Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank, indicating action by Hacker News moderators such as addition to the second-chance pool. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms

key: ×UpvoteRate (?) #rank on front page rankDelta (?)

Ask HN: What would you recommend a vibe coder learn about how all this works?

×1.32 67 #59 | 10 points by alexdobrenko 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pandoc in the Browser with WASM (haskell.org)

×0.79 56 #76 | 29 points by vinnyhaps 19 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git (kraxel.org)

×2.25 48 #79 | 288 points by dzulp0d 2 days ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Missing GitHub Status Page (mrshu.github.io)

×0.97 50 #87 | 27 points by taubek 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hologram v0.7.0: Milestone release for Elixir-to-JavaScript porting initiative (hologram.page)

×0.85 48 #63 | 104 points by bartblast 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fast Properties in V8 (2017) (v8.dev)

×0.36 49 #66 | 27 points by aragonite 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lifetime Lead Exposure Can Triple Alzheimer's Risk (wiley.com)

×1.12 50 #54 | 9 points by stevenwoo 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Did YouTube change how it handles uBlock?

×0.67 46 #84 | 11 points by tefloon69 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags (bloomberg.com)

×1.27 41 #82 | 128 points by petethomas 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The missing digit of Stela C (wordpress.com)

×0.74 42 #56 | 99 points by chmaynard 22 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass (geo-racers.com)

×0.94 41 #35 | 112 points by pattle 19 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated (terracenetworks.com)

×1.19 39 #64 | 158 points by ericpauley 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1D Cellular Automata Playground (paraschopra.github.io)

×0.32 41 #72 | 24 points by paraschopra 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation (tildeweb.nl)

×1.73 38 #70 | 76 points by roywashere 23 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024) (stuffedcow.net)

×0.88 37 #88 | 124 points by arm 1 day ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
D Programming Language (dlang.org)

×1.87 35 #44 | 184 points by arcadia_leak 1 day ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically (2025) (openculture.com)

×1.77 35 #36 | 201 points by nobody9999 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Science of the Perfect Second (2023) (harpers.org)

×0.54 37 #62 | 29 points by NaOH 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The "Crown of Nobles" Noble Gas Tube Display (2024) (theshamblog.com)

×0.67 35 #32 | 131 points by Ivoah 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Nature of the Beast (cinemasojourns.com)

×0.27 51 #17 | 5 points by jjgreen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We interfaced single-threaded C++ with multi-threaded Rust (antithesis.com)

×0.49 55 #14 | 4 points by lukastyrychtr 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Generate Web Interfaces from Data (github.com/puffinsoft)

×0.48 32 #53 | 32 points by Goose78 11 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HeyWhatsThat (heywhatsthat.com)

×1.22 29 #60 | 144 points by 1970-01-01 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Partial 8-Piece Tablebase (lichess.org)

×0.74 28 #31 | 55 points by qsort 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: What is HN thinking? Real-time sentiment and concept analysis (devrupt.io)

×1.11 27 #68 | 29 points by ddtaylor 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

×0.58 26 #22 | 112 points by kmansm27 14 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do sociotechnical pressures select for beneficial or harmful AI systems?

×0.15 34 #83 | 3 points by jerlendds 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Synthesizer Cartridge for the Atari 2600 (qotile.net)

×0.60 29 #29 | 20 points by harel 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Run Pebble OS in Browser via WASM (ericmigi.github.io)

×1.16 22 #40 | 137 points by goranmoomin 18 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware (lwn.net)

×0.74 22 #38 | 124 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 20+ Claude Code agents coordinating on real work (open source) (github.com/mutable-state-inc)

×0.68 22 #74 | 44 points by austinbaggio 15 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mapping the Moon: The Apollo Transforming Printer (loc.gov)

×0.44 28 #28 | 12 points by bryanrasmussen 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pgclaw – A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL (github.com/calebwin)

×0.52 22 #69 | 40 points by calebhwin 13 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

×0.83 21 #30 | 74 points by rombr 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apache Arrow is 10 years old (apache.org)

×1.30 20 #26 | 209 points by tosh 18 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Three Cache Layers Between Select and Disk (frn.sh)

×0.68 20 #80 | 19 points by dlt 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to make a living as an artist (fnnch.com)

×1.70 18 #55 | 251 points by gwintrob 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines (altermag.com)

×1.65 17 #71 | 212 points by trojanalert 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Wrote a Scheme in 2025 (maplant.com)

×1.24 16 #45 | 131 points by maplant 17 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks (z.ai)

×2.21 15 #67 | 466 points by CuriouslyC 1 day ago | 510 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024) (loriemerson.net)

×0.80 16 #34 | 140 points by keepamovin 16 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation (pol.is)

×1.43 16 #11 | 231 points by mefengl 13 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How a cat debugged Stable Diffusion (2023) (dwac.dev)

×0.77 17 #21 | 44 points by lukasgelbmann 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Shut Up: Comment Blocker (rickyromero.com)

×0.70 15 #39 | 95 points by mefengl 14 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evaluating Multilingual, Context-Aware Guardrails: A Humanitarian LLM Use Case (mozilla.ai)

×0.59 20 #27 | 13 points by benbreen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions (herbertlui.net)

×0.78 16 #24 | 54 points by herbertl 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver (waymo.com)

×1.51 14 #20 | 194 points by ra7 15 hours ago | 193 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cloudflare adds real-time Markdown rendering for AI agents (cloudflare.com)

×2.25 14 #51 | 19 points by thestackfox 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood (sampatt.com)

×1.68 11 #12 | 113 points by SamPatt 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings (aethermug.com)

×0.87 9 #43 | 136 points by mrcgnc 17 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fixing retail with land value capture (worksinprogress.co)

×0.92 9 #33 | 81 points by marojejian 10 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)

×2.53 8 #10 | 143 points by ffworld 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark (openai.com)

×2.33 6 #2 | 680 points by meetpateltech 13 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth (soranews24.com)

×1.39 6 #16 | 57 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MMAcevedo aka Lena by qntm (qntm.org)

×2.24 8 #6 | 21 points by stickynotememo 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser (intervolz.com)

×0.67 5 #25 | 52 points by intervolz 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed (can.ac)

×2.98 4 #13 | 637 points by kachapopopow 18 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Wonder of Modern Drywall (worksinprogress.co)

×1.43 5 #23 | 24 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf] (nickbostrom.com)

×1.52 6 #3 | 39 points by uejfiweun 2 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Tools to code using voice?

×0.74 4 #90 | 5 points by emerongi 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?

×0.75 4 #89 | 5 points by falsework 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AWS Adds support for nested virtualization (github.com/aws)

×1.87 3 #8 | 169 points by sitole 7 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists (reuters.com)

×3.11 2 #73 | 479 points by abe94 1 day ago | 640 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gemini 3 Deep Think (blog.google)

×3.27 2 #4 | 809 points by tosh 14 hours ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using an engineering notebook (ntietz.com)

×1.83 1 #65 | 323 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues (noheger.at)

×2.63 1 #1 | 417 points by erickhill 7 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???