Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Polishing Cloth Updated (512pixels.net)

×1.37 11 #7 | 15 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career (simpleflying.com)

×3.70 21 #8 | 13 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tmp.0ut Volume 5 (tmpout.sh)

×1.44 2 #3 | 55 points by ghuntley 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Roget's Thesaurus (uchicago.edu)

×0.57 36 #19 | 14 points by gregsadetsky 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPU World (gpuworld.org)

×2.08 1 #1 | 212 points by simonpure 4 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GPU World (gpuworld.org)

×0.59 16 #73 | 8 points by tosh 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Flat vs. segmented memory – it's recursive (humprog.org)

×0.72 25 #20 | 21 points by signa11 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Cyanometer and a Cloud Colourimeter (wordpress.com)

×0.56 23 #45 | 18 points by Kaibeezy 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimal transport is art: images to collection of optimally placed particles (wolfram.com)

×0.45 43 #79 | 8 points by adec314 7 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Interactive pattern discovery in binaries (FF-16-TUI) (github.com/HexLasso)

×0.25 30 #28 | 32 points by HexLasso 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public (wallpaper.com)

×1.08 12 #15 | 69 points by gone35 8 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Snakes and Ladders (entropicthoughts.com)

×0.38 29 #59 | 21 points by surprisetalk 9 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Visualizing Combos in Judo in R (r-bloggers.com)

×0.68 39 #39 | 30 points by asaiacai 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lion-man (wikipedia.org)

×1.32 6 #24 | 108 points by gurjeet 11 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive (dmitrybrant.com)

×0.57 38 #64 | 28 points by zdw 12 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online (phys.org)

×1.79 12 #36 | 182 points by samizdis 13 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SlideOps – slides from a repo that flag when they drift from the code (github.com/glukicov)

×0.52 49 | 21 points by lukicov 21 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Laser Graffiti (consti.de)

×1.33 13 #18 | 190 points by con 15 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme (corporatemindgames.com)

×0.96 5 | 46 points by dontwordle 17 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting (theguardian.com)

×0.85 36 #51 | 55 points by ziofill 15 hours ago | 183 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS (github.com/AlgorithmicResearchGroup)

×0.69 30 | 34 points by modagent 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI (chosun.com)

×1.71 9 #23 | 211 points by geox 16 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] (youtube.com)

×3.18 3 #10 | 414 points by matthewsinclair 16 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Euphemisation of Taboo Areas (2023) [pdf] (uwr.edu.pl)

×0.68 54 #61 | 40 points by Eridanus2 16 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires (governance.fyi)

×0.86 37 #62 | 49 points by crescit_eundo 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Floe – an open-source plugin for sample libraries – CLAP/VST3/AU (floe.audio)

×0.53 59 | 19 points by windell 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Separating logic and language (mit.edu)

×1.07 31 #76 | 46 points by myelinscience 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones (wsj.com)

×1.57 35 #22 | 138 points by vinnyglennon 17 hours ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines (github.com/Hebbian-Robotics)

×0.39 70 #44 | 44 points by kstonekuan 17 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering my ADHD test (nullpt.rs)

×2.40 11 #26 | 217 points by hazebooth 17 hours ago | 127 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No country for mediocre mathematicians (garvvee.substack.com)

×2.37 8 #35 | 194 points by reasonableklout 18 hours ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT (twitter.com/andrew_n_carr)

×1.95 11 #54 | 120 points by notRobot 18 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why are rivers so mathematical? (quantamagazine.org)

×0.82 54 #74 | 35 points by sebg 18 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Navigation app for people with blindness and low vision (harvard.edu)

×0.64 51 #87 | 33 points by geox 18 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker (pantsforbirds.com)

×0.72 40 #46 | 82 points by CoolNamesAllTkn 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Infrastructure as Raclette (postu.la)

×0.64 44 #86 | 37 points by kasmanit 19 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates (rockpapershotgun.com)

×2.95 10 #12 | 409 points by Tomte 19 hours ago | 168 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DNS abuse and criminal infrastructure (ripe.net)

×0.87 34 #58 | 78 points by jruohonen 19 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The art of CHIP-8 (beyondloom.com)

×0.83 39 #85 | 55 points by surprisetalk 21 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT (dreamstation.systems)

×2.01 4 #65 | 212 points by robinpie 1 day ago | 153 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally (openclaw.ai)

×2.03 9 | 145 points by doppp 1 day ago | 173 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Damn fine tiny cafe (sandyuraz.com)

×2.48 16 #43 | 375 points by thecsw 1 day ago | 62 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU (wilsonharper.net)

×1.50 25 | 216 points by WilsonHarper 3 days ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Creepy Crawlies (kernel.org)

×5.26 28 #68 | 1338 points by zdw 1 day ago | 690 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter (github.com/gbin)

×1.18 75 | 96 points by gbin 6 days ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript (typebase.io)

×0.84 83 | 118 points by andrewww-dev 5 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer (galaxium.app)

×1.32 81 | 135 points by guillaumec 1 week ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Watches user sessions, finds bugs that matter, and fixes them (github.com/opslane)

×1.04 138 | 40 points by aray07 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A lightweight, stateless database for agent memory (polign.com)

×0.66 143 | 36 points by anuptalwalkar 5 days ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Build your own theme park (magicpatterns.com)

×0.72 140 | 57 points by thealexanderlee 5 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???