top 50% hacker news stories for today

Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap

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

41 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 2 comments

Karpathy’s Pelican

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

20 hours ago

2 changes
416 upvotes – 329 comments

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

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

23 hours ago

344 upvotes – 176 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

13 hours ago

320 upvotes – 307 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

22 hours ago

★ 63 Python
316 upvotes – 102 comments

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

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

20 hours ago

202 upvotes – 97 comments

US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market

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

14 hours ago

189 upvotes – 163 comments

How the words we teach English language learners changed

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

9 hours ago

188 upvotes – 130 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/

21 hours ago

175 upvotes – 89 comments

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

https://meshdiff.com/

13 hours ago

175 upvotes – 18 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

★ 161 Rust Apache-2.0
170 upvotes – 34 comments

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

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

15 hours ago

168 upvotes – 22 comments

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

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

5 hours ago

164 upvotes – 73 comments

I don't recommend Tailwind CSS

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

17 hours ago

153 upvotes – 156 comments

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

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

12 hours ago

150 upvotes – 28 comments

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

https://fstar-lang.org/

12 hours ago

150 upvotes – 65 comments

A Rant About “Technology” (2005)

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

10 hours ago

1 change
138 upvotes – 75 comments

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

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

4 hours ago

133 upvotes – 79 comments

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

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

14 hours ago

122 upvotes – 30 comments

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

https://sprocket-demo.spikonado.com

8 hours ago

117 upvotes – 11 comments

SwiftUI After 7 Years

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

5 hours ago

1 change
113 upvotes – 99 comments

ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine

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

23 hours ago

106 upvotes – 47 comments

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

https://fuselang.org

13 hours ago

102 upvotes – 29 comments

AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

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

2 hours ago

101 upvotes – 110 comments

MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

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

21 hours ago

100 upvotes – 16 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

21 hours ago

97 upvotes – 129 comments

Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

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

8 hours ago

95 upvotes – 72 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#

22 hours ago

95 upvotes – 55 comments

Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective

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

14 hours ago

1 change
94 upvotes – 45 comments

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

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

22 hours ago

92 upvotes – 54 comments

My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw."

https://frogs.vaguespac.es/

5 hours ago

90 upvotes – 43 comments

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

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

7 hours ago

★ 136 Nix MIT
90 upvotes – 26 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/

5 hours ago

87 upvotes – 123 comments

Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%

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

6 hours ago

83 upvotes – 92 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

77 upvotes – 14 comments

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

https://github.com/syncular/syncular

15 hours ago

★ 123 TypeScript Apache-2.0
75 upvotes – 27 comments

ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification

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

17 hours ago

75 upvotes – 15 comments

Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now.

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

7 hours ago

65 upvotes – 66 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 hours ago

64 upvotes – 25 comments

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

https://github.com/pg83/shitty

1 hour ago

★ 72 Python
63 upvotes – 29 comments

Has the New Cocaine Arrived?

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

11 hours ago

62 upvotes – 94 comments

Cyberscript

https://cyberscript.dev

16 hours ago

59 upvotes – 53 comments

Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals

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

16 hours ago

52 upvotes – 68 comments

The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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

16 hours ago

51 upvotes – 28 comments

IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System

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

17 hours ago

50 upvotes – 36 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

46 upvotes – 45 comments

AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

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

4 hours ago

46 upvotes – 49 comments

The teenage hitmen recruited to kill across Europe

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

21 hours ago

45 upvotes – 24 comments

Dark Hours

https://darkhours.io

1 day ago

45 upvotes – 3 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

5 hours ago

45 upvotes – 62 comments

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

https://github.com/ArcaEge/creakwork12

4 hours ago

★ 17 Rust WTFPL
43 upvotes – 4 comments

Mathematics Without Mathematicians

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

17 hours ago

42 upvotes – 52 comments

How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners

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

6 hours ago

40 upvotes – 19 comments

Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers

https://website-auditor.io/ai-visibility-index

12 hours ago

40 upvotes – 59 comments

The Prospects for 128 Bit Processors ( John Mashey SGI 1995)

https://yarchive.net/comp/128bit.html

23 hours ago

40 upvotes – 22 comments

The Myth of Snow Leopard

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

6 hours ago

39 upvotes – 35 comments
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