Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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What every coder should know about Gamma Correction (johnnovak.net)

×0.72 86 #19 | 4 points by sph 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Factoring "short-sleeve" RSA keys with polynomials (trailofbits.com)

×1.40 9 #8 | 36 points by ledoge 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a plugin system without runtime, storage, or shared JavaScript context (tolgee.io)

×0.22 68 #46 | 6 points by jancizmar 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Fata – Spaced repetition to fight skill rot from AI coding (fata.dev)

×0.96 16 #10 | 49 points by djoume 3 hours ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How to build a virtual cell and biology scaling laws (nikomc.com)

×0.38 68 #39 | 13 points by ogundipeore 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes (maurycyz.com)

×1.01 11 #12 | 98 points by zdw 5 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine (github.com/YusufB5)

×0.65 38 #37 | 55 points by godot 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ported my C game to WASM, here's every bug that I hit (ernesernesto.github.io)

×0.98 32 #31 | 97 points by birdculture 11 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins (smithsonianmag.com)

×1.64 28 #25 | 157 points by thunderbong 12 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exploring building a tiny FUSE filesystem (shayon.dev)

×0.86 42 #51 | 71 points by shayonj 13 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games (zengm.com)

×0.92 25 #86 | 58 points by YesBox 13 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋) (fractalkitty.com)

×0.86 48 #49 | 95 points by evakhoury 15 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why does paper fold so well? (bbc.co.uk)

×0.90 59 #53 | 93 points by zeristor 17 hours ago | 48 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012) (markhorrell.com)

×0.64 45 #84 | 68 points by joebig 19 hours ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bitsy (bitsy.org)

×1.77 28 #42 | 272 points by tosh 20 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Write for One Person (wizardzines.com)

×2.29 11 #87 | 266 points by evakhoury 21 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TorchCodec 0.14: HDR Video Decoding for CPU and CUDA, and Fast Wav Decoder (github.com/meta-pytorch)

×0.49 80 #74 | 56 points by scott_s 23 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call (traceapp.info)

×1.29 50 #63 | 198 points by AG342 1 day ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Segmented type appreciation corner (2018) (aresluna.org)

×0.57 71 #81 | 78 points by unexpectedVCR 1 day ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits (aptiv.com)

×0.62 77 #83 | 62 points by mooreds 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops (mgunlogson.github.io)

×0.65 72 | 65 points by mgunlogson 6 days ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE (planetscale.com)

×1.17 62 #66 | 188 points by hollylawly 1 day ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lisp's Influence on Ruby (tacoda.dev)

×1.23 42 #77 | 253 points by tacoda 1 day ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firewood Splitting Simulator (screen.toys)

×4.03 3 #60 | 966 points by memalign 1 day ago | 284 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire (roman-names.com)

×1.48 75 | 205 points by metiscus 5 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Lightweight Task queue on Erlang/OTP, SQLite-backed, no overengineering (github.com/entGriff)

×0.73 109 | 74 points by ent1c3d 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Turn your name into a tree in an infinite procedural shanshui landscape (bairui.dev)

×0.59 128 | 41 points by subairui 5 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TunnelMind – reputation API for IPs, ASNs, and ad-tech supply chains (tunnelmind.ai)

×0.67 176 | 9 points by o2k 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a Red Flag Warning zone-check tool for the East Bay in 48h (redflag-check.info)

×0.88 165 | 17 points by vedant28t 4 days ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0 (brew.sh)

×5.35 58 | 1465 points by mikemcquaid 4 days ago | 360 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Want to build something open source on nights and weekends together?

×0.56 148 | 39 points by vira28 4 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Claw Patrol, a security firewall for agents (github.com/denoland)

×1.20 119 | 111 points by rough-sea 6 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?

×0.87 120 | 115 points by joshmarinacci 6 days ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?

×0.99 152 | 36 points by BugsJustFindMe 5 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Artie – Real-time data replication to your warehouse, now self-serve (artie.com)

×0.43 167 | 25 points by tang8330 5 days ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagrams

×0.49 159 | 31 points by andreygrehov 6 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Notes on DeepSeek

×1.92 116 | 208 points by vinhnx 5 days ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps (extend.ai)

×1.50 111 | 252 points by kbyatnal 5 days ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage (github.com/HelixDB)

×1.06 125 | 157 points by GeorgeCurtis 5 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Resonate – Low-latency, high-resolution spectral analysis (alexandrefrancois.org)

×0.50 157 | 46 points by arjf 1 week ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Learn from 30 historical figures, open source, nonprofit, self-hosted (github.com/chipmates)

×0.65 160 | 47 points by micstradev 6 days ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs (github.com/luke8086)

×0.94 140 | 129 points by luke8086 1 week ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust (gitdot.io)

×2.13 121 | 334 points by pybae 1 week ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers (kyushu.dev)

×0.84 161 | 89 points by le_chuck 1 week ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???