Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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pgxbackup: Continuity Support for pgBackRest (thebuild.com)

×0.65 57 #15 | 7 points by Wingy 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Networking Doesn't Work (os2museum.com)

×0.79 18 #7 | 20 points by kencausey 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Re: Slow USB storage device? (util-Linux-ng, 2010) (marc.info)

×0.97 16 #38 | 12 points by juliusdavies 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Buffon's needle problem visualized (ivanludvig.dev)

×0.72 35 #33 | 14 points by IvanLudvig 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Built a Museum Exhibit (knhash.in)

×0.53 55 #27 | 17 points by kn81198 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jonathan Swift's Last Joke (newyorker.com)

×0.99 12 #37 | 36 points by samizdis 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Testing macOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

×1.00 18 #10 | 69 points by zdw 6 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Frizbee is a tool you may throw a tag at and it comes back with a checksum (github.com/stacklok)

×0.28 111 #60 | 9 points by mooreds 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A little comparison between R and Kap (dhsdevelopments.com)

×0.50 68 #44 | 25 points by tosh 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: nfsdiag – A NFS diagnostic application (github.com/lsferreira42)

×0.75 43 #31 | 59 points by lsferreira42 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025) (reiner.org)

×1.03 52 #43 | 128 points by jxmorris12 18 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
World's biggest RC A380 [video] (youtube.com)

×0.93 44 #75 | 100 points by NaOH 19 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video] (youtube.com)

×1.04 79 | 50 points by areoform 1 day ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Road to a Billion-Token Context (acm.org)

×0.88 98 #66 | 60 points by pseudolus 20 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control (evilgeniuslabs.ca)

×1.46 77 #84 | 65 points by andsoitis 21 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (nhk.or.jp)

×1.30 54 #40 | 191 points by o4c 22 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fun with polynomials and linear algebra; or, slight abstract nonsense (guille.site)

×0.60 110 #67 | 59 points by LolWolf 23 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life (quantamagazine.org)

×0.80 95 #55 | 98 points by worldvoyageur 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019) (stuffedcow.net)

×1.05 83 #52 | 160 points by TapamN 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers (samcollins.blog)

×1.73 15 #72 | 364 points by samcollins 1 day ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024) (aruljohn.com)

×1.13 90 #61 | 149 points by heresie-dabord 1 day ago | 100 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Text-to-CAD (github.com/earthtojake)

×1.31 92 #70 | 178 points by softservo 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015) (americanscientist.org)

×0.95 106 | 72 points by whycome 1 day ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What is Z-Angle Memory and why is Intel developing it? (hpcwire.com)

×0.90 100 #87 | 126 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary (github.com/sambigeara)

×1.16 120 | 133 points by sambigeara 4 days ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DAC – open-source dashboard as code tool for agents and humans (github.com/bruin-data)

×0.86 123 | 113 points by karakanb 5 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SimDrive – a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D (simdrive.xyz)

×0.72 163 | 21 points by 1000xcat 5 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Loopsy, a way for terminals and AI agents on different machines to talk (github.com/leox255)

×0.73 152 | 57 points by todience 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: What happens when you load a webpage (Interactive) (whysonil.dev)

×1.22 177 | 31 points by otterwilde2 1 week ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FusionCore: ROS 2 sensor fusion that outperforms robot_localization (github.com/manankharwar)

×0.26 198 | 11 points by kharwarm 6 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage (github.com/rocky-data)

×0.70 160 | 120 points by hugocorreia90 6 days ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (github.com/FeSens)

×1.27 141 | 240 points by fesens 6 days ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor (github.com/trycua)

×1.21 153 | 191 points by frabonacci 6 days ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop (systalyze.com)

×1.10 170 | 128 points by ManyaGhobadi 1 week ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Browser Harness – Gives LLM freedom to complete any browser task (github.com/browser-use)

×1.10 185 | 134 points by gregpr07 1 week ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???