Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop (github.com/logannye)

×0.78 66 #10 | 5 points by samuell 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A few interesting modern pixel fonts (aresluna.org)

×1.15 38 #16 | 8 points by zdw 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are we self-sovereign PKI yet? (buffrr.dev)

×0.99 9 #19 | 30 points by ca98am79 3 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Opaque Types in Python (glyph.im)

×0.93 13 #11 | 75 points by lumpa 6 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How do you build a semiconductor company on something that's free? (siliconimist.com)

×0.87 26 #27 | 57 points by johncole 7 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs (matuzo.at)

×0.90 25 #21 | 73 points by cyanbane 8 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews (shmuplations.com)

×1.10 20 #20 | 113 points by speckx 9 hours ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Multimodal adaptive optical microscope: in vivo imaging, molecules to organisms (nature.com)

×0.68 36 #41 | 48 points by bookofjoe 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Use Boring Languages with LLMs (jry.io)

×1.41 5 #70 | 66 points by evakhoury 11 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018) (0patch.com)

×0.64 43 #50 | 47 points by bariumbitmap 12 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What it takes to transpose a matrix (gudok.xyz)

×1.23 26 #60 | 94 points by tosh 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Comma and a Question Mark (thetypicalset.com)

×0.43 64 #68 | 25 points by eigenBasis 17 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Squares in Squares (kingbird.myphotos.cc)

×0.90 45 #49 | 100 points by carlos-menezes 18 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video] (youtube.com)

×0.61 60 #76 | 36 points by zdw 21 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Write your BPF programs in Go, not C (github.com/boratanrikulu)

×0.73 52 #48 | 106 points by boratanrikulu 21 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jensen–Shannon Divergence (wikipedia.org)

×1.11 48 #51 | 129 points by teleforce 23 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Everyone Against Us (2023) (chicagomag.com)

×0.71 59 #62 | 69 points by NaOH 1 day ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
CPPL: A Circuit Prompt Programming Language (arxiv.org)

×0.49 74 #71 | 43 points by chrsw 1 day ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI errno(2) values (netmeister.org)

×1.12 39 #85 | 125 points by zdw 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It (rickcarlino.com)

×1.92 19 #82 | 265 points by rickcarlino 1 day ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024) (dubroy.com)

×1.27 45 #75 | 153 points by azhenley 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006) (nih.gov)

×1.80 15 #89 | 332 points by kelseyfrog 1 day ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU (mozilla.com)

×1.36 46 #83 | 180 points by luu 1 day ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web (audiomass.co)

×2.31 10 #87 | 529 points by pantelisk 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned (wired.com)

×1.47 44 #79 | 238 points by littlexsparkee 1 day ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Twixt – transform one word into another in four moves (twixt.games)

×0.63 104 | 20 points by jakenicolaides 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Anyone interested in a tool helps to explore C++ ASTs (uvic-aurora.github.io)

×0.61 86 | 48 points by leomicv 4 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Made a Claude Skill for Spec-Driven Development (SDD) (github.com/FredAntB)

×1.33 118 | 37 points by NTRIXLM 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps (freenet.org)

×2.04 71 | 383 points by sanity 5 days ago | 269 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP

×0.82 100 | 97 points by adisingh13 5 days ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking

×2.32 79 | 267 points by bojta-lepenye 5 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian (funes.world)

×0.55 127 | 27 points by hanyangwang 1 week ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta) (silentshark.app)

×1.40 99 | 125 points by epaga 1 week ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dari-docs – Optimize your docs using parallel coding agents (github.com/mupt-ai)

×0.44 141 | 23 points by byhong03 6 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks (github.com/antoinezambelli)

×3.07 76 | 685 points by zambelli 1 week ago | 252 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Haystack – Review the PRs that need human attention (haystackeditor.com)

×0.46 130 | 45 points by akshaysg 1 week ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents (github.com/InsForge)

×0.55 128 | 62 points by mrcoldbrew 1 week ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???