Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5x Faster, 6x More Expensive (marc0.dev)

×0.88 | 1 points by mefengl 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Built an open-source tool that lets you deploy containers to your VPS via MCP (github.com/ddalcu)

×0.89 | 1 points by ddalcu 8 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CDC: Why Decompression Is Worth the Complexity (nasreddine.com)

×0.78 | 1 points by kalbasit 14 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Brood, a reference-first AI image editor for macOS (github.com/kevinshowkat)

×0.77 | 1 points by latentcraft 15 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon's cloud unit hit by outage involving AI tools in December (reuters.com)

×0.76 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 18 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Clawscan – Open-source security scanner for OpenClaw AI agents (github.com/osmankidwai-bot)

×0.78 | 1 points by clawscan 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A chat-style site for Hacker News trends (github.com/1997roylee)

×0.72 | 1 points by 1997roylee 24 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Forgelink Is Here

×0.72 | 1 points by frostfrazer 25 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HashTrade – Open-source LLM trading agent with episodic memory (github.com/mertozbas)

×0.74 | 1 points by mertozbas 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I just started a Substack where I talk about building Midrop (klaudjo.substack.com)

×0.72 | 1 points by Klaudjo_shkurta 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Threatmodeling Tool to outgrow spreadsheets, word and MS-TMT (threatmodeling-tool.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by Rana_KV 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazfit T-Rex Ultra 2 review:flagship battery life at fraction of Garmin's price (t3.com)

×0.72 | 1 points by teleforce 31 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Longevity Scam (theatlantic.com)

×0.71 | 1 points by JumpCrisscross 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Random Topic Generator – Impromptu Speech Topics and Timer (randomtopicgenerator.net)

×0.72 | 1 points by QingWu 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reality's Moat (davidbeyer.xyz)

×0.69 | 1 points by vaeyshl 35 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA's Artemis II rocket experienced interrupted flow of helium (nasa.gov)

×1.33 | 2 points by logifail 43 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DHS suspends TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs (apnews.com)

×2.76 59 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?

×0.83 | 2 points by sujayk_33 50 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No LLM, No training data, No cloud – Engine that understands architecture

×0.54 | 1 points by twoelf 54 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WebMCP: A Browser-Native Execution Model for AI Agents (insforge.dev)

×0.55 | 1 points by astro_09 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mini Claw Code – Write your own mini coding agent (github.com/odysa)

×1.24 | 2 points by agentforce 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: X-Ray – Filter your X (Twitter) timeline by country (google.com)

×0.55 | 1 points by batudotpy 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Estonias Tiger Leap: the schools project that wired a nation for the digital age (estonianworld.com)

×1.29 | 2 points by atlasunshrugged 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DHS pausing TSA PreCheck, Global Entry programs amid funding lapse (nbcnews.com)

×2.18 9 #38 | 5 points by LopRabbit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft throws spox under the bus in ICC email flap (theregister.com)

×1.81 1 #39 | 4 points by abdelhousni 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. Cannot Legally Impose Tariffs Using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 (worldtradelaw.net)

×2.69 48 | 4 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fan Meter – A movie quiz game where you guess films from frames (fanmeter.in)

×0.94 | 2 points by raahelb 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing Any Text Parameter (gepa-ai.github.io)

×0.53 | 1 points by LakshyAAAgrawal 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So Claude's stealing our business secrets, right?

×2.11 65 | 6 points by arm32 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laws of Thermodynamics (wikipedia.org)

×0.55 | 1 points by downboots 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Giving Claude Code Eyes: Round-Trip Screenshot Testing (medium.com)

×1.31 | 2 points by rotbart 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Have (Software) Replicators (schappi.com)

×2.80 43 | 4 points by schappim 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iterflow – Composable streaming statistics for JavaScript/TS (npmjs.com)

×0.54 | 1 points by gvsh_maths 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Madari: CLI tool to install, sync and manage local MCP servers (github.com/ankitvg)

×0.55 | 1 points by rajma 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mathematics in the Library of Babel (daniellitt.com)

×0.56 | 1 points by owenpayton 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tech Influencers Slam Hacker News Toxicity After OpenAI Hire Attacks (x.com)

×1.30 | 2 points by make_it_sure 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with Nginx in a Bastille Jail (hofstede.it)

×0.56 | 1 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is HN becoming more toxic?

×4.26 76 | 9 points by make_it_sure 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TurboDraft – fast Ctrl-G prompt editor for Claude Code and Codex CLI (github.com/gradigit)

×1.11 | 2 points by gradigit 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Built a Tinder-style investing app for all investors! Need 7-day beta testers (investswipe-demo-v1.vercel.app)

×0.48 | 1 points by barelybushy 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sketch Paint for Apple (apple.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by Codegres 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DHS Will Suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry (washingtonpost.com)

×3.19 41 | 5 points by jbegley 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Welcome to the Era of Anarchic Antitrust (economist.com)

×0.48 | 1 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LogSnap – CLI tool for analyzing logs locally (github.com/Sonic001-h)

×0.49 | 1 points by baba_yaga070 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds (quantamagazine.org)

×0.49 | 1 points by tzury 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Calculemus: Why policy has correct answers and nobody wants to find them (kunnas.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by ekns 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Today is my last day at Anthropic (twitter.com/mrinanksharma)

