Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

These are the current stories on the Hacker News Front page ranked by the raw score produced by the HN formula, with no moderation penalties or bonuses applied. This makes the impact of moderation on the HN frontpage visible (e.g. off-topic/non-tech stories are ranked higher). Click on the colorful stats below each story to see detailed historical charts. Click here for additional ranking algorithms

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AI Responses May Include Mistakes (os2museum.com)

×3.14 10 #11 | 132 points by userbinator 3 hours ago | 103 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Beware of Fast-Math (simonbyrne.github.io)

×1.73 1 #1 | 52 points by blobcode 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Photos taken inside musical instruments (dpreview.com)

×3.70 1 #2 | 609 points by worik 12 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's working for YC companies since the AI boom (jamesin.substack.com)

×1.67 1 #3 | 55 points by jseidel 3 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens (microcenter.com)

×4.76 24 #29 | 226 points by modeless 10 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google Duo will be replaced by Google Meet in Sept 2025 (9to5google.com)

×2.54 20 #26 | 17 points by phantomathkg 2 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
People stuck using ancient Windows computers (bbc.com)

×5.46 84 | 6 points by rstreefland 28 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Simpler Backoff (commaok.xyz)

×1.46 3 #5 | 45 points by todsacerdoti 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet (stanford.edu)

×2.17 1 #8 | 271 points by mfiguiere 13 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an AI TypeScript Engineer to connect 100s of SaaS (ycombinator.com)

2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech (jacobin.com)

×5.39 40 #51 | 11 points by jrepinc 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis (gomomento.com)

×2.17 8 #4 | 171 points by cebert 10 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude (techcrunch.com)

×3.21 18 #31 | 99 points by kordlessagain 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI (bondcap.com)

×2.04 2 #16 | 138 points by kjhughes 10 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cerebras achieves 2,500T/s on Llama 4 Maverick (400B) (cerebras.ai)

×1.80 8 #7 | 40 points by ByteAtATime 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine (cnn.com)

×4.46 7 #9 | 415 points by lwo32k 19 hours ago | 694 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gradients Are the New Intervals (mattkeeter.com)

×1.99 11 #6 | 15 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine (github.com/wzhudev)

×1.74 5 #13 | 98 points by flashblaze 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learn touch typing – it's worth it (typequicker.com)

×2.85 50 #69 | 42 points by absoluteunit1 5 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Beating Google's kernelCTF PoW using AVX512 (anemato.de)

×1.72 8 #12 | 282 points by anematode 16 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jerry Lewis's “The Day the Clown Cried” discovered in Sweden after 53 years (thenationalnews.com)

×1.71 13 #34 | 156 points by danso 12 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300k deaths – most of them children (thetimes.com)

×4.09 20 #42 | 5 points by mnewme 58 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning (scientificamerican.com)

×3.67 26 #49 | 46 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent (github.com/cheyao)

×1.69 9 #15 | 150 points by Cyao 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robot is 3D-printed upside-down in one piece, then walks out of the printer (newatlas.com)

×0.93 5 #30 | 9 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's your most unpopular dev opinion?

×3.92 65 | 7 points by Sourabhsss1 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services (acm.org)

×1.89 9 #18 | 327 points by tanelpoder 20 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
She Got an Abortion. So a Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down (eff.org)

×3.54 63 | 4 points by mdp2021 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsandbox: Virtual Machines that feel and perform like containers (github.com/microsandbox)

×2.48 12 #17 | 296 points by makeboss 19 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCP Defender – OSS AI Firewall for Protecting MCP in Cursor/Claude etc (mcpdefender.com)

×0.83 16 #14 | 34 points by gsundeep 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every 5x5 Nonogram (pixelogic.app)

×2.05 4 #27 | 59 points by eieio 8 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs (pluralistic.net)

×1.76 12 #20 | 99 points by GreenWatermelon 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
L.A. council backs $30 minimum wage for tourism workers, despite warnings (latimes.com)

×1.99 13 #46 | 6 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Could AI Make a Scorsese Movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky Discuss (ft.com)

×2.16 20 #54 | 5 points by admp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Java Virtual Threads Ate My Memory: A Web Crawler's Tale of Speed vs. Memory (medium.com)

×1.16 14 #21 | 69 points by dariobalinzo 11 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work (capjs.js.org)

×1.58 13 #23 | 132 points by tiagorangel 16 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How large should your sample size be? (vickiboykis.com)

×0.99 13 #24 | 24 points by sebg 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The radix 2^51 trick (2017) (chosenplaintext.ca)

×2.02 15 #53 | 403 points by blobcode 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?

×2.16 23 #62 | 210 points by VladVladikoff 22 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
De Bruijn notation, and why it's useful (blueberrywren.dev)

×1.14 2 #38 | 127 points by blueberry87 17 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
C++ to Rust Phrasebook (brown.edu)

×3.26 19 #22 | 51 points by wcrichton 10 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taylor Swift Buys Back and Will Reissue First Six Albums (variety.com)

×4.02 31 #73 | 8 points by homarp 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code (sakana.ai)

×2.35 15 #28 | 180 points by birriel 21 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vrs: Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia (github.com/leoshimo)

×2.52 17 #61 | 121 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator (netbymatt.com)

×3.00 35 #80 | 687 points by adam_gyroscope 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ray Tracing in J (nprescott.com)

×1.00 21 #25 | 64 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?

