV broadcast licenses over news coverage (fortune.com)

×5.28 28 | 110 points by geox 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Signet – Autonomous wildfire tracking from satellite and weather data (signet.watch)

×0.79 22 #35 | 107 points by mapldx 14 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mathematics Distillation Challenge – Equational Theories (wordpress.com)

×0.93 56 #58 | 106 points by picafrost 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor (billwadge.com)

×1.12 5 #30 | 103 points by herodotus 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project (arnika.org)

×1.91 32 | 102 points by microflash 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books (alexerhardt.com)

×4.96 13 #19 | 98 points by aerhardt 8 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLMs can be exhausting (tomjohnell.com)

×2.29 2 #5 | 94 points by tjohnell 4 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SpaceX IPO Scandal (youtube.com)

×6.18 45 | 92 points by inaros 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jeff Bezos wants Washington Post’s newsroom budget halved, productivity doubled (nytimes.com)

×4.65 8 | 90 points by y1n0 21 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kangina (wikipedia.org)

×3.02 27 #38 | 88 points by thunderbong 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Palantir defends its role in the kill chain: "We are proud of that" (heise.de)

×10.72 44 | 86 points by botanical 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tree Search Distillation for Language Models Using PPO (ayushtambde.com)

×0.78 59 #66 | 85 points by at2005 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (2019) (righto.com)

×0.85 31 #40 | 84 points by rbanffy 15 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say (semafor.com)

×8.56 41 | 84 points by inaros 1 day ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022) (sagepub.com)

×1.55 61 | 84 points by xyzal 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence (umd.edu)

×1.30 11 #63 | 81 points by ohjeez 11 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generating All 32-Bit Primes (Part I) (hnlyman.github.io)

×0.74 25 #45 | 80 points by hnlyman 15 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027 (gadgetreview.com)

×3.75 35 | 78 points by functionmouse 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres with Builtin File Systems (db9.ai)

×1.10 56 | 78 points by ngaut 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learning Creative Coding (stigmollerhansen.dk)

×1.07 53 | 77 points by ammerfest 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jared Kushner Solicits Funds for His Firm While Working as Mideast Envoy (nytimes.com)

×9.84 57 | 77 points by johnbarron 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: What if your synthesizer was powered by APL (or a dumb K clone)? (octetta.github.io)

×0.77 28 #37 | 75 points by octetta 13 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined (youtube.com)

×5.05 63 | 75 points by vaxman 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codegen is not productivity (antifound.com)

×4.26 29 | 74 points by donutshop 12 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture (tboteproject.com)

×3.64 73 | 73 points by mefengl 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimizing Content for Agents (cra.mr)

×0.79 78 | 72 points by vinhnx 2 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016) (salk.edu)

×2.13 8 #11 | 70 points by anjel 2 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The most SHAMELESS structural manipulation of a index I've ever seen (substack.substack.com)

×5.80 69 | 66 points by Zigurd 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input (abjadpro.com)

×1.14 67 | 65 points by adangit 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff (theverge.com)

×6.11 64 | 63 points by jbraithwaite 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GDSL – 800 line kernel: Lisp subset in 500, C subset in 1300 (firthemouse.github.io)

×0.56 26 #32 | 61 points by FirTheMouse 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???