Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025) (thetravel.com)

×0.36 47 #26 | 6 points by NaOH 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers (filippo.io)

×1.22 14 #32 | 81 points by gavide 9 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p (github.com/SaarthurR)

×1.39 56 #24 | 53 points by SaarthRanka 11 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C (sebsite.pw)

×0.73 45 #29 | 62 points by signa11 11 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Making Of Super Mario 64 – full Giles Goddard interview (2001) (pixelatron.com)

×1.11 19 #14 | 208 points by gregsadetsky 12 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Choreographic Programming in Rust (github.com/hibanaworks)

×0.59 15 #76 | 50 points by o8vm 12 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search (sciencealert.com)

×1.34 26 #16 | 215 points by bookofjoe 14 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bag of Decisions Reranker (softwaredoug.com)

×0.69 53 #49 | 65 points by zdw 15 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad (github.com/Geramy)

×0.67 58 #38 | 87 points by joshcsimmons 17 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Calculus with Julia (jverzani.github.io)

×1.45 33 #34 | 252 points by subset 21 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vectorized CLZ and CTZ (purplesyringa.moe)

×0.65 53 #74 | 61 points by zX41ZdbW 22 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos (cell.com)

×0.73 54 #68 | 82 points by Bluestein 23 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

×0.83 61 #46 | 131 points by Ixander 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I guess I'm using WebP now? (anderegg.ca)

×1.04 57 #62 | 135 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Cray-1 supercomputer replica from 30 "obsolete" Mac Minis (arstechnica.com)

×0.85 59 #79 | 83 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter (momo5502.com)

×1.75 33 | 207 points by davikr 1 day ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes (hangul.ink)

×0.80 59 | 90 points by jbaudanza 3 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Diffle, a keyboard-centric diff viewer with LSP support (github.com/moritzwilksch)

×0.87 66 | 71 points by mwil1000 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux (lsantos.dev)

×0.91 73 | 121 points by khaosdoctor 4 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pocketty – iPhone SSH terminal that pings you when an agent is blocked (pocketty.app)

×0.57 122 | 32 points by lukeed 4 days ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jevman – AI decision models play Pac-Man (opper.ai)

×0.89 90 | 79 points by felix089 4 days ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Rgpu – a PyTorch device whose tensors live on a remote GPU (github.com/ymcrcat)

×0.61 98 | 57 points by boxstream 5 days ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TerrainSR – fast, realistic heightmap upscaling model (huggingface.co)

×0.62 101 | 47 points by joegibbs 5 days ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Wordminos – Crosswords Meet Dominos (wordminos.com)

×0.85 133 | 23 points by dyarosla 4 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments (scottbezek.blogspot.com)

×1.37 74 | 221 points by scottbez1 4 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110 (github.com/anupray95)

×0.88 124 | 33 points by anupray 4 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

×1.92 65 | 423 points by mariocesar 6 days ago | 663 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Terse, a Claude Code plugin that halves reply length by cutting filler (github.com/lowenbjer)

×1.03 139 | 25 points by lowenbjer 5 days ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools (agent.reviews)

×0.81 105 | 73 points by screm 5 days ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Durable Actors – OSS Durable Objects with configurable compute (github.com/TerseAI)

×0.62 128 | 52 points by thomask1995 6 days ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?

×0.35 143 | 35 points by onemiketwelve 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???