Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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The Nabataeans Are Coming (historytoday.com)

×0.92 36 #21 | 10 points by diodorus 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Looking Back at Speculative Decoding (research.google)

×0.78 26 #23 | 17 points by veryluckyxyz 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022) (tmm.cx)

×1.58 9 #22 | 38 points by wibbily 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DARPA Project Reveals One Person Can Control Dozens of Robots (ieee.org)

×1.48 11 #8 | 54 points by bookofjoe 3 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread (apnews.com)

×1.80 10 #12 | 57 points by geox 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thought Leader (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

×0.99 33 #45 | 23 points by howsilly 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The quest to find and save the Vasa (2019) (mentalfloss.com)

×0.69 35 #46 | 22 points by areoform 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Colours to Mnemonic Systems (susam.net)

×0.58 58 #40 | 26 points by susam 8 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Origins of the "++" and "--" Operators

×1.71 6 | 36 points by wpollock 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
FlakeUI (github.com/tearflake)

×1.03 20 #36 | 99 points by tearflake 9 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AWS Cat Qubits Make Quantum Error Correction Effective, Affordable (nextplatform.com)

×0.55 53 #52 | 33 points by rbanffy 10 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ninjavis – generate visualization from ninja build logs (github.com/chagui)

×0.54 61 #56 | 38 points by gjvc 14 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Free Kindle Scribe Weekly Planner Creator (docgenie.co.uk)

×0.60 68 | 19 points by qwikhost 3 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud (bbc.com)

×1.51 33 #37 | 204 points by tartoran 16 hours ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Virtual museum of socialist era graphic design in Bulgaria (socmus.com)

×1.53 47 #41 | 124 points by NaOH 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Harvest the sun twice: Agrivoltaics promises sustainable food, energy and water (sheffield.ac.uk)

×1.36 41 #38 | 165 points by gnabgib 18 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tangled – Git collaboration platform built on atproto (tangled.sh)

×1.19 47 #43 | 148 points by icy 18 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We in-housed our data labelling (ericbutton.co)

×0.72 62 #58 | 62 points by EricButton 18 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: A question about mentoring a junior developer

×0.51 59 | 32 points by Desafinado 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Few of the Birds I Love (wordpress.com)

×1.02 51 #62 | 93 points by moultano 20 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon (cnn.com)

×3.00 3 #42 | 730 points by complexpass 23 hours ago | 186 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Prompting LLMs in Bash scripts (elijahpotter.dev)

×0.70 62 #71 | 72 points by chilipepperhott 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Kaspersky exposes hidden malware on GitHub stealing personal data (kaspersky.com)

×1.70 24 #82 | 165 points by 01-_- 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Imec demonstrates electrical yield for 20nm lines High NA EUV single patterning (imec-int.com)

×0.37 84 #90 | 29 points by pieterr 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS (github.com/deepseek-ai)

×1.46 15 #77 | 303 points by overflowcat 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Turning my ESP32 into a DNS sinkhole to fight doomscrolling (amanvir.com)

×0.89 64 #66 | 100 points by venusgirdle 1 day ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a class about it (nytimes.com)

×0.83 67 #85 | 86 points by danso 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008) (mattcutts.com)

×1.15 55 #74 | 153 points by gigaArpit 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns (wsj.com)

×3.65 31 | 436 points by bookofjoe 2 days ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I took over Painteresque, a 14 year old Objective-C app and rebuilt it (apple.com)

×1.35 86 | 110 points by busymom0 2 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a website where you can create your own "Life in Weeks" timeline (lifeweeks.app)

×1.56 63 | 238 points by czue 5 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Simplifying Backend Testing with qapir.io (qapir.io)

×0.09 209 | 4 points by gradnichkovski 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete (autodidacts.io)

×2.15 75 | 398 points by surprisetalk 6 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Recommend resources that helped your game dev journey?

×0.88 96 | 177 points by stevekwon211 6 days ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license" (mozilla.org)

×6.98 57 | 819 points by tomp 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Have you written or consumed OpenAPI Arazzo specification?

×0.14 192 | 14 points by sb13 1 week ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique (newatlas.com)

×2.36 80 | 512 points by 01-_- 1 week ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client (yaak.app)

×1.75 134 | 151 points by gschier 5 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Libredesk – Open-source customer support desk. Single binary app (github.com/abhinavxd)

×2.20 94 | 372 points by avr5500 1 week ago | 75 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration (emdash.io)

×1.80 165 | 80 points by pz 5 days ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty (annas-archive.org)

×2.96 90 | 599 points by yamrzou 6 days ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

×6.14 58 | 1568 points by newobj 5 days ago | 354 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Instantly Translate Manga – TranslateManga (translatemanga.net)

×0.81 174 | 58 points by kadeus 1 week ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase (github.com/gauge-sh)

×1.19 122 | 256 points by the1024 6 days ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] (youtube.com)

×4.96 71 | 1322 points by franky47 5 days ago | 356 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Breakout with a roguelite/vampire survivor twist (lecaro.me)

×2.24 99 | 410 points by lecarore 5 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who are your favorite photography and generative coding artists?

×1.11 144 | 182 points by PirxThePilot 1 week ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I created a language called AntiLang – breaking all the conventions (siruscodes.github.io)

×1.10 156 | 141 points by SirusCodes 1 week ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Part two of Grant Sanderson's video with Terry Tao on the cosmic distance ladder (mathstodon.xyz)

×1.89 119 | 384 points by ColinWright 1 week ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?

×2.05 137 | 294 points by throw81398475 1 week ago | 273 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: A retrofitted C dialect?

×0.40 187 | 55 points by anqurvanillapy 1 week ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1 (crocspace.substack.com)

×2.35 128 | 412 points by lzr_mihnea 1 week ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators (calcverse.live)

×1.20 164 | 190 points by adi_hn07 1 week ago | 109 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle (bracket.city)

×1.15 178 | 106 points by brgross 1 week ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them' (livescience.com)

×2.34 135 | 443 points by anonymousiam 1 week ago | 292 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

×1.19 163 | 255 points by david927 1 week ago | 888 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???