This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 2, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136821

Seedance 2.5
https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138302

Diátaxis
https://diataxis.fr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138188

AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-financial-advice-surprisingly-good-especially-if-you-ask-right-questions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139102

NetBSD 11.0
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136736

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140218

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137060

Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga
https://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135426

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built
https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140396

Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
https://www.wafer.ai/blog/kimi-k3-mi355x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141073

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 1, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Elevators
https://john.fun/elevators
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124218

qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
https://github.com/yc-software/qm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126604

Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
https://blog.google/security/chrome-stronger-with-every-update/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120097

Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s
https://github.com/sqliteai/waste
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123386

Big Food vs. the People
https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124858

Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/getting-25g-ethernet-mac-thunderbolt/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125034

The most official water costs $120k a gallon
https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/26/the-most-official-water-costs-120000-a-gallon/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124042

How to Exist
https://www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-to-exist/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129990

Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reasoning-right-for-the-wrong-reasons-20260731/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124358

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 31, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113929

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112744

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112232

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111237

The AI Aesthetic
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099

GCC steering committee announces AI policy
https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108685

The session you cannot take with you
https://earendil.com/posts/session-portability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118781

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111176

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111305

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 30, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
https://github.com/drumih/turbo-fieldfare
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098510

KOReader
https://koreader.rocks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095865

Superlogical
https://www.superlogical.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098965

The coolest use for the Vision Pro
https://christianselig.com/2026/07/vision-pro-house/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102774

Kimi K3-256k
https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101852

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103285

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089500

Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099715

A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098198

LLM Honeypot
https://llm2human.pages.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104117

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 29, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Substack writers, you need a website
https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086788

Codex Security
https://github.com/openai/codex-security
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089755

Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes
https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2026/kimi-k3-architecture-notes.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085698

Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'
https://www.slow-journalism.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085731

Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090607

Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals
https://mlugg.co.uk/posts/incremental-compilation-internals/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085666

Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
https://sbcl.org/all-news.html?2.6.7
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086971

Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9
https://mac-classic.com/news/half-life-ported-to-mac-os-9/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089814

Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087091

Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly
https://unawatch.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084813

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 28, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Our position on open-weights models
https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076057

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076391

Using an open model feels surprisingly good
https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078583

Paged Out #9 [pdf]
https://pagedout.institute/download/PagedOut_009.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070138

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/19/observing-gos-garbage-collector-old-and-new.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045474

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review
https://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078454

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions
https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073942

Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages
https://gpuopen.com/learn/ray-tracing-massive-amounts-animated-geometry/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021007

Securing Services with Rootless Containers
https://blog.coderspirit.xyz/blog/2026/07/06/securing-services-with-rootless-containers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021024

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
https://gpusolutions.net/rbservices/graphics-card-upgrade/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041256

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 27, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Kill The Cookie Banner
https://killthecookiebanner.eu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057175

US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063022

PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
https://nikolays.github.io/PGSimCity/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063754

Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy
https://swag.htmx.org/en-cad/products/htmx-4-the-game
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057241

French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260726-french-firefighters-face-pyrocumulonimbus-for-first-time
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060495

Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS
https://beyondloom.com/decker/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060856

Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room
https://blackhole.plav.in
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021270

Design is compromise
https://stephango.com/design-is-compromise
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059367

Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper
https://sunflowersgame.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057666

I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music
https://pentaton.app/blog/2026-07-12-introducing-pentaton-lp/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022355

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 26, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
https://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051361

Turn And Face The Strange
https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051369

JetZero
https://www.jetzero.aero
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054224

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site
https://brolly.sh/forecast/RWFP2qW8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049693

GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage
https://spectrum.ieee.org/sodium-ion-battery-peak-energy
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051947

Show HN: I made some transistor animations
https://brandonli.net/semisim/animations
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039868

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller
https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050512

LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals
https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050859

Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota
https://ammoniaenergy.org/articles/flexible-renewable-ammonia-demonstrator-now-operational-in-minnesota/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050735

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 25, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Claude Opus 5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038433

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/nvidia-microsoft-meta-open-weight-ai-models.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035303

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dramatic-debut-launch/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973835

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page
https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034292

Firefox Containers Preview
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-containers-preview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995409

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034868

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040296

IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center
https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033240

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds
https://ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental-builds/16891
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033099

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040741

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 24, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Writing by hand is good for your brain
https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022152

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open-weight-ai-01008992
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023016

OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015639

98.css
https://jdan.github.io/98.css/#status-bar
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028927

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026810

What happened to TheNumbers.com
https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024691

The Beam Engine
https://glinscott.github.io/beam-engine/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007221

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023019

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022038

The arguments against open source AI are bad
https://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024643