Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language (arxiv.org)

×0.49 74 #71 | 43 points by chrsw 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage (trychert.com)

×0.42 70 #64 | 59 points by garygao 1 day ago | 187 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Open/Closed Problem in AI (mempko.com)

×0.51 71 #57 | 11 points by vinhnx 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Comma and a Question Mark (thetypicalset.com)

×0.43 64 #68 | 25 points by eigenBasis 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TP-7 Field Recorder (teenage.engineering)

×0.81 63 #80 | 22 points by nirkalimi 17 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video] (youtube.com)

×0.61 60 #76 | 36 points by zdw 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Geomatic – A command-driven geometry studio enabled with autodiff (tinyvolt.com)

×0.52 58 #88 | 70 points by nivter 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry (futurumgroup.com)

×0.94 58 #56 | 154 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone Against Us (2023) (chicagomag.com)

×0.71 59 #62 | 69 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maia-3: free and open source (lichess.org)

×1.79 57 #78 | 46 points by pncnmnp 23 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer (github.com/tantara)

×0.77 55 #53 | 78 points by tantara 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building Pi with Pi (pocoo.org)

×1.81 51 #90 | 187 points by mplanchard 2 days ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C (github.com/boratanrikulu)

×0.73 52 #48 | 106 points by boratanrikulu 21 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Logseq Doctor: Heal your flat old Markdown files before importing them to Logseq (github.com/andreoliwa)

×0.49 53 #59 | 24 points by ankitg12 12 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers (lemon.rip)

×0.90 48 #54 | 170 points by xngbuilds 1 day ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died (referenceforbusiness.com)

×1.61 48 #36 | 257 points by L_Rahman 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jensen–Shannon Divergence (wikipedia.org)

×1.11 48 #51 | 129 points by teleforce 23 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft (bgr.com)

×1.43 48 #30 | 221 points by rmason 22 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU (mozilla.com)

×1.36 46 #83 | 180 points by luu 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024) (dubroy.com)

×1.27 45 #75 | 153 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned (wired.com)

×1.47 44 #79 | 238 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Squares in Squares (kingbird.myphotos.cc)

×0.90 45 #49 | 100 points by carlos-menezes 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018) (0patch.com)

×0.64 43 #50 | 47 points by bariumbitmap 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI errno(2) values (netmeister.org)

×1.12 39 #85 | 125 points by zdw 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard (stevemagness.substack.com)

×3.42 36 #29 | 467 points by obscurette 1 day ago | 498 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop (github.com/logannye)

×0.78 66 #10 | 5 points by samuell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multimodal adaptive optical microscope: in vivo imaging, molecules to organisms (nature.com)

×0.68 36 #41 | 48 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up (earthiongame.com)

×0.91 28 #33 | 127 points by MrBuddyCasino 14 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exposing Critical Vulnerabilities in CBSE's On-Screen Marking Portal (ni5arga.com)

×0.72 30 #37 | 41 points by dsr12 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What it takes to transpose a matrix (gudok.xyz)

×1.23 26 #60 | 94 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout (mullvad.net)

×1.87 24 #34 | 412 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works (ente.com)

×1.98 24 #24 | 334 points by subract 19 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free? (siliconimist.com)

×0.87 26 #27 | 57 points by johncole 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs (matuzo.at)

×0.90 25 #21 | 73 points by cyanbane 8 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A few interesting modern pixel fonts (aresluna.org)

×1.15 38 #16 | 8 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training (blocksandfiles.com)

×1.65 20 #40 | 315 points by rbanffy 22 hours ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It (rickcarlino.com)

×1.92 19 #82 | 265 points by rickcarlino 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews (shmuplations.com)

×1.10 20 #20 | 113 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ferrari Luce (ferrari.com)

×2.87 17 #28 | 433 points by jumploops 20 hours ago | 801 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006) (nih.gov)

×1.80 15 #89 | 332 points by kelseyfrog 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks (krebsonsecurity.com)

×1.88 15 #72 | 283 points by jruohonen 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost (esengine.github.io)

×2.89 14 #84 | 720 points by Alifatisk 2 days ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014) (apa.org)

×2.63 14 #18 | 515 points by bilsbie 19 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties (techxplore.com)

×2.37 12 #69 | 187 points by Lihh27 21 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We made a cinematic heist trailer with 4 AI models for $60 (medium.com)

×1.04 19 #73 | 4 points by jpelton 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opaque Types in Python (glyph.im)

×0.93 13 #11 | 75 points by lumpa 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web (audiomass.co)

×2.31 10 #87 | 529 points by pantelisk 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale (minicor.com)

×0.52 16 #3 | 39 points by fchishtie 2 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead "Camera View" (retrogamecoders.com)

×0.59 14 #7 | 44 points by ibobev 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Performance of Rust Language [pdf] (github.com/yugr)

×1.16 10 #86 | 88 points by tanelpoder 18 hours ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude (apple.com)

×2.05 10 #63 | 164 points by dragonsenseiguy 18 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker News front page as a site (thefrontpage.dev)

×3.12 9 #43 | 393 points by thatxliner 21 hours ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using AI to write better code more slowly (nolanlawson.com)

×4.27 9 #9 | 1016 points by signa11 18 hours ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Ballad of TIGIT (owlposting.com)

×0.77 13 #1 | 35 points by crescit_eundo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are we self-sovereign PKI yet? (buffrr.dev)

×0.99 9 #19 | 30 points by ca98am79 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team (vllm.ai)

×0.68 7 #26 | 58 points by berlianta 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD (dynip.dev)

×1.47 6 #14 | 261 points by dynip 10 hours ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Incident with Actions and Pages (githubstatus.com)

×1.06 6 #25 | 70 points by hakube 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is Taking over the Most Cursed Job in the World (wired.com)

×1.24 8 #81 | 5 points by srameshc 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"? (dynomight.net)

×3.42 9 #2 | 34 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Use Boring Languages with LLMs (jry.io)

×1.41 5 #70 | 66 points by evakhoury 11 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War (jstribune.com)

×1.30 5 #67 | 29 points by bryanrasmussen 7 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What color is your function? (2015) (stuffwithstuff.com)

×1.14 8 #5 | 32 points by tosh 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore (unix.foo)

×2.70 3 #52 | 270 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 299 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing (businessinsider.com)

×4.74 2 #77 | 272 points by _____k 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One-and-Done Heart Disease Prevention? Scientists Show It May Be Possible (nytimes.com)

×1.75 4 #47 | 5 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Revenge of the Business Idiot (wheresyoured.at)

×2.24 3 #38 | 6 points by 7777777phil 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's not just SpaceX: Big Tech is dominating bond markets too (ft.com)

×1.39 4 #35 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???