×1.12 44 | 6 points by juanse 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Human coders are still better than LLMs (antirez.com)

×5.14 29 #77 | 602 points by longwave 1 day ago | 703 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection (ssrn.com)

×1.88 16 #65 | 99 points by marojejian 17 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview

×3.29 41 | 144 points by leeny 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Randomness Requirements for Security (ietf.org)

×0.86 32 #19 | 8 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copy Excel to Markdown Table (and vice versa) (thisdavej.com)

×1.36 20 #32 | 87 points by thisdavej 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Smart Silence – Remind your iPhone to stay quiet in quiet places (apple.com)

×1.01 20 #33 | 36 points by ebagsnave 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FLUX.1 Kontext (bfl.ai)

×2.69 17 #71 | 504 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure (wasp.sh)

×1.12 18 #37 | 62 points by Liriel 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When will M&S take online orders again? (moneyweek.com)

×1.48 8 #48 | 74 points by fredley 15 hours ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Asdf Overlay – High performance in-game overlay library for Windows (github.com/storycraft)

×0.83 1 #56 | 63 points by storycraft 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Leap – Full-stack AI developer agent that deploys to AWS (leap.new)

×0.85 1 #59 | 14 points by machekb 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: W++ – A Python-style scripting language for .NET with NuGet support (github.com/sinisterMage)

×0.82 19 #40 | 90 points by sinisterMage 18 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adam Riess and the Hubble tension (theatlantic.com)

×1.39 25 #35 | 84 points by samizdis 18 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic (wave3.social)

×4.30 30 | 286 points by nswizzle31 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oldest known tools made from whale bones dated to 20k years ago (apnews.com)

×0.64 26 #36 | 6 points by gmays 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Practical SDR: Getting started with software-defined radio (nostarch.com)

×1.65 22 #85 | 256 points by teleforce 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Atomics and Concurrency (redixhumayun.github.io)

×1.29 20 #44 | 133 points by LAC-Tech 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Italian Brainrot (wikipedia.org)

×2.28 14 #79 | 4 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook (stribny.name)

×2.17 25 | 426 points by petr25102018 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr) (radio-astronomy.org)

×0.99 28 #39 | 123 points by zeristor 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI video just took a startling leap in realism (arstechnica.com)

×2.04 23 | 3 points by doener 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My website is ugly because I made it (goodinternetmagazine.com)

×3.20 22 | 533 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hardware IDs, HWID Bans, HWID Spoofers, What Are These? (steemit.com)

×1.87 21 | 3 points by kulaciz 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sorry, I Still Think Mr Is Wrong About Usaid (astralcodexten.com)

×1.94 20 | 3 points by Michelangelo11 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups (thriftytraveler.com)

×3.71 19 | 299 points by _tqr3 1 day ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Triangle splatting: radiance fields represented by triangles (trianglesplatting.github.io)

×1.38 26 #47 | 158 points by ath92 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sid Meier's Pirates – In-depth (2017) (shot97retro.blogspot.com)

×1.89 17 | 3 points by benbreen 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams (krebsonsecurity.com)

×2.31 17 #58 | 177 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 240 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCP Server SDK in Bash (github.com/muthuishere)

×1.24 19 #57 | 136 points by muthuishere 1 day ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Git-Add–Interactive with Enhancements (github.com/cwarden)

×0.62 32 #45 | 65 points by xn 19 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Losing the War for the Free Internet (anarc.at)

×2.25 13 | 4 points by pabs3 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal (bloomberg.com)

×9.31 12 | 562 points by master_crab 2 days ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Smiling Public Man (skidmore.edu)

×0.60 39 #41 | 41 points by crescit_eundo 16 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return (wordpress.com)

×3.41 10 | 313 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen (cybercultural.com)

×2.06 9 | 411 points by panic 2 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Identifying Unmarked Iron (castironcollector.com)

×0.29 40 #43 | 5 points by lelandfe 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bridged Indexes in OrioleDB: architecture, internals and everyday use? (orioledb.com)

×0.88 18 #66 | 74 points by pella 22 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Build API integrations with SQL and YAML – no SaaS lock-in, no drag-and-drop UIs (github.com/paloaltodatabases)

×0.82 33 #52 | 42 points by maxgrinev 17 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Who Cares Era (dansinker.com)

×6.77 5 | 681 points by NotInOurNames 2 days ago | 708 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust (desktopdocs.com)

×2.78 4 | 583 points by katrinarodri 2 days ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learning C3 (alloc.dev)

×1.39 12 #76 | 248 points by lerno 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Onlook – Open-source, visual-first Cursor for designers (github.com/onlook-dev)

×5.86 14 #75 | 205 points by hoakiet98 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tokenization for language modeling: BPE vs. Unigram Language Modeling (2020) (ndingwall.github.io)

×0.72 40 #50 | 69 points by phewlink 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???