Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures (andros.dev)

×0.96 | 1 points by andros 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Why and What of the CIDR Report (potaroo.net)

×0.94 | 1 points by caminanteblanco 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decker File Format (beyondloom.com)

×0.94 | 1 points by tosh 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Run Qwen 3.5 Locally with Claude Code (github.com/kibotu)

×0.86 | 1 points by lastdong 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Protector4J converts JVM bytecode to private ISA for protection (protector4j.com)

×0.86 | 1 points by vlinx 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Shape of Data (scattered-thoughts.net)

×0.83 | 1 points by tosh 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give (kennethreitz.org)

×1.80 | 2 points by pabs3 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sneaky Header Blocker Trick (joshwcomeau.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by ibobev 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Interactive LED system for crutches that react to walking motion (github.com/JackWetherell)

×0.78 | 1 points by jw1294 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lion-K CCWD: Corrected Cautious Weight Decay and Hyperparameter Transfer (jiha-kim.github.io)

×0.80 | 1 points by ibobev 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pivoted Query Synthesis (buttondown.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by ibobev 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Israeli minister calls for annexation of southern Lebanon (reuters.com)

×1.82 | 2 points by abdelhousni 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Stockholm Syndrome a Myth? (abc.net.au)

×0.78 | 1 points by ahamez 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust (iev.ee)

×0.77 | 1 points by vismit2000 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shard-based scheduling for 100x more fine-tuning experiments on 4 GPUs (rapidfire.ai)

×0.77 | 1 points by kamranrapidfire 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delve Halts Demos (techcrunch.com)

×1.83 | 2 points by colemurray 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Problem with Eyeballing Prompt Quality (and What to Do Instead) (promptoptimizer.xyz)

×0.75 | 1 points by nivlewd1 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift} (burntsushi.net)

×0.75 | 1 points by jxmorris12 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fast regex search: indexing text for agent tools (cursor.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by jxmorris12 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China is mapping the ocean floor as it prepares for submarine warfare (reuters.com)

×1.60 | 2 points by m-hodges 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Live Satellite Map (satellitemap.space)

×0.67 | 1 points by zdgeier 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Releasing my GPU Texas holdem solver (4x faster than piosolver) (bupticybee.github.io)

×0.69 | 1 points by bupticybee 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Financial Benchmarks – Evaling LLMs on Financial Tasks (ramp.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by colemurray 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Whole Product (wikipedia.org)

×0.63 | 1 points by colemurray 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HTTP Edge Cases Every API Developer Should Understand (dochia.dev)

×0.61 | 1 points by mooreds 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploring the intersection of code and creativity through Three.js experiments (sarlloc.xyz)

×1.39 | 2 points by SanjayMehta 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some software will become more fragile – not mine (mrnice.dev)

×0.60 | 1 points by mooreds 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How we made Notion available offline (notion.com)

×1.42 | 2 points by ms7892 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deep humanistic context for every engineering decision (github.com/kenm47)

×0.61 | 1 points by mooreds 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla poaching engineers from chip manufacturing companies like TSMC (udn.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by ryzvonusef 49 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder (twitter.com/akshay_pachaar)

×1.36 | 2 points by helloplanets 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launching My AI-First Publishing CO (peakgrizzly.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by comgen42 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pool spare GPU capacity to run LLMs at larger scale (github.com/michaelneale)

×1.34 | 2 points by i386 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A-10 Warthogs target Iranian fast-attack craft in Strait of Hormuz (airforcetimes.com)

×1.36 | 2 points by Gaishan 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Safari Safe Browsing false positives persist after Google clears domain

×0.61 | 1 points by Numbness 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon says AWS' Bahrain region 'disrupted' following drone activity (reuters.com)

×2.22 12 #46 | 5 points by christhecaribou 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Does the Defense Industry have a profiteering problem? Does it really? (eshhan.substack.com)

×1.36 | 2 points by eshan6 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zuhn – AI knowledge OS that compresses insights into principles (github.com/gorajin)

×0.56 | 1 points by gorajin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is Not the Point (bryanhu.com)

×1.31 | 2 points by thatxliner 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python (nicolargo.github.io)

×0.48 | 1 points by wiradikusuma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How deep-sea mining is growing China's influence in the Pacific (cnn.com)

×1.18 | 2 points by kburman 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multitail (vanheusden.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by wiradikusuma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Log File Viewer for the Terminal (lnav.org)

×1.76 #3 | 25 points by wiradikusuma 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Artemis II: Inside the Moon mission to fly humans further (bbc.co.uk)

×1.12 | 2 points by nairteashop 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MiniMind: End-to-end GPT-style LLM training pipeline in pure PyTorch (github.com/jingyaogong)

×0.48 | 1 points by dmonterocrespo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Personaplex – voice room where AI personas hear and respond to each other (aifly.club)

×1.12 | 2 points by pplex_builder 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Artifact Paradox (intervue.fyi)

