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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We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some) (landh.tech)

×2.81 #1 | 275 points by topsycatt 3 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80 billion (twitter.com/elonmusk)

×14.13 16 #18 | 29 points by rvz 11 minutes ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Kerala got rich (aeon.co)

×2.35 1 #4 | 256 points by lordleft 5 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Swiftly 1.0 (swift.org)

×5.27 8 #12 | 31 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There's a psychological burden of digital life even heavier than distraction (chrbutler.com)

×1.76 3 #2 | 30 points by delaugust 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'You're His Property': How One Sheriff Used Inmate Labor on His Family Farm (nytimes.com)

×7.72 85 | 25 points by whack 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finley (YC W21) Is Hiring a Technical Implementations Specialist (rippling.com)

32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car (cardinalnews.org)

×2.93 20 #28 | 446 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 372 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust (startifact.com)

×1.99 6 #3 | 229 points by robin_reala 6 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Art of DJing: Avalon Emerson (2019) (ra.co)

×1.47 4 #6 | 38 points by easyThrowaway 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hexi – Modern header-only network binary serialisation for C++ (github.com/EmberEmu)

×0.97 6 #5 | 59 points by Chaosvex 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The LLM Jailbreaking Bible: Code Implementation and Overview (generalanalysis.com)

×4.23 79 | 7 points by rexpository 18 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is This Sex Offender Map in Japan Legal? (unseen-japan.com)

×1.96 78 | 12 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japanese scientists create new plastic that dissolves in saltwater overnight (newatlas.com)

×2.78 15 #29 | 137 points by bentobean 7 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read (refactoringenglish.com)

×2.48 6 #9 | 244 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL (ditto.com)

×1.51 2 #14 | 158 points by stusmall 8 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Built Faster Reinforcement Learning in C# Solo Than Teams Did with Python (rlmatrix.com)

×4.94 74 | 7 points by adriansieradzki 29 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Real Book (2021) (99percentinvisible.org)

×0.95 7 #11 | 61 points by Tomte 4 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decomposing a Factorial into Large Factors (wordpress.com)

×0.65 11 #8 | 92 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions (depot.dev)

×1.27 1 #21 | 81 points by jacobwg 6 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees (caryinstitute.org)

×0.70 1 #22 | 115 points by sohkamyung 7 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a modern durable execution engine from first principles (restate.dev)

×1.07 2 #24 | 38 points by whoiskatrin 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD (euroquis.nl)

×2.53 4 #27 | 32 points by hggh 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Superhyperbola (johndcook.com)

×0.79 14 #10 | 27 points by jihadjihad 3 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple needs a Snow Sequoia (ofb.biz)

×1.60 5 #30 | 908 points by trbutler 23 hours ago | 718 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Southeast Asia, affecting Myanmar and Thailand (twitter.com/TaraBull808)

×2.74 14 #40 | 246 points by testrun 12 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Biology of a Large Language Model (transformer-circuits.pub)

×1.50 4 #31 | 96 points by frozenseven 7 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Architecture Patterns with Python (cosmicpython.com)

×1.70 9 #19 | 398 points by asicsp 15 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump pardons three co-founders of BitMEX crypto exchange (cnbc.com)

×9.80 62 | 15 points by pulisse 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is happening?

×2.88 61 | 6 points by vlan121 37 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New College fires Chinese professor under controversial Florida law (tampabay.com)

×4.98 60 | 7 points by howard941 51 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimizing Matrix Multiplication on RDNA3 (seb-v.github.io)

×1.10 16 #16 | 18 points by skidrow 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debian Testing/Trixie removes systemd-resolved

×2.06 58 | 7 points by iam-TJ 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make money off your data (vox.com)

×2.18 1 #33 | 7 points by rmason 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building Statically Linked Go Executables with CGO and Zig (calabro.io)

×1.35 18 #17 | 81 points by todsacerdoti 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cursor IDE now remembers your coding prefs using MCP

×1.21 10 #26 | 70 points by roseway4 6 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are Levi's from Amazon different from Levi's from Levi's? (nymag.com)

×2.37 2 #35 | 120 points by randycupertino 9 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal (signalbot.one)

×1.27 25 #13 | 35 points by danslo 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval (reuters.com)

×2.12 5 #34 | 6 points by speckx 46 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump Pardons Nikola Founder Trevor Milton: 'He Did Nothing Wrong' (wsj.com)

×7.64 51 | 12 points by TheAlchemist 2 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests (phys.org)

×0.98 14 #55 | 160 points by PaulHoule 11 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tracing the thoughts of a large language model (anthropic.com)

×1.79 2 #44 | 945 points by Philpax 1 day ago | 336 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google discontinues Nest Protect smoke alarm and Nest x Yale lock (arstechnica.com)

×3.37 48 | 5 points by pseudolus 43 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs (twitter.com/skdh)

×3.10 35 #79 | 653 points by ksec 1 day ago | 1137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A cretaceous fly trap? Remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp (biomedcentral.com)

×0.56 30 #15 | 14 points by gnabgib 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: An open source alternative to Wakatime (wakana.io)

