top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-03

Don't be a meat proxy

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

2 months ago

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LLMs reward expertise

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

2 months ago

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

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

2 months ago

Devtools must be open source

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

2 months ago

SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

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

2 months ago

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More German than many Germans

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

2 months ago

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

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

2 months ago

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

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

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

2 months ago

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Twenty Years of Pandoc

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

2 months ago

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai

2 months ago

★ 1.3k OCaml MIT

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

https://www.intellinews.com/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-germany-for-the-first-time-ever-458379/

2 months ago

Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

https://sf.isopolis.city/

2 months ago

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Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse

2 months ago

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MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyui

2 months ago

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet

2 months ago

★ 478 Swift Apache-2.0

Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-has-rewritten-its-cyclospora-statement-four-times-in-sixteen-days-it-still-has-not-said-what-changed-at-that-plant-after-2013-or-why-two-thousand-negative-tests-should-mean-an/

2 months ago

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Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If

https://www.greyblake.com/blog/branchless-rust/

2 months ago

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/

2 months ago

I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-trusting-usb-c-cable-labels-started-testing-with-meter-instead/

2 months ago