HatchZip – extract archives without needing double the disk space

No. 179 of 245 · GitHub · published 23 Oct 2026, 12:09 UTC · 9 min read

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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked

HatchZip is a free archive extractor for Windows, macOS and Linux that unpacks ZIP, 7z, tar and split archives in place, shrinking the archive as files come out, so extracting a large download needs roughly the output size in free space rather than double.

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Score

0.62total under rubric v2.0

Significance0.46
Reader interest0.72
Audience breadth0.40
Practical relevance0.73
Substantiated0.85
Technical depth0.91
New information0.94
Counts against: Promotional0.17
Counts against: Overclaim0.25

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.49	0.30	0.58	0.46	0.28	+0.25	+0.115
Reader interest	0.70	0.60	0.86	0.72	0.26	+0.20	+0.144
Audience breadth	0.31	0.40	0.48	0.40	0.17	+0.10	+0.040
Practical relevance	0.77	0.70	0.72	0.73	0.07	+0.15	+0.110
Substantiated	0.95	0.75	0.86	0.85	0.20	+0.10	+0.085
Technical depth	0.98	0.85	0.90	0.91	0.13	+0.10	+0.091
New information	0.93	0.90	0.99	0.94	0.09	+0.10	+0.094
Promotional	0.08	0.35	0.08	0.17	0.27	−0.15	−0.026
Overclaim	0.21	0.35	0.18	0.25	0.17	−0.15	−0.037
Sum of contributions							+0.616
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.616

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

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Elsewhere

Elsewhere: HN 3 pts, not on front page

Discussion on Hacker News

Recorded for context only, checked 24 Oct 2026, 08:54 UTC. It played no part in the ranking.

Panel for this edition

Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition and listed in its JSON. This one was scored under rubric v2.0; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.2.