Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Test Your Square Brackets (fluca1978.github.io)

×0.46 63 #20 | 3 points by speckx 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
San Remo Pasta Measurer (toxel.com)

×1.39 10 #8 | 14 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Z80 Membership Card (sunrise-ev.com)

×1.42 9 #5 | 30 points by exvi 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018) (figma.com)

×0.32 11 #40 | 15 points by kjeetgill 4 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The <Geolocation> HTML Element (chrome.com)

×1.77 8 #17 | 71 points by enz 5 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) (popovicu.com)

×0.94 16 #27 | 30 points by todsacerdoti 6 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home) (ianservin.com)

×1.15 9 #19 | 61 points by jjwiseman 7 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Designed a Custom Protocol for My App (roj.dev)

×0.23 59 #87 | 6 points by _roj 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR (tavus.io)

×1.06 2 #18 | 81 points by code_brian 8 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Upgrading DrizzleORM logging with AsyncLocalStorage (numeric.substack.com)

×0.37 56 #72 | 9 points by bihla 8 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes (webkit.org)

×1.07 12 #12 | 73 points by feross 8 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Thoughts on maintaining anonymity against state-level actors?

×2.15 45 | 8 points by adamanteye 1 day ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eigent: An open source Claude Cowork alternative (github.com/eigent-ai)

×0.98 31 #55 | 18 points by WorldPeas 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why does Google still provide an open redirect for phishers?

×1.45 11 #86 | 16 points by throwaway89201 8 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille? (github.com/NishantJoshi00)

×0.39 18 #45 | 26 points by cat-whisperer 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: A Proposal to Modernize Xorg as a Protocol-Only Graphics Layer

×0.78 64 | 5 points by powerwordtree 18 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Distributed SQL engine for ultra-wide tables

×0.54 48 #62 | 14 points by synsqlbythesea 8 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Trying to find a website featured on HN that listed restaurants in NYC

×1.62 25 | 12 points by laffOr 23 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?

×1.87 3 #14 | 112 points by blahaj 9 hours ago | 171 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is the best way to provide continuous context to models?

×0.98 6 #36 | 56 points by nemath 9 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?

×2.81 75 | 123 points by rabinovich 13 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ContextFort – Visibility and controls for browser agents (contextfort.ai)

×0.44 80 #79 | 5 points by ashwinr2002 9 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MIT Whirlwind I: A High-Speed Electronic Digital Computer (1951) [pdf] (mit.edu)

×0.78 57 #35 | 21 points by stmw 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?

×2.01 3 #9 | 188 points by tmaly 10 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Media Player Classic Qute Theater (github.com/mpc-qt)

×0.69 66 #68 | 14 points by XzetaU8 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How can I build a simple pulse generator to demonstrate transmission lines (stackexchange.com)

×0.97 29 #31 | 58 points by alphabetter 12 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rubik's Cube in Prolog – Order (medium.com)

×0.65 48 #42 | 39 points by myth_drannon 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The hunt for a stolen Jackson Pollock (washingtonpost.com)

×0.36 66 #59 | 24 points by prismatic 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL (tanelpoder.com)

×1.04 25 #30 | 94 points by tanelpoder 14 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: WebTiles – create a tiny 250x250 website with neighbors around you (kicya.net)

×1.32 11 #24 | 193 points by dimden 16 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Digital Carrot – Block social media with programmable rules and goals (digitalcarrot.app)

×0.55 44 #73 | 36 points by newswangerd 16 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Webctl – Browser automation for agents based on CLI instead of MCP (github.com/cosinusalpha)

×0.89 33 #28 | 101 points by cosinusalpha 16 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021) (adventure.com)

×1.62 2 #52 | 143 points by gyomu 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You Can Just Buy Far-UVC (jefftk.com)

×1.16 29 #56 | 75 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HyTags – HTML as a Programming Language (hytags.org)

×0.57 50 #61 | 63 points by lassejansen 20 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory (ssrn.com)

×0.99 42 #58 | 89 points by 7777777phil 21 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them (swinburne.edu.au)

×2.21 17 #43 | 504 points by OptionOfT 22 hours ago | 259 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
India's Electric Two-Wheeler Market: Rise, Reset and What Comes Next (micromobility.io)

×0.77 60 #67 | 66 points by prabinjoel 1 day ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Rust faster than C? (steveklabnik.com)

×2.19 21 #33 | 285 points by vincentchau 1 day ago | 330 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Seapie – a Python debugger where breakpoints drop into a REPL (github.com/hirsimaki-markus)

×0.73 79 | 20 points by markushirsimaki 2 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Systematically generating tests that would have caught Anthropic's top‑K bug (theorem.dev)

×0.79 55 #78 | 75 points by jasongross 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Putting the "You" in CPU (2023) (cpu.land)

×0.93 52 #77 | 97 points by vinhnx 1 day ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 1D-Pong Game at 39C3 (github.com/ogermer)

×0.66 56 | 67 points by oger 3 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Tsonic Programming Language (tsonic.org)

×0.70 62 | 59 points by jeswin 1 day ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape (jgc.org)

×2.98 6 #50 | 729 points by abnercoimbre 1 day ago | 634 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study (d12frosted.io)

×0.98 50 #88 | 107 points by whacked_new 1 day ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Microwave – Native iOS app for videos on ATproto (apple.com)

×0.49 91 | 27 points by sinned 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep (vllm.ai)

×1.04 39 | 146 points by robertnishihara 1 day ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference (owlposting.com)

×2.40 7 | 323 points by abhishaike 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every GitHub object has two IDs (greptile.com)

×1.70 3 | 322 points by dakshgupta 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming

×0.52 89 | 31 points by rramadass 2 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams (ablg.io)

×2.11 13 | 303 points by tonioab 1 day ago | 326 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are two heads better than one? (eieio.games)

×1.21 33 | 207 points by evakhoury 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph (visualstudio.com)

×0.98 54 | 127 points by davelradindra 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat (confer.to)

×1.17 61 | 108 points by vednig 1 day ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager (github.com/njbrake)

×0.92 84 | 117 points by river_otter 2 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Interactive California Budget (by Claude Code) (california-budget.com)

×0.85 137 | 36 points by sberens 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language

×0.57 139 | 44 points by goose0004 4 days ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other (llmholdem.com)

×1.22 112 | 161 points by projectyang 4 days ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books (pieterma.es)

×2.40 73 | 499 points by pmaze 4 days ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe

×0.46 159 | 35 points by digitdiglet 6 days ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A website that auctions itself daily (thedailyauction.com)

×0.66 155 | 43 points by nsomani 6 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Various shape regularization algorithms (github.com/nickponline)

×0.78 142 | 77 points by nickponline 6 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???