Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Splatshop: Efficiently Editing Large Gaussian Splat Models (momentsingraphics.de)

×0.32 56 #73 | 28 points by ibobev 22 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Inkhaven Blogging Residency (inkhaven.blog)

×0.67 55 #43 | 56 points by venkii 20 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Browser AI agent platform designed for reliability (github.com/nottelabs)

×0.51 53 #32 | 59 points by ogandreakiro 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stasher – Burn-after-read secrets from the CLI, no server, no trust (github.com/stasher-dev)

×0.76 51 #54 | 63 points by stasher-dev 23 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Italy's pizza detectives (bbc.com)

×0.91 48 #47 | 54 points by pseudolus 19 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HTML Traits (github.com/jon49)

×2.28 49 #68 | 11 points by nymanjon 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Satellite Scanning (geoscaninc.com)

×0.40 48 #79 | 9 points by sharpshadow 11 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AST-Driven Python Testing (jazzberry.ai)

×0.37 46 #86 | 9 points by MarcoDewey 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCDB – full-stack web servers in Minecraft (github.com/NoahCagle)

×0.23 52 #59 | 5 points by ivanjermakov 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Koalas vs. Crows: An evolutionary theory of software (ajmoon.com)

×0.58 43 #76 | 30 points by alex-moon 20 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs (github.com/manzaltu)

×2.74 38 #24 | 758 points by kgwgk 1 day ago | 255 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An LLM does not need to understand MCP (hackteam.io)

×1.09 38 #36 | 119 points by gethackteam 22 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model (github.com/KittenML)

×3.49 34 #35 | 928 points by divamgupta 2 days ago | 351 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aura – Like robots.txt, but for AI actions (github.com/osmandkitay)

×0.51 35 #90 | 39 points by OsmanDKitay 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moreshell tricks: first class lists, jq, and the es shell (alurm.github.io)

×0.65 35 #81 | 35 points by alurm 20 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debounce (mozilla.org)

×1.33 34 #60 | 144 points by aanthonymax 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Honesty Boxes in Scotland (2024) (awayfromtheordinary.com)

×0.94 34 #88 | 33 points by NaOH 21 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction (nature.com)

×0.59 34 #72 | 35 points by msephton 18 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault (cyata.ai)

×1.63 32 #33 | 247 points by nihsy 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ (derekthompson.org)

×1.95 32 #22 | 241 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You know more Finnish than you think (dannybate.com)

×1.64 31 #77 | 145 points by infinate 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Touch Mapper – open-source 3D printed tactile maps for the visually impaired (touch-mapper.org)

×0.55 33 #70 | 20 points by speckx 13 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Monte Carlo Crash Course: Quasi-Monte Carlo (thenumb.at)

×1.10 31 #42 | 128 points by zote 22 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A candidate giant planet imaged in the habitable zone of α Cen A (arxiv.org)

×0.97 30 #80 | 112 points by pinewurst 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hopfield Networks Is All You Need (2020) (arxiv.org)

×0.69 31 #83 | 38 points by liamdgray 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Report (github.com/FreeBSDFoundation)

×0.78 30 #51 | 92 points by grahamjperrin 21 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Arm desktop: emulation (juszkiewicz.com.pl)

×0.86 29 #61 | 89 points by PaulHoule 23 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lightweight LSAT (lightweightlsat.com)

×0.72 29 #46 | 70 points by gregsadetsky 17 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773) (archives.gov)

×1.79 27 #56 | 261 points by freediver 1 day ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Sunlight Budget of Earth (asimov.press)

×0.87 28 #65 | 59 points by mailyk 19 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Virtual Linux Devices on ARM64 (underjord.io)

×0.67 32 #6 | 21 points by lawik 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Octofriend, a cute coding agent that can swap between GPT-5 and Claude (github.com/synthetic-lab)

×0.80 26 #38 | 87 points by reissbaker 17 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Whispering Earring (croissanthology.com)

