Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts (commonedge.org)

×0.86 37 #19 | 7 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Side-stepping the Secretary Problem, unwittingly (evalapply.org)

×0.60 25 #27 | 8 points by pvdebbe 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Training a model to identify AI-generated web content from structure alone (arxiv.org)

×0.74 34 #18 | 8 points by jochenmadler 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv)

×1.07 7 #21 | 21 points by namuorg 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Relativistic raytracing (obsidian.md)

×0.75 16 #22 | 26 points by vismit2000 3 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Truman World (trumanworld.live)

×0.79 20 #17 | 30 points by trollied 3 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Solitaire Alone Together (solitairealonetogether.com)

×1.38 7 #13 | 84 points by eieio 4 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A build graph that rolls dice (fzakaria.com)

×0.32 68 #51 | 15 points by ingve 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco (lawrence.lu)

×1.15 20 #24 | 111 points by plun9 9 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
JavaFX 27 Native Image on a Raspberry Pi 5 (ennerf.github.io)

×1.06 31 #46 | 45 points by 0x54MUR41 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A font that reads what you wrote (rohanadwankar.github.io)

×0.95 26 #32 | 74 points by RohanAdwankar 10 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024) (gregorygundersen.com)

×0.65 51 #36 | 54 points by fuzzythinker 12 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers (wsj.com)

×0.88 48 #33 | 60 points by JumpCrisscross 12 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
World Wide Words (worldwidewords.org)

×0.50 75 #43 | 35 points by Petiver 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare (2022) (gwern.net)

×0.87 54 #58 | 51 points by 1317 15 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Paper Models of Polyhedra (polyhedra.net)

×0.60 56 #80 | 32 points by pykello 17 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
More floating point alternatives (wizardzines.com)

×0.68 73 #54 | 47 points by vismit2000 18 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First Shader from Zero in Godot 4 (gdquest.com)

×1.16 45 #65 | 91 points by ibobev 20 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Divide by depth for instant 3D (gabrieloc.com)

×1.35 27 #56 | 201 points by gabrieloc 22 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games (tinybrains.dev)

×0.89 66 | 108 points by codetiger 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI (sigabrt.dev)

×0.77 77 | 81 points by 4815162342 3 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use (github.com/trycua)

×0.82 83 | 90 points by frabonacci 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I wrote a custom assembler for CHIP-8 in C++ (github.com/Tackx)

×0.69 106 | 28 points by tack1234 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Scry, programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing (scry.io)

×0.66 97 | 60 points by Xyra 4 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash (cactuscompute.com)

×1.23 79 | 236 points by HenryNdubuaku 4 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to Write with an LLM (sockpuppet.org)

×3.01 83 #75 | 750 points by joeriddles 4 days ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???