Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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From Papyrus to Preprints (joinreboot.org)

×0.20 66 #54 | 4 points by folump 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is Christmas Efficient? (2013) (marginalrevolution.com)

×0.88 14 #21 | 35 points by arcdefoo 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Super Snowflake Maker (supersnowflakemaker.com)

×1.61 18 #37 | 107 points by shalanah 12 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Thought I Found a Bug (os2museum.com)

×1.04 7 #23 | 74 points by MBCook 14 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Converting shopping malls into apartments [video] (youtube.com)

×0.73 22 #29 | 37 points by debo_ 13 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reads Causing Writes in Postgres (jesipow.com)

×1.47 7 #13 | 120 points by thunderbong 13 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VPR: Nordic's First RISC-V Processor (danielmangum.com)

×1.41 18 #15 | 82 points by hasheddan 13 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Better Scala Builds with the Mill Build Tool, Functional Scala Online 2024 [video] (youtube.com)

×0.62 16 #58 | 22 points by Ivoah 14 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe (cnx-software.com)

×0.81 23 #27 | 49 points by zdw 14 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ugandan runner due to arrive in London after 516 days, 7,700 miles on the road (theguardian.com)

×2.18 6 #16 | 126 points by thunderbong 18 hours ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Managing Data Corruption in the Cloud (mongodb.com)

×0.51 42 #88 | 11 points by LittleCat38 16 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What was the Golden Age of Antibiotics, and how can we spark a new one? (ourworldindata.org)

×1.06 19 #39 | 50 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cognitive load is what matters (minds.md)

×5.17 1 #4 | 1019 points by zdw 18 hours ago | 408 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war (theguardian.com)

×1.57 17 #25 | 142 points by Sami_Lehtinen 20 hours ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A new learning experience on MDN (mozilla.org)

×1.22 18 #20 | 152 points by Vinnl 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The software you need for holiday overdecoration (dbos.dev)

×1.16 19 #22 | 169 points by KraftyOne 22 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Giant sloths and mastodons lived with humans for millennia in the Americas (phys.org)

×1.10 9 #76 | 70 points by wglb 22 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Navtive FlameGraphViewer (laladrik.xyz)

×0.83 24 #40 | 78 points by laladrik 23 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it (utoronto.ca)

×0.97 8 #49 | 108 points by zdw 1 day ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network (ieee.org)

×0.65 36 #45 | 62 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bit Vectors and my first steps into assembly (smidt.dev)

×0.73 30 #35 | 99 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spectral Imaging Made Easy: A Powerful Python Library (github.com/siapy)

×0.61 41 #59 | 59 points by janezla 1 day ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploring LoRA – Part 1: The Idea Behind Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (medium.com)

×1.29 22 #44 | 156 points by aquastorm 1 day ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster? (eclecticlight.co)

×1.02 26 #67 | 93 points by zdw 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Earth's subsurface may hold up to 5.6 × 10⁶ million metric tons of hydrogen (phys.org)

×0.68 62 #62 | 53 points by wglb 1 day ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you? (linuxblog.io)

×1.86 24 #36 | 198 points by ashitlerferad 1 day ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Practitioner's Guide to Wide Events (jeremymorrell.dev)

×0.97 23 #90 | 82 points by dmazin 1 day ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What would it take to add refinement types to Rust? (yoric.github.io)

×1.00 28 #73 | 134 points by Yoric 1 day ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adversarial policies beat superhuman Go AIs (2023) (arxiv.org)

×1.49 7 #75 | 300 points by amichail 1 day ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On the nature of computing science (1984) (utexas.edu)

×1.89 12 | 274 points by ColinWright 2 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Npflared serveless private NPM registry that you can host for free (thomas-cogez.fr)

×0.59 103 | 25 points by thomas-cogez 3 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app (github.com/hoarder-app)

×2.74 9 #72 | 437 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AuthorTrail – Browse files you've touched in a Git repo (github.com/sarimabbas)

×0.51 116 | 21 points by campfireshuffle 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack?

