Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Say Goodbye (mooreds.com)

×1.38 11 #21 | 16 points by mooreds 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Empathy for Dummies (quarter--mile.com)

×1.18 31 #43 | 41 points by surprisetalk 3 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries (theverge.com)

×1.51 11 #7 | 28 points by CharlesW 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades (cbsnews.com)

×2.36 3 #2 | 173 points by pseudolus 5 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Monumental rock art: humans thrived in Arab. Desert during Pleistocene-Holocene (nature.com)

×0.54 34 #16 | 26 points by ano-ther 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Git, JSON and Markdown walk into bar (grumpygamer.com)

×1.65 48 #72 | 66 points by speckx 6 hours ago | 73 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript (github.com/irony)

×1.84 6 #5 | 178 points by urvader 7 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The case for an iceberg-native database (warpstream.com)

×0.45 50 #40 | 20 points by richieartoul 8 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A PhD in Snapshots (rbharath.github.io)

×0.69 37 #39 | 38 points by jxmorris12 9 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mathematicians discover prime number pattern in fractal chaos (scientificamerican.com)

×1.27 17 #18 | 118 points by baruchel 12 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad (kau.sh)

×2.01 29 #50 | 210 points by freetonik 12 hours ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adding Stride Scheduling to Xv6 (nickchandler.dev)

×0.69 51 #82 | 19 points by todsacerdoti 14 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Packing the world for longest lines of sight (tombh.co.uk)

×1.17 43 #27 | 115 points by tombh 15 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Seeing like a software company (seangoedecke.com)

×2.08 10 #17 | 297 points by praptak 16 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Global Village Construction Set (opensourceecology.org)

×1.24 34 #26 | 168 points by jacquesm 17 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: DidMySettingsChange – A tool that checks changed windows settings (github.com/nolesapex)

×0.81 52 #67 | 41 points by nolesapex 18 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vibe engineering (simonwillison.net)

×3.29 9 #13 | 456 points by janpio 18 hours ago | 500 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows 3.1 in a Windows 95 Virtual Machine (2022) (geoffchappell.com)

×1.02 16 #88 | 70 points by Lammy 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers (nullpt.rs)

×1.85 12 #25 | 310 points by nullpt_rs 19 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012) (stackexchange.com)

×1.03 45 #48 | 97 points by susam 20 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bat: Cat with syntax highlighting (github.com/sharkdp)

×1.88 11 #63 | 181 points by Olshansky 20 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Functional Threading "Macros" (aartaka.me)

×0.82 40 #77 | 65 points by GarethX 22 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stress test for parallel disk i/o using git and pnpm (github.com/NullVoxPopuli)

×0.59 77 #41 | 71 points by robin_reala 23 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An illustrated introduction to linear algebra (ducktyped.org)

×2.16 26 #22 | 394 points by egonschiele 1 day ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How does gradient descent work? (centralflows.github.io)

×1.86 33 #35 | 296 points by jxmorris12 1 day ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reconstruction of Konrad Zuse's Z3 Computer (fu-berlin.de)

×0.73 43 #79 | 76 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Greenonion.ai – AI-Powered Design Assistant (exuberant-premise-723012.framer.app)

×0.44 69 | 21 points by yanjiechg 1 day ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chess.com regional pricing: A case study (mobeigi.com)

×1.27 50 #60 | 112 points by mobeigi 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows? (alexmolas.com)

×1.43 44 #59 | 164 points by alexmolas 1 day ago | 184 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What makes 5% of AI agents work in production? (motivenotes.ai)

×1.05 67 #68 | 122 points by AnhTho_FR 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using Deno as my game engine (tubatuba.net)

×0.99 39 #85 | 169 points by phaser 1 day ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half (arstechnica.com)

×1.41 59 #53 | 262 points by voxadam 1 day ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework (fb.com)

×1.13 8 | 413 points by terrelln 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I've build a platform for writing technical/scientific documents (monsterwriter.com)

×0.49 73 | 57 points by WolfOliver 2 days ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024) (windscribe.com)

×2.42 1 #84 | 660 points by walterbell 1 day ago | 410 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Neural emotion matrix for NPCs (github.com/mavdol)

×1.11 79 | 48 points by mavdol04 1 week ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's just a virus, the E.R. told him – days later, he was dead (nytimes.com)

×1.35 60 #78 | 238 points by wallflower 2 days ago | 432 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Orcas are bringing humans gifts (newscientist.com)

×1.41 70 #86 | 160 points by wslh 2 days ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Re-Implementing the macOS Spatial Finder (github.com/everydayanchovies)

×0.76 83 | 75 points by dailyanchovy 6 days ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 2D Spine Animation AI for Game (godmodeai.co)

×0.58 112 | 29 points by lyogavin 1 week ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Cobalt – a pixel-art painting studio for the Nintendo DS (benbridle.com)

×1.27 82 | 174 points by benbridle 1 week ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: JPDB, GDB for Your Waveforms (github.com/1024bees)

×0.52 120 | 33 points by 1024bees 1 week ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Magic-markers – control a smart bulb with crayola markers (github.com/thejchap)

×0.47 144 | 12 points by jchap 1 week ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Why did COM/SOAP/other protocols fail?

×0.51 128 | 26 points by smj-edison 4 days ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases?

×0.55 111 | 82 points by mpetyak 1 week ago | 53 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Traceroute Visualizer (kriztalz.sh)

×0.82 115 | 97 points by PranaFlux 1 week ago | 43 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2025)

×0.59 118 | 101 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)

×1.09 98 | 242 points by whoishiring 1 week ago | 430 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Glide, an extensible, keyboard-focused web browser (craigie.dev)

×1.51 102 | 206 points by probablyrobert 1 week ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???