Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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RustTraining: Beginner, advanced, expert level Rust training material (github.com/microsoft)

×0.96 66 #82 | 13 points by simonpure 15 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BIO – The Bao I/O Co-Processor (crowdsupply.com)

×0.62 61 #76 | 83 points by hasheddan 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 6502 disassembler with a TUI: A modern take on Regenerator (github.com/ricardoquesada)

×0.86 60 #78 | 89 points by wslh 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build (github.com/AmElmo)

×1.04 60 #45 | 135 points by jberthom 1 day ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IRIX 3dfx Voodoo driver and glide2x IRIX port (sdz-mods.com)

×0.85 58 #83 | 108 points by zdw 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Testing the Swift C compatibility with Raylib (+WASM) (carette.xyz)

×0.58 58 #63 | 60 points by LucidLynx 23 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Overcoming the friendship recession (joeprevite.com)

×1.84 57 #40 | 149 points by surprisetalk 1 day ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ARM to make processors for first time in their history (arm.com)

×0.94 58 #89 | 23 points by nateguchi 21 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
io_uring, libaio performance across Linux kernels and an unexpected IOMMU trap (ydb.tech)

×0.73 57 #69 | 64 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M (chainalysis.com)

×0.88 55 #85 | 113 points by timbowhite 1 day ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
curl > /dev/sda: How I made a Linux distro that runs wget | dd (astrid.tech)

×1.09 56 #48 | 153 points by astralbijection 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application (github.com/dune3d)

×1.41 50 #68 | 226 points by luu 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home (jackhogan.me)

×1.27 50 #44 | 269 points by jackhogan11 1 day ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the world’s first electric grid was built (worksinprogress.co)

×0.81 52 #35 | 101 points by zdw 19 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MSA: Memory Sparse Attention (github.com/EverMind-AI)

×0.81 50 #74 | 91 points by chaosprint 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment 2026 Guide [pdf] (nist.gov)

×0.83 50 #64 | 98 points by XzetaU8 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel Device Modeling Language for virtual platforms (github.com/intel)

×0.55 54 #38 | 38 points by transpute 12 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pompeii's battle scars linked to an ancient 'machine gun' (phys.org)

×0.92 48 #88 | 110 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I quit editing photos (jamesbaker.uk)

×1.30 49 #62 | 100 points by speckx 1 day ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30) (web-rewind.com)

×1.10 48 #53 | 185 points by thushanfernando 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths (chrisdown.name)

×1.25 48 #42 | 200 points by javierhonduco 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data Manipulation in Clojure Compared to R and Python (codewithkira.com)

×1.01 48 #41 | 119 points by tosh 21 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp (github.com/bjarneo)

×1.38 46 #87 | 140 points by mkagenius 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor (bunniestudios.com)

×1.13 44 #90 | 171 points by zdw 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI Roundtable – Let 200 models debate your question (opper.ai)

×1.55 46 #39 | 77 points by felix089 16 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew (trilok.ai)

×1.30 44 #37 | 215 points by syrusakbary 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close (nytimes.com)

×0.79 46 #33 | 73 points by tintinnabula 15 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets (socket.dev)

×1.36 42 #80 | 245 points by jicea 1 day ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language? (dnhkng.github.io)

×1.50 42 #65 | 133 points by realberkeaslan 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents (mozilla.ai)

×1.32 41 #75 | 209 points by peteski22 1 day ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The final switch: Goldsboro, 1961 (2013) (nuclearsecrecy.com)

×0.56 47 #56 | 19 points by 1970-01-01 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography (github.com/wolfssl)

×0.88 40 #66 | 91 points by 789c789c789c 22 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ARM AGI CPU: Specs and SKUs (sbcwiki.com)

×0.75 40 #51 | 104 points by HeyMeco 20 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Welcome to FastMCP (gofastmcp.com)

×1.02 39 #57 | 73 points by Anon84 18 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fun with CSF firmware (RK3588 GPU firmware) (icecream95.gitlab.io)

×0.75 40 #26 | 47 points by M95D 10 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser (gridland.io)

