Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Robot is 3D-printed upside-down in one piece, then walks out of the printer (newatlas.com)

×0.86 4 #31 | 9 points by Brajeshwar 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Randomness Requirements for Security (ietf.org)

×0.67 26 #22 | 8 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's working for YC companies since the AI boom (jamesin.substack.com)

×1.71 1 #3 | 60 points by jseidel 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oldest known tools made from whale bones dated to 20k years ago (apnews.com)

×0.62 26 #38 | 6 points by gmays 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Identifying Unmarked Iron (castironcollector.com)

×0.38 40 #35 | 6 points by lelandfe 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCP Defender – OSS AI Firewall for Protecting MCP in Cursor/Claude etc (mcpdefender.com)

×0.80 16 #14 | 34 points by gsundeep 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Leap – Full-stack AI developer agent that deploys to AWS (leap.new)

×0.84 1 #59 | 14 points by machekb 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How large should your sample size be? (vickiboykis.com)

×1.00 13 #24 | 25 points by sebg 6 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude (techcrunch.com)

×3.18 16 #29 | 100 points by kordlessagain 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse engineering of Linear's sync engine (github.com/wzhudev)

×1.75 7 #12 | 100 points by flashblaze 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Smart Silence – Remind your iPhone to stay quiet in quiet places (apple.com)

×1.00 21 #33 | 36 points by ebagsnave 10 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI (bondcap.com)

×2.03 2 #17 | 139 points by kjhughes 11 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Java Virtual Threads Ate My Memory: A Web Crawler's Tale of Speed vs. Memory (medium.com)

×1.18 15 #19 | 71 points by dariobalinzo 11 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs (pluralistic.net)

×1.73 11 #20 | 99 points by GreenWatermelon 12 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Icepi Zero – The FPGA Raspberry Pi Zero Equivalent (github.com/cheyao)

×1.69 8 #15 | 152 points by Cyao 13 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ray Tracing in J (nprescott.com)

×0.99 21 #25 | 64 points by todsacerdoti 13 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to run cron jobs in Postgres without extra infrastructure (wasp.sh)

×1.14 18 #37 | 63 points by Liriel 14 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fractran Interpreter (tjwei.github.io)

×0.70 34 #58 | 27 points by ColinWright 15 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When will M&S take online orders again? (moneyweek.com)

×1.49 9 #47 | 75 points by fredley 16 hours ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copy Excel to Markdown Table (and vice versa) (thisdavej.com)

×1.37 20 #32 | 88 points by thisdavej 16 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vrs: Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia (github.com/leoshimo)

×2.51 18 #61 | 121 points by surprisetalk 17 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sieving pores: stable,fast alloying chemistry of Si -electrodes in Li-ion batt (nature.com)

×0.38 59 #66 | 22 points by bookofjoe 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automated Verification of Monotonic Data Structure Traversals in C (arxiv.org)

×0.70 27 #80 | 37 points by MarcoDewey 21 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview

×3.31 41 | 145 points by leeny 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Art of the Critic (metropolitanreview.org)

×0.60 34 #68 | 46 points by benbreen 22 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On eval in dynamic languages generally and in Racket specifically (2011) (racket-lang.org)

×0.97 38 #53 | 65 points by swatson741 1 day ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Atomics and Concurrency (redixhumayun.github.io)

×1.29 22 #43 | 133 points by LAC-Tech 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The atmospheric memory that feeds billions of people: Monsoon rainfall mechanism (phys.org)

×0.80 51 #62 | 62 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smallest Possible Files (github.com/mathiasbynens)

×1.01 33 #72 | 80 points by yread 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making C and Python Talk to Each Other (leetarxiv.substack.com)

×1.17 29 #71 | 152 points by muragekibicho 1 day ago | 92 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A visual exploration of vector embeddings (pamelafox.org)

×1.52 22 #77 | 177 points by pamelafox 1 day ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return (wordpress.com)

×3.41 11 | 313 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 598 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Weather2Geo – Geolocate screenshots from weather widgets (github.com/elliott-diy)

×0.77 63 | 53 points by Elliott-Diy 3 days ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My website is ugly because I made it (goodinternetmagazine.com)

×3.21 23 | 534 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Porting Terraria and Celeste to WebAssembly (velzie.rip)

×2.09 7 | 333 points by coolelectronics 4 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Terminal Flower Garden (github.com/bdavidzhang)

×0.85 123 | 30 points by alphacentauri42 6 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo (swgillespie.me)

×2.08 47 | 294 points by mifydev 5 days ago | 254 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Level Design Book (leveldesignbook.com)

×2.16 52 | 319 points by keiferski 5 days ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (invariantlabs.ai)

×2.70 50 | 500 points by andy99 4 days ago | 297 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

×1.64 74 | 277 points by xeonmc 1 week ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open-source protein and ligand viewer (github.com/David-OConnor)

×0.73 163 | 32 points by the__alchemist 1 week ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: rtcollector - A modular, RedisTimeSeries-native observability agent (github.com/xe-nvdk)

×0.37 179 | 18 points by ignaciovdk 1 week ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GetStack.dev – Track GitHub open-source trends (getstack.dev)

×1.04 165 | 50 points by h1fra 1 week ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pi Co-pilot – Evaluation of AI apps made easy (withpi.ai)

×0.56 182 | 34 points by achintms 1 week ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Curved Space Shader in Three.js (via 4D sphere projection) (github.com/bntre)

×0.66 168 | 68 points by bntr 1 week ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???