Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Johnson Thermoelectric Energy Converter (wikipedia.org)

×0.43 45 #28 | 6 points by msk-lywenn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How the first solo-founder unicorn gets built (thisandthat.chat)

×1.14 36 #66 | 19 points by jreynar 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We Always Leave Things Unfinished (bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com)

×1.18 13 #24 | 29 points by bryanrasmussen 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata (aalto.fi)

×1.57 5 #8 | 77 points by jfil 4 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty (adexchanger.com)

×1.15 42 #80 | 35 points by WaitWaitWha 4 hours ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Optimizing an algorithm that's quadratic by design (earthmanmuons.com)

×0.64 35 #53 | 21 points by elasticdog 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs? (danielstanica.com)

×1.71 10 #25 | 144 points by thm 7 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Airplane Boneyards List and Map (airplaneboneyards.com)

×0.71 37 #29 | 76 points by hyperific 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust (rayfish.xyz)

×1.78 3 #49 | 104 points by captain_dfx 10 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel (economist.com)

×0.95 26 #44 | 81 points by andsoitis 11 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase (github.com/langchain-ai)

×1.01 52 #33 | 79 points by handfuloflight 12 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf] (diva-portal.org)

×1.48 20 #40 | 171 points by cenazoic 15 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
About the Digital Art (tricivenola.com)

×0.51 76 #90 | 30 points by NaOH 16 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pandoc Lua Filters (pandoc.org)

×0.89 47 #45 | 131 points by ankitg12 18 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts (si.edu)

×0.84 76 #64 | 78 points by jruohonen 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Atomic Force Microscope [video] (youtube.com)

×1.19 63 #67 | 113 points by mhb 21 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining (github.com/adam-s)

×0.50 143 | 35 points by dataviz1000 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A statically typed, cross-platform, easily bootstrappable build system (github.com/rochus-keller)

×0.65 135 | 46 points by Rochus 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CLI that helps AI agents avoid vulnerable dependencies (github.com/clidey)

×0.64 158 | 26 points by modelorona 4 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine (github.com/ctxrs)

×1.03 141 | 65 points by luca-ctx 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

×1.26 108 | 194 points by yehiaabdelm 2 days ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pieces – Social network for people (piecesof.me)

×0.64 144 | 62 points by domo__knows 4 days ago | 60 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager (github.com/flythenimbus)

×1.96 126 | 141 points by MegagramEnjoyer 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: zkGolf – Competitive optimization of formally verified circuits (zk.golf)

×0.61 151 | 69 points by rot256 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices (kendal.codeberg.page)

×0.97 149 | 76 points by imkendal 3 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?

×0.33 164 | 39 points by argee 5 days ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I measured the half-life of 41,301 Show HN launches. It's 7 hours (jonno.nz)

×2.12 172 | 37 points by jonnonz 3 days ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claudoro, Pomodoro timer embedded in the Claude Code statusline (github.com/emson)

×0.51 163 | 50 points by emson 4 days ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???