Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Ghostty 1.0 (ghostty.org)

×6.62 #1 | 586 points by matrixhelix 2 hours ago | 131 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Musk, Ramaswamy defend Silicon Valley's foreign-born hires (thehill.com)

×9.16 80 | 16 points by moosedman 1 hour ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lua Is So Underrated (bearblog.dev)

×4.52 16 #20 | 109 points by nflatrea 3 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Android 16 will include a full Linux terminal with hardware acceleration (techweez.com)

×8.01 78 | 14 points by disparate4927 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump supporters demand ban on H1B Visa and fewer Indians in Silicon Valley (indiatoday.in)

×6.64 73 | 12 points by dtquad 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI is Visa – Buttering up the government to retain a monopoly (sherwood.news)

×3.33 9 #14 | 91 points by gpi 3 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?

×3.00 12 #18 | 77 points by franze 3 hours ago | 52 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Clear Definition of 'AGI' (gizmodo.com)

×5.61 68 | 11 points by belter 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Russia hit flight J2-8243, then jammed electronics and denied permission to land (bsky.app)

×5.78 58 | 11 points by martythemaniak 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Finland Boards Tanker After Power and Data Cables Go Offline (bloomberg.com)

×5.08 65 | 10 points by belter 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pfizer Stopped Us from Getting Ozempic Decades Ago (nytimes.com)

×4.89 61 | 10 points by bko 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bogus Pirate IPTV Portals Run by Law Enforcement "Entrap Hundreds" (torrentfreak.com)

×4.23 60 | 11 points by gslin 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Vessel Suspected of Cutting Undersea Cable May Be Part of Russia’s Shadow Fleet (nytimes.com)

×5.07 61 #75 | 10 points by jbegley 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Actual Web Rendering in Terminal (github.com/chase)

×2.51 28 #45 | 19 points by Smaug123 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Netflix sues Broadcom's VMware over US virtual machine patents (reuters.com)

×3.41 34 #61 | 36 points by blackeyeblitzar 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good (nytimes.com)

×3.59 55 | 7 points by smusamashah 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China's new long range stealth aircraft makes appearance (ukdefencejournal.org.uk)

×2.62 39 #74 | 16 points by uticus 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeepSeek-V3, ultra-large open-source AI, outperforms Llama and Qwen on launch (venturebeat.com)

×2.92 38 | 6 points by hochmartinez 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Colab Notebook – RAG on Your Unstructured Data (github.com/athina-ai)

×1.83 28 #66 | 8 points by hbamoria 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
My failed attempt at AGI on the Tokio Runtime (christo.sh)

×2.49 15 #36 | 70 points by openquery 6 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Does Morality Do Us Any Good? (newyorker.com)

×3.01 67 | 5 points by vo2maxer 50 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
China's low-altitude aviation economy to become a trillion-yuan industry in 2025 (nature.com)

×2.15 33 | 4 points by rntn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Undersea tunnels connect remote islands halfway between Iceland and Scotland (cnn.com)

×2.10 44 | 4 points by peutetre 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Noah Gibbs (@codefolio) has passed away (twitter.com/nateberkopec)

×2.07 45 | 4 points by ksec 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Speedrunner Accused of Cheating Live on Stream with Audio Analysis [video] (youtube.com)

×2.01 27 | 4 points by minimaxir 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reverse Engineering the Stream Deck+ (den.dev)

×2.77 9 #12 | 17 points by dend 25 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Softmax is on the log, not the logit scale (columbia.edu)

×2.02 13 | 4 points by Tomte 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Possible First Flight of China's Sixth-Generation Aircraft (theaviationist.com)

×1.93 14 | 4 points by belter 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Write Your Own Virtual Machine (2022) (jmeiners.com)

×1.46 4 #3 | 88 points by sebg 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists explore longevity drugs for dogs that could also 'extend human life' (theguardian.com)

×1.97 18 | 4 points by robinwarren 2 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Ideas are cheap, so what ideas can make $100k/year?

×1.56 19 | 3 points by findingMeaning 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
MirageOS on OCaml 5 (ocaml.org)

×1.60 29 | 3 points by pjmlp 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Scientists explore longevity drugs for dogs that could also 'extend human life' (theguardian.com)

×2.44 21 #55 | 8 points by pseudolus 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Have a Few Questions (collabfund.com)

×1.54 28 | 3 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Deepseek released a new frontier LLM with 11x lesser compute than Meta's largest (twitter.com/karpathy)

×1.51 26 | 3 points by amrrs 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sub-pixel distance transform (2023) (acko.net)

×1.20 #2 | 66 points by ChadNauseam 2 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Tour of WebAuthn (imperialviolet.org)

×1.55 4 #4 | 115 points by caust1c 4 hours ago | 39 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Write a Shell in C (2015) (brennan.io)

×1.32 5 #7 | 37 points by sebg 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Norway building longest, deepest undersea road tunnel (telegraph.co.uk)

×1.54 30 | 3 points by wslh 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Small Open Doors Can Lead to Better CPU Utilization and Bigger Games (youtube.com)

×1.53 31 | 3 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
For Science That Comes with Risks, a Key Question: Who Decides? (undark.org)

×1.57 35 | 3 points by rntn 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
VCs wanted to get into Lumen Orbit's $11M seed round (techcrunch.com)

×1.82 39 | 3 points by PaulHoule 56 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Libcamera 0.4 Released for Open-Source Camera Stack/Framework (phoronix.com)

×1.75 41 | 3 points by LinuxBender 55 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Japan Airlines reports cyberattack on system, impacting flights (japantimes.co.jp)

