Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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I Am An AI Hater (anthonymoser.github.io)

×17.42 12 | 424 points by BallsInIt 1 day ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android (9to5google.com)

×11.19 20 | 2986 points by kotaKat 3 days ago | 2289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him (electrek.co)

×7.85 14 | 532 points by xbmcuser 1 day ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA (wordpress.com)

×7.02 31 | 624 points by CTOSian 2 days ago | 652 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
End of US low-value package tariff exemption is permanent, Trump officials say (reuters.com)

×6.41 58 | 10 points by CXSHNGCB 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson (twitter.com/nealstephenson)

×5.59 86 | 284 points by SLHamlet 3 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China is eating the world (apropos.substack.com)

×5.35 45 #70 | 196 points by sg5421 14 hours ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: 2nd wave of Nx attack: private GitHub repos are being made public

×5.30 31 | 9 points by labordayruined 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

×5.22 55 | 273 points by nativeforks 20 hours ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end (rosenzweig.io)

×4.92 2 | 823 points by alsetmusic 2 days ago | 221 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The "996" schedule of working 9am-9pm, 6 days a week comes to Silicon Valley (fortune.com)

×4.83 19 #33 | 15 points by peachmaker 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Framework Laptop 16 (frame.work)

×4.70 53 | 456 points by susanthenerd 2 days ago | 404 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States (japanpost.jp)

×4.55 83 | 343 points by Kye 3 days ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vectorless RAG (github.com/VectifyAI)

×4.42 169 | 7 points by page_index 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year (cnbc.com)

×4.38 34 #86 | 558 points by frays 1 day ago | 266 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Starship's Tenth Flight Test (spacex.com)

×4.36 48 | 361 points by metalman 2 days ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight (space.com)

×4.33 27 | 287 points by mpweiher 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification (commonsware.com)

×4.24 30 | 392 points by ingve 2 days ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

×4.22 3 #5 | 904 points by rickybule 13 hours ago | 509 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission (bbc.com)

×4.04 100 | 291 points by jakub_g 4 days ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (googleblog.com)

×4.02 9 | 1075 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | 470 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons (daringfireball.net)

×3.89 73 | 402 points by Bogdanp 3 days ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in (nytimes.com)

×3.88 56 | 432 points by jaredwiener 2 days ago | 578 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome (lyra.horse)

×3.84 16 #28 | 176 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States (nytimes.com)

×3.82 56 | 7 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
End of low-value tariff exemption on packages is permanent, administration says (reuters.com)

×3.70 39 #58 | 18 points by anigbrowl 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward (ghacks.net)

×3.68 33 | 302 points by speckx 1 day ago | 271 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open Source is one person (opensourcesecurity.io)

×3.62 18 #40 | 359 points by LawnGnome 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock (wsj.com)

×3.58 95 | 330 points by aspenmayer 4 days ago | 355 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RSS is awesome (evanverma.com)

×3.57 20 #27 | 186 points by edverma2 7 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me (conman.org)

×3.56 75 | 588 points by classichasclass 4 days ago | 477 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash (cnn.com)

×3.55 29 | 297 points by Michelangelo11 1 day ago | 413 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment (reclaimthenet.org)

×3.53 38 | 549 points by mikece 2 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs (cnbc.com)

×3.51 51 | 438 points by Teever 2 days ago | 251 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What are OKLCH colors? (jakub.kr)

×3.51 62 | 843 points by tontonius 4 days ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A visual introduction to big O notation (samwho.dev)

×3.44 63 | 672 points by samwho 4 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
People Are the Point (whatwelost.substack.com)

×3.39 69 | 15 points by pabs3 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ghrc.io appears to be malicious (bmitch.net)

×3.27 88 | 402 points by todsacerdoti 4 days ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study (cnbc.com)

×3.27 7 #13 | 276 points by pseudolus 16 hours ago | 399 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS (jonashietala.se)

×3.26 57 #81 | 63 points by lawn 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines (waxy.org)

×3.18 71 | 362 points by jay_kyburz 3 days ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GrowChief – open-source social media outreach tool (github.com/growchief)

×3.18 98 | 8 points by nevodavid 17 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs (dreamwidth.org)

×3.08 7 | 284 points by AndrewDucker 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The GitHub website is slow on Safari (github.com/orgs)

×3.06 10 | 436 points by talboren 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unexpected productivity boost of Rust (lubeno.dev)

×3.04 8 | 503 points by bkolobara 1 day ago | 475 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude for Chrome (anthropic.com)

×3.02 18 | 789 points by davidbarker 2 days ago | 403 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account (twitter.com/zack_overflow)

