top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-01

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds

2 months ago

Diátaxis

https://diataxis.fr/

2 months ago

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

2 months ago

Seedance 2.5

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5

2 months ago

How to Exist

https://www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-to-exist/

2 months ago

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/

2 months ago

São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest

https://saopaulosecreto.com/en/tiquatira-linear-park-en/

2 months ago

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AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions

https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-financial-advice-surprisingly-good-especially-if-you-ask-right-questions

2 months ago

2 changes

Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-page-to-token-amount-what/167153

2 months ago

200 Milliseconds

https://200ms.thenodebook.com

2 months ago

NetBSD 11.0

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released

2 months ago

1 change

A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-quiet-decision-to-sign-the-un-cybercrime-convention/

2 months ago

Google has abandoned Google News?

https://elgan.com/google-news-is-just-forrest-gumps-shrimp-boat-now

2 months ago

1 change

RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/3494

2 months ago

★ 67.1k Rust Unlicense

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/

2 months ago

AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job

https://weeraman.com/the-prototype-isnt-the-product/

2 months ago

BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider-Man_in-car_advertising

2 months ago

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RamenHaus

https://ramen.haus/

2 months ago

The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

https://zaksa.zip/blog/silicon-valley-founder-meat-grinder/

2 months ago

The Art of 64-bit Assembly

https://nostarch.com/art-64-bit-assembly-v2

2 months ago