Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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AI 2027 (ai-2027.com)

×7.87 14 #21 | 129 points by Tenoke 4 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AnimeJs v4 Is Here (animejs.com)

×7.30 9 #11 | 332 points by adrianvoica 5 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Intel, TSMC tentatively agree to form chipmaking joint venture (reuters.com)

×4.73 77 #80 | 49 points by mfiguiere 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
2025 Recession Indicators Hit Fashion and Wall Street at Once (marieclaire.com)

×3.60 85 #89 | 68 points by herbertl 2 hours ago | 110 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Windows debloat script made by Microsoft (github.com/microsoft)

×4.69 63 #83 | 32 points by homebrewer 3 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Critics suspect Trump's weird tariff math came from chatbots (arstechnica.com)

×7.16 72 | 14 points by cratermoon 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip (theaiunderwriter.substack.com)

×3.34 4 #1 | 74 points by participant3 2 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MCP Server to let agents control the browser (github.com/Skyvern-AI)

×8.76 37 | 13 points by suchintan 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bikes in the Age of Tariffs (renehersecycles.com)

×3.58 7 #10 | 36 points by bobchadwick 3 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU (bbc.com)

×10.43 24 #36 | 1651 points by belter 23 hours ago | 3078 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reasoning models don't always say what they think (anthropic.com)

×2.37 4 #5 | 244 points by meetpateltech 3 hours ago | 148 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cursor's one-click deploy for multiplayer games (container.inc)

×3.90 52 | 7 points by lentinidante 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
France Eyes US Big Tech in EU Retaliation to Trump's Tariffs (bloomberg.com)

×3.11 40 | 6 points by giuliomagnifico 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bill Gates on first OS he wrote: 'Code remains the coolest I've ever written' (fortune.com)

×3.17 45 | 6 points by CharlesW 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans (techcrunch.com)

×2.85 49 | 6 points by pera 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oracle Tells Clients of Second Recent Hack, Log-In Data Stolen (bloomberg.com)

×3.84 57 | 6 points by decimalenough 52 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Effects of the front page on a non-profit

×3.46 5 | 13 points by mooreds 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Guided Tours for Pull Requests (haystackeditor.com)

×3.86 5 | 7 points by akshaysg 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Git.kernel.org and lore.kernel.org now require proof of work (kernel.org)

×2.61 42 | 5 points by Aissen 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly (isomorphism.xyz)

×2.97 25 #40 | 243 points by todsacerdoti 9 hours ago | 217 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters (monkeys.zip)

×2.04 28 #41 | 6 points by yathern 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Many Programming Languages Can You Name? (name-languages.vercel.app)

×2.16 23 | 4 points by arvindh-manian 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat (wsj.com)

×2.44 19 #45 | 97 points by Bostonian 7 hours ago | 116 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT Due to AI (dutchosintguy.com)

×1.96 51 #37 | 4 points by walterbell 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers from Chicago to Jakarta (bloomberg.com)

×2.16 29 | 4 points by gnabgib 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: GitMCP is an automatic MCP server for every GitHub repo (gitmcp.io)

×1.31 9 #15 | 52 points by liadyo 2 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day (tenstorrent.com)

×1.34 10 #4 | 31 points by fidotron 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Installing AIX PS/2 v1.3 on a 486 (hardwarehacks.org)

×1.67 57 #24 | 4 points by EvanAnderson 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A university president makes a case against cowardice (newyorker.com)

×2.48 9 #23 | 91 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago | 140 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers (github.com/lwthiker)

×1.72 6 #2 | 162 points by mmh0000 5 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
European Commission takes aim at end-to-end encryption (therecord.media)

×3.83 70 | 7 points by janandonly 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database (opennutrition.app)

×2.09 29 #39 | 257 points by joshdickson 7 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cross-Language Infra Components: Solving the Infrastructure Abstraction Problem (pulumi.com)

×1.63 3 | 3 points by meagan-pulumi 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Best books written on “How to think”?

×1.71 | 5 points by r_singh 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Taco Bell parent Yum Brands partners with Nvidia to speed up use of AI (cnbc.com)

×1.53 53 | 7 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
On JavaScript's Weirdness (stack-auth.com)

×1.61 8 | 3 points by n2d4 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What do you do in the army? – How a peacetime army spends its time (militaryrealism.blog)

×1.52 4 | 3 points by baud147258 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Countries apply lower tariffs on products by high-emitting "dirty" industries (berkeley.edu)

×1.53 28 #71 | 3 points by TaurenHunter 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Declarative Web Push – WebKit (webkit.org)

×1.38 5 #6 | 56 points by janandonly 3 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How Servo Motors Work (jameco.com)

×1.61 11 | 3 points by kaycebasques 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The order of files in /etc./SSH/sshd_config.d/ matters (and may surprise you) (utoronto.ca)

×1.51 14 | 3 points by NGRhodes 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hatchet v1 – a task orchestration platform built on Postgres (github.com/hatchet-dev)

×1.44 48 #16 | 10 points by abelanger 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Adds Native Python Support to CUDA (thenewstack.io)

×1.66 14 | 3 points by p4ul 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Build Your Own Security Lake – Open-Source OCSF Converters to S3 (github.com/Santiago-Labs)

×1.46 17 | 3 points by ethanblackburn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PC prices up at least 15%: Trump Tariffs may hurt U.S. system integrators most (tomshardware.com)

×1.79 19 | 3 points by cokext30 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Life of a Dairy Cow (vox.com)

×1.77 21 | 3 points by Luc 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

×6.48 29 #47 | 1752 points by dang 1 day ago | 452 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world (politico.com)

×6.31 18 | 291 points by mdhb 1 day ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How will Trump tarrifs affect remote workers outside US?

