top 50% 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

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai

2 months ago

★ 1.3k OCaml MIT
390 upvotes – 155 comments

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

378 upvotes – 332 comments

Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

https://sf.isopolis.city/

2 months ago

1 change
348 upvotes – 81 comments

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

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

2 months ago

1 change
340 upvotes – 76 comments

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

334 upvotes – 94 comments

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
312 upvotes – 142 comments

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

1 change
304 upvotes – 263 comments

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

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

2 months ago

291 upvotes – 111 comments

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

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

2 months ago

267 upvotes – 66 comments

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

258 upvotes – 264 comments

ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-dna-collection-fbi-codis/

2 months ago

254 upvotes – 114 comments

Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-project-goals/blob/main/src/2026/move-trait.md

2 months ago

★ 168 Rust MIT
244 upvotes – 108 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156683

2 months ago

234 upvotes – 321 comments

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm

2 months ago

★ 30.5k Jupyter Notebook Apache-2.0
231 upvotes – 85 comments

OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics

https://www.modelrepublic.org/articles/the-reporters-at-this-news-site-are-ai-bots.-openai%E2%80%99s-super-pac-appears-to-be-using-it-to-advance-its-political-agenda

2 months ago

213 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: ssh ssh.place

https://ssh.place

2 months ago

185 upvotes – 120 comments

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c-kermit-release-in-15-years-and-working-with-a-decades-old-c-codebase

2 months ago

181 upvotes – 51 comments

The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real

2 months ago

2 changes
165 upvotes – 178 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156682

2 months ago

159 upvotes – 539 comments

Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap

https://www.andreagrandi.it/posts/why-book-corners-wont-sync-contributions-back-to-openstreetmap/

2 months ago

148 upvotes – 105 comments

AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T

https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/ai-debt-hypescalers-capex-capital-spending-hidden-borrowing-bond-issuance/

2 months ago

146 upvotes – 177 comments

The AI Productivity Gap

https://bjorg.bjornroche.com/management/ai-productivity-gap/

2 months ago

140 upvotes – 110 comments

What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not

https://senderledger.com/articles/what-dmarc-actually-protects-you-from

2 months ago

137 upvotes – 40 comments

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/

2 months ago

129 upvotes – 84 comments

Octane – React’s programming model, compiled

https://octanejs.dev

2 months ago

1 change
127 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone

https://github.com/garagehq/nightcrawler/

2 months ago

★ 680 Python
119 upvotes – 35 comments

Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first

https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/08/03/utah-sets-solar-power-record/

2 months ago

118 upvotes – 86 comments

Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T

https://runtimewire.com/article/exclusive-apple-engineer-says-he-was-fired-after-refusing-to-send-customer-devic

2 months ago

118 upvotes – 37 comments

What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?

https://epoch.ai/MirrorCode

2 months ago

106 upvotes – 106 comments

Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline (2016)

https://xkcd.com/1732/

2 months ago

1 change
103 upvotes – 15 comments

The Potomac River Midair Collision

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/reaping-the-whirlwind-inside-the-potomac-river-midair-collision-0475416f2b0f

2 months ago

100 upvotes – 39 comments

AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28271

2 months ago

99 upvotes – 99 comments

CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K

https://github.com/johnsonjh/cpm386

2 months ago

★ 51 C MIT
97 upvotes – 60 comments

DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

https://status.digdir.no/incidents/d7hvqmf2yr3l

2 months ago

96 upvotes – 70 comments

Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop

https://www.thedrive.com/podcast/flocks-ceo-wants-zero-wrongful-stops-i-wasnt-the-first

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 114 comments

9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released

https://9front.org/releases/2026/08/02/0/

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 45 comments

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

https://xvw.lol/en/articles/oop-refl.html

2 months ago

1 change
86 upvotes – 7 comments

Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/2.html

2 months ago

85 upvotes – 53 comments

The Shape of Things to Come

https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/

2 months ago

85 upvotes – 78 comments

The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/the-ai-bubble-is-already-popping-we-just-dont-know-it-yet/5282004

2 months ago

84 upvotes – 147 comments

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

https://hoplite.sh

2 months ago

81 upvotes – 70 comments

The true power of regular expressions (2012)

https://www.npopov.com/2012/06/15/The-true-power-of-regular-expressions.html

2 months ago

81 upvotes – 60 comments

KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

https://github.com/SwagSoftware/KisakCOD

2 months ago

★ 406 C++ GPL-3.01 change
80 upvotes – 14 comments
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