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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LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego (avalovelace1.github.io)

×2.83 #1 | 85 points by nkko 2 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (hayman.net)

×7.09 14 #16 | 874 points by mattl 12 hours ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Starlink User Terminal Teardown (darknavy.org)

×2.14 #3 | 109 points by walterbell 4 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf] (usenix.org)

×1.33 1 #5 | 90 points by luu 4 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (github.com/voideditor)

×3.07 3 #2 | 690 points by sharjeelsayed 14 hours ago | 280 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (cnn.com)

×4.95 24 #30 | 528 points by saikatsg 14 hours ago | 821 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dead Reckoning (damninteresting.com)

×1.60 3 #4 | 41 points by repost_bot 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6 (gripdev.xyz)

×1.40 4 #12 | 37 points by tanelpoder 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (gatesnotes.com)

×6.03 40 #49 | 577 points by nrvn 17 hours ago | 574 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill (adafruit.com)

×10.97 79 #89 | 408 points by ptorrone 14 hours ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reservoir Sampling (samwho.dev)

×2.19 5 #6 | 370 points by chrisdemarco 14 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Usenix ATC Announcement (usenix.org)

×1.68 3 #9 | 36 points by eatbitseveryday 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code (anthropic.com)

×1.91 5 #8 | 140 points by namukang 9 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

×2.84 24 #38 | 426 points by troupo 18 hours ago | 332 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context (github.com/martinfama)

×1.23 8 #7 | 107 points by Bhulapi 9 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lego built full-size F1 cars for the Miami GP drivers' parade (nytimes.com)

×1.75 27 #43 | 23 points by jakubmazanec 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy (github.com/qpoint-io)

×1.97 16 #33 | 235 points by tylerflint 14 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of killing children with USAID cuts (ft.com)

×4.23 73 | 6 points by KnuthIsGod 59 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Workday gets contract from US agency behind DOGE staff cuts, no other bids (reuters.com)

×8.09 72 | 23 points by pulisse 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hill or High Water (royalsociety.org)

×0.58 9 #11 | 19 points by benbreen 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server (audiobookshelf.org)

×2.89 8 #13 | 30 points by fjk 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's be real about dependencies (alopex.li)

×3.29 69 | 4 points by itzlambda 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finding a Bug in Chromium (bou.ke)

×1.27 8 #15 | 38 points by bouk 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford (nexo.sh)

×3.82 63 #87 | 287 points by nexo-v1 17 hours ago | 238 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google to back three new nuclear projects (esgtoday.com)

×2.16 27 #52 | 275 points by aburan28 17 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC (phys.org)

×2.47 15 #41 | 5 points by jonbaer 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the US built 5k ships in WWII (construction-physics.com)

×2.51 13 #40 | 88 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (fusionenergybase.com)

×1.28 14 #14 | 192 points by sam 15 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code (ghiculescu.substack.com)

×1.47 17 #46 | 172 points by jermaustin1 14 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to start a school with your friends (prigoose.substack.com)

×2.15 3 #27 | 110 points by geverett 11 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser (packett.cool)

×1.37 11 #20 | 66 points by pierremenard 8 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ciro (YC S22) is hiring a software engineer to build AI agents for sales (ycombinator.com)

14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gas stoves nearly double children's cancer risk, Stanford study shows (sfchronicle.com)

×8.02 58 | 15 points by divbzero 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gorilla study reveals complex pros and cons of friendship (sciencedaily.com)

×1.46 8 #26 | 51 points by lentoutcry 7 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stability by Design (potetm.com)

×1.33 7 #28 | 97 points by potetm 11 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Problems with scheduling apps like Calendly

×4.51 55 | 7 points by chetansorted 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Verification, the Key to AI (2001) (incompleteideas.net)

×1.39 27 #10 | 7 points by anjneymidha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Abandoned Mines Collapse (practical.engineering)

×1.62 21 #17 | 171 points by impish9208 15 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Switzerland plans to ban anonymity and data retention by decree (heise.de)

×5.44 52 | 8 points by KingOfCoders 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease (jamanetwork.com)

×3.40 51 | 13 points by stevenwoo 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Test your typing speed and accuracy with movie scripts (atypescriptgame.com)

×1.01 18 #23 | 20 points by andout_ 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Investigation: Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford (stanfordreview.org)

×3.63 49 | 6 points by libpcap 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prepare your apps for Google Play's 16 KB page size compatibility requirement (googleblog.com)

×1.88 18 #25 | 56 points by ingve 9 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference (radioandnukes.substack.com)

×1.56 7 #51 | 300 points by c16 22 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why do LLMs have emergent properties? (johndcook.com)

×1.65 14 #59 | 72 points by Bostonian 11 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server (github.com/astral-sh)

×3.66 10 #56 | 863 points by arathore 1 day ago | 282 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy (asmartbear.com)

