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 Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill. (yyhh.org)

×2.49 #1 | 146 points by layer8 1 hour ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default (github.com/openai)

×2.86 9 #11 | 404 points by whimblepop 4 hours ago | 218 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Muse Wonder (meta.ai)

×5.14 12 #15 | 489 points by meetpateltech 6 hours ago | 262 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies aged 34 (sky.com)

×5.52 9 #13 | 48 points by austinallegro 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed (openfatigue.ai)

×4.41 28 #33 | 188 points by ajcp 4 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GLM-Legal (z.ai)

×1.91 4 #2 | 387 points by ilreb 7 hours ago | 220 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)

×2.62 14 #21 | 290 points by gumby 6 hours ago | 245 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who Is Vfmaddrnd231pd? (purplesyringa.moe)

×3.15 5 #3 | 60 points by pngmangi 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Modern Web App in C (prophitt.me)

×2.10 5 #4 | 344 points by prophittcorey 7 hours ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic (micahflee.com)

×6.20 81 | 150 points by DeepLogin 5 hours ago | 141 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey (linkedin.com)

×5.43 12 #23 | 159 points by svieira 5 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phreak.ing – Internet Phone Switch (phreak.ing)

×1.12 7 #5 | 33 points by rickcarlino 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done (avclub.com)

×3.57 35 #48 | 70 points by pavel_lishin 3 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thinking will become a hobby (spinellis.gr)

×2.40 8 #22 | 198 points by pranitha_m 6 hours ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? (mortoray.com)

×6.21 76 | 307 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth (bbc.com)

×4.44 55 #71 | 580 points by Betelbuddy 13 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Publishers Killed the Paperback, Then Blamed Readers (jacobin.com)

×1.62 8 #25 | 91 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer (wired.com)

×2.99 21 #39 | 134 points by rndsignals 6 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum (markround.com)

×0.95 13 #6 | 58 points by zdw 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe (tomshardware.com)

×3.54 13 #7 | 364 points by Zeekaas 11 hours ago | 592 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions (github.com/qgis)

×2.32 9 #30 | 361 points by bwnkl 11 hours ago | 391 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
French supermarkets suffer fridge shutdown after 'unprecedented' cyberattack (yahoo.com)

×4.61 69 | 154 points by thinkcontext 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making big downloads resumable in Firefox (lunarwatcher.codeberg.page)

×2.17 15 #8 | 47 points by speckx 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping (ericgoldman.org)

×1.41 4 #28 | 74 points by speckx 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver (github.com/h0m3us3r)

×2.13 15 #10 | 233 points by djfergus 10 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack (bbc.com)

×2.27 65 | 143 points by cataflam 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Today we're laying off a large part of the Airtable team " (twitter.com/fedesimio)

×4.10 45 #72 | 35 points by tortilla 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age (bbc.com)

×1.98 16 #12 | 240 points by scrlk 11 hours ago | 289 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Agent37 (YC F26) – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents

×0.68 20 #9 | 79 points by 6 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later (taylor.town)

×1.34 13 #17 | 112 points by surprisetalk 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Passkeys are a trap (nonfunctional.substack.com)

×6.83 21 #52 | 1008 points by laurex 1 day ago | 535 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries (github.com/morluto)

×1.52 4 #36 | 78 points by taytus 6 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001) (pixelatron.com)

×1.11 19 #14 | 208 points by gregsadetsky 12 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues (githubstatus.com)

×1.18 10 #44 | 152 points by dkpk 10 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla Factory Plan Increase of Toxic Heavy Metal Emissions Near School (anonymous94538.substack.com)

×3.03 53 #88 | 19 points by DeepLogin 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fingerprints are the new cookies (royfish.dev)

×3.01 1 #37 | 699 points by royfish 1 day ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Martin Odersky – Keynote: The End of Programming? [video] (youtube.com)

×1.56 13 #50 | 20 points by fabianhjr 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The CEO's of Broadcom and Intel Say the Quiet Part Out Loud about AI and ROI (wolfstreet.com)

×1.50 7 #45 | 7 points by metadat 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser (brickbrag.com)

×0.80 20 #19 | 12 points by neuling 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Is Making Us Dumber – Unless We Fight Back (baromae.blogspot.com)

×4.77 51 | 9 points by odilelof 1 hour ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fable Took My Job (cendyne.dev)

×6.39 50 | 218 points by jllyhill 14 hours ago | 347 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (sciencealert.com)

×1.34 26 #16 | 215 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solar panels that plug into your wall (nationalgeographic.com)

×2.11 25 #18 | 84 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ricky Mondello responds to "Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them." (hachyderm.io)

×3.83 23 #67 | 23 points by latexr 4 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly (github.com/snuri00)

×1.57 25 #20 | 257 points by deadxwarrior 16 hours ago | 138 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (filippo.io)

