top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-02

Karpathy’s Pelican

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319

2 months ago

2 changes
617 upvotes – 434 comments

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html

2 months ago

369 upvotes – 204 comments

Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-08-02/News_and_notes

2 months ago

356 upvotes – 350 comments

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox

2 months ago

★ 83 Python
337 upvotes – 114 comments

'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout

https://www.ft.com/content/06ec1b03-d4af-40cf-b12a-4ba5a410f6d2

2 months ago

278 upvotes – 136 comments

SwiftUI After 7 Years

https://ykvm.com/2026/07/swiftui-a-story-of-mediocrity/

2 months ago

1 change
278 upvotes – 331 comments

How the words we teach English language learners changed

https://pudding.cool/2026/07/essential-words/

2 months ago

254 upvotes – 196 comments

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

https://github.com/wie-project/kakehashi

2 months ago

★ 405 Rust Apache-2.0
253 upvotes – 64 comments

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/

2 months ago

228 upvotes – 193 comments

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2026-q2.html

2 months ago

224 upvotes – 153 comments

Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300

https://www.wafer.ai/blog/kimi-k3-mi355x

2 months ago

219 upvotes – 115 comments

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

https://meshdiff.com/

2 months ago

204 upvotes – 24 comments

US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market

https://www.ft.com/content/0f9b2fe7-bde4-4f5f-b49e-93ccb5da9ea8

2 months ago

203 upvotes – 199 comments

Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

https://getbor.dev/blog/2026-08-02-bor-v080-release/

2 months ago

196 upvotes – 30 comments

F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language

https://fstar-lang.org/

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 99 comments

Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1vcpk8i/linux_desktop_market_share_has_hit_over_10_in/

2 months ago

180 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

https://github.com/pg83/shitty

2 months ago

★ 273 Python
173 upvotes – 163 comments

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2026/06/20/twenty-years-of-risc-os-open

2 months ago

167 upvotes – 37 comments

I don't recommend Tailwind CSS

https://en.andros.dev/blog/af3ee191/why-i-dont-recommend-tailwind-css/

2 months ago

165 upvotes – 163 comments

My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”

https://frogs.vaguespac.es/

2 months ago

1 change
157 upvotes – 89 comments
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