×3.00 82 | 635 points by helloplanets 4 days ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Satya Nadella's Top GPT-5 Prompts (twitter.com/satyanadella)

×3.00 16 | 5 points by pykello 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections (fcc.gov)

×2.95 81 | 376 points by impish9208 3 days ago | 267 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FeOx – Fast embedded KV store in Rust (github.com/mehrantsi)

×2.91 198 | 37 points by mehrant 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem (semgrep.dev)

×2.91 | 491 points by neuroo 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is opening up nature's treasure chest (ft.com)

×2.90 37 | 5 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everything I know about good API design (seangoedecke.com)

×2.89 89 | 420 points by ahamez 4 days ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference? (martinalderson.com)

×2.85 28 #46 | 477 points by martinald 20 hours ago | 445 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Intel (stratechery.com)

×2.84 52 | 528 points by maguay 2 days ago | 557 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Monodraw (helftone.com)

×2.84 6 | 590 points by mafro 1 day ago | 188 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pentagon Halts Chinese Coders Affecting DoD Cloud Systems (defense.gov)

×2.75 50 #77 | 7 points by nationsecwatch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS (menial.co.uk)

×2.75 64 | 678 points by __bb 3 days ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brain Cells Behind Depression Identified (neurosciencenews.com)

×2.74 53 | 4 points by XzetaU8 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich (wsj.com)

×2.62 23 #84 | 13 points by gundmc 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music (plos.org)

×2.62 19 #66 | 523 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCPcat – A free open-source library for MCP server monitoring (github.com/MCPCat)

×2.60 74 | 13 points by kashishhora 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What to do when you suspect your interview is with a state operative?

×2.60 7 | 14 points by puppycodes 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Enterprise MCP Bridge – Solving the MCP Chaos for IT (inxm.ai)

×2.54 184 | 8 points by raelmiu 2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CashLedger – Offline-first PWA for cash tracking (cashflow-friend-pwa.vercel.app)

×2.50 182 | 7 points by talhaahsan 2 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An illustrated guide to OAuth (ducktyped.org)

×2.48 85 | 347 points by egonschiele 3 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building the mouse Logitech won't make (samwilkinson.io)

×2.46 76 | 447 points by sammycdubs 3 days ago | 320 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uncertain<T> (nshipster.com)

×2.42 1 #12 | 310 points by samtheprogram 13 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
QEMU 10.1.0 (qemu.org)

×2.40 32 | 296 points by dmitrijbelikov 1 day ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Federal court filing system hit in hack (politico.com)

×2.36 17 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Framework to create linters for Python, YAML, TOML, JSON (github.com/open-nudge)

×2.33 190 | 7 points by szymonmaszke 2 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website (lina.sh)

×2.32 79 | 800 points by shaunpud 4 days ago | 433 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The market for startup shares is getting even weirder (economist.com)

×2.31 22 | 4 points by petethomas 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode (apple.com)

×2.30 #1 | 244 points by zora_goron 5 hours ago | 177 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When mailing a letter to the US becomes a global headache (nytimes.com)

×2.30 9 | 4 points by SanjayMehta 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We put a coding agent in a while loop (github.com/repomirrorhq)

×2.30 91 | 417 points by sfarshid 4 days ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine (tsundoku.io)

×2.24 57 | 411 points by chromy 2 days ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft terminates 2 employees after protesters breach executive office (kiro7.com)

×2.21 34 | 4 points by schmuckonwheels 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Python: The Documentary [video] (youtube.com)

×2.21 10 #16 | 187 points by chmaynard 7 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking (oxism.com)

×2.20 1 #3 | 47 points by haxiomic 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Collaboration, Criticism, and Moving Forward (kennethreitz.org)

×2.19 24 | 4 points by kennethreitz 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A bug saved the company (rogueamoeba.com)

×2.19 70 | 377 points by ingve 4 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed (fortune.com)

×2.17 60 | 353 points by danielmorozoff 4 days ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie (lwn.net)

×2.16 3 #6 | 56 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

×2.16 72 | 432 points by stephenheron 3 days ago | 616 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike (liu.se)

×2.15 56 #39 | 9 points by xelxebar 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Service members deserve the right to repair (militarytimes.com)

×2.14 34 #75 | 128 points by noleary 14 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kagi Is Down (kagi.com)

×2.14 43 #83 | 11 points by rorylawless 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Einstein hated entanglement – and five other quantum myths (nature.com)

×2.14 49 | 3 points by tzury 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Auto-Match – How We Built Receipt-to-Transaction Matching (Open Source) (midday.ai)

×2.12 193 | 4 points by pontusabra 1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???