Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%) (daringfireball.net)

×8.73 12 #14 | 154 points by gyomu 3 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grove.el – An Obsidian-like note-taking mode for Emacs (jonathanchu.is)

×9.31 49 | 15 points by tolerance 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust (github.com/oven-sh)

×3.06 1 #2 | 235 points by SergeAx 2 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released (nytimes.com)

×5.51 55 | 88 points by jbegley 8 hours ago | 93 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level (theguardian.com)

×3.53 20 #35 | 112 points by dmm 6 hours ago | 122 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks (independent.co.uk)

×2.79 5 #38 | 12 points by latexr 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused (twitter.com/L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N)

×4.07 12 #16 | 458 points by cft 9 hours ago | 159 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting (pulitzer.org)

×1.95 3 #4 | 27 points by jay_kyburz 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Explores Using Intel and Samsung to Build Main Device Chips in the US (bloomberg.com)

×5.37 30 #43 | 11 points by tambourine_man 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Days without GitHub incidents (dayswithoutgithubincident.com)

×4.02 79 | 361 points by goalieca 10 hours ago | 152 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved (githubstatus.com)

×4.56 77 | 421 points by gen220 12 hours ago | 258 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far) (margaretstorey.com)

×1.75 2 #1 | 59 points by raphaelcosta 1 hour ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DHS demanded Google surrender data on a Canadian man over anti-ICE posts (wired.com)

×3.66 24 #58 | 101 points by HotGarbage 8 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI and the Danger of Cognitive Surrender (economist.com)

×3.52 53 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Woman's Talkspace therapy app sessions exposed in court (proofnews.org)

×2.56 9 #57 | 8 points by g8oz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs (tomshardware.com)

×2.39 9 #52 | 23 points by Zeidd 4 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Talking to strangers at the gym (thienantran.com)

×5.51 8 #13 | 1232 points by thitran 16 hours ago | 572 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Emergency brakes: How to limit temps long before last resort of geoengineering (thebulletin.org)

×3.24 14 #78 | 6 points by littlexsparkee 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work (arstechnica.com)

×2.94 2 #53 | 39 points by ColinWright 6 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pocket (anthonyliddle.dev)

×3.53 15 | 6 points by sciurus 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Musk Settles SEC Suit for Underpaying Twitter Investors by $150M for Just $1.5M (law.com)

×3.81 59 | 6 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 47 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Amp's GPT 5.5 Model Analysis (ampcode.com)

×2.64 31 | 5 points by goranmoomin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trump's proposed NASA budget is a 'horrible threat to our future' in space (space.com)

×2.84 11 | 5 points by voxadam 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
"Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original (arstechnica.com)

×2.86 14 | 5 points by cwal37 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why AI Agents Need Proof Chains, Not Just Logs (github.com/rodriguezaa22ar-boop)

×2.31 15 | 5 points by astra_omnia 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tokens and Dreams (charlesleifer.com)

×3.00 46 | 5 points by xngbuilds 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Truth (stanford.edu)

×2.90 25 | 5 points by nvr219 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Agent Skills (addyosmani.com)

×2.28 4 #5 | 155 points by BOOSTERHIDROGEN 6 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The code hosting platform after GitHub (ersc.io)

×3.07 29 | 5 points by rishiadhikari 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption (9to5mac.com)

×2.45 4 #60 | 30 points by latchkey 6 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube (github.com/ajayyy)

×2.00 8 | 4 points by gasull 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phased-Out Plugs (plugsocketmuseum.nl)

×2.03 13 | 4 points by gaws 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027 (ecopv-eu.com)

×3.63 80 | 552 points by rdeboo 12 hours ago | 495 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reporters at McClatchy Withhold Bylines in Dispute over A.I. Content (nytimes.com)

×2.15 26 | 4 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eaglepress.org – Content Management System Python 3 (eaglepress.org)

×2.05 17 | 4 points by eagle10ne 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Telescript (Programming Language) (wikipedia.org)

×2.22 54 | 3 points by avaer 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
File Approved – File approvals without the back-and-forth (fileapproved.com)

×2.17 16 | 4 points by vannventures 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Valve just imported 50 tons of game consoles in two days (theverge.com)

×2.30 33 | 4 points by droidjj 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Art of Operating Systems (2019) (denninginstitute.com)

×2.03 33 | 5 points by aragonite 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nobody Here – 'The Story of Vaporwave' (2026) – Full Movie (youtube.com)

×1.91 5 | 4 points by fallinditch 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Companies Learn the Word No (reason.com)

×2.22 32 | 4 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why ChatGPT answers instead of saying "I don't know" (medium.com)

×2.27 37 | 4 points by BoundaryTester 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Mental Model for Agentic Work (basti.io)

×2.37 40 | 4 points by basti_ag 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI co-founder discloses nearly $30B stake, financial ties to Altman (reuters.com)

×1.99 24 | 4 points by PessimalDecimal 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Following the Text Gradient at Scale (stanford.edu)

×2.40 42 | 4 points by bearseascape 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
You can get dragged into a police investigation by proximity alone – for now (theverge.com)

×1.82 1 | 4 points by Cider9986 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Process-Level Reward Modeling for Agentic Data Analysis (arxiv.org)

