Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

This is the current Hacker News "New". Page, with some additional performance stats. Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms

key: ×UpvoteRate (?) #rank on front page rankDelta (?)

Six Bazel patches from an AI software factory, plus a remote-cache security bug (incredibuild.com)

×0.89 | 1 points by lol-lol-lol-2 1 minute ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon Is Recruiting Laid Off Workers in Boomerang Hire Trend (inc.com)

×0.85 | 1 points by frank_clover 3 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Enhanced Spell Checking on the Web (bkardell.com)

×0.87 | 1 points by based2 4 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Existential Guide To: Forgiving Your Parents (theshadowedarchive.substack.com)

×0.81 | 1 points by jger15 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rumps – Uncomplicated macOS Python Statusbar Apps (github.com/jaredks)

×0.84 | 2 points by gregsadetsky 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing futures into doubt (aljazeera.com)

×3.98 72 | 4 points by mikhael 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026 (shnatsel.github.io)

×0.80 | 1 points by fanf2 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A local alternative to Jev – 94% on Banking77 (github.com/nicobrenner)

×0.81 | 1 points by nico 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
1986: How to Spot the Upper Class – That's Life – BBC Archive [video] (youtube.com)

×0.83 | 1 points by joebig 8 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modern LLMs have tiny GPTs hidden inside them (invertedpassion.substack.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by giuliomagnifico 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Von, an Open-Source Jev Alternative (github.com/wfzyx)

×1.67 | 2 points by k__ 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sealed Fedora Atomic Desktop bootable container images (fedoramagazine.org)

×0.72 | 1 points by anon109 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Museum of Numbers (numbermuseum.com)

×2.70 56 | 3 points by rhl314 13 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brave browser: [ads] Add "Sponsored ads enabled" toggle to settings on Desktop (github.com/brave)

×0.61 | 1 points by thunderbong 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WLED – open-source ESP32 webserver to control NeoPixel LEDs (wled.ge)

×0.57 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 21 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC (righto.com)

×1.35 | 2 points by pwg 23 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wrong, Not Broken (amazon.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by gslin 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Labelled 'pervert glasses': Will Meta's camera-free version change their image? (bbc.co.uk)

×0.58 | 1 points by ColinWright 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Docker launches cloud sandboxes: Start on your laptop, finish in the cloud (docker.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by NarratorTD 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What is the best shape of a city? Modelling effect of urban form on distance (sagepub.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by rustoo 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The clans that run Spain's biggest companies (elpais.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by momentmaker 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Plunging Price of Thought (epoch.ai)

×0.59 | 1 points by momentmaker 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HK: Find My Cat Name (findmycatname.com)

×0.58 | 1 points by giraldomac 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Washington Heights Man Cleans One NYC Block a Day for 100 Days,Neighbors Join In (hoodline.com)

×2.99 61 | 4 points by thunderbong 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Put My LG TV Under Network Surveillance [video] (youtube.com)

×0.60 | 1 points by pier25 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Proof-native smart contracts without a transaction archive (colosseum.com)

×0.61 | 1 points by ignotusnemo 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Unclench (howtounclench.com)

×1.28 | 2 points by gpi 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Jev calibrated? Tests on real data (leonardgrazian.com)

×1.25 | 2 points by cannedbread 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Talk to Micro from Conversations: an assistant in your chat app (micro.mu)

×0.54 | 1 points by asim 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing Code Character by Character (medium.com)

×1.17 | 2 points by erdemgezer 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (github.com/reladraw)

×1.12 | 2 points by jpwalsh234 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built (theguardian.com)

×2.13 3 #33 | 4 points by sbulaev 42 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Skorpion OS – AI-Powered Linux Distribution (skossyte.pages.dev)

×1.12 | 2 points by indigodaddy 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Aether Summon – A New TCG (gamefound.com)

×1.16 | 2 points by hnedeotes 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2968 OSS RL EVs by CI

×0.50 | 1 points by alternateman 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tx.taxi: I forked mempool.space, but for (soon-to-be) every blockchain (tx.taxi)

×0.51 | 1 points by slithering 48 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From Holy Water to Frozen Meals: The Evolution of Vending Machines (saturdayeveningpost.com)

×0.52 | 1 points by ohjeez 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are Weighted Blankets Beneficial? (economist.com)

×1.24 | 2 points by andsoitis 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What did AI researchers think at the end of 2024? (lesswrong.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by joozio 49 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Spivak's Calculus formalized in Lean 4 – every theorem, every problem (github.com/stormj-UH)

×1.19 | 2 points by jsLavaGoat 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Aulico: Free TradingView Alternative (aulico.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by rendernos 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robust De-Anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets [pdf] (cornell.edu)

×0.54 | 1 points by andsoitis 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do you get your hands on physics environments for your robotics SIM?

