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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I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program (honeypot.net)

×3.16 6 #7 | 405 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times (bandaancha.eu)

×3.39 89 | 390 points by akyuu 4 hours ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney (hollywoodreporter.com)

×3.36 17 #20 | 216 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says (theregister.com)

×4.16 87 | 119 points by Bender 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

×5.06 8 #13 | 130 points by morpheuskafka 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Routines (claude.com)

×2.35 5 #1 | 268 points by matthieu_bl 4 hours ago | 162 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal (iop.org)

×4.14 40 #47 | 131 points by randycupertino 3 hours ago | 213 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenSSL 4.0.0 (github.com/openssl)

×2.72 3 #11 | 143 points by petecooper 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive (techcrunch.com)

×2.24 7 #2 | 432 points by jrm-veris 8 hours ago | 128 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing (eff.org)

×4.30 2 #12 | 51 points by salkahfi 1 hour ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others (rareese.com)

×5.56 6 #17 | 865 points by rrreese 13 hours ago | 529 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work (aphyr.com)

×2.90 24 #36 | 231 points by aphyr 6 hours ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0 (medium.com)

×2.13 2 #15 | 50 points by martythemaniak 2 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

×5.36 77 | 159 points by Cider9986 6 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
jj – the CLI for Jujutsu (steveklabnik.github.io)

×2.72 4 #19 | 457 points by tigerlily 11 hours ago | 393 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas (yale.edu)

×3.09 56 #72 | 145 points by Brajeshwar 6 hours ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense (openai.com)

×0.88 13 #4 | 23 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
5NF and Database Design (databasedesignbook.com)

×0.96 13 #5 | 104 points by petalmind 5 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Orange Pi 6 Plus (taoofmac.com)

×1.53 16 #3 | 58 points by rcarmo 3 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DaVinci Resolve – Photo (blackmagicdesign.com)

×4.18 4 #24 | 1021 points by thebiblelover7 19 hours ago | 256 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes (ziglang.org)

×6.17 18 #39 | 100 points by ska80 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (google.com)

×3.67 5 #27 | 795 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 454 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome (blog.google)

×1.03 17 #6 | 60 points by xnx 4 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's talk space toilets (mceglowski.substack.com)

×1.06 16 #8 | 99 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ClawRun – Deploy and manage AI agents in seconds (github.com/clawrun-sh)

×1.04 27 #52 | 25 points by afshinmeh 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
guide.world: A compendium of travel guides (guide.world)

×0.82 17 #9 | 42 points by firloop 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents (github.com/dropseed)

×0.82 17 #10 | 35 points by focom 4 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client (pages.casa)

×1.25 12 #40 | 64 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street? (github.com/ginlix-ai)

×0.94 15 #14 | 80 points by zc2610 6 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them (anchor.host)

×4.38 1 #31 | 1135 points by speckx 1 day ago | 317 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock (theatlantic.com)

×4.58 60 | 7 points by breve 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue (lantian.pub)

×0.76 24 #56 | 39 points by speckx 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub Stacked PRs (github.com/gh-stack)

×3.91 5 #38 | 861 points by ezekg 1 day ago | 490 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions (sebastian-jais.de)

×4.82 57 | 86 points by gleipnircode 8 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story (tobru.ch)

×4.78 56 | 197 points by teichmann 13 hours ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Introspective Diffusion Language Models (introspective-diffusion.github.io)

×1.48 15 #21 | 212 points by zagwdt 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (2020) (techtinkering.com)

×0.77 19 #18 | 40 points by PaulHoule 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stack Overflow moderator publicly leaks private flagger information (stackoverflow.com)

×2.10 4 #42 | 4 points by hskdididn 26 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps (kelet.ai)

×0.70 7 #32 | 37 points by almogbaku 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture

×3.11 51 | 107 points by barratia 10 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction (github.com/yantrikos)

×0.97 18 #23 | 40 points by pranabsarkar 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autonomous Robot Brigade Successfully Retook Russian Positions in Ukraine (thetimes.com)

×1.70 18 #60 | 11 points by alephnerd 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open (nim-lang.org)

×0.89 #43 | 101 points by moigagoo 10 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All 5 units of life's genetic code were just discovered in an asteroid sample (theconversation.com)

×2.09 22 #66 | 21 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Amazon Is Buying Starlink Rival Globalstar in $11B Deal (wsj.com)

×1.89 6 #51 | 10 points by JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models (thetypicalset.com)

×1.14 20 #26 | 119 points by remilouf 11 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users (rozumem.xyz)