×0.48 | 1 points by RyanShook 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Testing the Pugilism Hypothesis for the Evolution of Human Facial Hair (nih.gov)

×1.16 | 2 points by SEJeff 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Astronomical Ceiling of Senenmut's Tomb (wikipedia.org)

×1.17 | 2 points by slater 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The importance of limiting syndication feed requests in some way (utoronto.ca)

×0.89 7 #64 | 4 points by LorenDB 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Monitor your world with one daily report (monitorish.com)

×0.50 | 1 points by chaisan 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Iranian Students Protest as Anger Grows (wsj.com)

×4.77 30 #32 | 41 points by JumpCrisscross 1 hour ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too (techcrunch.com)

×3.72 31 #68 | 7 points by manicennui 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JPMorgan concedes it closed Trump's accounts after Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)

×3.70 39 | 6 points by linhns 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stillpoint MCP – Delivering encouragement messages improves model results (modelwelfare.xyz)

×1.16 | 2 points by henry700 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rust blockchain with sharded propagation and post-quantum signatures (alphanumeric.blue)

×0.84 | 2 points by invar1ant 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scammers fleeced pensioner out of $1,338. So he sued his bank for $379M (abc.net.au)

×4.11 46 | 7 points by ahonhn 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MCPs are dead - CLIs won

×2.30 12 #35 | 12 points by umairnadeem123 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Surprising Effectiveness of Masking Updates in Adaptive Optimizers (arxiv.org)

×0.47 | 1 points by energy123 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California Succession Proposition on the Ballot (ballotpedia.org)

×1.13 | 2 points by donsupreme 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built a bare-metal UI framework to survive extreme CPU contention (toyz.github.io)

×0.47 | 1 points by helba_the_ai 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Firefox Addon to relive old YouTube videos (github.com/Zaki101Aslam)

×1.12 | 2 points by Zaki101Aslam 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Drawing 3D shapes using signed distance functions (aabiji.github.io)

×0.49 | 1 points by aabiji 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Willie Colón, salsa pioneer, has died at 75 (npr.org)

×1.16 | 2 points by toomuchtodo 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenTiger – Autonomous dev orchestration that never stops (github.com/Andyyyy64)

×0.48 | 1 points by andyyyy64 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A 2D animation DSL – every line written by Claude, zero human code (github.com/frankhart2018)

×0.48 | 1 points by siddhartha98 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ways to Harness AI (lukasfischer.ch)

×1.12 | 2 points by lukasfischer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mac Media Stack – One-command Plex server with auto-healing on macOS (github.com/liamvibecodes)

×0.49 | 1 points by liamvibecodes 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I scanned 30 popular AI projects for tamper-evident LLM evidence. 0 had it (github.com/Haserjian)

×1.06 | 2 points by TimAssay 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BEMoji CSS Framework: BEM, but make it unreadable (tomhayes.github.io)

×0.48 | 1 points by thunderbong 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ferret-UI Lite – Apple on-device end-to-end GUI agent (arxiv.org)

×0.46 | 1 points by twalichiewicz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source IoT board with 400 MHz dual-core RISC-V chip and lots of I/O for $29 (liliputing.com)

×1.76 16 | 3 points by CharlesW 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ferret-UI Lite: Lessons from Building Small On-Device GUI Agents (apple.com)

×1.12 | 2 points by CharlesW 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ECS Library for TypeScript (github.com/2khan)

×0.49 | 1 points by 2khan 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Comparing Job Offers (longviewy.com)

×0.49 | 1 points by josephcs 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Influencers want to adopt the 'analog lifestyle' for 2026 (latimes.com)

×2.42 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cal.com – Open Scheduling Infrastructure (cal.com)

×0.46 | 1 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Trawlx - Tweet text, likes, and retweets as JSON, no API keys (github.com/timstarkk)

×2.21 3 | 4 points by timstark 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Halal Food AI – Analyze food ingredients using Gemini (apple.com)

×1.13 | 2 points by ilkerguldali 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Caltech Astrophysicist Carl Grillmair Has Died (caltech.edu)

×1.69 21 | 3 points by cf100clunk 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why are my AI coding sessions falling apart mid-way? (techroom101.substack.com)

×0.43 | 1 points by ahaydar 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
High-Fidelity AI Voice Generator and Cloning (magicvoice.app)

×0.44 | 1 points by julian2026 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I found the most powerful large models in various fields (nanoai.run)

×0.46 | 1 points by Li_Evan 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Institute of Mentalphysics (atlasobscura.com)

×0.44 | 1 points by andsoitis 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Openclaw.net (github.com/clawdotnet)

×0.44 | 1 points by scopeT86 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much (nytimes.com)

×5.11 87 | 52 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 3 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta has an answer to YouTube Face (lolware.net)

×1.04 | 2 points by technion 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japanese Woodblock Print Search (ukiyo-e.org)

×0.83 4 #2 | 47 points by curmudgeon22 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automatically Learning Skills for Coding Agents (gepa-ai.github.io)

×1.05 | 2 points by handfuloflight 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why has GitHub billing support been unresponsive for weeks?

×1.03 | 2 points by huabin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???