Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines (github.com/Hebbian-Robotics)

×0.39 70 #44 | 44 points by kstonekuan 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Top Web Design Styles of 1993 (contemporary-home-computing.org)

×1.39 71 #80 | 7 points by luu 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (usealmanac.com)

×0.46 65 #40 | 53 points by kushagrchitkar 17 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Ur Project - Notes on building a new Linux distribution (foo-projects.org)

×0.84 78 #77 | 3 points by 9front 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I attended the State of the Map conference (wordpress.com)

×1.00 55 #70 | 69 points by altilunium 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why are rivers so mathematical? (quantamagazine.org)

×0.82 54 #74 | 35 points by sebg 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to get a free .arpa domain (hawksley.dev)

×2.51 57 #75 | 13 points by ethanhawksley 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Euphemisation of Taboo Areas (2023) [pdf] (uwr.edu.pl)

×0.68 54 #61 | 40 points by Eridanus2 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most (uga.edu)

×1.00 51 #66 | 88 points by giuliomagnifico 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Navigation app for people with blindness and low vision (harvard.edu)

×0.64 51 #87 | 33 points by geox 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delulu Is the Solulu (antar.me)

×1.69 54 #50 | 22 points by JumpCrisscross 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to build a diffusion language model (kuleshov-group.github.io)

×1.46 44 #69 | 177 points by volodia 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable (maurycyz.com)

×1.78 44 #53 | 171 points by jllyhill 1 day ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Infrastructure as Raclette (postu.la)

×0.64 44 #86 | 37 points by kasmanit 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker (pantsforbirds.com)

×0.72 40 #46 | 82 points by CoolNamesAllTkn 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The art of CHIP-8 (beyondloom.com)

×0.83 39 #85 | 55 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Matrox: Graphics for Professionals (abortretry.fail)

×1.35 37 #72 | 184 points by BirAdam 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimal transport is art: images to collection of optimally placed particles (wolfram.com)

×0.45 43 #79 | 8 points by adec314 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Malleable software = solid bases and custom code (mdubakov.me)

×1.04 36 #57 | 102 points by tablet 22 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires (governance.fyi)

×0.86 37 #62 | 49 points by crescit_eundo 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Visualizing Combos in Judo in R (r-bloggers.com)

×0.68 39 #39 | 30 points by asaiacai 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive (dmitrybrant.com)

×0.57 38 #64 | 28 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting (theguardian.com)

×0.85 36 #51 | 55 points by ziofill 15 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DNS abuse and criminal infrastructure (ripe.net)

×0.87 34 #58 | 78 points by jruohonen 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones (wsj.com)

×1.57 34 #22 | 138 points by vinnyglennon 17 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails (sixpatterns.com)

×0.69 35 #60 | 29 points by __vivek 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Separating logic and language (mit.edu)

×1.07 31 #76 | 46 points by myelinscience 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS (github.com/AlgorithmicResearchGroup)

×0.69 31 #90 | 34 points by modagent 16 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Roget's Thesaurus (uchicago.edu)

×0.57 36 #19 | 14 points by gregsadetsky 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache (github.com/astral-sh)

×1.81 27 #47 | 217 points by tosh 1 day ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Not Becoming a Cyborg (nolanlawson.com)

×2.25 32 #32 | 18 points by Refreeze5224 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Interactive pattern discovery in binaries (FF-16-TUI) (github.com/HexLasso)

×0.25 30 #28 | 32 points by HexLasso 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions (quantamagazine.org)

×1.09 27 #55 | 61 points by tzury 15 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Snakes and Ladders (entropicthoughts.com)

×0.38 29 #59 | 21 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor (kingsbridge-consultancy.com)

×1.24 24 #84 | 25 points by beerglass 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Cyanometer and a Cloud Colourimeter (wordpress.com)

×0.56 23 #45 | 18 points by Kaibeezy 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flat vs. segmented memory – it's recursive (humprog.org)

×0.72 24 #21 | 21 points by signa11 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments (cppstories.com)

×0.86 18 #63 | 82 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Damn fine tiny cafe (sandyuraz.com)

×2.48 16 #43 | 375 points by thecsw 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked (signalandsilence.substack.com)

×2.75 15 #20 | 340 points by jcurbo 21 hours ago | 195 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference (chatgpt.site)

×1.30 15 #29 | 216 points by ijidak 19 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DoltLite: A SQLite fork with Git-style version control, built with 2k agent PRs (dolthub.com)

×1.20 17 #25 | 41 points by lbw1215 7 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPU World (gpuworld.org)

×0.59 16 #73 | 8 points by tosh 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)

×1.33 13 #18 | 190 points by con 15 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names (ruurtjan.com)

×1.32 12 #71 | 220 points by dbalatero 1 day ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode (embracethered.com)

×2.42 12 #37 | 369 points by Recursing 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career (simpleflying.com)

×3.82 18 #9 | 14 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public (wallpaper.com)

×1.08 13 #15 | 69 points by gone35 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent memory as a file format (calpaterson.com)

×1.44 11 #56 | 174 points by ingve 22 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT (twitter.com/andrew_n_carr)

×1.95 11 #54 | 120 points by notRobot 18 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering my ADHD test (nullpt.rs)

×2.40 11 #26 | 217 points by hazebooth 17 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source (ravynos.com)

×1.45 11 #27 | 199 points by Bluestein 17 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio (macrumors.com)

×3.06 10 #16 | 404 points by thm 20 hours ago | 449 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (rockpapershotgun.com)

×2.95 10 #12 | 409 points by Tomte 19 hours ago | 169 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI (chosun.com)

×1.72 9 #23 | 212 points by geox 16 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No country for mediocre mathematicians (garvvee.substack.com)

×2.37 8 #35 | 194 points by reasonableklout 18 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] (youtube.com)

×1.92 8 #8 | 327 points by keithcarolus 14 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3 (github.com/fregacmols)

×1.26 8 #13 | 57 points by jombib 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Polishing Cloth Updated (512pixels.net)

×1.34 11 #7 | 15 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lion-man (wikipedia.org)

×1.33 6 #24 | 109 points by gurjeet 11 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vermell – Minimal, dependency-free C++ web framework using epoll (github.com/vermellcc)

×0.70 6 #30 | 19 points by standar-donkey 4 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)

×2.01 4 #65 | 212 points by robinpie 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Playa Phone (playaphone.com)

×2.75 4 #5 | 623 points by cutoff 18 hours ago | 210 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system (jasontucker.blog)

×2.17 4 #6 | 495 points by speckx 16 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] (youtube.com)

×3.19 3 #10 | 416 points by matthewsinclair 16 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Restroom Archive (restroomarchive.com)

×1.65 2 #4 | 117 points by jcalx 5 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tmp.0ut Volume 5 (tmpout.sh)

×1.43 2 #3 | 55 points by ghuntley 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPU World (gpuworld.org)

×2.08 1 #1 | 212 points by simonpure 4 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???