×1.73 2 | 4 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Boris Cherny Why Coding Is Solved, and What Comes Next (youtube.com)

×2.36 48 | 4 points by gastonmorixe 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Developer re-enables features that Bambu Lab disabled, BL threatens legal action (tomshardware.com)

×2.34 46 | 4 points by jacquesm 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't let your Mac's storage fill up (sixcolors.com)

×2.29 45 | 4 points by xngbuilds 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An LLM agent that runs on any Linux box (getclaw.site)

×2.33 34 | 4 points by kilian-ai 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants (techcrunch.com)

×2.91 19 #27 | 448 points by ZeidJ 10 hours ago | 151 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) (shonczinner.github.io)

×2.52 38 | 4 points by kjshsh123 48 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A tiny C program where an LLM rewires its DAG while running (github.com/kouhxp)

×1.64 19 | 4 points by mrkn1 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
White House may vet new AI models before public release (forbes.com)

×2.17 55 | 4 points by adriangrassi 3 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Programmers Sell Ox, Not UX (makonea.com)

×2.17 57 | 4 points by jdw64 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Biscuit (github.com/yattsu)

×2.44 41 | 4 points by unixfg 44 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars (nobodyaskedforthis.lol)

×1.24 29 #8 | 10 points by cadito 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
World-R1: Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation (microsoft.github.io)

×1.52 38 | 3 points by gmays 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LuvStatus (luvstatus.com)

×1.66 53 | 3 points by nainervana 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Clicky Background Computer-Use (twitter.com/farzatv)

×1.62 52 | 3 points by frabonacci 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Webistearchiver – macOS – Save and manage websites. Locally and minimalistically (websitearchiver.net)

×1.59 51 | 3 points by kipdev 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Only Thing Worse Than Spirit Airlines Is a World Without Spirit Airlines (theatlantic.com)

×1.50 43 | 3 points by RestlessMind 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Astronomers uncover > 1k radio galaxies with 'wings,' expanding a rare class (phys.org)

×1.44 36 | 3 points by wglb 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The em dashes ( –) – The unsaid AI SLOP Tax (reddit.com)

×1.55 50 | 3 points by thegdsks 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Achieving 3X speedups with diffusion-style speculative decoding (googleblog.com)

×1.51 47 | 3 points by xnx 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Echon – A Discord alternative built in Tauri/Rust (echon-voice.com)

×1.52 4 | 3 points by highest678 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mtplx – 2.24x faster TPS – The native MTP inference engine for Apple Silicon (github.com/youssofal)

×1.62 56 | 3 points by youssof 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender (theguardian.com)

×4.05 74 | 7 points by prawn 26 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ctx – Persistent Memory for Claude Code, Cursor, and AI Coding Tools (github.com/ActiveMemory)

×1.48 49 | 3 points by parlakisik 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An imperative language for AI workload orchestration: Terradev CLI v4.0.11 (github.com/theoddden)

×1.73 62 | 3 points by Facingsouth 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
White House considers government reviews for AI models (reuters.com)

×1.38 30 | 3 points by AlexDragusin 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026? (lucasaguiar.xyz)

×1.56 | 3 points by isfttr 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Creation of Instant Coffee (worksinprogress.news)

×1.67 60 | 3 points by bookofjoe 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Game Boy Advance Dev: Link Cable Networking (mattgreer.dev)

×2.59 24 #85 | 22 points by birdculture 7 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?

×2.54 44 | 4 points by devstein 39 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Heat pump sales rise across Europe (pv-magazine.com)

×2.60 14 #33 | 223 points by doener 10 hours ago | 132 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The artful way of the stack-machine (pepnom.org)

×1.30 22 | 3 points by mjbq 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Delta Works (wikipedia.org)

×1.65 67 | 3 points by prawn 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A minimalist personal homepage I designed from scratch (olzhasshaikenov.com)

×1.69 5 | 3 points by olzhas23 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lockheed Martin joins with Firefly Aerospace and Seagate for off-shore launches (spaceflightnow.com)

×1.72 74 | 3 points by bookmtn 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Continually improving our agent harness (cursor.com)

×1.72 6 | 3 points by gmays 54 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Burner-bouncer – disposable email detection for JavaScript and Python (github.com/grocerysushi)

×1.70 77 | 3 points by grocerysushi 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'Staggering' number of people believe unproven health claims (nature.com)

×2.35 4 #75 | 40 points by anigbrowl 8 hours ago | 29 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta, TikTok Recv Personal Data from Health Exchanges Alarming Privacy Experts (bloomberg.com)

×1.49 2 #39 | 5 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 47 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An Analysis of the PocketOS Debacle (thedailywtf.com)

×1.80 13 | 3 points by pseudohadamard 47 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AgentShield – spending firewall for AI agents (github.com/lucarizzo03)

×1.60 84 | 3 points by lucarizzo1010 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Kanban-CLI – a web UI for local Markdown todo lists (github.com/Vochsel)

×1.54 83 | 3 points by vochsel 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Stripped an AI agent down to a bash loop – No Framework (github.com/seedpi867-cmd)

×1.62 86 | 3 points by seed867 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Probability Distributions: An Intuitive Guide (tawsifk.substack.com)

×1.58 85 | 3 points by t35khan 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???