×1.22 14 #32 | 81 points by gavide 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening (twitter.com/karpathy)

×3.62 #47 | 675 points by albertzeyer 1 day ago | 983 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefox 158 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support by Default (phoronix.com)

×2.02 6 #54 | 10 points by Bender 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EC users should be afraid of a US kill switch – not some new software (theregister.com)

×2.00 2 #51 | 18 points by CrankyBear 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly? (wordpress.com)

×2.55 36 #86 | 256 points by amosbatto 18 hours ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers (nanolathe.gg)

×2.58 2 #53 | 662 points by jttnr 1 day ago | 249 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA may have proof life once existed on Mars (cnn.com)

×2.45 39 | 4 points by alcover 52 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zod 4.6.6 compromised by malware? (github.com/colinhacks)

×2.29 38 | 177 points by luggage_bazooka 15 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity' (cnbc.com)

×3.71 37 | 238 points by m463 18 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns (theguardian.com)

×5.33 36 | 443 points by heyimada 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google (simonkoeck.com)

×2.12 25 #31 | 178 points by soeckly 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Type-safe HTML templating in Zig (lalinsky.com)

×1.13 30 #27 | 235 points by lukaslalinsky 18 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers (ashbyhq.com)

1 day ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Unmade Film Shaped Hayao Miyazaki (animationobsessive.substack.com)

×0.87 2 #57 | 57 points by vinhnx 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EXT4 Introducing IOmap Buffered I/O Path with Some Performance Gains (phoronix.com)

×2.01 19 #41 | 8 points by khalidkhair 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect (nyc.gov)

×3.59 #61 | 582 points by gregsadetsky 1 day ago | 315 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack (cloudflare.com)

×5.01 29 | 219 points by rooftopzen 18 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Obituary: Robert X. Cringley (facebook.com)

×1.65 4 #59 | 16 points by CharlesW 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres isn't slow, your storage is (clickhouse.com)

×1.52 27 | 167 points by saisrirampur 16 hours ago | 179 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Empty shelves likely at Nederlands Albert Heijn due to "Cyber incident" (nltimes.nl)

×1.56 1 #64 | 23 points by neom 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby (julik.nl)

×1.57 24 #42 | 86 points by julik 12 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Calculus with Julia (jverzani.github.io)

×1.45 33 #34 | 252 points by subset 21 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Chkit – Schema, migrations and backfills for ClickHouse (like Drizzle) (github.com/obsessiondb)

×0.81 23 | 4 points by keks0r 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion? (theonion.com)

×2.35 6 #63 | 369 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M theft claims (crypto.news)

×2.83 21 | 80 points by thm 13 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bot traffic from Yandex (cloudflare.com)

×5.18 20 | 645 points by walrus01 1 day ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones (shokunin.studio)

×4.72 19 | 126 points by riffraff 16 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025) (thetravel.com)

×0.36 47 #26 | 6 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C (sebsite.pw)

×0.73 45 #29 | 62 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epic Reportedly Pushing Devs to Use AI, Delays Star Wars and Marvel Shooter (ign.com)

×2.27 16 | 4 points by password54321 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf] (teorth.github.io)

×2.42 41 #35 | 520 points by Anon84 1 day ago | 515 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ukraine strikes didn't blow up Russian disinformation on social (machinesociety.ai)

×1.68 14 | 3 points by mikelgan 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cartographers of North Korea (2019) (wonyoung.so)

×1.49 38 #40 | 314 points by edent 1 day ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Doory – Open-Source Canva (github.com/shaongitbd)

×1.49 36 #43 | 203 points by acley 22 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p (github.com/SaarthurR)

×1.39 56 #24 | 53 points by SaarthRanka 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm sorry, but you still have to think (itsallaboutthebit.com)

×4.46 10 | 432 points by drogus 1 day ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her (inc.com)

×3.29 9 | 267 points by bhrlady 1 day ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adm Programming Language (github.com/admlang)

×1.70 8 | 3 points by cthackers 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UK data centre giant removed evidence of China deal ahead of $35B listing (telegraph.co.uk)

×1.15 7 | 3 points by ilamont 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit (yandex.cloud)

×4.55 7 #78 | 619 points by defly 1 day ago | 766 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Orion2re: A restoration effort for the Master of Orion II game engine (github.com/orion2re)

×1.82 5 | 3 points by JohnHammersley 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agentic BSS Explained: AI-Native Model, Architecture and Use Cases [pdf] (framerusercontent.com)

×1.89 4 | 3 points by y2so 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil (insideclimatenews.org)

×3.94 3 | 402 points by gumby 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Jev to make your agents write the code and design the app the way you do (a7ul.com)

×1.15 2 | 3 points by atulfiled 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help (nitter.net)

×3.34 1 | 470 points by ForHackernews 1 day ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???