Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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How life-size cows made of butter became an iconic symbol of the Midwest (smithsonianmag.com)

×0.97 21 #24 | 6 points by noleary 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking (oxism.com)

×2.40 1 #3 | 46 points by haxiomic 2 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An eyecare foundation model for clinical assistance (nature.com)

×0.64 30 #14 | 8 points by jameslk 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What We Find in the Sewers (asimov.press)

×0.48 36 #47 | 8 points by mailyk 4 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The King's Quarry: How Louis XVI Went from Hunter to Hunted (worldhistory.substack.com)

×0.53 41 #35 | 13 points by crescit_eundo 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What to learn for math for modeling?

×0.68 17 #31 | 25 points by shivajikobardan 6 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dependent Types: Universes, or types of types (jonmsterling.com)

×0.83 15 #36 | 29 points by matt_d 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Thrashing (tive.org)

×1.10 9 #19 | 56 points by pch00 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TuneD is a system tuning service for Linux (tuned-project.org)

×0.94 17 #26 | 55 points by tanelpoder 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Performance Speed Limits (2019) (travisdowns.github.io)

×0.57 62 #63 | 16 points by xtacy 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore (praf.me)

×1.79 1 #20 | 122 points by _praf 10 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
In Search of AI Psychosis (astralcodexten.com)

×1.73 1 #23 | 124 points by venkii 11 hours ago | 84 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021) (bbc.com)

×1.28 7 #32 | 90 points by ohjeez 11 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Unforgotten (espn.com)

×0.47 63 #72 | 18 points by speckx 12 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SwiftAI – open-source library to easily build LLM features on iOS/macOS (github.com/mi12labs)

×0.94 28 #42 | 62 points by mi12-root 13 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Launch HN: Dedalus Labs (YC S25) – Vercel for Agents

×0.55 50 #15 | 66 points by windsor 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Lobster Programming Language (strlen.com)

×1.30 5 #65 | 86 points by klaussilveira 14 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Teams Grow Organically (frederickvanbrabant.com)

×0.97 34 #62 | 61 points by TheEdonian 16 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Das Problem mit German Strings (polarsignals.com)

×0.86 29 #61 | 75 points by asubiotto 17 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
iOS Elegantbouncer: When you can't get samples but still need to catch threats (msuiche.com)

×0.66 58 #75 | 37 points by transpute 17 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler (abhinavsarkar.net)

×0.77 58 #73 | 70 points by abhin4v 23 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
About Containers and VMs (linuxcontainers.org)

×1.37 53 #88 | 104 points by Bogdanp 1 day ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Spart – A Rust library for fast spatial search with Python bindings

×0.71 93 | 31 points by habedi0 3 days ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line (thedrive.com)

×1.45 19 | 298 points by computerliker 5 days ago | 135 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published (github.com/nrwl)

×1.66 1 #89 | 433 points by longcat 1 day ago | 425 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The GitHub website is slow on Safari (github.com/orgs)

×3.06 12 | 436 points by talboren 1 day ago | 339 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FilterQL – A tiny query language for filtering structured data (github.com/adamhl8)

×0.72 86 | 76 points by genshii 4 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool (arko.net)

×1.84 58 | 326 points by steveklabnik 2 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Async – Claude code and Linear and GitHub PRs in one opinionated tool (github.com/bkdevs)

×0.86 91 | 106 points by wjsekfghks 3 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Smooth – Faster, cheaper browser agent API (smooth.sh)

×0.78 121 | 53 points by liukidar 2 days ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chinese astronauts make rocket fuel and oxygen in space (livescience.com)

×1.71 64 | 290 points by Teever 4 days ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sideko – Hybrid deterministic/LLM generator for API SDKs and docs (github.com/Sideko-Inc)

×0.40 152 | 26 points by pmkelly4444 2 days ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: SecretMemoryLocker – File Encryption Without Static Passwords (github.com/SecretML)

×0.82 166 | 14 points by YuriiDev 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed (fortune.com)

×2.17 60 | 353 points by danielmorozoff 4 days ago | 439 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archaeologists (diggit.dev)

×0.37 141 | 34 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Spoon-Bending – a framework for analyzing GPT-5 alignment behavior (github.com/pablo-chacon)

×0.38 160 | 21 points by pablo-chacon 3 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant (theguardian.com)

×1.84 68 | 293 points by pseudolus 4 days ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gonzo – A Go-based TUI for log analysis (OpenTelemetry/OTLP support) (github.com/control-theory)

×0.96 115 | 72 points by J0nR 3 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s?

×0.52 127 | 56 points by diasks2 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A bug saved the company (rogueamoeba.com)

×2.19 69 | 377 points by ingve 4 days ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Timep – A next-gen profiler and flamegraph-generator for bash code (github.com/jkool702)

×0.58 146 | 53 points by jkool702 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A visual introduction to big O notation (samwho.dev)

×3.44 62 | 672 points by samwho 4 days ago | 192 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control (github.com/unkn0wn-root)

×0.30 184 | 20 points by unkn0wn_root 4 days ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission (bbc.com)

×4.04 99 | 291 points by jakub_g 4 days ago | 277 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Game demo made with my homemade game engine (reprobate.site)

×0.87 145 | 100 points by delduca 6 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???