top 10 hacker news stories for today

Transcribe.cpp

https://workshop.cjpais.com/projects/transcribe-cpp

19 hours ago

689 upvotes – 143 comments

Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291

11 hours ago

638 upvotes – 464 comments

Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968606

5 hours ago

432 upvotes – 34 comments

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/#fnref:3

18 hours ago

357 upvotes – 199 comments

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

https://chipweinberger.com/articles/20260719-hardware-is-not-so-hard

9 hours ago

342 upvotes – 156 comments

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/19/claude-code-in-bun-in-rust/

9 hours ago

303 upvotes – 395 comments

Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

https://github.com/stupside/castor

18 hours ago

★ 1kGoMIT
299 upvotes – 92 comments

OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/33972/files

11 hours ago

★ 99.6kRustApache-2.0
247 upvotes – 107 comments

Qwen 3.8 Max Preview

https://www.qwencloud.com/pricing/token-plan

10 hours ago

215 upvotes – 1 comments

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4

7 hours ago

200 upvotes – 141 comments
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