Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)

×0.56 154 #59 | 47 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 215 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)

×1.38 92 #57 | 235 points by whoishiring 2 days ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft pulls back on datacenter ambitions (bloomberg.com)

×0.82 88 #85 | 5 points by nikcub 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Certification Authority/Browser Forum adopts new security standards (googleblog.com)

×0.65 76 #86 | 57 points by terminalbraid 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mirrors: The Blind Spot of Image and Video Generation Models (medium.com)

×0.35 73 #90 | 12 points by yamrzou 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Silica Gel Took Over the World (scopeofwork.net)

×1.73 62 #82 | 214 points by Hooke 2 days ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports (openculture.com)

×1.18 59 #70 | 189 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Google built its Gemini robotics models (blog.google)

×1.26 60 #49 | 196 points by simonpure 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code (mermaidchart.com)

×0.84 57 #58 | 124 points by msfi 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI (resobscura.substack.com)

×1.08 57 #53 | 155 points by benbreen 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PaperBench (openai.com)

×1.13 56 #64 | 100 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vets Who Code (vetswhocode.io)

×0.87 56 #84 | 62 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf] (greshm.org)

×0.89 57 #55 | 44 points by Suncho 16 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam (ewintr.nl)

×0.79 53 #74 | 69 points by DJHenk 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reintroducing Capsul (bearblog.dev)

×0.52 55 #75 | 27 points by j3s 15 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure (ieee.org)

×1.05 51 #51 | 192 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
XWine1 – Xbox One Translation Layer for Windows PCs (github.com/xwine1)

×0.85 53 #88 | 26 points by LorenDB 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses (phys.org)

×0.47 52 #76 | 35 points by bookofjoe 17 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL (arxiv.org)

×0.95 50 #54 | 94 points by jonbaer 20 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flame – BBS and MUD (ucc.asn.au)

×0.60 51 #56 | 50 points by shakna 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacking the call records of millions of Americans (evanconnelly.github.io)

×1.30 48 #63 | 138 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aptera's First Solar Road Trip. 300 Miles, One Charge (aptera.us)

×0.86 49 #68 | 43 points by geox 16 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multi-Token Attention (arxiv.org)

×0.99 45 #48 | 140 points by fzliu 22 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers – Science – AAAS (science.org)

×0.22 75 #26 | 3 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection (github.com/apple)

×1.30 39 #46 | 181 points by Tycho87 22 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball (ploopy.co)

×1.06 39 #61 | 114 points by namanyayg 22 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat (potter-yachters.org)

×1.17 37 #77 | 135 points by protonbob 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Chrome extension to give you back control over short-form videos (google.com)

×1.09 35 #81 | 120 points by darajava 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) (publicdomainreview.org)

×0.33 42 #29 | 24 points by Petiver 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI/Math Puzzle (aggressivelyparaphrasing.me)

×0.63 36 #43 | 40 points by markerz 9 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Restructuring Announcement (automattic.com)

×1.65 32 #50 | 244 points by markx2 1 day ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hatchet v1 – a task orchestration platform built on Postgres (github.com/hatchet-dev)

×1.44 48 #16 | 10 points by abelanger 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks (mit.edu)

×1.69 32 #42 | 226 points by imakwana 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS (matrix.org)

×1.19 31 #67 | 192 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Measuring Acceleration Structures (zeux.io)

×0.38 42 #34 | 11 points by luu 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Installing AIX PS/2 v1.3 on a 486 (hardwarehacks.org)

×1.67 57 #24 | 4 points by EvanAnderson 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Banked Memories for Soft SIMT Processors (arxiv.org)

×1.00 62 #27 | 3 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI (dutchosintguy.com)

×1.96 51 #37 | 4 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change (spectator.co.uk)

×1.83 27 #20 | 123 points by pseudolus 12 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Algorithm Behind the Topological Sort Library TopoSort (github.com/williamw520)

×1.08 47 #19 | 5 points by ww520 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I don't discuss politics with friends (shwin.co)

×3.75 23 #35 | 449 points by shw1n 1 day ago | 871 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Benchi – A benchmarking tool written in Go (github.com/ConduitIO)

×0.85 28 #17 | 38 points by lmazgon 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server (github.com/juanfont)

×1.81 22 #30 | 295 points by quyleanh 20 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters (monkeys.zip)

×2.04 28 #41 | 6 points by yathern 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux (github.com/InitWare)

×1.02 18 #9 | 117 points by sunshine-o 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is the world losing color? (culture-critic.com)

×2.69 15 #69 | 306 points by trevin 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016) (dorithegiant.com)

×2.61 15 #38 | 617 points by jihadjihad 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Countries apply lower tariffs on products by high-emitting "dirty" industries (berkeley.edu)

×1.53 28 #71 | 3 points by TaurenHunter 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline (github.com/luskaner)

×2.00 15 #28 | 415 points by apitman 21 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zxc – Rust TLS proxy with tmux and Vim as UI, BurpSuite alternative (github.com/hail-hydrant)

×0.81 17 #18 | 79 points by darkseid_is 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad (pilledtexts.com)

×2.31 15 #8 | 533 points by Fred34 17 hours ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Showcase: Working on a voice/text chat app in a cyberpunk style (mollohq.com)

×1.04 19 #12 | 38 points by b0bben 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (utexas.edu)

×2.96 14 #22 | 336 points by nimbleplum40 16 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The reality of working in tech: We're not hired to write code (2023) (idiallo.com)

×1.82 13 #79 | 111 points by foxfired 19 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AlphaStation's SROM (thejpster.org.uk)

×0.71 13 #31 | 65 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language) (github.com/c3lang)

×1.26 11 #14 | 80 points by lerno 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers (pico.sh)

×2.77 9 #32 | 562 points by TheTaytay 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A university president makes a case against cowardice (newyorker.com)

×2.48 9 #23 | 91 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders (leanrada.com)

×2.85 7 #33 | 433 points by ChiptuneIsCool 21 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Declarative Schemas for simpler database management (supabase.com)

×1.10 9 #7 | 42 points by kiwicopple 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day (tenstorrent.com)

×1.34 10 #4 | 31 points by fidotron 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Overengineered Anchor Links (thirty-five.com)

×1.34 6 #3 | 202 points by matser 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers (github.com/lwthiker)

×1.72 6 #2 | 162 points by mmh0000 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bikes in the Age of Tariffs (renehersecycles.com)

×3.58 7 #10 | 36 points by bobchadwick 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Declarative Web Push – WebKit (webkit.org)

×1.38 5 #6 | 56 points by janandonly 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs (simon-frey.com)

×0.91 4 #25 | 64 points by l1am0 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stop syncing everything (sqlsync.dev)

×2.90 3 #87 | 636 points by neilk 1 day ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Space Debris: Is It a Crisis? (esa.int)

×1.10 3 #62 | 57 points by defrost 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (theaiunderwriter.substack.com)

×3.34 4 #1 | 74 points by participant3 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Chip-8 emulator written in JavaScript (github.com/victorqribeiro)

×0.61 2 #73 | 35 points by atum47 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???