Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney (hollywoodreporter.com)

×3.33 2 #2 | 155 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Orange Pi 6 Plus (taoofmac.com)

×1.25 19 #10 | 23 points by rcarmo 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
guide.world: A compendium of travel guides (guide.world)

×0.84 14 #13 | 32 points by firloop 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M (techtinkering.com)

×0.81 13 #22 | 35 points by PaulHoule 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Let's Talk Space Toilets (mceglowski.substack.com)

×0.95 9 #12 | 78 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Carol's Causal Conundrum: a zine intro to causally ordered message delivery (decomposition.al)

×0.51 29 #23 | 31 points by evakhoury 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nucleus Nouns (ben-mini.com)

×0.71 20 #26 | 46 points by bewal416 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Run GUIs as Scripts (github.com/skinnyjames)

×0.36 48 #53 | 19 points by zero-st4rs 7 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer (cfallin.org)

×0.68 29 #34 | 60 points by tekknolagi 8 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain (publicdomainreview.org)

×0.37 54 #61 | 21 points by apollinaire 9 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models (thetypicalset.com)

×1.12 18 #30 | 110 points by remilouf 10 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict (buttondown.com)

×1.15 13 #38 | 118 points by rfarley04 11 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Repository Pattern with Hygienic Macros in Scheme – Lisp (jointhefreeworld.org)

×0.46 57 #88 | 16 points by jjba23 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lumina – a statically typed web-native language for JavaScript and WASM (github.com/nyigoro)

×0.69 55 #51 | 54 points by light_ideas 14 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears (princeton.edu)

×0.80 53 #44 | 80 points by hhs 15 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anastasia (1997) live action reference material (lostmediawiki.com)

×0.54 62 #74 | 38 points by hyperific 16 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust Threads on the GPU (vectorware.com)

×1.17 43 #55 | 113 points by PaulHoule 18 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Design and implementation of DuckDB internals (duckdb.org)

×1.43 36 #47 | 174 points by mpweiher 20 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Write less code, be more responsible (orhun.dev)

×1.27 50 #49 | 154 points by orhunp_ 21 hours ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Air Powered Segment Display? [video] (youtube.com)

×1.39 54 #57 | 131 points by ProfDreamer 23 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What we learned building a Rust runtime for TypeScript (encore.dev)

×0.87 65 #70 | 78 points by vinhnx 23 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I just want simple S3 (feld.me)

×1.82 54 #50 | 217 points by g0xA52A2A 1 day ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true (steveblank.com)

×2.39 17 #90 | 201 points by tie-in 1 day ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V (kaving.me)

×0.88 70 #62 | 126 points by luu 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

×1.43 49 | 333 points by david927 2 days ago | 1132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Eve – Managed OpenClaw for work (eve.new)

×0.89 111 | 72 points by zachdive 4 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory (github.com/fulcrumresearch)

×0.69 128 | 64 points by etherio 6 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API (github.com/skrun-dev)

×0.68 140 | 62 points by frizull 6 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???