top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-08-03

Don't be a meat proxy

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/

2 months ago

1 change
1842 upvotes – 741 comments

LLMs reward expertise

https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/

2 months ago

1411 upvotes – 572 comments

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8

2 months ago

1122 upvotes – 614 comments

Devtools must be open source

https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source

2 months ago

728 upvotes – 233 comments

SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

https://research.jfrog.com/post/sqlite-critical-cves-or-llm-slops/

2 months ago

1 change
726 upvotes – 375 comments

More German than many Germans

https://mertbulan.com/more-german-than-many-germans/

2 months ago

647 upvotes – 500 comments

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

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

2 months ago

629 upvotes – 938 comments

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/

2 months ago

540 upvotes – 444 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf

2 months ago

1 change
452 upvotes – 443 comments

Twenty Years of Pandoc

https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html

2 months ago

420 upvotes – 53 comments
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