Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Scheme Is a Hoot (gracefulliberty.com)

×1.22 104 #63 | 12 points by signa11 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TabFont – guitar tabs rendered as you type (philatype.com)

×0.81 103 #80 | 8 points by ChrisArchitect 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hypernet – The Agent-First Web (hypernet.sh)

×0.91 112 #86 | 3 points by akasuv 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
British Grand Prix: Analyzing every driver's telemetry (fastlytics.app)

×0.91 112 #85 | 3 points by subhashhh 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Official Rules for Calling Shotgun (shotgunrules.com)

×1.41 112 #69 | 4 points by Cider9986 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Meon – declarative flat-parsing engine (SoA, no AST) (github.com/vgnapuga)

×1.01 115 #73 | 3 points by vgnapuga 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Home made GPU escalated quickly [video] (youtube.com)

×1.15 95 #78 | 11 points by erichocean 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sun light and path calculation for photography (lightwindow.app)

×1.01 114 #65 | 3 points by sourabh86 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taxing Artificial Intelligence (arxiv.org)

×0.73 113 #64 | 3 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
About the Digital Art (tricivenola.com)

×0.51 81 #88 | 30 points by NaOH 15 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Drone Autonomy (2021) (cggonzalez.com)

×1.12 77 #81 | 77 points by cgg1 22 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025) (writerbeware.blog)

×0.83 74 #82 | 73 points by Anon84 21 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts (si.edu)

×0.84 73 #66 | 78 points by jruohonen 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taphonomic analysis reveals behavioral & tech capabilities of Homo floresiensis (science.org)

×0.26 93 #44 | 8 points by bushwart 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ancient Greek Technology: The Origins of Robotics and Engineering (kotsanas.com)

×1.34 95 #71 | 4 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Megawatts by Microwave (computer.rip)

×0.77 71 #55 | 74 points by eternauta3k 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The first programmer I know who was murdered in a targeted strike was Haitham (lrb.co.uk)

×1.44 94 #49 | 5 points by bhouston 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Log is the Agent (arxiv.org)

×1.25 65 #62 | 101 points by iacguy 19 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two nasty surprises in Home Assistant's config (frankel.ch)

×2.32 85 #45 | 7 points by edward 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Atomic Force Microscope [video] (youtube.com)

×1.19 61 #70 | 113 points by mhb 20 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moby Dick Workout (2022) (hogbaysoftware.com)

×1.06 61 #57 | 97 points by helloplanets 17 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Handoff – a verified context bridge between Claude Code sessions (github.com/ostikwhy-blip)

×1.65 76 #77 | 6 points by ostik 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Loss of Cognitive Flexibility, Not Memory, May Be Earliest Sign of Alzheimer's (nautil.us)

×1.82 80 #68 | 5 points by bookofjoe 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii (hawaiinewsnow.com)

×1.61 58 #84 | 87 points by MaysonL 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pandoc Lua Filters (pandoc.org)

×0.90 48 #46 | 131 points by ankitg12 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Web-based cryptography is always snake oil (devever.net)

×1.59 49 #41 | 95 points by enz 14 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trouble Transitioning (2025) (lrb.co.uk)

×0.54 80 #37 | 4 points by measurablefunc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sidenote – comment on your rendered blog, an LLM writes the Git diff (github.com/bharadwaj-pendyala)

×1.21 90 #33 | 3 points by bharadwajp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase (github.com/langchain-ai)

×1.03 43 #35 | 79 points by handfuloflight 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fast Software, the Best Software (2019) (craigmod.com)

×1.27 41 #39 | 123 points by ustad 14 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neoengineers (elijahpotter.dev)

×0.98 44 #76 | 10 points by chilipepperhott 4 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every postcard tells a story (observer.co.uk)

×0.52 43 #50 | 11 points by NaOH 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Speech and Noise Corpora for Pitch Estimation of Human Speech (zenodo.org)

×1.13 53 #31 | 6 points by q7m 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimizing an algorithm that's quadratic by design (earthmanmuons.com)

×0.65 39 #34 | 20 points by elasticdog 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC (dmarcwise.io)

×0.69 34 #30 | 40 points by matteocontrini 7 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July (nbcchicago.com)

×2.70 44 #32 | 9 points by randycupertino 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Airplane Boneyards List and Map (airplaneboneyards.com)

×0.70 30 #29 | 72 points by hyperific 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s (thomasw.dev)

×1.09 28 #23 | 42 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork (raymii.org)

×0.96 23 #22 | 88 points by jandeboevrie 8 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The full stack of terminals explained (ahmadawais.com)

×1.48 30 #26 | 12 points by ludicrousdispla 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the first solo-founder unicorn gets built (thisandthat.chat)

×0.73 33 #25 | 8 points by jreynar 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel (economist.com)

×0.96 19 #43 | 81 points by andsoitis 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Should We Optimize Away? (autodidacts.io)

×1.27 32 #87 | 3 points by Curiositry 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (diva-portal.org)

×1.51 15 #40 | 171 points by cenazoic 14 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: KiCad in the Browser (pcbjam.com)

×1.06 15 #42 | 89 points by ViktorEE 10 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty (adexchanger.com)

×1.27 16 #19 | 30 points by WaitWaitWha 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trust your compiler: Modern C++ (categorica.io)

×1.20 11 #90 | 62 points by foxhill 12 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Always Leave Things Unfinished (bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com)

×1.04 15 #27 | 19 points by bryanrasmussen 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains (cerast-intelligence.com)

×0.94 14 #14 | 15 points by PatchRequest 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dependencies should be fetched directly from VCS (arp242.net)

×0.87 15 #15 | 12 points by mrngm 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CoCom regulations and GPS receivers for balloons and cubesats (stackexchange.com)

×0.70 19 #13 | 6 points by vinnyglennon 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dungeon Proof Crawler: learn how to write proofs with RPG (dhilst.github.io)

×0.66 10 #11 | 12 points by SchwKatze 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata (aalto.fi)

×1.66 6 #7 | 63 points by jfil 3 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy (segflow.github.io)

×2.68 8 #17 | 16 points by mrngm 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier (lcamtuf.substack.com)

×1.76 7 #16 | 20 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pint in England (dispatch-media.com)

×0.77 9 #9 | 14 points by gripfx 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance (github.com/openai)

×2.13 3 #74 | 350 points by maille 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf] (uu.nl)

×1.25 4 #3 | 96 points by jonahbard 3 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Can Steal Your Bank Account in Hours (jmagineuniverse.blogspot.com)

×2.10 21 #10 | 4 points by odilelof 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DNSGlobe – Rust TUI to watch DNS propagate around the world (github.com/514-labs)

×1.84 6 #18 | 6 points by Callicles 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You need a webring (shub.club)

×0.93 1 #21 | 35 points by forthwall 3 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years (homegames.io)

×1.81 2 #4 | 22 points by homegamesjoseph 46 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???