Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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15 Years If Jefit (jefit.com)

×1.14 18 #8 | 15 points by jasong 3 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world (100r.co)

×2.09 8 #12 | 35 points by 0xCaponte 5 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fighting Brandolini's Law with Sampling (brady.fyi)

×0.97 26 #15 | 20 points by h-bradio 5 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences (ansi.tools)

×1.28 11 #10 | 46 points by webpro 6 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DIY Telescope Mods That Transformed My Astrophotography (youtube.com)

×1.10 8 #28 | 34 points by karlperera 7 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Pigeon River Is Perched, Which Is Geologically Bad News (2020) (princegeology.com)

×0.97 29 #34 | 21 points by ijustlovemath 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TCP-in-UDP Solution (eBPF) (mptcp.dev)

×1.06 20 #20 | 44 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The End of Windows 10: a toolkit for community repair groups (therestartproject.org)

×1.13 11 #60 | 44 points by T-A 3 days ago | 56 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Code Unleashed (ymichael.com)

×2.56 7 #30 | 133 points by ymichael 12 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Modular Interpreters and Visitors in Rust with Extensible Variants and CGP (contextgeneric.dev)

×0.49 42 #43 | 20 points by PaulHoule 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RisingWave: An Open‑Source Stream‑Processing and Management Platform (github.com/risingwavelabs)

×0.87 32 #29 | 51 points by Sheldon_fun 12 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Extending That XOR Trick to Billions of Rows (nochlin.com)

×0.93 33 #24 | 68 points by hundredwatt 13 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995 (fastcompany.com)

×1.28 25 #26 | 88 points by vontzy 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delaunay Mesh Generation (2012) (berkeley.edu)

×0.46 32 #69 | 21 points by ibobev 16 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Game of trees hub (gothub.org)

×0.46 30 #64 | 29 points by todsacerdoti 18 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Perfume reviews (gwern.net)

×1.90 13 #17 | 263 points by surprisetalk 18 hours ago | 142 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: PlutoFilter- A single-header, zero-allocation image filter library in C (github.com/sammycage)

×0.69 43 #37 | 66 points by sammycage 19 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's going on with gene therapies? (nehalslearnings.substack.com)

×0.93 12 #67 | 68 points by nehal96 20 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On doing hard things (bearblog.dev)

×2.15 #48 | 269 points by speckx 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stone blocks from the Lighthouse of Alexandria recovered from seafloor (archaeologymag.com)

×1.18 42 #36 | 115 points by gnabgib 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days (2024) (gautiersblog.blogspot.com)

×0.73 40 #42 | 104 points by etrez 1 day ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Archaeologists discover tomb of first king of Caracol (uh.edu)

×0.88 43 #33 | 149 points by divbzero 1 day ago | 37 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems (github.com/Netflix)

×1.17 37 #53 | 119 points by plokker 1 day ago | 24 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A 1960s schools experiment that created a new alphabet (theguardian.com)

×1.25 31 #66 | 113 points by Hooke 1 day ago | 136 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction (techcrunch.com)

×2.39 14 #50 | 502 points by boulos 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scanned piano rolls database (pianorollmusic.org)

×0.91 44 #73 | 82 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: 0xDEAD//TYPE – A fast-paced typing shooter with retro vibes (theden.sh)

×1.10 33 #76 | 110 points by theden 1 day ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Timep – a next-gen profiler and flamegraph-generator for bash code (github.com/jkool702)

×0.79 68 | 26 points by jkool702 3 days ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built with HTML pages (htmlmaze.com)

×0.67 41 | 62 points by kyrylo 3 days ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Rust shaped hole (mnvr.in)

×1.48 24 #86 | 116 points by vishnumohandas 1 day ago | 307 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Roman dodecahedron: 12-sided object has baffled archaeologists for centuries (livescience.com)

×0.90 46 #79 | 82 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: BloomSearch – Keyword search with hierarchical Bloom filters (github.com/danthegoodman1)

×0.85 46 | 65 points by dangoodmanUT 4 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's happening to reading? (newyorker.com)

×1.79 24 #78 | 180 points by Kaibeezy 2 days ago | 306 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MARS.EXE → COM (2021) (uj.edu.pl)

×1.37 30 #82 | 171 points by reconnecting 2 days ago | 47 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LLM Daydreaming (gwern.net)

×1.63 28 #77 | 212 points by nanfinitum 2 days ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App (andrewshaw.nl)

×1.38 55 | 71 points by shawa_a_a 6 days ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process (eieio.games)

×1.40 31 #87 | 183 points by isaiahwp 2 days ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language (menerdu.vercel.app)

×1.35 37 | 202 points by lil_csom 5 days ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer (github.com/ahrm)

×1.07 89 | 67 points by hexomancer 5 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Bedrock – An 8-bit computing system for running programs anywhere (benbridle.com)

×1.57 51 | 218 points by benbridle 1 week ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: FFmpeg in plain English – LLM-assisted FFmpeg in the browser (vidmix.app)

×1.61 76 | 176 points by bjano 1 week ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized (nodaysoff.run)

×4.51 15 | 940 points by friggeri 1 week ago | 481 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: ArchGW – An intelligent edge and service proxy for agents (github.com/katanemo)

×0.90 104 | 115 points by honorable_coder 5 days ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chrome's hidden X-Browser-Validation header reverse engineered (github.com/dsekz)

×2.92 59 | 380 points by dsekz 1 week ago | 129 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a JSFiddle-style playground to test and share prompts fast (langfa.st)

×0.54 163 | 49 points by eugenegusarov 5 days ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built a toy music controller for my 5yo with a coding agent (github.com/jeffmccune)

×0.54 172 | 37 points by JeffMcCune 1 week ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Interactive pinout for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (pinout.xyz)

×3.67 145 | 149 points by gadgetoid 1 week ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels (github.com/fosrl)

×0.78 80 | 498 points by miloschwartz 1 week ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet (browseros.com)

×3.27 106 | 287 points by felarof 1 week ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale (recall.ai)

×0.62 75 | 571 points by davidgu 1 week ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: CXXStateTree – A modern C++ library for hierarchical state machines (github.com/ZigRazor)

×0.28 176 | 48 points by zigrazor 1 week ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The jank programming language (jank-lang.org)

×2.41 101 | 423 points by akkad33 1 week ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)

×3.89 70 | 994 points by jonkuipers 1 week ago | 257 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (cnbc.com)

×3.73 133 | 521 points by bwfan123 1 week ago | 338 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???