Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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What makes you senior (terriblesoftware.org)

×2.70 91 #75 | 397 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WebPtoPNG – I built a WebP to PNG tool, everything runs in the browser (webptopng.cc)

×0.54 68 #79 | 16 points by akseli_ukkonen 22 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fabrication Techniques Using Myco-Materials (encyclopedia.pub)

×0.40 63 #86 | 19 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GraphicsMagick Image Processing System (graphicsmagick.org)

×1.19 63 #69 | 20 points by exvi 21 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
map::operator[] should be nodiscard (quuxplusone.github.io)

×0.96 58 #56 | 75 points by jandeboevrie 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scaling Go Testing with Contract and Scenario Mocks (funnelstory.ai)

×0.53 57 #80 | 43 points by preetamjinka 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lessons from the PG&E outage (waymo.com)

×1.30 56 #41 | 152 points by scoofy 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proving Bounds for the Randomized MaxCut Approximation Algorithm in Lean4 (abhamra.com)

×0.66 56 #85 | 62 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011) (edn.com)

×0.75 56 #68 | 34 points by stmw 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2D Signed Distance Functions (iquilezles.org)

×0.99 57 #64 | 21 points by nickswalker 20 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ReadHn - Reading list for top HN posts (readhn.top)

×1.30 60 #76 | 5 points by taabishm2 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo (wallpaper.com)

×1.07 52 #74 | 122 points by ohjeez 2 days ago | 154 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two ancient humans, including famed 'Iceman,' had cancer-causing virus (science.org)

×0.94 56 #61 | 17 points by rolph 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source USB to GPIB converter (for Test and Measurement instruments) (github.com/xyphro)

×0.96 51 #72 | 91 points by v15w 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The port I couldn't ship (ammil.industries)

×0.89 47 #36 | 135 points by cjlm 1 day ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No Longer Evil – new life for dead/outdated Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats (nolongerevil.com)

×1.65 48 #33 | 34 points by pabs3 15 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Could lockfiles just be SBOMs? (nesbitt.io)

×1.04 44 #90 | 70 points by zdw 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Help My c64 caught on fire (c0de517e.com)

×0.90 43 #84 | 118 points by ibobev 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Salmon Recipe (waveinscriber.com)

×1.13 44 #63 | 28 points by vitalnodo 19 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Litex: Formal math for everyone – set theory examples with Lean comparison (litexlang.com)

×0.62 43 #87 | 25 points by litexlang 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quake's Player Speed (2017) (rome.ro)

×1.13 40 #54 | 79 points by klaussilveira 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The dawn of a world simulator (odyssey.ml)

×0.73 40 #42 | 73 points by olivercameron 22 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB (le-brun.eu)

×1.07 39 #51 | 99 points by laurentlb 1 day ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Your inbox is a bandit problem (parentheticallyspeaking.org)

×1.04 39 #52 | 97 points by zdw 1 day ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A local-first, reversible PII scrubber for AI workflows (medium.com)

×0.58 38 #78 | 32 points by tjruesch 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qntm's Power Tower Toy (qntm.org)

×0.68 36 #48 | 79 points by ravenical 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A faster path to container images in Bazel (tweag.io)

×0.77 33 #43 | 98 points by malt3 1 day ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Redis vs. BoltCache (github.com/wutlu)

×0.80 33 #60 | 16 points by spotlayn 12 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toad is a unified experience for AI in the terminal (willmcgugan.github.io)

×2.12 29 #81 | 227 points by nikolatt 2 days ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale (eliocapella.com)

×1.06 28 #71 | 97 points by eliocs 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions (timothychambers.net)

×0.94 27 #50 | 107 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Avoid Mini-Frameworks (laike9m.com)

×1.36 25 #49 | 148 points by laike9m 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The next-gen mainboard designed with amigaos4 and morphos in mind (vitasys.nl)

×0.98 25 #37 | 71 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy (loreandordure.com)

×1.10 24 #40 | 113 points by helsinkiandrew 23 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 (blog.google)

×1.88 23 #45 | 214 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comptime – C# meta-programming with compile-time code generation and evaluation (github.com/sebastienros)

×1.09 23 #32 | 124 points by bj-rn 21 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prototaxites (astrobiology.com)

×0.85 23 #38 | 65 points by andsoitis 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't Become the Machine (bearblog.dev)

×2.16 21 #59 | 234 points by armeetj 1 day ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JEDEC developing reduced pin count HBM4 standard to enable higher capacity (blocksandfiles.com)

×0.70 22 #30 | 62 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Research team digitizes more than 100 years of Canadian infectious disease data (mcmaster.ca)

×1.10 19 #27 | 143 points by XzetaU8 20 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asterisk AI Voice Agent (github.com/hkjarral)

×1.12 18 #20 | 163 points by akrulino 19 hours ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CUDA Tile Open Sourced (github.com/NVIDIA)

×1.24 26 #8 | 8 points by JonChesterfield 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm returning my Framework 16 (yorickpeterse.com)

×2.43 15 #35 | 283 points by YorickPeterse 1 day ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code (partykit.io)

×1.17 14 #28 | 113 points by ColinWright 17 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf] (ipaidia.gr)

×1.69 13 #18 | 322 points by lioeters 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Handheld PC Community Forums (hpcfactor.com)

×0.72 14 #31 | 47 points by walterbell 11 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Coding Intelligence Asymptotics (fi-le.net)

×0.68 12 #83 | 17 points by fi-le 13 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Self-referencing Page Tables for the x86-Architecture (0l.de)

×0.54 12 #23 | 48 points by stv0g 9 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quantum Error Correction Goes FOOM (algassert.com)

×0.70 12 #21 | 49 points by EvgeniyZh 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS (github.com/bellard)

×5.09 8 #22 | 1415 points by Aissen 2 days ago | 533 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The First Photographs of Snowflakes Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography (openculture.com)

×0.94 9 #14 | 70 points by _____k 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Exploring Mathematics with Python (psu.ac.th)

×1.56 7 #29 | 192 points by Andrew2565 20 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig (dec05eba.com)

×2.34 7 #7 | 569 points by snvzz 20 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago (ianvisits.co.uk)

×1.61 6 #73 | 177 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Inner-Platform Effect (2006) (thedailywtf.com)

×0.60 9 #13 | 11 points by birdculture 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video] (youtube.com)

×1.41 6 #15 | 238 points by notgloating 18 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (lawrence.lu)

×2.24 7 #6 | 66 points by andsoitis 4 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The entire New Yorker Archive Is Now Fully Digitized (newyorker.com)

×2.01 5 #3 | 183 points by thm 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time (joannabregan.substack.com)

×2.53 5 #5 | 133 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields (miguelgrinberg.com)

×1.82 4 #24 | 270 points by adevilinyc 21 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster (fidget-spinner.github.io)

×1.54 3 #2 | 207 points by lumpa 5 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL (github.com/antonmedv)

×1.88 2 #17 | 402 points by medv 23 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Games’ affordance of childlike wonder and reduced burnout risk in young adults (jmir.org)

×1.60 1 #66 | 162 points by azalemeth 1 day ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???