Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Chapter 1 of "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger (1972) (ways-of-seeing.com)

×0.80 63 #55 | 141 points by rafael859 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things (berkeley.edu)

×2.97 61 #69 | 165 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking (verdagon.dev)

×1.08 60 #66 | 172 points by verdagon 1 day ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests (phys.org)

×1.33 60 #80 | 87 points by optimalsolver 1 day ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis (arstechnica.com)

×0.85 60 #79 | 83 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

×0.83 61 #46 | 131 points by Ixander 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Critical Look at Lean4 (lesswrong.com)

×0.75 63 #90 | 11 points by amanverasia 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Data Centers around the world (datacenters.google)

×1.21 59 #65 | 89 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper (github.com/rogerbinns)

×0.62 58 #77 | 86 points by tosh 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca)

×1.04 57 #62 | 135 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad (github.com/Geramy)

×0.67 59 #38 | 87 points by joshcsimmons 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Illustration Beyond Proof (wordpress.com)

×0.70 57 #60 | 97 points by smilelamp 23 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ClickHouse C – Talk to ClickHouse using its native binary protocol (github.com/ClickHouse)

×0.62 55 #81 | 45 points by saisrirampur 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos (cell.com)

×0.73 55 #68 | 82 points by Bluestein 23 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vectorized CLZ and CTZ (purplesyringa.moe)

×0.65 54 #74 | 61 points by zX41ZdbW 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage (tedhaley.ca)

×0.89 52 #56 | 118 points by TedHaley 23 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bag of Decisions Reranker (softwaredoug.com)

×0.69 54 #49 | 65 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p (github.com/SaarthurR)

×1.40 56 #24 | 53 points by SaarthRanka 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C (sebsite.pw)

×0.73 46 #29 | 62 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (teorth.github.io)

×2.42 41 #35 | 520 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cartographers of North Korea (2019) (wonyoung.so)

×1.49 38 #40 | 314 points by edent 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com/shaongitbd)

×1.49 36 #43 | 203 points by acley 22 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Browser

×0.65 41 #70 | 15 points by mhloo 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Calculus with Julia (jverzani.github.io)

×1.45 32 #34 | 252 points by subset 21 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Type-safe HTML templating in Zig (lalinsky.com)

×1.13 30 #27 | 234 points by lukaslalinsky 18 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025) (thetravel.com)

×0.37 45 #26 | 6 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence (sakana.ai)

×1.15 26 #83 | 135 points by hardmaru 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (sciencealert.com)

×1.34 26 #16 | 215 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IRCv3 (ircv3.net)

×2.40 24 #75 | 406 points by basilikum 1 day ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly (github.com/snuri00)

×1.57 25 #20 | 257 points by deadxwarrior 16 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google (simonkoeck.com)

×2.13 24 #31 | 178 points by soeckly 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phishing emails are now baiting your AI assistant (malwarebytes.com)

×1.21 32 #73 | 6 points by Apollo_R 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solar panels that plug into your wall (nationalgeographic.com)

×2.10 25 #18 | 83 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LineageOS 24 (lineageos.org)

×2.31 21 #85 | 447 points by timschumi 1 day ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby (julik.nl)

×1.57 23 #42 | 86 points by julik 12 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001) (pixelatron.com)

×1.11 19 #14 | 208 points by gregsadetsky 12 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

×0.68 20 #9 | 79 points by 6 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (bbc.com)

×1.98 16 #12 | 239 points by scrlk 11 hours ago | 288 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Choreographic Programming in Rust (github.com/hibanaworks)

×0.59 15 #76 | 50 points by o8vm 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com/h0m3us3r)

×2.13 15 #10 | 233 points by djfergus 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (filippo.io)

×1.23 14 #32 | 81 points by gavide 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe (tomshardware.com)

×3.55 13 #7 | 364 points by Zeekaas 11 hours ago | 589 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)

×1.35 13 #17 | 112 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser (brickbrag.com)

×0.82 19 #19 | 12 points by neuling 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)

×2.17 15 #8 | 46 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Whatever became of holography? (2011) (americanscientist.org)

×0.84 10 #84 | 166 points by cainxinth 23 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rice husk is being repurposed as a sturdy and resilient construction material (bbc.com)

×0.86 12 #89 | 12 points by giuliomagnifico 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture (microsoft.com)

×0.70 11 #82 | 24 points by azhenley 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit (yandex.cloud)

×4.55 9 #78 | 619 points by defly 1 day ago | 766 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum (markround.com)

×0.96 13 #6 | 58 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path with Some Performance Gains (phoronix.com)

×2.05 15 #41 | 8 points by khalidkhair 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion? (theonion.com)

×2.35 6 #63 | 369 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I paid people to try and follow my README (shkspr.mobi)

×2.12 4 #88 | 414 points by edent 1 day ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Obituary: Robert X. Cringley (facebook.com)

×1.66 5 #57 | 16 points by CharlesW 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch (phreak.ing)

×1.14 7 #5 | 33 points by rickcarlino 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLM-Legal (z.ai)

×1.91 4 #2 | 387 points by ilreb 7 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)

×2.10 4 #4 | 344 points by prophittcorey 7 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd? (purplesyringa.moe)

×3.17 6 #3 | 58 points by pngmangi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???