×1.13 | 2 points by dennis3124 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Doom over DNS (rice.is)

×1.83 17 | 3 points by bouncingbunny 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uni-1 Is Launched (uni1ai.app)

×0.50 | 1 points by Jenny249 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT from GPT: de novo microgpt (github.com/Entrpi)

×1.69 7 | 3 points by easygenes 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I made Aplix, but need honest reviews about it

×1.12 | 2 points by itsmsr 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Model-based linguistic space for transmitting our thoughts from brain to brain (nih.gov)

×0.49 | 1 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft blocks trick to unlock native NVMe driver, but workarounds still exist (tomshardware.com)

×4.52 18 #26 | 25 points by josephcsible 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: AI companies' bots are making my server slow, what do you do?

×1.05 | 2 points by aabbcc1241 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Alibaba Unveils New Chip Design to Meet Surging Demand for AI (bloomberg.com)

×1.07 | 2 points by voxadam 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ArXiv metadata as Parquet files (2.99M papers, 1.44GB, 417 files) (huggingface.co)

×0.46 | 1 points by tamnd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FCC Clearing the Air on Wi-Fi Software Updates (2015) (fcc.gov)

×0.46 | 1 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sovereign AI OS and SAMN Introduction

×0.46 | 1 points by twocats7701 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Do US Men and Women Spend Their Time? (pewresearch.org)

×2.43 15 #72 | 6 points by gmays 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefox ext: Bkmker · Your bookmarks, encrypted and private (mozilla.org)

×1.02 | 2 points by fullstacking 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenTarget Core: Laser Shooting Platform for Raspberry Pi Using OpenCV (github.com/JSK-Project)

×0.45 | 1 points by laurieg 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aspect Ratios with Sinners Director Ryan Coogler (2025) (youtube.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by hbcondo714 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Halo-Gravity Traction (childrenshospital.org)

×0.44 | 1 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California bill aims to help vibe coders (semafor.com)

×2.24 10 | 4 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A city that wasted nothing [video] (aeon.co)

×1.66 6 | 4 points by billybuckwheat 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Locro – Fast and accurate local OCR through Chrome's screen_ai (github.com/sergiocorreia)

×0.46 | 1 points by zzleeper 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Microshifting' puts a new spin on 9-to-5 schedules (apnews.com)

×1.08 | 2 points by donutshop 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California bill to stop 'dominant platforms' from blocking competition (slashdot.org)

×3.00 28 #77 | 8 points by MilnerRoute 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mars to Wars: New Space pivots to weaponize space (defensenews.com)

×1.73 11 | 3 points by infinitewars 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Un-Slop Fiction Prize (hyperstitionai.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by Curiositry 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blackburn AI Bill Repeals Section 230, Expands AI Liability, Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)

×1.67 22 #80 | 7 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nashville library launches Memory Lab for digitizing home movies (axios.com)

×1.11 14 | 3 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Generate, preview, and export 3D models without complex software (ai3dgen.com)

×1.06 | 2 points by stewardyunn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Prodigal Brainchild (nealstephenson.substack.com)

×1.72 16 | 3 points by martinlaz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A form builder that feels like chatting (typerson.com)

×0.47 | 1 points by briandev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom with Matter (jackhogan.me)

×1.90 85 | 41 points by swq115 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI (theregister.com)

×2.84 16 | 5 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
StackOverflow's questions per day have fallen 99% (stackoverflow.com)

×3.92 29 #48 | 20 points by stevage 2 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Music manuscripts from Cologne now linked to digitized copies (rism.info)

×0.45 | 1 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where did 400 MiB go? (frn.sh)

×2.97 14 | 5 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Naomi Klein and Karen Hao: The Empire of AI and the Fight for Our Future [video] (youtube.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by ares623 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Equal Vote Coalition (equal.vote)

×1.67 23 | 3 points by pabs3 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
App for comparing your kid's development (apple.com)

×1.03 | 2 points by jbrozena22 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ArrowJS – The first UI framework for the agentic era (arrow-js.com)

×2.27 5 | 4 points by kothariji 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: RoverBook – PostHog for AI Agents (github.com/rtrvr-ai)

×1.69 24 | 3 points by quarkcarbon279 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pharaoh – structural codebase maps for AI coding agents (pharaoh.so)

×1.10 | 2 points by dangreer 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autoresearching Apple's "LLM in a Flash" to run Qwen 397B locally (twitter.com/danveloper)

×1.11 | 2 points by gurjeet 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Literary Celebrity, Mussolini Mouthpiece, American Traitor: Who Was Ezra Pound? (lithub.com)

×1.12 | 2 points by petethomas 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OMyTree – An open-source, tree-based AI canvas for deep research (github.com/isbeingto)

×0.48 | 1 points by isbeingto 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aether: Actor language that compiles to C with zero locks (SPSC only (github.com/nicolasmd87)

×0.49 | 1 points by nicolasmd87 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???