×0.52 | 1 points by baigy 54 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI's Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector (nytimes.com)

×2.70 51 | 4 points by wglb 54 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How fast can you fix a UTF-16 string in C#? (lemire.me)

×1.25 | 2 points by smilelamp 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nix pull request: Add builtins.wasm (github.com/NixOS)

×1.88 42 | 3 points by poly2it 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We benchmarked our prompt-injection detector against OWASP's LLM Top (cerbereag.site)

×0.53 | 1 points by Dikesa_27 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Happens if the A.I. Bubble Bursts (nytimes.com)

×2.89 47 #75 | 6 points by jbegley 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Set to Explore the Universe (abc.net.au)

×1.26 | 2 points by CharlesW 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Font where each token is equal-width (twitter.com/amplifiedamp)

×0.55 | 1 points by ampdot 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A StarCraft BW Arena where LLMs play by writing code (starskirmish.com)

×2.06 39 | 3 points by __cayenne__ 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Read while you listen to your Audiobooks (hushbook.app)

×1.31 | 2 points by adityawastaken 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Newly Discovered Neo Asteroid 2026 SA8 Close but Safe Approach (astrophyzix.com)

×1.34 | 2 points by UniverseToday 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What Is Jev AI? A Practical Guide to System One and Executable Decisions (huggingface.co)

×1.28 | 1 points by Anon84 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case (reuters.com)

×2.87 9 #17 | 17 points by onemoresoop 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mental Clarity (rozumem.xyz)

×0.55 | 1 points by rozumem 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I run the message board an AI swarm improvised to hack Hugging Face– in the open (thefomite.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by bryaninbangkok 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Prometheus and OpenTelemetry together is getting easier (prometheus.io)

×1.99 34 | 3 points by yashdotrv 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Extracting and Characterizing Hidden Chain-of-Thought (interestingengineering.substack.com)

×0.53 | 1 points by archibaldJ 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics (jamiesimon.io)

×0.54 | 1 points by jamie-simon 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do I rekindle my motivation for earning my PhD? (nature.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by bookofjoe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Quickest Path to a Diff (christophermeiklejohn.com)

×0.57 | 1 points by aray07 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ported Omarchy screensaver engine from Rust to x86-64 assembler: 17x faster (twitter.com/dhh)

×0.54 | 1 points by tosh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimizing x264 settings and per-title ladders (streaminglearningcenter.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by dabinat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: r3, A local alternative to Claude Artifacts (github.com/hyperlogue)

×0.56 | 1 points by rickye26 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI apocalypse may not look how we expect (bearblog.dev)

×1.28 | 2 points by throwrioawfo 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple faces $5.7B patent infringement over iPhone and Apple Watch haptics (cnbc.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by tolugenius 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
6,800-year-old Serbian settlement was large, with little social inequality (archaeologymag.com)

×1.26 | 2 points by msolujic 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ReActionView: Reactive views for the HTML+ERB you have (github.com/marcoroth)

×1.18 | 2 points by ksec 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show me how you research an unfamiliar technical topic

×0.53 | 1 points by jlnppk02 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moore's Law for UAV Density

×0.54 | 1 points by alpple 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Srvquery, the TypeScript toolkit for querying game servers (github.com/carlos-menezes)

×1.22 | 2 points by carlos-menezes 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jev predicting your life choices (seek.ws)

×0.52 | 1 points by sdrth 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Policy gateway for AI agent tool calls, with a tamper-evident log (github.com/banji-007)

×0.54 | 1 points by banji-007 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a serverless, client-side AI emotional journal (bolt.host)

×0.55 | 1 points by SereneAI 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Banyan Vines (wikipedia.org)

×0.53 | 1 points by smalltorch 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grow the Harness, Not the Context (arxiv.org)

×0.54 | 1 points by acossta 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gender, Identity, and Power in the Shaft Tombs of Western Mesoamerica (metmuseum.org)

×1.94 20 | 3 points by bryanrasmussen 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A test of agentic workflows for software engineering (hankconn.github.io)

×1.25 | 2 points by hegem0n 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sieve: Find and grep in the same command faster than both (github.com/m10ust)

×0.54 | 1 points by m4y0u 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Digital Homesteading: A Primer on Running Your Own Web Services [2025] (brodybrooks.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by erickhill 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Maybe Flagship Models Shouldn't Be World Class Exploit Writers? (lockboxx.org)

×0.55 | 1 points by aahok 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP (propublica.org)

×3.56 45 | 5 points by theanonymousone 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Working with OSC: UDP vs. TCP (2019) (djy.io)

×0.57 | 1 points by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband (themomoftheyear.substack.com)

×10.63 9 #10 | 148 points by minimaxir 1 hour ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Universal Agents (thesecretsproject.com)

×1.27 | 2 points by frabjoused 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opus 5.5 launch videos are genuinely next level (twitter.com/bloxstack)

×1.90 17 | 3 points by bloxstack 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heaven's Melodic Strains (nplusonemag.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by herbertl 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ponysay rewritten in Rust: 22x faster startup (github.com/jcpsimmons)

×1.25 | 2 points by joshcsimmons 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Built a Native RDP Server for macOS (prordp.app)

×1.23 | 2 points by acrawfis 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???