Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Hacktivate: Capture the Flag (hacktivate.io)

×0.89 | 1 points by evo_9 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window (x.ai)

×0.86 | 1 points by hereme888 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican (simonwillison.net)

×0.65 | 1 points by simonw 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacking

×0.97 | 2 points by tayyabdefault 22 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Managing Diabetes in Software Freedom (sfconservancy.org)

×1.48 | 2 points by pabs3 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Company Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers (msn.com)

×1.33 | 2 points by jnord 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stargate Abilene: A Citrini Field Trip (citriniresearch.com)

×1.41 | 2 points by walterbell 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes (yahoo.com)

×4.87 4 #13 | 12 points by eloisius 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Intellectual Crucible: Steven Machat's School of Sacred Knowledge (stevenmachat.substack.com)

×1.37 | 2 points by johnaldenboyd 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages (1995) (uiowa.edu)

×0.71 13 #6 | 8 points by nill0 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI text rewriter with 90%+ detection pass rate (yanbiai.com)

×1.24 | 2 points by yanwenai2021 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Issues

×1.74 23 | 3 points by van_lizard 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale – Terence Tao et al. (arxiv.org)

×1.72 20 | 3 points by crvdgc 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create (vicinity.social)

×0.84 19 | 3 points by clarencehoward 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Turing complete language in TypeScript types (github.com/KaiStevenson)

×1.16 | 2 points by aberrantflux 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Xleak – Terminal Excel viewer with interactive TUI and search (github.com/bgreenwell)

×1.81 17 | 3 points by w108bmg 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language (tabloid.vercel.app)

×2.33 1 #2 | 48 points by sadeshmukh 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sitemap Harvester – Extract metadata from any website's sitemap to CSV (github.com/meysam81)

×1.14 | 2 points by meysamazad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lessons from Alex Hormozi's $100M Book Launch (thewritetoroam.com)

×1.01 | 2 points by EthanDBrooks 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fear Is Coming Back to the Junk Bond Market (bloomberg.com)

×1.56 3 | 3 points by zerosizedweasle 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What a leaked transcript reveals about China's muscular statecraft (economist.com)

×2.09 3 #44 | 7 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I don't love Rust (either) (cbarrete.com)

×1.86 14 | 4 points by MrBuddyCasino 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
International Space Station Being Decomissioned (unionrayo.com)

×1.32 13 | 3 points by explosion-s 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China's AI Upstart Moonshot Stuns Valley Again with a $4.6M Wonder (entropytown.com)

×3.09 46 | 7 points by chaosprint 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI readies GPT-5.1 Thinking model ahead of Gemini 3 Pro (testingcatalog.com)

×1.77 5 | 4 points by gmays 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tom Cat: On duality, detachment, and life and death decisions (longreads.com)

×1.35 20 | 3 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Designing Perplexity (lukew.com)

×1.85 21 | 5 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI-Induced Psychosis as Existential Risk Lowerbound (flocrivello.com)

×1.32 21 | 3 points by Altimor 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Time words don't mean what you think [video] (youtube.com)

×0.87 | 2 points by zeristor 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neuroendocrine control of calcium mobilization in the fruit fly (nature.com)

×0.88 | 2 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparing the Latitude of Europe and America (vividmaps.com)

×1.92 1 | 4 points by mooreds 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI powered stocks CLI tool (github.com/Chukwuebuka-2003)

×0.90 | 2 points by Chukwuebukaagm 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PostgreSQL deserves better than libpq (twitter.com/tildeslash_)

×2.85 16 #38 | 18 points by sovande 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IRIX Introduction (sgistuff.net)

×1.42 24 | 3 points by naves 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copy Edit This (2016) (nytimes.com)

×0.91 | 2 points by thundergolfer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can peptides give you superpowers? (economist.com)

×1.93 2 | 4 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Statistical Estimate of Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in Milky Way (arxiv.org)

×1.39 30 | 3 points by bryanrasmussen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bell Labs Innovations Song [video] (youtube.com)

×0.88 | 2 points by gjvc 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Close Pattern in Zig (zig.news)

×0.90 | 2 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The File Search Tool in Gemini API (blog.google)

×0.93 | 2 points by gmays 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HTML to Markdown Converter (htmltomarkdown.io)

×1.47 33 | 3 points by leadsrocks 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Advances in Threat Actor Usage of AI Tools (google.com)

×1.47 34 | 3 points by andrescordova 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debt Has Entered the A.I. Boom (nytimes.com)

×3.85 22 #50 | 17 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Receipts: A brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web (zeldman.com)

×2.09 10 | 4 points by cpeterso 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Airbus Took Off (worksinprogress.co)

×1.33 77 #25 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
He Chunhui's Tiny386 Turns an ESP32-S3 into a Fully-Functional 386-Powered PC (hackster.io)

×2.10 7 #15 | 48 points by HardwareLust 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lego Icons Star Trek U.S..S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D (lego.com)

×3.42 29 | 7 points by BiraIgnacio 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The best intro video to blockchain is from 2013 (youtube.com)

×1.38 42 | 3 points by Norcim133 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment (npr.org)