×0.77 31 #16 | 8 points by rozumem 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug (kirancodes.me)

×2.08 20 #28 | 372 points by bumbledraven 21 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nucleus Nouns (ben-mini.com)

×0.71 24 #25 | 51 points by bewal416 7 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TN's Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers (wpln.org)

×2.50 41 | 4 points by bediger4000 48 minutes ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mamdani Plans to Open City-Owned Grocery Store in East Harlem (nytimes.com)

×3.10 40 | 6 points by paulpauper 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kontext CLI – Credential broker for AI coding agents in Go (github.com/kontext-dev)

×0.61 23 #29 | 57 points by mc-serious 7 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict (buttondown.com)

×1.16 16 #37 | 121 points by rfarley04 12 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Carol's Causal Conundrum: a zine intro to causally ordered message delivery (decomposition.al)

×0.54 32 #22 | 37 points by evakhoury 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tactical Success, Strategic Failure? Washington Walks the Path to Defeat in Iran (warontherocks.com)

×2.43 36 | 4 points by colonCapitalDee 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit (joanwestenberg.com)

×5.19 35 | 253 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 150 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech–Again (eff.org)

×1.94 2 #55 | 39 points by hn_acker 6 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amazon acquires Apple's satellite partner (sixcolors.com)

×1.45 3 #61 | 17 points by CharlesW 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain (arstechnica.com)

×2.33 3 #62 | 39 points by ckemere 7 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The secrets of the Shinkansen (worksinprogress.news)

×1.96 27 #87 | 149 points by WillDaSilva 15 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Distributed DuckDB Instance (github.com/citguru)

×1.17 31 #30 | 146 points by citguru 15 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A simpler, faster way to unlock 1Password (1password.com)

×1.06 4 #58 | 6 points by doener 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The exponential curve behind open source backlogs (armanckeser.com)

×1.03 5 #68 | 65 points by armanckeser 10 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Went to China to See Its Progress on A.I. We Can't Beat It (nytimes.com)

×2.00 27 | 3 points by suvan 39 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer (cfallin.org)

×0.66 32 #33 | 60 points by tekknolagi 9 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails.

×2.80 25 | 20 points by ssiddharth 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
California moves forward with its 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' (deseret.com)

×1.85 24 | 3 points by donsupreme 42 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?

×0.95 23 | 7 points by mijustin 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pave – CLI for Managing Path (github.com/microsoft)

×1.75 22 | 4 points by cpendery 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It (ciphercue.com)

×1.34 21 | 84 points by adulion 13 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist' (404media.co)

×5.40 20 | 163 points by wibbily 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets (github.com/sterlingcrispin)

×1.99 7 #65 | 459 points by m-hodges 1 day ago | 261 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Single-Dose Creatine Reduces Sleep Deprivation-Induced Deterioration (mdpi.com)

×2.07 5 #78 | 35 points by pvsukale3 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii (github.com/fabienmillet)

×1.53 40 #34 | 235 points by throwawayk7h 22 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rails at the Center of DNSimple (rubyonrails.org)

×1.81 16 | 3 points by robbyrussell 57 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
.NET 11 Preview 3 is now available (microsoft.com)

×1.89 15 | 3 points by vyrotek 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Is France Moving from Microsoft Windows to Linux (qazinform.com)

×1.76 14 | 4 points by losgehts 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can Claude Fly a Plane? (thanks.fish)

×1.90 13 | 101 points by casi 15 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring (easypost.com)

2 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make tmux pretty and usable (2024) (hamvocke.com)

×2.29 3 #77 | 425 points by speckx 1 day ago | 264 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone (techcrunch.com)

×4.09 10 | 253 points by ZeidJ 1 day ago | 388 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional (nypost.com)

×2.53 15 #67 | 443 points by t-3 1 day ago | 327 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All elementary functions from a single binary operator (arxiv.org)

×3.46 3 #80 | 831 points by pizza 1 day ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Servo is now available on crates.io (servo.org)

×2.28 8 #76 | 468 points by ffin 1 day ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: GUI or TUI for Coding Harness?

×1.78 6 | 3 points by nwparker 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem (kirancodes.me)

×0.94 51 #35 | 101 points by tie-in 16 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Design and implementation of DuckDB internals (duckdb.org)

×1.42 43 #44 | 175 points by mpweiher 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety (aphyr.com)

×2.22 3 | 317 points by aphyr 1 day ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024) (quantamagazine.org)

×2.28 2 | 103 points by paulpauper 17 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)

×1.70 1 | 324 points by soheilpro 1 day ago | 106 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???