Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Do Insects Feel Pain? (newyorker.com)

×1.32 10 #8 | 15 points by Hooke 1 hour ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Workflow86 - An AI business analyst and automation engineer (workflow86.com)

×0.61 18 #13 | 20 points by taaron 3 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker (2020) (arrantpedantry.com)

×0.89 5 #31 | 21 points by jplrssn 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My Cat Mii (theparisreview.org)

×1.86 6 #5 | 123 points by lermontov 5 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Find the oldest line in your repo (milofultz.com)

×1.12 15 #15 | 52 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Making a live-mode test payment to yourself = a payment processor ToS violation?

×0.23 6 | 19 points by king_of_goats 3 days ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Distr – open-source distribution platform for on-prem deployments (github.com/glasskube)

×1.06 33 #22 | 43 points by louis_w_gk 8 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio (audiocube.app)

×1.24 5 #11 | 133 points by noahfk 8 hours ago | 72 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A history of APL in the USSR (1991) (acm.org)

×0.75 18 #14 | 71 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago | 9 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What's the Big Deal? (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

×0.88 29 #17 | 60 points by SchwKatze 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Automating Git Bisect with Ephemeral Environments (qckfx.com)

×0.67 43 #43 | 32 points by chw9e 9 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes (publicdomainreview.org)

×0.26 47 #58 | 19 points by prismatic 10 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Permission to Practise Medicine (bl.uk)

×0.51 48 #27 | 42 points by pepys 10 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rust’s worst feature (mina86.com)

×1.22 13 #56 | 116 points by aw1621107 12 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The story of my home made pipe organ (2000) (sentex.ca)

×1.55 11 #12 | 208 points by ynac 13 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Teemoji: Like Tee but with Emojis (github.com/willswire)

×1.13 33 #24 | 115 points by willswire 14 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" – power over wisdom (wilderutopia.com)

×0.91 44 #37 | 83 points by andsoitis 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Analysis of Product Hunt products from 2014 to 2021 (components.one)

×1.14 34 #28 | 148 points by vednig 17 hours ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Detecting edges of images at the speed of light (phys.org)

×0.88 64 #33 | 82 points by bookofjoe 18 hours ago | 21 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: TinyJs React like framework in 35 lines of code

×0.58 54 #68 | 38 points by atum47 19 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
When the Sackler brothers studied LSD (resobscura.substack.com)

×0.78 53 #67 | 43 points by passing 20 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Game developers keep reinventing Tetris (polygon.com)

×1.01 45 #90 | 30 points by ambyra 20 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind (wordpress.com)

×1.39 49 #30 | 182 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Over engineered cars are pushing technicians away

×2.12 41 | 55 points by SQL2219 4 days ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cardan grille (wikipedia.org)

×0.38 71 #73 | 44 points by Vigier 1 day ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A major Postgres upgrade with zero downtime (instantdb.com)

×1.70 47 #41 | 235 points by stopachka 1 day ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Building a T1D smartwatch for my son from scratch (andrewchilds.com)

×2.66 25 #23 | 531 points by andrewchilds 1 day ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Mcp-Agent – Build effective agents with Model Context Protocol (github.com/lastmile-ai)

×0.87 49 #76 | 72 points by saqadri 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor (ft.com)

×3.47 #47 | 675 points by timsuchanek 1 day ago | 1487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's OAuth2, anyway? (romaglushko.com)

×0.95 30 | 325 points by roma_glushko 4 days ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?

×0.88 61 | 165 points by dondraper36 4 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Meelo, self-hosted music server for collectors and music maniacs (github.com/Arthi-chaud)

×0.62 66 | 155 points by arti_chaud 2 days ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Browse Anime from the Terminal (github.com/Benexl)

×0.21 90 | 73 points by Benex254 4 days ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Moving a not-for-profit web app off AWS

×0.72 157 | 38 points by sjayasinghe 1 week ago | 68 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How far can you get in 40 minutes from each subway station in NYC? (subwaysheds.com)

×2.10 92 | 328 points by jxmorris12 6 days ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Life lessons from the first half-century of my career (acm.org)

×1.99 91 | 412 points by zdw 1 week ago | 160 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Trolling SMS spammers with Ollama (widloski.com)

×1.93 106 | 314 points by Evidlo 1 week ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Using aerospace projects to teach maths [video] (youtube.com)

×0.34 171 | 31 points by firepegasus11 6 days ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener (github.com/zachlatta)

×2.18 100 | 371 points by zachlatta 6 days ago | 157 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Snap Scope – Visualize Lens Focal Length Distribution from EXIF Data (shj.rip)

×0.32 194 | 13 points by kan02134 6 days ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online (t4t.social)

×3.16 104 | 481 points by t4t 1 week ago | 343 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark (stratoshark.org)

×2.27 126 | 316 points by geraldcombs 1 week ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???