×5.15 39 #42 | 112 points by toomanyrichies 3 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 500M-year-old brain "radar" still shapes how you see (sciencedaily.com)

×1.45 45 | 3 points by therobots927 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fixing the Biggest Problem with Mechanical Keyboards (youtube.com)

×0.92 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Re-creating a rare 80s laptop from the ground up [video] (youtube.com)

×0.96 | 2 points by jsheard 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Essential Services Maintenance Act (wikipedia.org)

×0.98 | 2 points by SanjayMehta 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act (goskagit.com)

×2.82 10 #17 | 62 points by p_ing 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Geoffrey Hinton: Intro to Deep Learning and Deep Belief Nets [video] (2012) (youtube.com)

×1.51 47 | 3 points by walterbell 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TelUI 1.2: TelUI with fun alignments

×0.89 | 2 points by telui 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Freee AI Image Prompt Generator (gempix2.photo)

×0.92 | 2 points by wantering 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Truth Decay: Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis (2018) (rand.org)

×1.97 27 | 4 points by whoknowsidont 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Riyadh's new 176 km metro (liberallandscape.org)

×1.95 29 | 4 points by decimalenough 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emergency Airworthiness Directive for MD-11 (faa.gov)

×1.45 49 | 3 points by garaetjjte 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oh No, Someone Built a Game-Crashing Death Star in No Man's Sky (kotaku.com)

×1.96 32 | 4 points by PaulHoule 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act (heraldnet.com)

×3.57 76 | 36 points by ourmandave 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why does native UI still matter? (zen1th.me)

×2.53 18 | 5 points by vitalnodo 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DeepShot – NBA game predictor with 70% accuracy using ML and stats (github.com/saccofrancesco)

×1.03 55 | 3 points by Fr4ncio 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you get bots signing up random email addresses to your newsletter?

×1.99 36 | 4 points by BSTRhino 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Characterizing the American Upper Paleolithic (science.org)

×0.85 12 #52 | 17 points by bikenaga 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What We Can Learn from Brain Organoids (nytimes.com)

×1.82 38 | 4 points by mikhael 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Policy, privacy and post-quantum: anonymous credentials for everyone (cloudflare.com)

×1.80 40 | 4 points by eleye 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CC Switch: Claude Code and Codex Provider Switcher (github.com/farion1231)

×1.37 56 | 3 points by amrrs 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows Shared PCs with Microsoft Intune (burgerhout.org)

×1.35 57 | 3 points by transpute 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Driving TFEL with RP2040: Offloading the CPU step by step (2021) (zephray.me)

×1.40 58 | 3 points by starkparker 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PeerLLM v0.7.6: The Fastest, Smartest, and Most Purposeful Version Yet (peerllm.com)

×0.88 | 2 points by amrrs 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who benefit from social security (lemonde.fr)

×5.21 1 #34 | 24 points by geox 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building an epaper laptop: the monitor (peterme.net)

×0.85 | 2 points by vitalnodo 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TelUI 1.1: New TelUI version Complete with tools to develop good software

×0.86 | 2 points by telui 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Humanity's Endgame (noemamag.com)

×1.06 17 #22 | 19 points by marojejian 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Particles that enhance mRNA delivery could reduce vaccine dosage and costs (mit.edu)

×1.91 44 | 4 points by gmays 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge Declares Mistrial in MIT Grad Brothers Ethereum Fraud Case (bloomberg.com)

×1.90 34 #72 | 6 points by aspenmayer 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Melhorar imagem – Melhore fotos com AI – Grátis (melhorar-imagem.com)

×0.84 | 2 points by zhamin246 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPT-5-Codex-Mini – A more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex (github.com/openai)

×1.64 4 #28 | 33 points by wahnfrieden 4 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Serve 100 Large AI models on a single GPU with low impact to TTFT (github.com/leoheuler)

×1.98 26 | 5 points by leonheuler 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trait-Constrained Enums in Rust (csongor.co.uk)

×0.84 | 2 points by todsacerdoti 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA's bold new telescope will do more than just hunt for life (nature.com)

×2.24 31 | 5 points by Marshferm 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PrintScreen: Fabricating Highly Customizable Thin-Film Touch-Displays (2014) [video] (youtube.com)

×0.79 | 2 points by starkparker 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Before AI's Kepler Moment – Are LLMs the Epicycles of Intelligence? (ashvardanian.com)

×1.25 66 | 3 points by ashvardanian 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mislabeled wires responsible for two-day IT outage in South Dakota; officials (statescoop.com)

×1.25 15 #88 | 7 points by gnabgib 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
French Government Created LLM Leaderboard 'Rigged' for Mistral (beta.gouv.fr)

×1.49 100 #39 | 4 points by salkahfi 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists criticize 'straw man' arguments in Bill Gates climate memo (theguardian.com)

×1.24 72 | 3 points by belter 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's the Deal with Euler's Identity? (lcamtuf.substack.com)

×1.67 50 | 4 points by treadump 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nov. 8 is Aaron Swartz day (archive.org)

×5.72 30 | 13 points by flossposse 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???