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August 12, 20268.12.26 | Stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, England aims to eliminate hepatitis C, compression is prediction
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 12, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
(01:43) - England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
(03:02) - Compression is prediction
(04:16) - OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
(05:26) - Mojo 1.0
(06:42) - Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
(07:59) - London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
(09:24) - Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
(10:40) - Grok Bot
(11:57) - Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
(13:15) - Outro

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
https://stolen-thoughts.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257876
England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257377
Compression is prediction
https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263497
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257160
Mojo 1.0
https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261128
Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261133
London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255496
Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
https://photosynthesis.camera
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226623
Grok Bot
https://x.ai/bot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261514
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263340
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August 11, 20268.11.26 | Muse Glimmer optimized for local agent workflows, Mark Zuckerberg criticizes closed AI rivals as Meta reverts to open models, Sonic Pi v5
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 11, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
(01:57) - Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
(03:20) - Sonic Pi v5
(04:16) - Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
(05:41) - Squeak 6.1
(07:00) - Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead
(08:02) - Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes
(09:37) - Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
(11:06) - H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon
(12:24) - Rust SIMD on the GPU
(13:52) - Outro

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241679
Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243880
Sonic Pi v5
https://www.patreon.com/samaaron/posts/sonic-pi-v5-166001392
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208296
Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
https://cactuscompute.com/needle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246804
Squeak 6.1
https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242653
Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead
https://stowaway.live/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209918
Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes
https://ethw.org/Milestones:Parametron,_1954
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241846
Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Humanising-LLM-Outputs-is-Actually-Dumb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243474
H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon
https://github.com/antirez/h3.c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252179
Rust SIMD on the GPU
https://www.vectorware.com/blog/simd-on-gpu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247477
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August 10, 20268.10.26 | Learning with LLMs, Windows 11 Weather app RAM usage, Recording of activities
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 10, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
(01:33) - Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
(03:14) - Everything you do is being recorded
(04:35) - Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
(05:59) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
(07:02) - Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
(08:22) - What Happened to HackerOne?
(09:35) - Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
(10:49) - Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
(11:57) - OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
(13:02) - Outro

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234675
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364205.0.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232138
Everything you do is being recorded
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230477
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232253
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233423
Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231809
What Happened to HackerOne?
https://blog.teknogeek.io/posts/what-happened-to-hackerone/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238561
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239021
Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230514
OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
https://openchamber.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233448
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14min
August 09, 20268.9.26 | Code not the hard part, for-sale DNS records, Fastmail EU data region
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 9, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:22) - “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
(01:35) - _for-sale DNS records
(02:57) - Fastmail offers EU data region
(04:16) - Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
(05:18) - My server is a phone now
(06:29) - Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding
(07:46) - Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU
(09:07) - Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
(10:41) - Dithered QR Codes
(11:51) - Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
(13:00) - Outro

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189
_for-sale DNS records
https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668
Fastmail offers EU data region
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength
https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215786
My server is a phone now
https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636
Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding
https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079995
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU
https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221711
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226536
Dithered QR Codes
https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226742
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-projection%2Cosm&lat=43.4623&lon=-3.8099&opacity=besselian%3A0.2%2Cumbra-live%3A0.2&zoom=6&palier=minute
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225139
...more
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August 08, 20268.8.26 | Meta ordered to pay $567m, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, loss of worker faith in careers
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 8, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
(01:26) - DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
(02:30) - What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
(03:46) - Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
(05:07) - 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
(06:08) - Assembly Hall of Shame
(07:18) - Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
(08:38) - The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
(09:54) - Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
(11:24) - U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
(12:33) - Outro

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204352
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214008
What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209539
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-claim-oracle-isn-t-writing-its-own-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213754
2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207236
Assembly Hall of Shame
https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214098
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208535
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217993
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214468
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216946
...more
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August 07, 20268.7.26 | Mario Meets Pareto, AMD acquires Taalas for silicon inference, GitHub Actions and Pages face downtime
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 7, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:16) - Mario Meets Pareto
(01:24) - AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
(03:03) - GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
(04:12) - Taste Is All That's Left
(05:45) - Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
(07:05) - Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
(08:42) - Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
(09:57) - Pareto Front
(10:57) - Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
(12:19) - Outro

Mario Meets Pareto
https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195231
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-inference-performance-by-etching-models-into-silicon/5284344
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201970
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198302
Taste Is All That's Left
https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199346
Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
https://blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198069
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195468
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201930
Pareto Front
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096439
Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199357
...more
13min
August 06, 20268.6.26 | Discovery Loop, Google DeepMind leadership changes, Cloudflare OS open platform
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 6, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:21) - Discovery Loop
(01:46) - Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
(03:17) - Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
(04:47) - Zed DeltaDB
(06:05) - I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
(07:28) - Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
(08:53) - Position: LLMs Can't Jump
(10:05) - Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
(11:23) - The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
(12:46) - Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
(14:11) - Outro

Discovery Loop
https://www.discoveryloop.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184755
Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996
Zed DeltaDB
https://zed.dev/deltadb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187256
I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188022
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186762
Position: LLMs Can't Jump
https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181083
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187575
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189287
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187061
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August 05, 20268.5.26 | Simple skin tone algorithm, Mistral's Shieldstral moderation model, and a 1950 short story
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 5, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:19) - Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
(01:28) - Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
(02:39) - There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
(03:52) - Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
(05:09) - Waymo in Dallas
(06:28) - I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
(07:40) - libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
(08:58) - AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
(10:20) - Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
(11:53) - Outro

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170165
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171268
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653
Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038
Waymo in Dallas
https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172836
I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
https://twitter.com/gwern/status/2084739205071343837
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/04/ai-fuels-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-africa-as-digital-scams-surge-interpol/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175826
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176830
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August 04, 20268.4.26 | LLMs reward expertise, Devtools must be open source, advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 4, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:18) - LLMs reward expertise
(01:40) - Devtools must be open source
(03:07) - Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
(04:30) - Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
(06:01) - Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
(07:25) - Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
(08:48) - MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
(10:14) - 200 Milliseconds
(11:12) - Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
(12:55) - AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
(14:17) - Outro

LLMs reward expertise
https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518
Devtools must be open source
https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156111
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157930
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153374
Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152842
Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156011
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
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155629
200 Milliseconds
https://200ms.thenodebook.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132992
Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
https://defector.com/abandoned-fish-sauce-canada-interview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125168
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154228
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August 03, 20268.3.26 | Karpathy’s Pelican, Qwen3.8-Max coding and coworking, don't be a meat proxy
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 3, 2026.
Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights
(00:00) - Intro
(00:17) - Karpathy’s Pelican
(01:49) - Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
(03:05) - Don't be a meat proxy
(04:09) - How the words we teach English language learners changed
(05:40) - Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
(07:10) - Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
(08:27) - Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF
(09:28) - More German than many Germans
(10:35) - Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
(12:38) - SwiftUI After 7 Years
(13:56) - Outro

Karpathy’s Pelican
https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140998
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150470
Don't be a meat proxy
https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151933
How the words we teach English language learners changed
https://pudding.cool/2026/07/essential-words/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145590
Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
https://github.com/wie-project/kakehashi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145937
Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/29/developers-are-attached-to-tools-because-tools-encode-trust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097961
Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF
https://sf.isopolis.city/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149966
More German than many Germans
https://mertbulan.com/more-german-than-many-germans/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151734
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
https://unattributed.cc/note-taking-and-personal-knowledge-management
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084324
SwiftUI After 7 Years
https://ykvm.com/2026/07/swiftui-a-story-of-mediocrity/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147263
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