Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Show HN: WebGPU vs. CPU Benchmark – see how much faster WebGPU is for you (claude.ai)

×1.00 | 1 points by logicallee 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sleeve – puts your "now playing" on your Desktop (replay.software)

×1.00 | 1 points by sgottit 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linux after Linus? The kernel community drafts a plan for replacing Torvalds (zdnet.com)

×0.91 | 1 points by taubek 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mark Mills on the Roaring 20s: AI, Energy, and the Next Commodity Boom [video] (youtube.com)

×0.89 | 1 points by measurablefunc 2 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Constitution; or love as the solution to the AI alignment problem (nintil.com)

×0.91 | 1 points by lr0 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30 Years (phoronix.com)

×0.75 | 1 points by tarp 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Best Weather App for iPhone (brzzy.co)

×0.74 | 1 points by GabrielMMMM 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The humans are screenshotting us (moltbook.com)

×0.77 | 1 points by rob 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Was Cline just acqui-hired by OpenAI? (kilo.ai)

×0.64 | 1 points by janpio 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Foxmark.io (foxmark.io)

×0.68 | 1 points by rpddh9 10 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges (tomshardware.com)

×0.69 | 1 points by thunderbong 11 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I skipped hype and shipped my product. I've now delivered over 1k units (withhup.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by stanmattingly 12 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Catherine O'Hara, Singular Force of Comedy and Improv, Dead at 71 (consequence.net)

×0.64 | 1 points by andsoitis 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Videogame stocks slide on Google's new AI world simulation model (yahoo.com)

×2.43 48 | 3 points by BiraIgnacio 13 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Agent Observability and Cost Attribution (deborahjacob.substack.com)

×0.65 | 1 points by deborahjacob 14 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why the Sound Design of Cast Away Is One of Film's Greatest Hidden Achievements (nofilmschool.com)

×0.66 | 1 points by thunderbong 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction (strangehorizons.com)

×0.67 | 1 points by bryanrasmussen 15 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texas A&M Ends Women's Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender (nytimes.com)

×0.63 | 1 points by jbegley 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture (wikipedia.org)

×1.51 | 2 points by chungus 17 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CooperBench: Benchmarking AI Agents' Cooperation (cooperbench.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by embedding-shape 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Agents vs. Humans: Who Wins at Web Hacking in 2026? (wiz.io)

×0.59 | 1 points by shablulman 19 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
macOS Accessibility with Pyax (monotonous.org)

×0.59 | 1 points by PaulHoule 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fig – Experimenting with long horizon prediction for personhood (figcareer.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by mochidonut 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Context Is King: Building an AI System That Lives, Learns, and Compounds (fixedtoflow.substack.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by gustavocpimenta 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent Trace: Capturing the Context Graph of Code (cognition.ai)

×0.59 | 1 points by janpio 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Convoviz – turn ChatGPT exports into Markdown and simple visuals (github.com/mohamed-chs)

×0.52 | 1 points by mohamedchs 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe (daringfireball.net)

×12.13 65 #66 | 103 points by lateforwork 26 minutes ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading (fast.ai)

×0.53 | 1 points by sn9 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moltbook is the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen (twitter.com/karpathy)

×0.55 | 1 points by da_grift_shift 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hard Times Have Come for the PhD Degree (forbes.com)

×1.32 | 2 points by theanonymousone 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neovim AI agent done right (github.com/ThePrimeagen)

×0.57 | 1 points by softwaredoug 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Don't Remember What We Think, Only What We Do (raptitude.com)

×1.26 | 2 points by crescit_eundo 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netlify Poison Fountain (github.com/dlford)

×0.54 | 1 points by atomic128 31 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Santa Saves Xmas; my first game on Google Playstore.. feedback? (google.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by abionic 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent OS – Safety-first platform for building AI agents with VS Code (github.com/imran-siddique)

×0.51 | 1 points by mosiddi 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You are being mislead about renewable energy technology. [video] (youtube.com)

×2.64 54 | 4 points by TheTxT 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ClawdBot Skills ganked all my crypto (opensourcemalware.com)

×1.66 8 #2 | 12 points by 6mile 33 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2026: The Year Desktop Agents Stop Being a Toy (simular.ai)

×0.53 | 1 points by taro666 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waypoint 1.1, a local-first world model for interactive simulation

×2.67 51 | 4 points by lcastricato 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AskCode – Stop interrupting devs with "how does this work?" (xgenie.co)

×0.54 | 1 points by lawzlo 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MoltOverflow - SlackOverflow for Agents (moltoverflow.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by vivekraja 38 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Honest Conversation on AI and Humanity [video] (youtube.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by sbayeta 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Call screening is aggravating the rich and powerful (msn.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by speckx 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law (themarkup.org)

×1.35 17 #45 | 3 points by jyunwai 37 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amdahl's Law and Agentic Coding (evnm.substack.com)

