top 50% 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

SwiftUI After 7 Years

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

2 months ago

1 change
278 upvotes – 331 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

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

A Rant About “Technology” (2005)

https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology

2 months ago

1 change
148 upvotes – 85 comments

Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/nbc-7-responds-2/californians-data-deletion-requests-drop-become-enforceable-aug-1/4054771/

2 months ago

142 upvotes – 98 comments

AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

https://www.ohiostatefair.com/p/get-involved/arts/poster-contest

2 months ago

142 upvotes – 187 comments

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria/

2 months ago

140 upvotes – 35 comments

The myth of Snow Leopard

https://www.rubenerd.au/the-myth-of-snow-leopard/

2 months ago

1 change
132 upvotes – 118 comments

Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

https://github.com/graham33/nixos-dgx-spark

2 months ago

★ 178 Nix MIT
131 upvotes – 40 comments

The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener

https://danielmangum.com/posts/integrated-timing-belt-loopback-fastener/

2 months ago

1 change
126 upvotes – 30 comments

Show HN: Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development

https://sprocket-demo.spikonado.com

2 months ago

124 upvotes – 14 comments

Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

https://blog.juni-mp4.com/posts/42/rooting-the-tplink-tl841n-pt1/

2 months ago

123 upvotes – 26 comments

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

https://fuselang.org

2 months ago

121 upvotes – 48 comments

ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine

https://plug-world.com/posts/2026/asrock-bc250-the-budget-steam-machine/

2 months ago

113 upvotes – 51 comments

Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/07/31/all-hands-2026-retrospective/

2 months ago

1 change
109 upvotes – 60 comments

MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/08/mklinux-and-pimped-out-apple-workgroup.html

2 months ago

106 upvotes – 23 comments

Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

https://linuxiac.com/linux-desktop-market-share-surpasses-10-in-north-america/

2 months ago

105 upvotes – 79 comments

Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/08/02/europe-ev-sales-report-bevs-jump-50-reach-26-market-share/

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 187 comments

Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow

https://www.regen.co.uk/insights/plug-in-solar-is-coming-plug-in-batteries-should-follow

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 133 comments

Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific

https://www.science.org/content/article/deep-sea-vehicles-spot-alien-sharks-deep-beneath-waves-pacific#

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 59 comments

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

https://github.com/ArcaEge/creakwork12

2 months ago

★ 51 Rust WTFPL
96 upvotes – 19 comments

Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

https://www.theverge.com/games/974253/xbox-prices-increasing-200-euros

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 102 comments

When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work

https://insider.btcpp.dev/p/when-randombytes-runs-but-doesnt

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 58 comments

Bubble Memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory

2 months ago

92 upvotes – 28 comments

ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification

https://peterneufeld.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/esp32-c3-supermini-antenna-modification/

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 21 comments

Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power

https://sharedobject.blog/posts/vp8-combinatorial-logic/

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 21 comments

Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)

https://ykiko.me/en/articles/692886292/

2 months ago

1 change
83 upvotes – 80 comments

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5

2 months ago

1 change
79 upvotes – 28 comments

Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores

https://github.com/syncular/syncular

2 months ago

★ 226 TypeScript Apache-2.0
79 upvotes – 29 comments

Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison

https://www.11971.com/

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 35 comments

TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console

https://blog.lon.tv/2023/02/05/tinynes-review-a-super-niche-nes-console/

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 21 comments

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)

https://github.com/alfikpl/ao486

2 months ago

★ 464 C
71 upvotes – 10 comments

Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89M

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/08/02/bitcoin-cold-wallet-attack-spreads-to-4-500-addresses-as-losses-near-usd89-million

2 months ago

70 upvotes – 23 comments

Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now.

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YPJ3FQYJTJXXY3RUXCYLMHUKHLIUNVFF/

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 69 comments

Cyberscript

https://cyberscript.dev

2 months ago

68 upvotes – 61 comments

The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/

2 months ago

68 upvotes – 72 comments

Has the New Cocaine Arrived?

https://playboy.substack.com/p/has-the-new-cocaine-finally-arrived

2 months ago

67 upvotes – 98 comments

Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks

https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/finding-zombies-in-our-systems-a-real-world-story-of-cpu-bottlenecks-ea4722e552eb

2 months ago

66 upvotes – 11 comments

Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network

https://uphillsecurity.com/articles/harvesting-ssh-credentials-insights-from-my-honeypot-network/

2 months ago

60 upvotes – 31 comments

IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System

https://osadmins.com/en/ibm-i-os-400-the-database-operating-system/

2 months ago

56 upvotes – 36 comments

Mosh in a Lift (2012)

https://mosh.org/elevator.txt

2 months ago

56 upvotes – 17 comments

Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/nerd-culture-is-murdering-intellectuals

2 months ago

54 upvotes – 71 comments

The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/117023736804129342

2 months ago

54 upvotes – 28 comments

EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/02/eu-rules-on-ai-models-become-enforceable-whats-going-to-change

2 months ago

53 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents

https://github.com/micro/mu

2 months ago

★ 319 Go AGPL-3.0
52 upvotes – 25 comments

A fresh look at CPU silent data corruption in modern data centers

https://cacm.acm.org/research/revisiting-cpu-silent-data-corruptions-in-modern-datacenters/

2 months ago

52 upvotes – 1 comments

Dark Hours

https://darkhours.io

2 months ago

50 upvotes – 3 comments

The teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrjyevmv61o

2 months ago

50 upvotes – 24 comments

An internal OpenAI Astra model solved 10 major open math and CS problems

https://twitter.com/polynoamial/status/2083467194663571701

2 months ago

49 upvotes – 51 comments

AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

https://seanhelvey.com/tools-and-their-tools/

2 months ago

49 upvotes – 55 comments

How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/world/asia/china-surveillance-foreigners-database.html

2 months ago

49 upvotes – 24 comments

Mathematics Without Mathematicians

https://borretti.me/article/mathematics-without-mathematicians

2 months ago

46 upvotes – 54 comments

Why are all the amounts values negative?

https://bankstatementconverter.com/blog/posts/2026-08-02-why-are-all-amounts-negative/

2 months ago

46 upvotes – 23 comments
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