×0.89 36 #59 | 91 points by rothific 20 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment (purl.dev)

×0.57 36 #79 | 44 points by bpierre 18 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hypura – A storage-tier-aware LLM inference scheduler for Apple Silicon (github.com/t8)

×1.03 35 #34 | 210 points by tatef 22 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Log File Viewer for the Terminal (lnav.org)

×1.84 34 #50 | 308 points by wiradikusuma 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Compiler Writing Journey (github.com/DoctorWkt)

×1.02 35 #30 | 98 points by ibobev 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What happened to GEM? (dfarq.homeip.net)

×0.84 33 #49 | 80 points by naves 16 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis (antithesis.com)

×1.38 32 #29 | 267 points by alpaylan 23 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DuckDB community extension for prefiltered HNSW using ACORN-1 (github.com/cigrainger)

×0.75 34 #25 | 69 points by cigrainger 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML (emailmd.dev)

×1.81 31 #24 | 328 points by dancablam 22 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a coding agent in Swift from scratch (github.com/ivan-magda)

×0.78 43 #11 | 14 points by vanyaland 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Missile defense is NP-complete (smu160.github.io)

×2.20 28 #32 | 360 points by O3marchnative 1 day ago | 382 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I ran a language model on a PS2 (github.com/xaskasdf)

×1.14 28 #84 | 37 points by xaskasdf 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search (github.com/ssrajadh)

×2.13 26 #27 | 377 points by sohamrj 23 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles (chipsandcheese.com)

×0.73 32 #16 | 25 points by zdw 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Arm AGI CPU (arm.com)

×1.70 23 #17 | 369 points by RealityVoid 20 hours ago | 279 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Algorithm Visualizer (algorithm-visualizer.org)

×1.67 22 #23 | 155 points by vinhnx 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem (epoch.ai)

×3.10 17 #61 | 463 points by in-silico 1 day ago | 673 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers (fcc.gov)

×2.47 16 #70 | 478 points by moonka 1 day ago | 414 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No Terms. No Conditions (notermsnoconditions.com)

×1.43 16 #47 | 248 points by bayneri 22 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You can run a DNS server (2025) (simonsafar.com)

×1.34 17 #21 | 109 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In Edison’s Revenge, Data Centers Are Transitioning From AC to DC (ieee.org)

×1.64 16 #12 | 201 points by jnord 13 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised (github.com/BerriAI)

×3.93 15 #9 | 795 points by dot_treo 1 day ago | 451 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV (historytoday.com)

×1.06 17 #22 | 42 points by Petiver 6 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Implementing automatic eSIM installation on Android (medium.com)

×0.87 16 #55 | 33 points by nesterenkopavel 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Chess Playing Machine – Shannon (1950) [pdf] (caltech.edu)

×0.90 15 #73 | 20 points by kristianp 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS (v-os.dev)

×1.67 10 #5 | 235 points by felixding 11 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flighty Airports (flighty.com)

×2.23 7 #7 | 391 points by skogstokig 13 hours ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller (videojs.org)

×2.72 6 #10 | 493 points by Heff 17 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job (onhand.pro)

×1.80 6 #15 | 356 points by tezclarke 17 hours ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Business (apple.com)

×2.83 5 #14 | 675 points by soheilpro 22 hours ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016) (burntsushi.net)

×2.10 4 #72 | 357 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Goodbye to Sora (twitter.com/soraofficialapp)

×4.77 4 #6 | 877 points by mikeocool 18 hours ago | 639 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression (research.google)

×1.97 4 #4 | 300 points by ray__ 9 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VNDB founder Yorhel has died (vndb.org)

×1.88 4 #13 | 94 points by indrora 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM (twitter.com/anemll)

×2.84 2 #81 | 700 points by anemll 1 day ago | 323 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Cheat Sheet (storyfox.cz)

×4.34 2 #71 | 658 points by phasE89 1 day ago | 185 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fiber optic cables reveal a serious problem at the heart of modern farming (grist.org)

×1.24 11 #31 | 3 points by Brajeshwar 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???