Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Samsung Says It's Banning Smart TV Apps That Expose Users' Internet Connections (engadget.com)

×0.99 | 1 points by speckx 19 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Quantum Fidelity-per-Cost: A Metric for Evaluation of Quantum Computing Systems (arxiv.org)

×0.99 | 1 points by refezs 32 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Light's hidden properties save quantum information from the chaos of bad weather (wits.ac.za)

×0.82 | 2 points by bryanrasmussen 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canon – An Art History Game (perell.com)

×1.89 | 2 points by herbertl 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Romania blasts rock to divert water from drought-hit Danube to nuclear reactor (theguardian.com)

×0.83 | 1 points by howard941 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Judge a Book by Its Cover (mediumrare.site)

×1.96 | 2 points by herbertl 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Early Feedback on Dez?

×0.78 | 1 points by alexander2002 3 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Invelinux – An independent, RAM-based Linux distribution using Toybox and musl (sumtas.codeberg.page)

×1.85 48 | 3 points by sumtas 3 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RPC across Python and TypeScript with zero dependencies (cloudflare.com)

×1.82 | 2 points by brendanib 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents (hoplite.sh)

×1.87 | 2 points by BenceRed 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CCo – Go-style coroutines in C (github.com/gtutino)

×1.63 | 2 points by gtutino 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TokenMaxxer – track every AI token you spend across your coding tools (tokenmaxxer.xyz)

×1.66 | 2 points by SYeomans 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Three weeks into an autonomous Codex build: 9B tokens, ~month still left (github.com/nelsonwerd)

×1.80 | 2 points by nelsonwerd 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texas Police Used 83,000 Flock Cameras to Hunt Down a Woman Who Had an Abortion (letsaddresstexas.substack.com)

×4.46 27 #38 | 12 points by latexr 6 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Choreo A free visual design tool for UI behavior and micro-interactions (choreomotion.app)

×1.63 | 2 points by anasbelmadani 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Listing Quick: Chrome Extension Listing Manager (listingquick.com)

×1.68 | 2 points by scrappy_guy 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FutureSearch, AI forecasting you can verify (futuresearch.ai)

×6.47 71 | 7 points by ddp26 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)

×1.65 | 2 points by milkshakes 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars (nature.com)

×1.67 | 2 points by digital55 9 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stories from the beginning of the internet – 60 Minutes Full Episodes [video] (youtube.com)

×2.39 57 | 4 points by nomilk 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Casper: Apple's initial Voice First system from 1992 (youtube.com)

×1.47 | 2 points by floweronthehill 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer

×3.45 64 | 5 points by throwaway260803 16 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dario worried people were joining Anthropic for the money, not the mission (twitter.com/Techmeme)

×1.95 36 | 3 points by bobrenjc93 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)

×3.55 61 | 5 points by screm 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer (github.com/bashalarmistalt)

×1.32 | 2 points by ksec 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI news without using X (manton.org)

×1.37 | 2 points by speckx 20 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? (epoch.ai)

×2.61 10 #14 | 6 points by yusufozkan 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands (yahoo.com)

×2.16 34 | 3 points by thunderbong 20 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen 3.8 Max is on OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)

×1.41 | 2 points by theanonymousone 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Guarded Methods in OCaml (xvw.lol)

×2.25 33 | 3 points by birdculture 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When "Secure by Default" Means "Microsoft by Default" (sjg.io)

×2.13 32 | 3 points by simonjgreen 23 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If AI Outputs Aren't Speech, Who Has to Prove They're Human? (lawfaremedia.org)

×2.52 5 #46 | 4 points by hn_acker 22 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: An interactive explorer of Rand Paul's opening at Fauci's hearing (faucis-indictment.fly.dev)

×1.38 | 2 points by zemariagp 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ten Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (github.com/openai)

×1.36 | 2 points by landonxjames 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How AI is killing smartphone apps in China (computerworld.com)

×2.97 58 | 5 points by mikelgan 26 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Please Don't Make Spreadsheets Pretty (bearblog.dev)

×2.01 30 | 3 points by speckx 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Our Moon is two-faced. Science missions unravel its layers (jatan.space)

×1.31 | 2 points by JPLeRouzic 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Measuring an eBPF Cache Without Leaving the Kernel (naveensrinivasan.com)

×2.07 29 | 3 points by snaveen 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rudder – Own Your Agent's Code Again with Test-Driven Development (github.com/RudderCode)

×0.57 | 1 points by vivekyyy 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) (note.com)

×0.91 48 #15 | 3 points by peter_d_sherman 28 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bankruptcy rates among NFL players with short-lived income spikes (2015)[pdf] (nber.org)

×0.57 | 1 points by EndXA 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The no-bullshit guide to Agentic Engineering (juraj.blog)

×4.48 62 | 6 points by jurajmasar 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A DNS Record Now Flags Domains for Sale. Adoption Is Up to Registrars (webhosting.today)

×1.88 2 #49 | 4 points by speckx 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Paper in Your Paper Towel Is a Candidate for an Overhaul (wsj.com)

