Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Sieving pores: stable,fast alloying chemistry of Si -electrodes in Li-ion batt (nature.com)

×0.38 59 #66 | 22 points by bookofjoe 19 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Colour and Shape: Using Computer Vision to Explore the Science Museum (2020) (sciencemuseum.org.uk)

×0.24 60 #85 | 9 points by airstrike 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The atmospheric memory that feeds billions of people: Monsoon rainfall mechanism (phys.org)

×0.80 51 #63 | 62 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Catbench Vector Search Demo Has Postgres SQL Throughput, Latency Monitoring Now (tanelpoder.com)

×0.36 45 #62 | 16 points by tanelpoder 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Changefly – Rebuilding the foundation of privacy and authentication (changefly.com)

×0.64 45 #89 | 8 points by davidandgoli4th 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tokenization for language modeling: BPE vs. Unigram Language Modeling (2020) (ndingwall.github.io)

×0.72 41 #49 | 69 points by phewlink 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Smiling Public Man (skidmore.edu)

×0.60 40 #42 | 41 points by crescit_eundo 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On eval in dynamic languages generally and in Racket specifically (2011) (racket-lang.org)

×0.97 38 #53 | 65 points by swatson741 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenBao Namespaces (openbao.org)

×1.10 36 #67 | 85 points by gslin 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Personal Ambient Computing (chrbutler.com)

×1.30 38 #81 | 14 points by delaugust 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Art of the Critic (metropolitanreview.org)

×0.60 36 #68 | 46 points by benbreen 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini (spacebar.news)

×1.01 33 #88 | 118 points by protonbob 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fractran Interpreter (tjwei.github.io)

×0.70 35 #58 | 27 points by ColinWright 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smallest Possible Files (github.com/mathiasbynens)

×1.01 33 #73 | 80 points by yread 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Build API integrations with SQL and YAML – no SaaS lock-in, no drag-and-drop UIs (github.com/paloaltodatabases)

×0.82 34 #51 | 42 points by maxgrinev 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Git-Add–Interactive with Enhancements (github.com/cwarden)

×0.62 33 #45 | 65 points by xn 19 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Identifying Unmarked Iron (castironcollector.com)

×0.39 41 #34 | 6 points by lelandfe 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Player Piano Rolls (illinois.edu)

×0.67 31 #87 | 63 points by brudgers 1 day ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I started a little math club in Bangalore (teachyourselfmath.app)

×1.50 30 #90 | 138 points by viveknathani_ 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TinyAPL part 1: Introduction and Arrays (rubenverg.com)

×0.83 33 #83 | 12 points by ofalkaed 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making C and Python Talk to Each Other (leetarxiv.substack.com)

×1.17 30 #71 | 152 points by muragekibicho 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automated Verification of Monotonic Data Structure Traversals in C (arxiv.org)

×0.70 28 #80 | 37 points by MarcoDewey 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr) (radio-astronomy.org)

×0.99 27 #40 | 123 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles (trianglesplatting.github.io)

×1.38 25 #46 | 158 points by ath92 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adam Riess and the Hubble tension (theatlantic.com)

×1.39 25 #36 | 84 points by samizdis 18 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A visual exploration of vector embeddings (pamelafox.org)

×1.52 23 #77 | 177 points by pamelafox 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCP Server SDK in Bash (github.com/muthuishere)

×1.24 23 #54 | 136 points by muthuishere 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Atomics and Concurrency (redixhumayun.github.io)

×1.29 21 #44 | 133 points by LAC-Tech 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Randomness Requirements for Security (ietf.org)

×0.75 29 #21 | 8 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ray Tracing in J (nprescott.com)

×1.00 21 #25 | 64 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open-sourcing circuit tracing tools (anthropic.com)

×1.79 19 #86 | 150 points by jlaneve 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oldest known tools made from whale bones dated to 20k years ago (apnews.com)

×0.63 27 #37 | 6 points by gmays 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copy Excel to Markdown Table (and vice versa) (thisdavej.com)

×1.35 20 #32 | 87 points by thisdavej 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Smart Silence – Remind your iPhone to stay quiet in quiet places (apple.com)

×1.00 21 #33 | 36 points by ebagsnave 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bridged Indexes in OrioleDB: architecture, internals and everyday use? (orioledb.com)

×0.88 19 #65 | 74 points by pella 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support (github.com/sinisterMage)

×0.81 19 #41 | 90 points by sinisterMage 18 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams (krebsonsecurity.com)

×2.31 17 #57 | 177 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator (donutbrowser.com)

×1.36 16 #79 | 84 points by andrewzeno 1 day ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure (wasp.sh)

×1.12 17 #38 | 62 points by Liriel 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
C++ to Rust Phrasebook (brown.edu)

×3.30 17 #22 | 53 points by wcrichton 11 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers (github.com/onlook-dev)

×5.85 15 #74 | 205 points by hoakiet98 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code (sakana.ai)

×2.34 15 #27 | 180 points by birriel 21 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work (capjs.js.org)

×1.57 14 #23 | 132 points by tiagorangel 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learning C3 (alloc.dev)

×1.39 13 #75 | 248 points by lerno 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCP Defender – OSS AI Firewall for Protecting MCP in Cursor/Claude etc (mcpdefender.com)

×0.82 16 #14 | 34 points by gsundeep 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Java Virtual Threads Ate My Memory: A Web Crawler's Tale of Speed vs. Memory (medium.com)

×1.17 14 #20 | 70 points by dariobalinzo 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs (pluralistic.net)

×1.74 13 #19 | 99 points by GreenWatermelon 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers (github.com/microsandbox)

×2.49 11 #17 | 298 points by makeboss 20 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512 (anemato.de)

×1.72 11 #10 | 282 points by anematode 17 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How large should your sample size be? (vickiboykis.com)

×1.01 12 #24 | 25 points by sebg 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine (cnn.com)

×4.46 9 #9 | 417 points by lwo32k 19 hours ago | 698 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When will M&S take online orders again? (moneyweek.com)

×1.47 9 #47 | 74 points by fredley 16 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services (acm.org)

×1.90 8 #18 | 328 points by tanelpoder 20 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent (github.com/cheyao)

×1.69 8 #15 | 151 points by Cyao 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B) (cerebras.ai)

×1.87 9 #6 | 43 points by ByteAtATime 5 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gradients Are the New Intervals (mattkeeter.com)

×2.01 11 #5 | 17 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine (github.com/wzhudev)

×1.75 7 #12 | 99 points by flashblaze 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis (gomomento.com)

×2.18 6 #4 | 174 points by cebert 10 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every 5x5 Nonogram (pixelogic.app)

×2.06 3 #26 | 60 points by eieio 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
De Bruijn notation, and why it's useful (blueberrywren.dev)

×1.14 2 #39 | 127 points by blueberry87 17 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Asdf Overlay – High performance in-game overlay library for Windows (github.com/storycraft)

×0.83 2 #55 | 63 points by storycraft 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Photos taken inside musical instruments (dpreview.com)

×3.73 1 #2 | 617 points by worik 12 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI (bondcap.com)

×2.02 1 #16 | 138 points by kjhughes 10 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's working for YC companies since the AI boom (jamesin.substack.com)

×1.71 1 #3 | 58 points by jseidel 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Beware of Fast-Math (simonbyrne.github.io)

×1.78 1 #1 | 57 points by blobcode 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???