×1.50 12 #35 | 33 points by doppp 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Static as a Server (overreacted.io)

×1.16 19 #29 | 100 points by danabramov 13 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Switzerland Referendum on Electronic ID (astralcodexten.com)

×2.07 42 | 3 points by neiman 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Haskell Crash Course (2021) (isomorphism.xyz)

×2.10 41 | 3 points by agnishom 51 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cogentcore: Open-source framework for building multi-platform apps with Go (github.com/cogentcore)

×1.33 27 #24 | 28 points by kristianp 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to harden GitHub Actions (wiz.io)

×1.42 10 #42 | 202 points by moyer 20 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants (mycoria.org)

×1.85 12 #65 | 320 points by doener 1 day ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange (mpg.de)

×0.98 36 #18 | 66 points by gmays 11 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mathematical Problem Solving (lmu.de)

×1.25 16 #39 | 75 points by ibobev 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China exports jump 8% in April despite tariffs (ft.com)

×4.31 35 | 8 points by JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Catalonia Reignites Its Court Fight with Spain over Spyware (politico.eu)

×2.53 34 | 4 points by jruohonen 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How linear regression works intuitively and how it leads to gradient descent (briefer.cloud)

×2.00 5 #63 | 320 points by lucasfcosta 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013) (electrospaces.net)

×1.70 10 #69 | 209 points by lastdong 22 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China's PL-15 Air-to-Air Missile Appears to Have Been Used in Combat (twz.com)

×3.99 31 | 7 points by Alupis 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenRouter Model Price Comparison (compare-openrouter-models.pages.dev)

×1.71 30 | 27 points by pacific01 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
For better or for worse, the overload (2024) (consteval.ca)

×0.40 40 #22 | 8 points by HeliumHydride 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models (m-arriola.com)

×0.86 32 #31 | 58 points by t55 12 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is Reddit now a hostile place to new users?

×1.89 27 | 3 points by hgl 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O (pganalyze.com)

×2.39 16 #81 | 551 points by lfittl 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Dark History Behind Radio Communication (substack.substack.com)

×1.67 25 | 7 points by TheLadyParadox 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF (richardcocks.github.io)

×2.11 22 #45 | 110 points by eterm 18 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use (jetbrains.com)

×3.91 23 | 603 points by AlexeyBrin 1 day ago | 373 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Throwaway Code: Don't recycle, throw it away (2017) (sung.codes)

×0.38 48 #21 | 5 points by sails 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Newsreels from the UCLA Film and Television Archive (newsreels.net)

×1.08 10 #80 | 24 points by billfor 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem (mistral.ai)

×2.98 15 #86 | 490 points by _lateralus_ 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor (zed.dev)

×4.83 19 | 703 points by vquemener 2 days ago | 409 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Brief History of Cursor's Tab-Completion (coplay.dev)

×0.87 37 #36 | 30 points by josvdwest 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Brunswick, Canada medical mystery: study finds no evidence of brain illness (theguardian.com)

×1.71 17 | 3 points by normie3000 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC (mfkl.github.io)

×3.07 16 | 519 points by cempaka 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014) (nbcnews.com)

×3.79 15 | 273 points by __natty__ 2 days ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI focused on brain regions recreates what you're looking at (2024) (newscientist.com)

×0.85 33 #44 | 64 points by openquery 16 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk (artnet.com)

×1.22 44 #34 | 97 points by isaacfrond 19 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heat stress mitigation by trees and shelters at bus stops (sciencedirect.com)

×1.45 18 #61 | 139 points by rntn 23 hours ago | 118 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement (github.com/rybbit-io)

×2.17 11 | 347 points by samdung 1 day ago | 155 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Robotics Meets the Culinary Arts (epfl.ch)

×0.40 62 #19 | 3 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs (felixrieseberg.github.io)

×4.00 9 | 1092 points by felixrieseberg 2 days ago | 268 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Built Mentionedby.ai to Track How AI Models Answer Questions

×2.10 8 | 4 points by nikin_mat 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Rise and Fall of the Visual Telegraph (2017) (parisianfields.com)

×0.47 47 #37 | 32 points by geox 11 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Web search on the Anthropic API (anthropic.com)

×1.74 7 #78 | 268 points by cmogni1 1 day ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history search (rearview-ai.vercel.app)

×1.07 5 | 27 points by ApbNfMR 11 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days (phys.org)

×1.11 40 #47 | 130 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So Much Blood (dynomight.net)

×2.70 3 | 433 points by debesyla 1 day ago | 204 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Coalton to implement a quantum compiler (2022) (coalton-lang.github.io)

×0.58 41 #48 | 52 points by andsoitis 16 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Implementing State Machines in PostgreSQL (2017) (felixge.de)

×0.78 17 #73 | 23 points by todsacerdoti 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???