Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Launch HN: Cekura (YC F24) – Testing and monitoring for voice and chat AI agents

×0.44 74 #82 | 89 points by atarus 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Terminal Graphics Protocol (kovidgoyal.net)

×0.78 71 #81 | 3 points by vinhnx 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Large-Scale Agentic RL for CUDA Kernel Generation (cuda-agent.github.io)

×0.64 72 #63 | 4 points by gmays 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975 (modernillustration.org)

×0.71 53 #79 | 60 points by eustoria 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Approximation Game (lcamtuf.substack.com)

×0.30 53 #88 | 15 points by surprisetalk 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flip Distance of Convex Triangulations and Tree Rotation Is NP-Complete (arxiv.org)

×0.43 53 #59 | 24 points by nill0 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency (github.com/jghub)

×0.40 53 #73 | 19 points by jghub 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing (asimov.press)

×0.81 49 #74 | 55 points by surprisetalk 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Once Upon a Boot - visual tracing of boot process (once-upon-a-boot.github.io)

×0.85 55 #76 | 7 points by pbou 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities (github.com/Ataraxy-Labs)

×1.25 42 #68 | 177 points by rs545837 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Graphics Programming Resources (develop--gpvm-website.netlify.app)

×1.12 42 #66 | 182 points by abetusk 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Better JIT for Postgres (github.com/vladich)

×0.99 42 #64 | 145 points by vladich 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs (ddmckinnon.com)

×1.73 37 #78 | 190 points by dmckinno 1 day ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps (nytimes.com)

×0.87 37 #53 | 99 points by jimnotgym 20 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Great Online Game (2021) (notboring.co)

×0.28 49 #60 | 5 points by simonebrunozzi 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Espflash – Go CLI/library for flashing ESP8266/ESP32 with no dependencies (github.com/tinygo-org)

×1.35 50 #46 | 5 points by deadprogram 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself (shapeof.com)

×0.76 33 #85 | 69 points by wallflower 21 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic Engineering Anti Patterns (simonwillison.net)

×2.22 40 #80 | 7 points by pchristensen 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone (kth.se)

×1.15 32 #44 | 141 points by jidoka 20 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter (pesfandiar.com)

×0.90 32 #40 | 103 points by pesfandiar 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Elevator Saga: The elevator programming game (2015) (elevatorsaga.com)

×0.84 31 #83 | 90 points by xmprt 23 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Poor Man's Polaroid (boxart.lt)

×1.42 57 #35 | 3 points by ZacnyLos 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vertex.js – A 1kloc SPA Framework (lukeb42.github.io)

×0.39 32 #67 | 42 points by LukeB42 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A CPU that runs entirely on GPU (github.com/robertcprice)

×1.61 29 #52 | 252 points by cypres 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude's Cycles [pdf] (stanford.edu)

×2.79 28 #49 | 778 points by fs123 1 day ago | 331 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons (openai.com)

×0.58 31 #90 | 15 points by telotortium 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stacked Game of Life (koenvangilst.nl)

×1.47 25 #61 | 181 points by vnglst 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Malm Whale (atlasobscura.com)

×0.45 27 #37 | 27 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection (github.com/jjl)

×0.86 24 #58 | 66 points by todsacerdoti 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Daemon (2006) (wikipedia.org)

×0.82 25 #50 | 40 points by solomonb 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs (pnas.org)

×1.02 24 #23 | 120 points by bikenaga 13 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenBSD on SGI: A Rollercoaster Story (online.fr)

×1.52 33 #29 | 8 points by brynet 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Favorite 39C3 Talks (asindu.xyz)

×0.98 23 #62 | 61 points by max_ 15 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules (theregister.com)

×1.76 22 #51 | 168 points by Bender 22 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A bit of fluid mechanics from scratch not from scratch (tsvibt.blogspot.com)

×0.61 21 #48 | 50 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter? (stackexchange.com)

×0.97 17 #41 | 86 points by SeenNotHeard 13 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time (bmwgroup.com)

×1.45 17 #20 | 131 points by JeanKage 12 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F# (iev.ee)

×1.54 14 #57 | 214 points by exceptione 1 day ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf] (nrc.gov)

×1.19 15 #24 | 108 points by Anon84 11 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Glaze by Raycast (glazeapp.com)

×1.12 14 #39 | 219 points by romac 20 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dulce et Decorum Est (1921) (poetryfoundation.org)

×2.41 14 #21 | 132 points by bikeshaving 12 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy (libre.solar)

×1.70 13 #38 | 259 points by evolve2k 21 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute (qlabs.sh)

×1.15 13 #31 | 168 points by sdpmas 15 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs (cubiclenate.com)

×0.84 12 #55 | 85 points by LorenDB 14 hours ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The View from RSS (carolinecrampton.com)

×1.11 12 #33 | 117 points by Curiositry 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Rust calling convention we deserve (2024) (mcyoung.xyz)

×0.98 11 #69 | 60 points by cratermoon 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jails for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Isolation and Native Resource Control (petermann-digital.de)

×1.42 17 #13 | 12 points by vermaden 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide (unsloth.ai)

×1.98 10 #32 | 336 points by bilsbie 21 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Completing the formal proof of higher-dimensional sphere packing (math.inc)

×0.68 12 #56 | 17 points by salkahfi 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dbslice: Extract a slice of your production database to reproduce bugs (github.com/nabroleonx)

×0.68 14 #26 | 13 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Relax NG is a schema language for XML (2014) (relaxng.org)

×0.79 13 #11 | 25 points by Frotag 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time (arstechnica.com)

×1.55 11 #7 | 71 points by Bender 5 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state (inngest.com)

×0.79 10 #22 | 53 points by goodoldneon 6 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
“It turns out” (2010) (jsomers.net)

×1.48 8 #30 | 281 points by Munksgaard 18 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king (phys.org)

×1.33 12 #10 | 17 points by wglb 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters (theguardian.com)

×2.44 8 #19 | 71 points by geox 7 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program (moss.town)

×1.65 7 #27 | 252 points by smusamashah 16 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying (acko.net)

×4.41 6 #4 | 138 points by LorenDB 5 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite (tuananh.net)

×2.22 6 #3 | 100 points by tuananh 4 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a new Flash (newgrounds.com)

×3.09 4 #8 | 537 points by TechPlasma 13 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter (sixstepstobetterhealth.com)

×1.50 4 #25 | 116 points by colinbartlett 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships (poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app)

×1.37 4 #12 | 83 points by mahirhiro 5 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough (lorenzano.eu)

×1.05 5 #6 | 26 points by mpweiher 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen (simonwillison.net)

×3.15 2 #15 | 661 points by simonw 17 hours ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me (tim.blog)

×1.41 3 #5 | 50 points by bonefishgrill 2 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Workspace CLI (github.com/googleworkspace)

×3.27 2 #2 | 568 points by gonzalovargas 9 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift (ivan.digital)

×1.40 1 #1 | 70 points by ipotapov 2 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???