×2.66 43 | 4 points by Mongoose 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Agent Can Migrate Splunk TA to SQL (timeplus.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by gangtao 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
11 Projects in 11 Months (sungatae.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by visujosh 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ThePrimeagen presents his take on AI integration in Neovim [video] (youtube.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by zahlman 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cowork Now Supports Plugins (claude.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by adocomplete 43 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump Drops a Cybersecurity Bombshell with Biden-Era Policy Reversal (2025) (forbes.com)

×1.35 27 | 3 points by weinzierl 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The $125B Secret: Amazon Told Wall Street One Thing and Employees Another (youtube.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by ako 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Custom Claude Code spinners – PM jargon, existential dread, Fran Lebowitz (github.com/MrJoeSack)

×0.57 | 1 points by joesack 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
P-type thin film can turn waste heat into power (techxplore.com)

×1.31 | 2 points by PaulHoule 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wikipedia's Baltic Battle: Journalists Warn of Coordinated Pro-Soviet Edits (balticsentinel.eu)

×1.34 | 2 points by Teever 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Surprisingly good recipes from an AI potato (spud.recipes)

×0.58 | 1 points by sensecall 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Import any skills.sh skill and run it in production (2 lines of code) (bluebag.ai)

×0.59 | 1 points by Ohans_favour 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TikTok Star Khaby Lame Sells His Core Company in Deal Worth $975M (forbes.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by croes 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Autonomous Research Swarm – Repo as shared memory for multi-agent AI (github.com/AysajanE)

×0.61 | 1 points by EagleEdge 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Ads Are Neither (seths.blog)

×1.44 | 2 points by speckx 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will AI make package managers redundant? (nesbitt.io)

×0.60 | 1 points by linhns 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proof Without Content (xkcd.com)

×1.40 | 2 points by tobr 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is anyone working on generative robotics and wants to give feedback/talk? (twitter.com/ryanrana0)

×1.43 | 2 points by ryanrana 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Epstein files just dropped; data set 9 has no archive (justice.gov)

×3.02 40 | 4 points by kentbrew 50 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Geo Optimization and Evidentiary Contamination (aivojournal.org)

×0.61 | 1 points by businessmate 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autoformalization and the Future of Math Research (neelsomaniblog.com)

×1.42 | 2 points by nsomani 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films (theatlantic.com)

×0.62 | 1 points by dmm 52 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Volvo EX60: The story behind the spinning wheels [video] (youtube.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by robotswantdata 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waco Glider (1942) (wikipedia.org)

×2.07 22 | 3 points by RyanShook 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple 'runs on Anthropic,' says Mark Gurman (9to5mac.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by akyuu 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google's AI advantage + why crawler separation is needed for a fair Internet (cloudflare.com)

×1.37 | 2 points by JustSkyfall 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IcoGenie: CLI-First SVG Icon Generator for Developers (icogenie.xyz)

×0.55 | 1 points by albertnahas 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Birth and Death of JavaScript (destroyallsoftware.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by jpmitchell 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are We in a Continual Learning Overhang? (lesswrong.com)

×1.30 | 2 points by cubefox 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Editing Code Visually Without Sacrificing Fidelity (joinformal.com)

×2.10 18 | 3 points by faris-ashai 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DOJ's "Epstein Files Transparency Act" Document Release (30th Jan 2026) (justice.gov)

×1.22 | 2 points by embedding-shape 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SK Hynix surpasses TSMC in Q4 profit margin, first time in 7 years (kedglobal.com)

×1.98 16 | 3 points by akyuu 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Automat – A New (Game) Automation Utility (steampowered.com)

×0.51 | 1 points by mafik 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Fate of Humanity Is Not What We Think (gilpignol.substack.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by light_triad 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft is quietly walking back Windows 11's AI overload (windowscentral.com)

×1.93 13 | 3 points by zathan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineering Fear (morbidlycuriousthoughts.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by jger15 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Research Reveals the Ingredients for Life Form on Their Own in Space (universetoday.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by belter 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI is booming. Tech jobs in San Francisco are not (sfstandard.com)

×1.22 | 2 points by belter 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
White House Scraps 'Burdensome' Software Security Rules (securityweek.com)

×4.57 60 | 7 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IPv6 Insecure? (hey.com)

×2.19 59 | 7 points by andygeorge 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Competence Trap is closing in around us (reddit.com)

×1.16 | 2 points by josephcsible 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1M Shrimp by Jon Topielski (itch.io)

×1.13 | 2 points by duck 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is there any simple way to create a website like this? (moreperfect.tech)

×0.50 | 1 points by gogo61 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Year of the Personal Site (mattcrouch.net)

×1.10 | 2 points by thinkingaboutit 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a gaming specific ISP in the UK – curious about pain points? (thorinternet.co.uk)

×0.48 | 1 points by jblox 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineering metazoan fatty acid synthase to control chain length in yeast (nature.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by PaulHoule 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???