×2.60 15 | 12 points by reimertz 6 hours ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: rtrvr.ai one shotted doing taxes using Gemini 2.5 Pro (youtube.com)

×1.56 27 | 3 points by arjunchint 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The Algorithm Behind the Topological Sort Library TopoSort (github.com/williamw520)

×1.08 47 #19 | 5 points by ww520 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Did an LLM help write Trump's trade plan? Probably yes (garymarcus.substack.com)

×2.11 28 | 3 points by mdp2021 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Banked Memories for Soft SIMT Processors (arxiv.org)

×1.00 62 #27 | 3 points by matt_d 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix (github.com/pdtpartners)

×2.68 12 | 23 points by hinshun 9 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: LocalScore – Local LLM Benchmark (localscore.ai)

×1.53 43 | 3 points by sipjca 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Declarative Schemas for simpler database management (supabase.com)

×1.10 9 #7 | 42 points by kiwicopple 3 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Hooksy – The Toaster Oven of Webhooks (Simple, but gets the job done) (hooksy.co)

×2.24 30 | 3 points by choraria 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brave Wallet adds shielded Zcash transactions (brave.com)

×2.19 31 | 3 points by madars 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A little C with your Rust (rust-embedded.org)

×2.16 32 | 3 points by kaycebasques 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US tourist arrested for landing on forbidden Indian tribal island (theguardian.com)

×2.05 34 | 3 points by n1b0m 32 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Music Melee – High-speed parkour FPS for making beautiful music (github.com/gianlucatruda)

×1.79 62 | 3 points by gianlucatruda 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Overengineered Anchor Links (thirty-five.com)

×1.34 6 #3 | 202 points by matser 5 hours ago | 90 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rewriting my site in vanilla web (leanrada.com)

×1.94 24 #52 | 5 points by todsacerdoti 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My First Website (shouldiwatertoday.com)

×2.02 36 | 3 points by cautionitsme 29 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365 (techradar.com)

×4.48 10 #66 | 400 points by bentobean 1 day ago | 296 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
TV Garden (tv.garden)

×4.16 58 | 750 points by vkdelta 4 days ago | 123 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming" (utexas.edu)

×2.96 14 #22 | 336 points by nimbleplum40 16 hours ago | 203 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
America's astonishing act of self-harm (ft.com)

×4.02 67 | 5 points by helloworld 17 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Office of the United States Trade Representative Reciprocal Tariff Calculations (ustr.gov)

×2.51 23 #60 | 4 points by shidoshi 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Showcase: Working on a voice/text chat app in a cyberpunk style (mollohq.com)

×1.04 19 #12 | 38 points by b0bben 4 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language) (github.com/c3lang)

×1.26 11 #14 | 80 points by lerno 6 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anyone else seeing this culture shift?

×2.17 41 | 3 points by gf23234856633 22 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Exponent, a collaborative AI programming agent (exponent.run)

×7.89 87 | 24 points by sthupukari 1 day ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Arrakis – Open-source, self-hostable sandboxing service for AI Agents (github.com/abshkbh)

×8.20 92 | 26 points by abshkbh 1 day ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Novanode, Global load balancing with Caddy, no vendor lock-in

×1.00 22 #44 | 63 points by martianE 5 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Want a Better Mac, So I'm Cheering for a Better Linux (ofb.biz)

×1.87 17 #65 | 3 points by trbutler 19 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change (spectator.co.uk)

×1.83 27 #20 | 123 points by pseudolus 12 hours ago | 174 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I don't discuss politics with friends (shwin.co)

×3.75 23 #35 | 449 points by shw1n 1 day ago | 871 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
New nanoparticle therapies target two major killers – Science – AAAS (science.org)

×0.22 75 #26 | 3 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad? (annehelen.substack.com)

×3.12 5 #72 | 259 points by moonka 22 hours ago | 274 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Minimal CSS-only blurry image placeholders (leanrada.com)

×2.85 7 #33 | 433 points by ChiptuneIsCool 21 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad (pilledtexts.com)

×2.31 15 #8 | 533 points by Fred34 17 hours ago | 474 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Offline JavaScript PubSub between browser tabs (simon-frey.com)

×0.91 4 #25 | 64 points by l1am0 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Benchi – A benchmarking tool written in Go (github.com/ConduitIO)

×0.85 28 #17 | 38 points by lmazgon 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Texas children treated for Vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads (texasstandard.org)

×3.36 61 | 4 points by croes 13 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers (pico.sh)

×2.77 9 #32 | 562 points by TheTaytay 1 day ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
InitWare, a portable systemd fork running on BSDs and Linux (github.com/InitWare)

×1.02 18 #9 | 117 points by sunshine-o 8 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Space Debris: Is It a Crisis? (esa.int)

×1.10 3 #62 | 57 points by defrost 9 hours ago | 64 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack (krebsonsecurity.com)

×10.28 34 | 1150 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 905 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015) (reactormag.com)

×3.32 4 | 324 points by MPSimmons 1 day ago | 105 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???