Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved (fz-juelich.de)

×1.65 19 #6 | 30 points by _Microft 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Chemical Hunger (2021) (slimemoldtimemold.com)

×0.87 1 #34 | 22 points by bilsbie 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now (rhaas.blogspot.com)

×3.49 2 #3 | 150 points by soheilpro 5 hours ago | 95 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry (lareviewofbooks.org)

×0.71 20 #14 | 32 points by TMWNN 6 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The She-Wolves of Jülich (historytoday.com)

×0.34 36 #25 | 17 points by Thevet 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras (sciencedaily.com)

×0.88 18 #12 | 57 points by stevenalowe 7 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed (github.com/raphlinus)

×0.96 16 #7 | 111 points by raphlinus 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++ (nullprogram.com)

×0.87 19 #8 | 91 points by luu 9 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Parchment Paper History: How We Got Paper Perfect for Baking (2019) (tedium.co)

×0.62 28 #28 | 43 points by colinprince 10 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SS27 Color Stats (sarahconstantin.substack.com)

×0.25 48 #65 | 11 points by surprisetalk 11 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bidirectional charging during grid outages (jefftk.com)

×0.76 25 #21 | 90 points by luu 13 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics (tibleiz.net)

×1.12 23 #10 | 145 points by bogdanoff_2 13 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2 (kevs3d.co.uk)

×0.71 32 #26 | 78 points by kevs3d 14 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems (nature.com)

×1.04 25 #20 | 129 points by croes 15 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Radiation Map of the World (radiaverse.com)

×1.17 28 #22 | 139 points by slater 17 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Ocean 'Was the Color of Chocolate.' Mexico Declares War on Seaweed. (nytimes.com)

×0.86 6 | 45 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology (outcrop.rocks)

×1.32 28 #23 | 163 points by headsupernova 19 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video] (youtube.com)

×1.78 5 #52 | 139 points by surprisetalk 19 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Understanding Email Encryption (2025) (fastmail.com)

×1.17 27 #38 | 128 points by nmjenkins 21 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother (zamzar.com)

×1.72 17 #36 | 228 points by whyleyc 23 hours ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems) (mit.edu)

×0.98 33 #62 | 86 points by peter_d_sherman 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000 (acm.org)

×0.69 53 #51 | 65 points by gjvc 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral (mit.edu)

×0.79 53 #48 | 77 points by the-mitr 1 day ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer (slate.com)

×0.65 51 #67 | 51 points by samclemens 1 day ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Decode kernel panic from QR Code photo (github.com/skorotkiewicz)

×0.64 49 #83 | 40 points by modinfo 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite (blog.google)

×1.02 45 | 43 points by praccu 2 days ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020 (maketecheasier.com)

×1.30 41 #40 | 170 points by ohjeez 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup (arstechnica.com)

×0.67 50 #85 | 48 points by dverlaeckt80 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A language model that lives in a boot sector (github.com/kerlenton)

×0.89 39 #71 | 96 points by kerlenton 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 (jepsen.io)

×2.08 8 #77 | 340 points by aphyr 1 day ago | 194 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector (github.com/4yk5)

×0.75 52 | 64 points by 4yk5 2 days ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura (thedataexchange.media)

×1.43 49 #59 | 211 points by datascientist 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I rebuilt Kubernetes for ESP32 microcontrollers (github.com/arterialist)

×1.22 66 | 53 points by Arterialist 3 days ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Sketch Stadium – watch your agent play Pictionary (wakeshift.ai)

×0.42 75 | 37 points by ericlevine 2 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sleep framework: A new way for LLMs to retain knowledge in continual learning (research.google)

×1.81 35 #90 | 264 points by acossta 2 days ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Overtone – Transcribe, correct and cut captions for any screen shape (github.com/lonthq)

×0.55 80 | 45 points by rvanderlinden 3 days ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms (github.com/emmilco)

×0.80 73 | 82 points by RGS1811 4 days ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???