Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform (nytimes.com)

×5.88 7 #8 | 168 points by donohoe 1 hour ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Florida is letting companies make it harder for highly paid workers to swap jobs (businessinsider.com)

×3.66 27 #30 | 94 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 107 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry (venturebeat.com)

×3.37 69 #73 | 108 points by fdaudens 2 hours ago | 98 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI (cbc.ca)

×3.82 39 #48 | 33 points by pseudolus 2 hours ago | 13 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes (theverge.com)

×4.87 7 #13 | 252 points by thunderbong 7 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US court strikes down 'click-to-cancel' rule designed to make unsubscribing easy (theguardian.com)

×8.54 63 | 222 points by andsoitis 14 hours ago | 30 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia Becomes First Company to Reach $4T Market Cap (cnbc.com)

×2.80 11 #26 | 29 points by mfiguiere 3 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tree Borrows (ethz.ch)

×1.91 1 #1 | 143 points by zdw 2 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web (websmith.studio)

×3.31 12 #19 | 213 points by pumbaa 7 hours ago | 178 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Reka Research – A SOTA research agent (reka.ai)

×4.21 67 | 5 points by donovanOng 45 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026 (europa.eu)

×5.12 62 | 257 points by toomuchtodo 16 hours ago | 303 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza (theguardian.com)

×12.35 27 | 518 points by mhga 1 day ago | 337 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A fast 3D collision detection algorithm (cairno.substack.com)

×1.48 1 #4 | 64 points by OlympicMarmoto 2 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations (retractionwatch.com)

×3.21 21 #46 | 105 points by ArmageddonIt 9 hours ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust and CGI (jacob.gold)

×1.93 32 #42 | 96 points by feep 5 hours ago | 86 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty service to meet surging demand (zdnet.com)

×2.76 15 #36 | 114 points by saubeidl 9 hours ago | 49 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
'It's been hell': Amazon packages mistakenly sent to SJ woman's home (abc7news.com)

×1.92 30 | 3 points by randycupertino 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Reachy Mini – The Open-Source Robot for Today's and Tomorrow's AI Builders (huggingface.co)

×2.07 19 #65 | 20 points by Thomjazz 5 hours ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
IBM Power11 Launched with Up to 2048 Threads and Ddimm Support (servethehome.com)

×1.86 35 | 3 points by rbanffy 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru (bbc.co.uk)

×1.81 25 #14 | 14 points by neversaydie 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Retconning 'Russiagate': The CIA director encourages the rewriting of history (lawfaremedia.org)

×2.21 43 | 3 points by nabla9 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Million Times Million (susam.net)

×1.68 55 #67 | 69 points by susam 4 hours ago | 63 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (theregister.com)

×7.91 29 | 299 points by LorenDB 1 day ago | 222 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Architecture Behind Lovable and Bolt (beam.cloud)

×3.23 61 | 4 points by Mernit 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Wild West of Agentic AI – An Attack Surface CISOs Can't Afford to Ignore (securityweek.com)

×2.96 60 | 4 points by Bender 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)

×4.35 14 #9 | 370 points by gausswho 18 hours ago | 349 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I'm skeptical of Ground News (sjodle.com)

×3.37 38 #40 | 16 points by blowenopdestoep 8 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rivian spinoff Also raises another $200M (techcrunch.com)

×2.37 47 | 3 points by hasheddan 40 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: A Truth Table Generator Written in Common Lisp (manoel.dev)

×5.88 15 | 16 points by lerax 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US Army will end most of its horse programs and adopt out the animals (nbcnews.com)

×2.42 49 | 3 points by geox 38 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow (github.com/oisee)

×1.36 10 #21 | 70 points by weinzierl 4 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Nvidia insiders dump more than $1 billion in stock, according to report (cnbc.com)

×2.48 56 | 3 points by cratermoon 33 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)

×5.13 58 | 448 points by bundie 1 day ago | 309 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
PHP 8.5 alpha 1 is available for download (php.net)

×2.21 10 #68 | 32 points by jeroenpeters 9 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful (florian-kraemer.net)

×2.08 7 #7 | 192 points by BerislavLopac 9 hours ago | 300 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Snub – A fast, lightweight file search CLI for Windows (written in C) (github.com/seeyebe)

×1.78 4 | 5 points by seeyebe 5 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops 1k facial recognition arrests (theregister.com)

×1.21 6 #61 | 10 points by rntn 4 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions? (quuxplusone.github.io)

×2.50 16 #11 | 169 points by todsacerdoti 12 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jurisdiction Is Nearly Irrelevant to the Security of Encrypted Messaging Apps (soatok.blog)

×0.97 37 #34 | 6 points by zdw 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business (projectionlab.com)

×3.76 7 #10 | 679 points by jonkuipers 21 hours ago | 172 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Capacity, Performance, and Reliability of MicroSD Cards (bahjeez.com)

×1.62 21 #58 | 44 points by userbinator 8 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What's your experience using Lynx (mobile framework)?

×0.70 44 | 3 points by isntThatSth 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (generalanalysis.com)

×3.77 8 #27 | 784 points by rexpository 23 hours ago | 427 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Does your on-call rotation suck? Can I join it?