×1.34 45 | 35 points by jemiluv8 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US economic data at risk from Elon Musk's Doge cuts (ft.com)

×4.86 44 | 7 points by littlexsparkee 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Learn to code, ignore AI, then use AI to code even better (kyrylo.org)

×1.27 26 #74 | 141 points by kyrylo 11 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google is publishing the home addresses of developers without their consent

×1.62 42 | 112 points by ebenezerdon 10 hours ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) (merriam-webster.com)

×1.72 4 #46 | 584 points by Stratoscope 1 day ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel's rumored high-end Battlemage GPUs have been cancelled (techradar.com)

×1.73 40 | 3 points by voxadam 12 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Europe's Battle for Tech Sovereignty: Why OpenStack Matters [video] (vpetersson.com)

×2.54 15 #37 | 7 points by mvip 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I tried making artificial sunlight at home (victorpoughon.fr)

×2.01 #53 | 552 points by fouronnes3 1 day ago | 219 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Once an Economy Switches from Rules to Deals, It's Hard to Go Back (bloomberg.com)

×2.34 37 | 3 points by JumpCrisscross 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MilliForth-6502: The smallest Forth real programming language for 6502 (github.com/agsb)

×0.84 32 #23 | 89 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Things I would have told myself before building an autorouter (autorouting.com)

×1.22 14 #42 | 345 points by seveibar 20 hours ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub has gone – long live Forgejo (mastodon.social)

×3.00 7 #50 | 6 points by Helithumper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life (livescience.com)

×1.10 20 #38 | 274 points by wglb 18 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Town That Went Crazy for Crypto (nytimes.com)

×2.68 32 | 4 points by chris_va 49 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (microsoft.com)

×1.31 12 #48 | 350 points by luu 21 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003) (uchicago.edu)

×0.49 41 #20 | 48 points by cainxinth 7 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hyperlegibility (notboring.co)

×0.99 6 #68 | 18 points by jger15 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Fuzz All the Things – Using Fuzzing to Improve Our Agent's Capabilities (bismuth.sh)

×2.12 28 | 3 points by ianbutler 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi (kagi.com)

×2.20 27 | 353 points by lucgommans 22 hours ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft forces Windows 11 to use a Microsoft Account – removes bypassnro (windowscentral.com)

×3.29 26 | 5 points by josephcsible 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Knowledge Library MCP (devpost.com)

×1.22 27 #39 | 3 points by thstart 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs (computerworld.com)

×3.17 1 #66 | 283 points by cable2600 21 hours ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court (whitehouse.gov)

×2.41 23 | 5 points by legaltemp4u9 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: can Wireless-CarPlay dongles steal your data?

×0.41 44 #25 | 6 points by concerned_citi 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump Admin Spies on Social Media of Foreign Students (kenklippenstein.com)

×3.99 21 | 6 points by mdhb 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Auto-Formatting Prolog Code (occasionallycogent.com)

×2.74 20 | 4 points by Tomte 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using uv and PEP 723 for Self-Contained Python Scripts (thisdavej.com)

×1.66 16 #56 | 228 points by thisdavej 20 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Siri's 'Non-Existent' AI Features Spark Apple Legal Battle (techrepublic.com)

×2.64 18 | 4 points by todsacerdoti 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C (github.com/SAT-R)

×0.35 23 #51 | 169 points by bane 19 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Entropy Attacks (yp.to)

×1.19 43 #32 | 78 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
That Hit Song You Love Was a Total Fluke (hbr.org)

×1.42 6 #70 | 13 points by gradus_ad 4 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Can I hack my job search with inbound leads?

×1.95 14 | 3 points by jhgaylor 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI models miss disease in Black and female patients (science.org)

×1.84 11 #89 | 315 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 228 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Invention Turns Plastic Waste into Home Energy – No Solar Panels Needed (soscip.org)

×2.12 12 | 3 points by rmason 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude and MCP and Vanta could help auditors (vanta.com)

×2.68 11 | 4 points by llamaeng 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How I Choose What to Work On (2023) (tynan.com)

×0.81 38 #43 | 90 points by freemh 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Abundance isn't going to happen unless politicians are scared of the status quo (yimbyaction.org)

×3.28 #82 | 321 points by viajante1882 1 day ago | 479 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Take a Look at JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading and Linking (morling.dev)

×0.59 42 #41 | 43 points by ingve 10 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Uber adds new $10 shuttle rides between JFK Airport and Manhattan (engadget.com)

×2.78 7 | 4 points by chirau 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cash Flow Data Is Censorship-Resistant (fintechtakes.com)

×2.03 6 | 3 points by toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Big improvements to checkpoint performance in latest LangGraph Python (twitter.com/nfcampos)

×1.95 5 | 3 points by aviramha 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool (blender.org)

×3.80 15 #72 | 777 points by babuloseo 1 day ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My team loved to ship fast and sink later (rosesecurity.dev)

×2.19 29 #59 | 9 points by r0nan 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Moiré Than Meets the Eye: Uncovering the Quantum Potential of Phasons (lbl.gov)

×0.46 53 #36 | 16 points by gnabgib 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X Goes Down for Thousands Users (variety.com)

×2.03 1 | 3 points by bentobean 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???