×1.25 25 #62 | 110 points by ZeljkoS 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sweatshop Data Is Over (mechanize.work)

×0.62 25 #82 | 47 points by whoami_nr 21 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG (chiariglione.org)

×1.41 24 #39 | 208 points by eggspurt 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open music foundation models for full-song generation (map-yue.github.io)

×1.13 24 #29 | 111 points by selvan 17 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs (baseten.co)

×1.56 22 #55 | 240 points by philipkiely 1 day ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Q Programming Language (urbach.dev)

×1.07 23 #45 | 74 points by ygritte 16 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Global Trade Dynamics (alhadaqa.github.io)

×0.66 22 #87 | 44 points by gmays 21 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Preventing ZIP parser confusion attacks on Python package installers (pypi.org)

×0.74 22 #78 | 45 points by miketheman 19 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spatio-temporal indexing the Bluesky firehose (joelgustafson.com)

×0.79 20 #64 | 39 points by joelg 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn Any Website into an API (parse.bot)

×1.43 23 #20 | 24 points by pcl 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels (research.google)

×1.55 20 #19 | 121 points by badmonster 14 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Infinite Pixels (meyerweb.com)

×1.17 19 #27 | 237 points by OuterVale 22 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The fundamentals still matter (bearblog.dev)

×1.66 20 #50 | 30 points by zekrom 10 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to sell if your user is not the buyer (founderlabs.io)

×1.17 18 #31 | 182 points by mooreds 20 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A love letter to my future employer (2020) (catzkorn.dev)

×0.68 22 #5 | 30 points by luu 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked (wired.com)

×1.56 18 #17 | 190 points by mikece 17 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Not Build the Torment Nexus (buttondown.com)

×2.64 18 #40 | 39 points by p3_1080 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Bluesky Dictionary (avibagla.com)

×1.77 15 #84 | 205 points by gaws 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jepsen: Capela dda5892 (jepsen.io)

×1.03 15 #67 | 77 points by aphyr 19 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster (github.com/geerlingguy)

×1.23 15 #25 | 172 points by geerlingguy 17 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: An in-memory table access method (2023) (eatonphil.com)

×0.83 15 #16 | 72 points by ibobev 10 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FLUX.1-Krea and the Rise of Opinionated Models (dbreunig.com)

×0.88 18 #14 | 18 points by dbreunig 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big (eidel.io)

×3.43 13 #13 | 245 points by olieidel 17 hours ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Is Popover=Hint? (una.im)

×0.93 15 #8 | 17 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Historical Tech Tree (historicaltechtree.com)

×2.32 8 #4 | 418 points by louisfd94 16 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security (rtl-sdr.com)

×2.35 8 #3 | 345 points by lq9AJ8yrfs 14 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024) (theatlantic.com)

×1.84 6 #49 | 117 points by georgecmu 17 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5 (seangoedecke.com)

×2.37 6 #10 | 309 points by emschwartz 16 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cursor CLI (cursor.com)

×2.38 6 #7 | 296 points by gonzalovargas 14 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How we enforce .NET coding standards to improve productivity (anthonysimmon.com)

×1.73 6 #12 | 32 points by andystevens91 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5 for Developers (openai.com)

×2.50 4 #11 | 423 points by 6thbit 18 hours ago | 230 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Attention Sinks Keep Language Models Stable (mit.edu)

×2.41 5 #15 | 13 points by pr337h4m 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows XP Professional (win32.run)

×2.42 1 #23 | 380 points by pentagrama 21 hours ago | 211 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building Bluesky comments for my blog (natalie.sh)

×1.79 1 #21 | 327 points by g0xA52A2A 19 hours ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5 (openai.com)

×7.01 1 #1 | 1812 points by rd 18 hours ago | 2138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole (bytemash.net)

×2.58 1 #2 | 188 points by jcusch 5 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???