×1.10 29 | 3 points by asciifree 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression (7-zip.org)

×1.96 8 #12 | 181 points by doener 12 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left (medium.com)

×1.00 6 #2 | 113 points by gabiteodoru 5 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails developers need to know (prateekcodes.dev)

×1.25 10 #3 | 141 points by thomas_witt 7 hours ago | 65 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?

×3.12 15 | 84 points by pedrodelfino 19 hours ago | 55 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming

×5.10 18 | 73 points by Eatcats 1 day ago | 102 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Is every company's internal wiki just broken by default?

×1.29 12 #82 | 20 points by NanaAmun 7 hours ago | 32 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ESIM Security (security-explorations.com)

×1.22 6 #24 | 93 points by todsacerdoti 7 hours ago | 41 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)

×4.55 9 #59 | 484 points by cantdutchthis 1 day ago | 119 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Largest Camera Captures 10⁷ Galaxies, Discovers 2,104 Asteroids (petapixel.com)

×2.66 59 | 3 points by PaulHoule 16 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)

×6.78 26 #78 | 1202 points by adrianh 2 days ago | 412 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is the doc bot docs, or not? (robinsloan.com)

×1.19 11 #5 | 145 points by tobr 9 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Slack is just the worst – and I've used a BBS and 14.4k modem

×3.67 66 | 12 points by sincethebbsera 19 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor (github.com/CyberTimon)

×1.52 10 #16 | 212 points by l8rlump 14 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Zorin OS (zorin.com)

×2.70 45 #29 | 152 points by oldfuture 1 day ago | 137 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Multi-session Claude Code manager with async workflow (github.com/ObservedObserver)

×1.01 76 | 3 points by loa_observer 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today? (greatwavetoday.com)

×1.36 14 #22 | 111 points by colinprince 13 hours ago | 82 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Pyhoff – Connect Python ML Models to Beckhoff/WAGO IO Hardware (github.com/Nonannet)

×0.42 78 #51 | 3 points by Saloc 5 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Bug Bounty Dilemma – Take the $$ and Sign an NDA or Go Public?

×0.97 5 | 12 points by deep_thinker26 9 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Are we the baddies? (geohot.github.io)

×9.24 19 | 678 points by AndrewSwift 3 days ago | 518 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Emoji Reverse Polish Notation Calculator Written in COBOL (github.com/ghuntley)

×0.45 26 #17 | 13 points by ghuntley 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
iPod Linux (2017) (ipodlinux.org)

×1.40 31 #41 | 59 points by nickysielicki 14 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering

×0.72 40 | 25 points by thinkmachyx 3 days ago | 46 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I'm Building LLM for Satellite Data EarthGPT.app (earthgpt.app)

×1.15 15 #25 | 88 points by sabman 12 hours ago | 11 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004 (aresluna.org)

×1.54 18 #23 | 162 points by K7PJP 16 hours ago | 22 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS (mips.com)

×2.08 #54 | 224 points by mshockwave 23 hours ago | 143 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM (huggingface.co)

×2.04 17 #28 | 348 points by kashifr 1 day ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Using MPC for Anonymous and Private DNA Analysis (vishakh.blog)

×0.48 18 #20 | 19 points by vishakh82 4 hours ago | 7 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge (businessinsider.com)

×4.87 1 | 479 points by pyman 2 days ago | 638 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Helm local code execution via a malicious chart (github.com/helm)

×0.90 16 #6 | 140 points by irke882 10 hours ago | 66 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
AI, power and sociolinguistics (2024) (researchgate.net)

×0.72 3 #60 | 29 points by AntonioBarthes 9 hours ago | 5 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world (github.com/openvenues)

×1.18 28 #32 | 78 points by nateb2022 15 hours ago | 26 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Galiliean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh (mpg.de)

×0.19 51 #15 | 5 points by gone35 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: HN was much more interesting a year ago

×2.91 85 | 14 points by fud101 1 day ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE (dgl.cx)

×1.68 16 #18 | 349 points by dgl 22 hours ago | 144 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Piplo helps you stay in touch with the people who matter (apple.com)

×0.83 95 | 3 points by airpaulg 12 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Grow a Garden Calculator (growagardencalculators.net)

×0.64 11 #87 | 11 points by dond1986 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Guile Lab Notebook: On the Move (wingolog.org)

×0.59 68 #55 | 7 points by bwidlar 9 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Rules of good writing (2007) (typepad.com)

×1.29 6 #62 | 103 points by santiviquez 18 hours ago | 76 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Brut: A New Web Framework for Ruby (naildrivin5.com)

×1.58 24 #33 | 194 points by onnnon 22 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A Comprehensive Proposal Overviewing Blocks, Nested Functions, and Lambdas for C (thephd.dev)

×1.24 56 #84 | 15 points by matt_d 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
What goes wrong when we write ghazals in English (theparisreview.org)

×1.64 46 #70 | 39 points by ishita159 23 hours ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: Do you think a new alternative to MCP would be useful?

×0.56 67 | 4 points by empire23 10 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Bug Stories (500mile.email)

×0.63 20 #39 | 32 points by thinkingemote 9 hours ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Radium Music Editor (notam02.no)

×1.50 18 #31 | 240 points by ofalkaed 23 hours ago | 50 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Show HN: Dashboard tracking all GitHub PRs and analyzing Code Agent activity (github.com/logic-star-ai)

×2.30 99 | 8 points by mnmueller 1 day ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? (tedunangst.com)

×1.90 20 #47 | 304 points by zdw 1 day ago | 120 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???