×2.08 26 | 3 points by mudil 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toil and Trouble: Don't Get Burned Shorting Bubbles (ssrn.com)

×0.59 | 1 points by highfrequency 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
July was driest month in southern England since records began (theguardian.com)

×2.05 22 | 3 points by geox 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will the RAM crunch force a return to optimisation? (mattcasmith.net)

×0.54 | 1 points by abnercoimbre 36 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Watch the Evolution of Manhattan Unfold in a Timelapse Video, from 1600 to 2026 (openculture.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by Brajeshwar 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Drive.py – Find duplicate files and manage disks across offline drives (github.com/web3cryptowallet)

×0.50 | 1 points by ellis0n 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I shouldn't go to church anymore (endsdontjustifythemeans.com)

×2.57 40 | 4 points by paulpauper 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If you havent recently used Claude Code, you might not understand where AI is at (davidpreichert.substack.com)

×1.94 18 | 3 points by wertyk 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smash, Bang, and Civilization (commonreader.co.uk)

×0.53 | 1 points by paulpauper 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Interview with Yiyang Zhuge (jackmillercenter.org)

×0.55 | 1 points by paulpauper 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Balancing Playwright Test Shards (flakiness.io)

×0.56 | 1 points by aslushnikov 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Coro – a global public square without rooms or a follower graph (coro.world)

×0.58 | 1 points by rodrigouroz 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data centers offer to buy Loudoun County homes, homeowners looking to cash out (wusa9.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by speckx 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GenOffice – Open-Source AI Office Suite for Docs, Sheets, Slides and PDF (github.com/genspark-ai)

×1.31 | 2 points by sangwen 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GJK Collision Detection in Any Dimension (codeberg.org)

×0.50 | 1 points by hingler36 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Book-skills – Agent Skills distilled from mgmt and programming books (github.com/DamiMartinez)

×0.50 | 1 points by damianmartinezc 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Church of the TigerBeetle (wespiser.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by wespiser_2018 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ModelFuzz – Open-source runtime guardrails for AI agents (github.com/higagan)

×1.02 | 2 points by higagan 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BatesStamp – Browser-based PDF tools for lawyers and paralegals (batesstamp.com)

×1.26 | 2 points by ctibs 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SpaceX is set to acquire 130k acres of marshland in southern Louisiana (arstechnica.com)

×1.28 | 2 points by LorenDB 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do You Think If I Had a Job I Would Have Gone? (nytimes.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by donsupreme 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Back up a whole online course to a folder of MP4s and Markdown (google.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by shraey96 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Old project for Tor based file sharing using QR codes (github.com/rpgeeganage)

×0.56 | 1 points by geeg 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WarpSpeed rewrites Pandas to run 38.4x faster on PDS-H (doubleai.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by dkgs 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retries don't fix eventual consistency (var0.xyz)

×2.10 10 | 3 points by var0xyz 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bet on Primitives for Agentic Coding (robinwieruch.de)

×0.58 | 1 points by rwieruch 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Romania blasts rocks to reroute cooling Danube water to nuclear reactor (reuters.com)

×1.27 | 2 points by Markoff 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do you understand what I'm saying? (praveshkoirala.com)

×1.29 | 2 points by pkoird 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sentivel – a status page that tracks the providers you depend on (sentivel.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by jensonhirst 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)

×2.00 7 | 3 points by speckx 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air (techcrunch.com)

×1.29 | 2 points by Brajeshwar 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Phantom Twist" drone nearly disappears in flight [video] (youtube.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by zdw 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anyone using machine translation quality estimation?

×0.57 | 1 points by cefoo 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitLab Is Slow as a Turtle (gitlab.com)

×1.22 | 2 points by byte_surgeon 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bullsta (bullsta.com)

×1.18 | 2 points by ConnorHolcomb 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI's talent wars have a loyalty problem (axios.com)

×1.89 5 | 3 points by ironyman 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AAuth Protocol (ietf.org)

×0.51 | 1 points by kyle-macmillan 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New spinning drone hides in plain sight (northwestern.edu)

×0.53 | 1 points by Supermancho 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM Writing and Me (makonea.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by jdw64 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Review of Marcus Hutter's Job-Less Utopia (borretti.me)

×0.53 | 1 points by thoughtpeddler 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deprecation of HCP Vagrant (hashicorp.com)

×1.97 3 | 3 points by cybadger 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI can detect underwater waste in oceans (nature.com)

×1.88 2 | 3 points by wertyk 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tool Specifications Matter: Uncovering and Mitigating Safety Risks in AI Agents (arxiv.org)

×1.23 | 2 points by zhinit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OSS ChatGPT UI v4: PDF Studio, Projects, Profiles, Server Tools, 1-Click Sharing (llmspy.org)

×0.52 | 1 points by mythz 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Standalone PEP 723 scripts with Conda dependencies in Pixi (prefix.dev)

×0.54 | 1 points by manzt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We re-wrote the Excel engine in Rust to run headless for agents (twitter.com/peterjliu)

×2.56 25 | 4 points by peterjliu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When rogue AI launches a cyberattack, who is legally responsible? (yahoo.com)

×1.19 | 2 points by pseudolus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???