Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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My 20-Year-Old Program (seminumerical.io)

×1.00 | 1 points by nice_byte 59 seconds ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Language Gives Authority to Weak Ideas (hichvg.substack.com)

×0.99 | 1 points by chvgchvg 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making end-to-end encrypted AI chat feel like logging in (confer.to)

×2.12 | 2 points by arkadiyt 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PhDs Can't Find Work as Boston's Biotech Engine Sputters (wsj.com)

×0.92 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benchmarking Self-Hosted S3-Compatible Storage (repoflow.io)

×0.90 | 1 points by wener 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ARES Dashboard – Open-Source AI Red-Teaming and Governance Platform (github.com/Arnoldlarry15)

×0.87 | 1 points by LA_Builds 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zuck buys Chinese AI company Manus that claims it deals in actions, not words (theregister.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by rguiscard 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineering compact Goldenberry to promote its potential as a global crop (wiley.com)

×0.78 | 1 points by PaulHoule 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Merriam-Webster: LLM [video] (youtube.com)

×0.77 | 1 points by cdrnsf 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BSH – A Git-aware, IntelliSense-style predictive Zsh history daemon (github.com/joshikarthikey)

×0.77 | 1 points by karthikeyjoshi 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How We Use the Word Cyber (bbc.com)

×0.72 | 1 points by andsoitis 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Convoy Steamroller (tedium.co)

×0.75 | 1 points by chatmasta 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OMyTree – Turning AI chats into durable process assets (omytree.com)

×0.77 | 1 points by isbeingto 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TLHO – A domain-agnostic, fail-closed verification substrate

×0.75 | 1 points by tlho 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
&udm=14: the disenshittification Konami code (remove AI from Google results) (udm14.com)

×2.76 36 | 3 points by chatmasta 27 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data Model Dependency Is a Trap (medium.com)

×0.72 | 1 points by HideInNews 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ship comms: how do they work?–lightning talk by Matt Kulukundis [video] (youtube.com)

×2.04 2 #60 | 3 points by leoc 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Beauty Arena – An Elo-based experiment to measure aesthetics (beautyarena.vercel.app)

×0.66 | 1 points by railing1024 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"For You" Feed for Science (researchhub.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by Tardigrade10 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024) (keithburgun.net)

×2.50 28 | 3 points by vector_spaces 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
39C3 – Breaking architecture barriers: Running x86 games and apps on ARM (youtube.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by doener 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stranger Things Creator: Turn Off TV's Garbage Settings (instagram.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by next_xibalba 40 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why A.I. Didn't Transform Our Lives in 2025 (newyorker.com)

×0.68 | 1 points by petethomas 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: McNeal – Encrypted messaging over acoustic channels (github.com/AntonioLambertTech)

×0.68 | 1 points by netIsNewWrldOrd 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SAFi, a Governance Engine for LLMs (selfalignmentframework.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by jnamaya 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Capital of capital': how Abu Dhabi rose as a sovereign wealth powe (ft.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by petethomas 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Magic of Merlin (cornell.edu)

×0.52 | 1 points by Group_B 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why most software startups don't need VCs anymore (most) (sderosiaux.substack.com)

×1.24 | 2 points by chtefi 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Episteme: A New System for Science (episteme.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by momeara 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparative Overview of EU-US Vehicle Standards (etsc.eu)

×2.47 35 | 4 points by throw0101c 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Giselle – open-source visual editor for building AI workflows (github.com/giselles-ai)

×0.50 | 1 points by codenote 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2011) (kalzumeus.com)

×1.19 | 2 points by teleforce 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Five myths about learning a new language – busted (theconversation.com)

×1.20 | 2 points by zeristor 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Miniray – A WGSL Minifier (hugodaniel.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MongoDB Server Security Update, December 2025 (mongodb.com)

×1.27 10 #3 | 19 points by plorkyeran 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Manus Debate and Why Some Bubbly AI Moonshots Aren't Bubbles (substack.substack.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by theno0b 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DynamicHorizon – Dynamic Island for macOS (dynamichorizon.app)

×0.90 | 2 points by DHDEV 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Second Great Error Model Convergence (matklad.github.io)

×0.93 | 2 points by kartikarti 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hyaluronic Acid in Topical Applications: Hero Molecule in the Cosmetics Industry (mdpi.com)

×1.45 19 #72 | 3 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robots Are Hard – Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture (robotsinplainenglish.com)

×1.55 1 | 3 points by ArmageddonIt 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Capital in the 22nd Century (philiptrammell.substack.com)

×1.57 5 | 3 points by jger15 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will Skyrocketing Silver Prices Make Photo Film More Expensive? (petapixel.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by geox 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: J_PyDB – tiny encrypted file-based Python DB (github.com/NovaDev404)

×0.42 | 1 points by SuperGamer474 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stranger Things creator says turn off "garbage" settings (screenrant.com)

×3.26 12 #17 | 43 points by 1970-01-01 1 hour ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stack (and Saved 500€/Year) (zeitgeistofbytes.com)

×3.47 16 #4 | 19 points by alexcos 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yae – Powerful yet Minimal Nix Dependency Manager (github.com/Fuwn)

×0.43 | 1 points by MrJulia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Notion-like private Markdown pages on Nostr (formstr.app)

×0.43 | 1 points by abhsag24 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Timelapse of Satellite Launches: 1957–2025 [video] (youtube.com)

×1.43 11 | 3 points by animal_spirits 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Manus Acquired by Meta (twitter.com/ManusAI)

×1.35 14 | 3 points by obiefernandez 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial (theverge.com)

×0.85 | 2 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you manage kids' accounts?