×3.63 51 | 101 points by dheera 3 days ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?

×2.18 14 #64 | 339 points by zackoverflow 2 days ago | 611 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market (wsj.com)

×2.67 5 | 274 points by marban 6 days ago | 575 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OwlEars – Raw feedback, straight from your customers' minds (owlears.com)

×0.57 115 | 32 points by zainalabdin878 6 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops (github.com/samwho)

×2.15 28 | 255 points by freetonik 4 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond (ft.com)

×2.22 17 | 321 points by pseudolus 6 days ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Infinigen: Infinite Photorealistic Worlds Using Procedural Generation (github.com/princeton-vl)

×2.15 38 | 287 points by KolmogorovComp 4 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ephemeral VMs in 1 Microsecond (github.com/libriscv)

×0.93 91 | 84 points by fwsgonzo 5 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who's building on Python NoGIL?

×0.80 72 | 137 points by grandimam 6 days ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One way to fight loneliness: Germans call it a Stammtisch (npr.org)

×3.25 37 | 343 points by geox 3 days ago | 272 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) (poets.org)

×2.19 43 | 295 points by keepamovin 3 days ago | 89 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TideCloak – Decentralized IAM for security and user sovereignty (github.com/tide-foundation)

×0.76 119 | 53 points by SaltNHash 6 days ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' (corelatus.com)

×1.92 30 | 413 points by matthiasl 3 days ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Feed readers which don't take "no" for an answer (rachelbythebay.com)

×1.81 61 | 233 points by kencausey 1 week ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Get e-signatures & pay per signed doc (signwith.co)

×0.86 153 | 27 points by ayugarg567 5 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design" (16elt.com)

×1.70 73 | 231 points by fagnerbrack 1 week ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Demo of my web game about social persuasion (talktomehuman.com)

×1.41 96 | 140 points by mbforbes 4 days ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rivet Actors – Durable Objects build with Rust, FoundationDB, Isolates (github.com/rivet-gg)

×1.30 102 | 131 points by NathanFlurry 5 days ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How we made our AI code review bot stop leaving nitpicky comments (greptile.com)

×2.01 71 | 253 points by dakshgupta 1 week ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Apache Cloudberry – Open-source Massively Parallel Processing database (github.com/apache)

×0.98 149 | 35 points by djhu9 6 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD (theguardian.com)

×3.25 57 | 377 points by uxhacker 1 week ago | 455 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Yakari – Interactive TUIs for CLI tools (github.com/vlandeiro)

×1.24 128 | 76 points by vlandeiro 1 week ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US judge finds NSO Group liable for hacking journalists via WhatsApp (reuters.com)

×5.29 53 | 566 points by o999 5 days ago | 232 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: celine/bibhtml: a Web Components referencing system for HTML documents (maxbo.me)

×1.05 125 | 106 points by mbo 1 week ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building Effective "Agents" (anthropic.com)

×3.84 52 | 675 points by jascha_eng 5 days ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: openai-realtime-embedded-SDK Build AI assistants on microcontrollers (github.com/openai)

×0.87 141 | 63 points by Sean-Der 1 week ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript (github.com/boardgameio)

×1.89 83 | 342 points by freetonik 1 week ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to lose a fortune with one bad click (krebsonsecurity.com)

×2.58 86 | 355 points by todsacerdoti 1 week ago | 364 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ghost artists on Spotify (harpers.org)

×3.18 67 | 577 points by greenie_beans 6 days ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CCState is a semantic, strict, and flexible state management library (github.com/e7h4n)

×0.51 181 | 16 points by acmerfight 1 week ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An artist who trained rats to trade in foreign-exchange markets (2014) (theatlantic.com)

×1.79 111 | 246 points by doener 1 week ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 10-Year Battery for AirTag (elevationlab.com)

×3.40 64 | 701 points by dmd 1 week ago | 563 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Zipshare – one-step Android screen sharing for support teams (getzipshare.com)

×0.41 193 | 12 points by mlaux 1 week ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???