×1.41 4 | 3 points by mikhael 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Simple ELF (4zm.org)

×1.49 4 #5 | 122 points by signa11 4 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Go's Declaration Syntax (2010) (go.dev)

×1.45 7 | 3 points by kugurerdem 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Data Detox Kit (datadetoxkit.org)

×1.41 6 | 3 points by ColinWright 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blackstone, KKR, CVC Curbed by China's IPO Clampdown (privateequitywire.co.uk)

×1.35 3 | 3 points by ksec 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
It's now safe to shutdown your computer (2018) (twitter.com/Foone)

×1.43 8 | 3 points by laserstrahl 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ncurses-rs project discontinued by the author (lobste.rs)

×1.36 1 | 3 points by marcus0x62 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Quixotic – a tool for wasting bot and LLM scraper time (marcusb.org)

×2.22 15 | 5 points by marcus0x62 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apache fixes Traffic Control bug that attackers could exploit (scworld.com)

×1.65 43 | 3 points by LinuxBender 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The semver trick (2019) (github.com/dtolnay)

×1.26 15 #25 | 88 points by jcbhmr 4 hours ago | 34 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Neutron Stars with Less Mass Than a White Dwarf Might Exist (universetoday.com)

×1.88 8 #21 | 4 points by rbanffy 35 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cognitive load is what matters (minds.md)

×6.37 9 #10 | 1530 points by zdw 1 day ago | 636 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Use of Logical Clocks in Databases (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

×2.38 54 | 3 points by emschwartz 27 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I made a web app that generates resumes and cover letters for free (careercrate.io)

×1.83 51 | 3 points by devbrianwhite 29 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Merry Christmas Everyone

×7.57 21 #60 | 1439 points by joshagilend 1 day ago | 375 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Arcan 0.7 – The All Tomato (arcan-fe.com)

×1.05 6 #16 | 44 points by ingenieroariel 5 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The trap of "I am not an extrovert" (orkohunter.net)

×2.26 46 #22 | 54 points by orkohunter 13 hours ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BetterDisplay: Extra Configuration Options for macOS (github.com/waydabber)

×1.35 21 #65 | 12 points by fanf2 7 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server (github.com/blackcandy-org)

×2.76 3 #23 | 585 points by nateb2022 19 hours ago | 243 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ocean Carbon Removal: Captura's marine carbon capture explained (ieee.org)

×1.08 2 #30 | 50 points by geox 6 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
T2 System Development Environment (t2sde.org)

×1.29 49 #33 | 16 points by marcodiego 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Simulating C. elegans brain, body and environment interactions (nature.com)

×1.35 3 #47 | 59 points by lamename 9 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Minecraft server written in COBOL (github.com/meyfa)

×2.46 25 #17 | 246 points by notamy 19 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Advent of Code analysis through the years (jvanelteren.github.io)

×1.54 13 #89 | 18 points by chkas 10 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Cull Front: A new front end generator for Htmx and AlpineJS (cullfront.com)

×0.78 59 #32 | 7 points by limenleap 5 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Technical reasons to favor FreeBSD over Debian for servers?

×3.15 67 | 6 points by hiAndrewQuinn 13 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Where should I go to look for Investors?

×0.41 24 | 4 points by vednig 2 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I've made a Monte-Carlo raytracer for glTF scenes in WebGPU (github.com/lisyarus)

×0.83 8 #8 | 78 points by lisyarus 5 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?

×4.63 26 | 101 points by hubraumhugo 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Eunomia, Open Source Data Governance for LLM-Based Applications (github.com/whataboutyou-ai)

×1.08 73 | 3 points by pvalfre 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Melbourne Train Control System is running on a hardware emulated PDP11 (sdf.org)

×1.78 87 #51 | 7 points by SerCe 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated (igorstechnoclub.com)

×2.77 1 #53 | 301 points by Igor_Wiwi 1 day ago | 133 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported

×5.15 20 #87 | 275 points by christophilus 1 day ago | 295 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust (egui.rs)

×2.24 39 #82 | 272 points by josephcsible 21 hours ago | 134 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What tool for live, collaborative, symbolic math?

×0.80 45 | 4 points by BrannonKing 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Modular Next.js SaaS Boilerplate (faststartup.dev)

×1.75 94 | 3 points by codebymedu 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Inverse Design of Complex Nanoparticle Heterostructures via DL on Graphs (chemrxiv.org)

×0.37 25 #9 | 8 points by pizza 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time (github.com/Jaennaet)

×4.91 30 #85 | 1092 points by ajdude 2 days ago | 247 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

×3.06 7 #77 | 191 points by meridion 1 day ago | 241 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fine-tune classifier with ModernBERT in 2025 (philschmid.de)

×0.74 76 #54 | 5 points by mcyc 8 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Differential Growth Addon for Blender (okunskiy.name)

×1.69 28 #13 | 232 points by kelseyfrog 18 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software (github.com/siyuan-note)

×1.88 26 #19 | 237 points by thunderbong 20 hours ago | 113 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Check your old YouTube videos

×3.64 87 | 10 points by phendrenad2 22 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Debian's approach to Rust – Dependency handling (2022) (dreamwidth.org)

×0.93 32 #27 | 44 points by zdw 10 hours ago | 79 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks (sherlockproject.xyz)

×2.56 5 #69 | 244 points by leonry 1 day ago | 146 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Seconds Since the Epoch (aphyr.com)

×1.85 27 #24 | 236 points by zdw 22 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Looking for the best forum software to start a new forum community in 2025

×1.23 27 #84 | 20 points by Jsttan 14 hours ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???