Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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What makes you senior (terriblesoftware.org)

×2.71 96 #77 | 397 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fabrication Techniques Using Myco-Materials (encyclopedia.pub)

×0.41 71 #82 | 19 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WebPtoPNG – I built a WebP to PNG tool, everything runs in the browser (webptopng.cc)

×0.52 69 #83 | 15 points by akseli_ukkonen 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GraphicsMagick Image Processing System (graphicsmagick.org)

×1.19 69 #68 | 19 points by exvi 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2D Signed Distance Functions (iquilezles.org)

×0.99 67 #60 | 20 points by nickswalker 19 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
map::operator[] should be nodiscard (quuxplusone.github.io)

×0.94 64 #56 | 72 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scaling Go Testing with Contract and Scenario Mocks (funnelstory.ai)

×0.53 62 #78 | 43 points by preetamjinka 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lessons from the PG&E outage (waymo.com)

×1.31 60 #43 | 152 points by scoofy 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4 (abhamra.com)

×0.67 60 #85 | 62 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments) (github.com/xyphro)

×0.97 58 #70 | 91 points by v15w 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo (wallpaper.com)

×1.08 57 #74 | 122 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011) (edn.com)

×0.76 59 #66 | 34 points by stmw 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ReadHn - Reading list for top HN posts (readhn.top)

×1.73 66 #67 | 5 points by taabishm2 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two ancient humans, including famed 'Iceman,' had cancer-causing virus (science.org)

×0.95 59 #62 | 16 points by rolph 14 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Could lockfiles just be SBOMs? (nesbitt.io)

×1.05 49 #89 | 70 points by zdw 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No Longer Evil – new life for dead/outdated Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats (nolongerevil.com)

×1.67 53 #34 | 29 points by pabs3 14 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Help My c64 caught on fire (c0de517e.com)

×0.91 48 #84 | 118 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The port I couldn't ship (ammil.industries)

×0.89 49 #36 | 133 points by cjlm 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Litex: Formal math for everyone – set theory examples with Lean comparison (litexlang.com)

×0.63 48 #86 | 25 points by litexlang 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Salmon Recipe (waveinscriber.com)

×1.14 49 #63 | 27 points by vitalnodo 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quake's Player Speed (2017) (rome.ro)

×1.16 47 #53 | 79 points by klaussilveira 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Your inbox is a bandit problem (parentheticallyspeaking.org)

×1.03 45 #52 | 95 points by zdw 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A local-first, reversible PII scrubber for AI workflows (medium.com)

×0.57 46 #73 | 31 points by tjruesch 20 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB (le-brun.eu)

×1.07 43 #51 | 98 points by laurentlb 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qntm's Power Tower Toy (qntm.org)

×0.69 40 #46 | 79 points by ravenical 22 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The dawn of a world simulator (odyssey.ml)

×0.74 40 #41 | 73 points by olivercameron 21 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal (willmcgugan.github.io)

×2.11 38 #80 | 225 points by nikolatt 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A faster path to container images in Bazel (tweag.io)

×0.77 37 #42 | 97 points by malt3 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale (eliocapella.com)

×1.06 33 #71 | 96 points by eliocs 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Redis vs. BoltCache (github.com/wutlu)

×0.83 34 #61 | 15 points by spotlayn 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions (timothychambers.net)

×0.95 31 #49 | 106 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Avoid Mini-Frameworks (laike9m.com)

×1.37 30 #48 | 147 points by laike9m 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 (blog.google)

×1.89 27 #45 | 213 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind (vitasys.nl)

×0.95 28 #38 | 67 points by todsacerdoti 17 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy (loreandordure.com)

×1.11 27 #40 | 112 points by helsinkiandrew 22 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't Become the Machine (bearblog.dev)

×2.18 26 #58 | 233 points by armeetj 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal (github.com/eyeblech)

×1.73 24 #90 | 335 points by samsep10l 2 days ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prototaxites (astrobiology.com)

×0.84 26 #39 | 63 points by andsoitis 15 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation (github.com/sebastienros)

×1.09 24 #32 | 121 points by bj-rn 20 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity (blocksandfiles.com)

×0.72 25 #27 | 60 points by rbanffy 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal (apnic.net)

×1.08 21 #81 | 46 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coding Intelligence Asymptotics (fi-le.net)

×0.70 21 #75 | 17 points by fi-le 11 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data (mcmaster.ca)

×1.13 19 #28 | 141 points by XzetaU8 19 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asterisk AI Voice Agent (github.com/hkjarral)

×1.13 17 #21 | 159 points by akrulino 18 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)

×2.37 16 #37 | 271 points by YorickPeterse 1 day ago | 483 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] (ipaidia.gr)

×1.70 16 #17 | 318 points by lioeters 23 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code (partykit.io)

×1.16 15 #31 | 107 points by ColinWright 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Handheld PC Community Forums (hpcfactor.com)

×0.73 15 #30 | 44 points by walterbell 10 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (github.com/bellard)

×5.08 12 #23 | 1412 points by Aissen 2 days ago | 530 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture (0l.de)

×0.53 14 #22 | 44 points by stv0g 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (openculture.com)

×0.98 13 #14 | 64 points by _____k 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Inner-Platform Effect (2006) (thedailywtf.com)

×1.04 20 #12 | 6 points by birdculture 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago (ianvisits.co.uk)

×1.61 10 #72 | 176 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM (algassert.com)

×0.72 11 #20 | 45 points by EvgeniyZh 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] (youtube.com)

×1.40 9 #16 | 230 points by notgloating 17 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python (psu.ac.th)

×1.59 8 #29 | 187 points by Andrew2565 19 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults (jmir.org)

×1.59 6 #65 | 160 points by azalemeth 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com/antonmedv)

×1.89 6 #18 | 397 points by medv 21 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields (miguelgrinberg.com)

×1.82 6 #24 | 263 points by adevilinyc 20 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (dec05eba.com)

×2.31 6 #8 | 555 points by snvzz 18 hours ago | 308 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do I bridge the gap between PhD and SWE experiences?

×0.96 6 #13 | 47 points by ecophyseis 6 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (lawrence.lu)

×2.38 7 #6 | 32 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized (newyorker.com)

×1.77 6 #3 | 129 points by thm 4 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)

×2.27 6 #5 | 86 points by surprisetalk 4 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster (fidget-spinner.github.io)

×1.55 4 #1 | 180 points by lumpa 4 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator (github.com/VibiumDev)

×2.09 3 #26 | 371 points by hugs 23 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4 (schneier.com)

×1.43 4 #54 | 7 points by jandeboevrie 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Sell Onions on the Internet (deepsouthventures.com)

×2.92 2 #2 | 41 points by sogen 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???