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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NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (nasa.gov)

×3.76 13 #14 | 80 points by sohkamyung 3 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers (nist.gov)

×1.79 1 #1 | 190 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design (samhenri.gold)

×2.83 10 #13 | 246 points by cdrnsf 7 hours ago | 161 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner (isayeter.com)

×3.93 8 #12 | 693 points by yusufusta 13 hours ago | 362 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 (billchambers.me)

×3.26 2 #3 | 438 points by anabranch 10 hours ago | 444 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind (bbc.com)

×3.81 5 #11 | 95 points by tchalla 4 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war (theguardian.com)

×7.55 39 #46 | 262 points by trocado 8 hours ago | 180 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker (righto.com)

×1.80 3 #5 | 282 points by NelsonMinar 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work (sentinelcolorado.com)

×2.25 5 #4 | 160 points by gnabgib 7 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modern Common Lisp with FSet (common-lisp.dev)

×1.44 2 #8 | 96 points by larve 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine (jackpritz.com)

×1.58 9 #2 | 25 points by tyleo 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Surely no brand is more hated by web users that Cloudflare

×2.94 12 #24 | 9 points by chrisjj 46 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)

×2.75 7 #6 | 329 points by RickJWagner 14 hours ago | 322 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
State of Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)

×1.97 4 #10 | 342 points by f_r_d 15 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimizing Ruby Path Methods (byroot.github.io)

×1.05 8 #7 | 57 points by weaksauce 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon (abacusnoir.com)

×1.76 7 #9 | 25 points by agambrahma 4 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th (goodereader.com)

×3.36 36 #53 | 130 points by tech234a 11 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ran into a fake "LP" at a YC after-party and I need to vent

×3.69 73 | 4 points by danish00111 28 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Michael Rabin has died (wikipedia.org)

×2.54 4 #15 | 398 points by tkhattra 20 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A story about how I dug into the PostgreSQL sources to write my own WAL receiver (medium.com)

×1.28 3 #23 | 26 points by alzhi7 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Passkeys are one of the worst consumer rollouts I ever witnessed (bsky.app)

×3.70 70 | 5 points by mooreds 59 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Design (anthropic.com)

×4.48 21 #43 | 1185 points by meetpateltech 1 day ago | 739 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America will come to regret its war on taxes (economist.com)

×5.45 68 | 64 points by andsoitis 8 hours ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups (sumida-aquarium.com)

×1.65 6 #18 | 173 points by Lwrless 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood (bigthink.com)

×3.72 20 #45 | 197 points by sylvainkalache 15 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDRs to help make construction more productive (up.codes)

9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PgQue: Zero-Bloat Postgres Queue (github.com/NikolayS)

×2.27 5 #22 | 88 points by gmcabrita 10 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026 (ieee.org)

×1.67 21 #49 | 78 points by bryanrasmussen 9 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Young sons of U.S. marshal ride horseback from Oklahoma to New York (2018) (texascooppower.com)

×1.64 41 #70 | 50 points by mhb 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data (github.com/drasimwagan)

×1.02 13 #17 | 99 points by drasim 11 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors (danielmangum.com)

×0.99 12 #19 | 43 points by hasheddan 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The USDA's gardening zones have shifted. (Interactive app and map) (2024) (npr.org)

×2.14 26 #58 | 76 points by nuke-web3 10 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo (marcoinacio.com)

×1.77 17 #16 | 22 points by random_ 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fake Claude site installs malware that gives attackers access to your computer (malwarebytes.com)

×2.21 18 #52 | 14 points by ilamont 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bluetooth tracker hidden in postcard and mailed to warship exposed its location (tomshardware.com)

×2.37 16 #51 | 4 points by thunderbong 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SmallDocs – Markdown without the frustrations

×1.01 7 #29 | 60 points by FailMore 9 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert (sciencedaily.com)

×1.01 16 #21 | 84 points by t-3 11 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's OK to compare floating-points for equality (lisyarus.github.io)

×1.73 5 #33 | 183 points by coinfused 17 hours ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore (arstechnica.com)

×3.67 36 #75 | 69 points by pjmlp 10 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fuzix OS (fuzix.org)

×0.85 9 #31 | 77 points by DeathArrow 11 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Category Theory Illustrated – Orders (abuseofnotation.github.io)

×1.41 9 #32 | 234 points by boris_m 20 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)

×1.59 15 #27 | 236 points by sph 20 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)

×1.10 18 #25 | 66 points by peter_d_sherman 10 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound (sqlservercentral.com)

×1.57 3 #47 | 25 points by tcp_handshaker 6 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals (victorpoughon.github.io)

×1.83 10 #35 | 293 points by fouronnes3 23 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ban the sale of precise geolocation (lawfaremedia.org)

