Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Guile Lab Notebook: On the Move (wingolog.org)

×0.51 85 #58 | 7 points by bwidlar 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
At the frontier between two lives–the evolutionary origins of pregnancy (phys.org)

×0.33 67 #88 | 13 points by wglb 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Particle Lenia Deluxe Edition (craftlinks.art)

×0.48 61 #90 | 33 points by CraftingLinks 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping (disneyresearch.com)

×0.75 58 #81 | 127 points by jw1224 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What goes wrong when we write ghazals in English (theparisreview.org)

×1.64 60 #72 | 40 points by ishita159 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zorin OS (zorin.com)

×2.63 57 #32 | 160 points by oldfuture 1 day ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pyhoff – Connect Python ML Models to Beckhoff/WAGO IO Hardware (github.com/Nonannet)

×0.44 70 #59 | 4 points by Saloc 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Swahili on the Road (historytoday.com)

×0.61 59 #46 | 37 points by Thevet 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SIMD.info – Reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines (simd.info)

×1.12 55 #86 | 102 points by pabs3 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers (berry-lang.github.io)

×0.81 54 #73 | 98 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] (youtube.com)

×1.17 53 #80 | 223 points by sandslash 2 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Horizons images enable first test of interstellar navigation (newscientist.com)

×0.87 55 #54 | 45 points by jnord 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Plants monitor the integrity of their barrier by sensing gas diffusion (nature.com)

×0.83 52 #52 | 76 points by Bluestein 23 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why are there no good dinosaur films? (briannazigler.substack.com)

×1.62 49 #77 | 193 points by fremden 2 days ago | 450 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on Earth (arxiv.org)

×0.71 51 #44 | 93 points by bikenaga 23 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils (sarahrenaeclark.com)

×1.41 48 #89 | 202 points by picture 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ceramic: A cross-platform and open-source 2D framework in Haxe (ceramic-engine.com)

×1.03 49 #57 | 83 points by -yukari 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running a Certificate Transparency log (filippo.io)

×1.49 46 #84 | 156 points by Metalnem 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems (xenharmlib.readthedocs.io)

×1.06 48 #43 | 80 points by retooth 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I'm skeptical of Ground News (sjodle.com)

×3.71 51 #35 | 27 points by blowenopdestoep 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I rewrote an outdated React Native map clustering library (github.com/suwi-lanji)

×0.45 50 #40 | 27 points by hadat 10 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epanet-JS (macwright.com)

×1.35 44 #66 | 210 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On The Meaning of Ritual (alicemaz.substack.com)

×0.82 45 #74 | 70 points by jger15 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future (steveblank.com)

×1.62 45 #53 | 128 points by ArmageddonIt 1 day ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection (ericdaigle.ca)

×1.57 44 #38 | 230 points by mtlynch 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry (futureecologies.net)

×1.47 42 #76 | 227 points by zeristor 2 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app (offchess.com)

×1.84 42 #37 | 344 points by avadhesh18 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Figma starts designing us (designsystems.international)

×1.56 41 #75 | 294 points by bravomartin 2 days ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
iPod Linux (2017) (ipodlinux.org)

×1.41 44 #41 | 62 points by nickysielicki 15 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world (github.com/openvenues)

×1.16 43 #33 | 80 points by nateb2022 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Surfing on a Matchbox (1999) (bbc.co.uk)

×0.62 41 #61 | 32 points by TMWNN 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Splice: Cable Harness Design Made Simple (splice-cad.com)

×0.62 71 #17 | 3 points by nateb2022 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data (2024) (dolthub.com)

×1.07 39 #62 | 45 points by gm678 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE (dgl.cx)

×1.67 37 #18 | 352 points by dgl 23 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Tradeoffs of SSMs and Transformers (goombalab.github.io)

×0.92 37 #71 | 64 points by jxmorris12 22 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby (naildrivin5.com)

×1.56 36 #36 | 194 points by onnnon 23 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bug Stories (500mile.email)

×0.61 39 #42 | 32 points by thinkingemote 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Radium Music Editor (notam02.no)

×1.50 35 #34 | 244 points by ofalkaed 23 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? (tedunangst.com)

×1.90 33 #47 | 306 points by zdw 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM (huggingface.co)

×2.04 33 #28 | 353 points by kashifr 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004 (aresluna.org)

×1.52 34 #26 | 167 points by K7PJP 17 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A rain Pomodoro with brown noise, ASMR, and Middle Eastern music (forgetoolz.com)

×1.23 33 #64 | 94 points by ShadowUnknown 23 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Emoji Reverse Polish Notation Calculator Written in COBOL (github.com/ghuntley)

×0.49 41 #15 | 18 points by ghuntley 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm Building LLM for Satellite Data EarthGPT.app (earthgpt.app)

×1.10 33 #29 | 90 points by sabman 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today? (greatwavetoday.com)

×1.33 32 #25 | 115 points by colinprince 14 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using MPC for Anonymous and Private DNA Analysis (vishakh.blog)

×0.43 36 #27 | 20 points by vishakh82 5 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Galiliean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh (mpg.de)

×0.31 41 #23 | 9 points by gone35 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI, power and sociolinguistics (2024) (researchgate.net)

×0.77 27 #51 | 32 points by AntonioBarthes 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Helm local code execution via a malicious chart (github.com/helm)

×0.87 24 #10 | 141 points by irke882 11 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing (jukeboxhq.com)

×1.15 20 #79 | 113 points by skeptrune 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor (github.com/CyberTimon)

×1.54 21 #16 | 222 points by l8rlump 15 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io)

×2.43 21 #14 | 183 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)

×4.41 20 #9 | 414 points by gausswho 18 hours ago | 383 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru (bbc.co.uk)

×1.65 24 #4 | 35 points by neversaydie 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rules of good writing (2007) (typepad.com)

×1.29 18 #65 | 104 points by santiviquez 19 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS (mips.com)

×2.06 16 #55 | 225 points by mshockwave 1 day ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is the doc bot docs, or not? (robinsloan.com)

×1.21 15 #6 | 159 points by tobr 10 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression (7-zip.org)

×1.99 14 #13 | 197 points by doener 12 hours ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jurisdiction Is Nearly Irrelevant to the Security of Encrypted Messaging Apps (soatok.blog)

×1.86 17 #30 | 20 points by zdw 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know (prateekcodes.dev)

×1.21 14 #3 | 152 points by thomas_witt 8 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)

×3.79 12 #12 | 701 points by jonkuipers 22 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful (florian-kraemer.net)

×2.05 11 #7 | 209 points by BerislavLopac 10 hours ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)

×4.53 8 #60 | 487 points by cantdutchthis 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left (medium.com)

×0.98 9 #2 | 126 points by gabiteodoru 6 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow (github.com/oisee)

×1.35 7 #8 | 81 points by weinzierl 5 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops 1k facial recognition arrests (theregister.com)

×1.22 7 #68 | 11 points by rntn 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ESIM Security (security-explorations.com)

×1.18 6 #20 | 97 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download (php.net)

×2.31 3 #70 | 35 points by jeroenpeters 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tree Borrows (ethz.ch)

×1.86 2 #1 | 190 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is every company's internal wiki just broken by default?

×1.33 1 #83 | 23 points by NanaAmun 8 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A fast 3D collision detection algorithm (cairno.substack.com)

×1.46 1 #5 | 86 points by OlympicMarmoto 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???