top 50% hacker news stories for today

Native apps should be avoided whenever possible

https://nooneshappy.com/article/native-apps-should-be-avoided-whenever-possible/

37 minutes ago

10 upvotes – 0 comments

Don't be a meat proxy

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

18 hours ago

1 change
1694 upvotes – 689 comments

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

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

23 hours ago

1051 upvotes – 565 comments

SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

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

13 hours ago

1 change
698 upvotes – 347 comments

Devtools must be open source

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

11 hours ago

496 upvotes – 177 comments

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

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

8 hours ago

418 upvotes – 699 comments

LLMs reward expertise

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

4 hours ago

398 upvotes – 181 comments

More German than many Germans

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

19 hours ago

397 upvotes – 307 comments

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

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

15 hours ago

380 upvotes – 319 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/

12 hours ago

338 upvotes – 264 comments

Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

https://sf.isopolis.city/

1 day ago

1 change
333 upvotes – 75 comments

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai

16 hours ago

★ 1.1k OCaml MIT
299 upvotes – 125 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/

9 hours ago

1 change
282 upvotes – 226 comments

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

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

11 hours ago

1 change
269 upvotes – 56 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

11 hours ago

249 upvotes – 79 comments

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

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

14 hours ago

237 upvotes – 102 comments

Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

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

18 hours ago

★ 159 Rust MIT
233 upvotes – 92 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

22 hours ago

205 upvotes – 104 comments

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm

14 hours ago

★ 27k Jupyter Notebook Apache-2.0
185 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: ssh ssh.place

https://ssh.place

1 day ago

171 upvotes – 103 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/

1 day ago

143 upvotes – 92 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

140 upvotes – 38 comments

What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not

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

15 hours ago

125 upvotes – 30 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

8 hours ago

122 upvotes – 35 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

5 hours ago

2 changes
119 upvotes – 125 comments

Octane – React’s programming model, compiled

https://octanejs.dev

17 hours ago

1 change
118 upvotes – 43 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

22 hours ago

114 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/

11 hours ago

113 upvotes – 86 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/

5 hours ago

112 upvotes – 132 comments

The AI Productivity Gap

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

18 hours ago

105 upvotes – 99 comments

Twenty Years of Pandoc

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

10 hours ago

103 upvotes – 13 comments

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

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

14 hours ago

★ 360 Python
102 upvotes – 30 comments

Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline (2016)

https://xkcd.com/1732/

13 hours ago

1 change
95 upvotes – 14 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

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

10 hours ago

94 upvotes – 99 comments

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

https://github.com/johnsonjh/cpm386

1 day ago

★ 45 C MIT
93 upvotes – 50 comments

AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28271

22 hours ago

87 upvotes – 85 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

10 hours ago

84 upvotes – 110 comments

9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released

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

14 hours ago

82 upvotes – 42 comments

DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

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

5 hours ago

81 upvotes – 59 comments

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

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

10 hours ago

78 upvotes – 47 comments

The true power of regular expressions (2012)

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

16 hours ago

75 upvotes – 56 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

13 hours ago

75 upvotes – 135 comments

Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge

https://arcbox.dev/blog/unifi-pppoe-half-bridge-acceleration

16 hours ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/02/cherny-claude-swift

1 day ago

68 upvotes – 13 comments

Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

https://hamvocke.com/blog/task-runners/

8 hours ago

67 upvotes – 25 comments

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

https://epoch.ai/MirrorCode

9 hours ago

66 upvotes – 74 comments

Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility

https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/situational-awareness-bigger-picture/

19 hours ago

64 upvotes – 53 comments
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