×5.02 45 | 737 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs (claudecodecamp.com)

×3.08 9 #56 | 686 points by aray07 1 day ago | 484 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Verkada Deceives School That Verkada Cameras Would Not "Brick" (ipvm.com)

×1.94 9 #57 | 4 points by jhonovich 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Keycard – API keys scoped to one subprocess, gone when it exits (keycard.studio)

×2.09 42 | 3 points by jijane 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Does your DSL little language need operator precedence? (utoronto.ca)

×1.02 16 #34 | 10 points by ingve 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI Subroutines – Run automation scripts inside your browser tab (rtrvr.ai)

×0.82 15 #36 | 33 points by arjunchint 7 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
80386 Memory Pipeline (nand2mario.github.io)

×1.13 24 #28 | 92 points by wicket 13 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956) (hex.ooo)

×3.44 13 #66 | 757 points by ColinWright 1 day ago | 298 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner (screenrant.com)

×2.94 17 #71 | 38 points by mindcrime 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
4-bit floating point FP4 (johndcook.com)

×1.25 18 #37 | 41 points by chmaynard 9 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018) (esa.int)

×2.23 3 #59 | 438 points by cybermango 1 day ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deutsche Telekom has a bad DKIM key (infosec.exchange)

×3.20 34 | 5 points by icco 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines (github.com/smol-machines)

×2.59 18 #76 | 446 points by binsquare 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mac-computer-use, an open-source clone of Codex Computer Use (github.com/TheGuyWithoutH)

×2.05 32 | 3 points by guywithnoh 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists (ipvm.com)

×5.46 31 | 81 points by jhonovich 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC (github.com/riyaneel)

×0.56 41 #20 | 4 points by riyaneel 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I’m spending months coding the old way (miguelconner.substack.com)

×2.28 2 #64 | 330 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 334 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IMDB recent update: user reviews can't be accessed anymore without an account (reddit.com)

×3.57 28 | 7 points by amelius 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court (nytimes.com)

×3.08 27 | 5 points by mitchbob 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Remoroo – Trying to fix memory in long-running coding agents (remoroo.com)

×0.66 23 #42 | 28 points by adhamghazali 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025) (tobyord.com)

×2.25 13 #79 | 295 points by louiereederson 1 day ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The simple geometry behind any road (sandboxspirit.com)

×1.38 27 #40 | 129 points by azhenley 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Towards trust in Emacs (eshelyaron.com)

×1.15 29 #39 | 181 points by eshelyaron 1 day ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2 (calif.io)

×2.62 9 #78 | 289 points by arkadiyt 1 day ago | 176 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America Lost the Mandate of Heaven (geohot.github.io)

×5.75 21 | 94 points by mefengl 18 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025) (ar-ms.me)

×0.94 23 #48 | 68 points by y1n0 16 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
HTML5 Coupler Loop – Working (neocities.org)

×2.52 19 | 4 points by rogmash 2 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Khan Ted Institute (khanted.org)

×1.72 18 | 3 points by capex 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language (lindbakk.com)

×1.37 44 #30 | 137 points by atomfinger 23 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 (simonwillison.net)

×1.75 16 | 4 points by simonw 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA Force (nasaforce.gov)

×2.00 15 | 315 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 310 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Old Computers Sucked (oldcomputerssucked.com)

×1.80 14 | 3 points by st_goliath 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A simplified model of Fil-C (corsix.org)

×1.27 7 #85 | 201 points by aw1621107 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump deal with IRS could see him given $14B in taxpayer money (9news.com.au)

×6.33 12 | 38 points by johnbarron 12 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

×4.17 11 | 59 points by decide1000 16 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO (techcrunch.com)

×1.94 10 | 3 points by AnhTho_FR 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects (twitter.com/finmoorhouse)

×2.16 1 #81 | 272 points by nowflux 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why is IPv6 so complicated? (github.com/becarpenter)

×3.39 33 #50 | 88 points by signa11 20 hours ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Unabomber Manifesto in 2026 – Scary Accurate (medium.com)

×2.20 7 | 4 points by ZguideZ 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sostactic – polynomial inequalities using sums-of-squares in Lean (github.com/mmaaz-git)

×0.75 47 #38 | 6 points by mmaaz 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap' (theguardian.com)

×12.02 5 | 283 points by tcp_handshaker 1 day ago | 209 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads (sidephone.com)

×1.62 46 #41 | 23 points by phantomathkg 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD (electrek.co)

×5.40 3 | 216 points by breve 1 day ago | 197 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock (github.com/paniclock)

×1.75 3 #86 | 246 points by seanieb 1 day ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI-Assisted Coding: Why a Distinguished Engineer Stopped Reading Code (vascoduarte.substack.com)

×2.20 1 | 4 points by e2e4 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???