×2.94 27 | 6 points by xfax 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Parsing Advances (matklad.github.io)

×0.92 10 #6 | 27 points by birdculture 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Art, Money, and AI (hughhowey.com)

×0.92 | 2 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Good technology blogs: a reading list for the holidays (clickhouse.com)

×0.93 | 2 points by samaysharma 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SoftBank to buy data center investor DigitalBridge for $4B (datacenterdynamics.com)

×0.95 | 2 points by Gelob 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SafeVibe, a collaborative database to fix security gaps in vibe coding (safevibee.vercel.app)

×0.42 | 1 points by tomdesantis 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lesson Learned: The Silent Danger of Hydration Fallbacks (mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io)

×0.42 | 1 points by mohammede 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A privacy-first bulk image compressor and HEIC converter in the browser (easynote.cc)

×0.41 | 1 points by h2bomb 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Corroded: Rust that's so unsafe it should be illegal (github.com/buyukakyuz)

×4.28 39 | 8 points by corrode2711 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brew by Weight? Brew by AI (archestra.ai)

×0.42 | 1 points by pimeys 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Incident management for Slack with AI-generated postmortems (incidentops.io)

×0.42 | 1 points by soyzamudio 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Daniel Jackson: Why concepts aren't objects (essenceofsoftware.com)

×0.95 | 2 points by vinipolicena 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Geology of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (usgs.gov)

×1.03 16 #5 | 24 points by greesil 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Simple Made Easy" – Rich Hickey (2011) [video] (youtube.com)

×2.07 6 | 4 points by petermcneeley 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The state is making a list of transgender Texans, using driver licenses to help (houstonpublicmedia.org)

×5.72 66 #89 | 22 points by heavyset_go 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Publite: Minimal, self-hostable blogging platform (blog-green-mountain-1517.fly.dev)

×0.96 | 2 points by lente 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Apple's AirPod Translation Get You Through Tokyo? We Tested It (nytimes.com)

×0.42 | 1 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Arthur C. Clarke predicts the future (1968) [video] (youtube.com)

×1.58 19 | 3 points by rognjen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Randomness Real? Physics, Computation, and AI Weigh In (twitter.com/malpern)

×0.44 | 1 points by malpern 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lead-Free Organic–Inorganic Halobismuthate for Large Piezoelectric Effect (acs.org)

×0.51 25 #28 | 9 points by PaulHoule 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How can I stop worrying about my future in CS?

×0.41 | 1 points by ouk 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Worktrunk – CLI for Git worktree management (github.com/max-sixty)

×2.71 6 | 5 points by mihau 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What if an entire city banned home cooking?

×0.44 | 1 points by amichail 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JavaScript Debugger – A tool that explains JavaScript errors in plain English

×0.43 | 1 points by adham_monged 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ShaderBeam – Overlay for Running BFI/CRT Beam Simulation Shaders for Windows (github.com/mausimus)

×0.43 | 1 points by bane 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IP and Domain, One Cert: Let's Encrypt Short-Lived Certificates (ai.moda)

×0.99 | 2 points by Manouchehri 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Trader Joe's Does Better Than Whole Foods (tastingtable.com)

×0.98 | 2 points by hbcondo714 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Emerging Market for Intelligence: Pricing, Supply, and Demand for LLMs (nber.org)

×1.01 | 2 points by bikenaga 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Evolution: Training neural networks with genetic selection achieves 81% on MNIST (github.com/A1CST)

×1.02 | 2 points by AsyncVibes 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AMD almost bought Nvidia but Jensen insisted to be the CEO (twitter.com/MohapatraHemant)

×1.04 | 2 points by flyaway123 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fujifilm to begin shipping 40TB Ultrium tape cartridges in January 2026 (tomshardware.com)

×1.04 | 2 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You are absolutely right? – LLM workflows and thoughts about the future (cpojer.net)

×0.46 | 1 points by cpojer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Shardium – open-source "Dead Man's Switch" for crypto inheritance (shardium.xyz)

×0.86 | 2 points by maxcomperatore 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Snowfall in Basic – By Paul Lefebvre (goto10retro.com)

×1.07 | 2 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Agent, AI Spy - Udbhav Tiwari and Meredith Whittaker [video] (ccc.de)

×0.45 | 1 points by weinzierl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Doom in Django: testing the limits of LiveView at 600.000 divs/seconds (andros.dev)

×1.06 | 2 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Performance comparison of Django's main interactive frameworks (andros.dev)

×0.47 | 1 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Life is not a Simulation but a Thought Experiment (chfritz.github.io)

×1.06 | 2 points by chfritz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is SuperMemory That Impressive?

×0.47 | 1 points by gabrycina 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Global Illumination and the Switch to DirectX 11 (lotusspring.substack.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by ibobev 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???