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August 02, 2026Hacker News – 02 Aug 2026
Table of Contents
Programming Languages & Tools
Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

Diátaxis

I don't recommend Tailwind CSS

AI & Machine Learning Innovations
Seedance 2.5

AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions

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

History & Nostalgia in Tech
MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

But can your calculator run Linux?

Marine Discoveries
Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific

Security & Protocols
RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
...more
4min
August 01, 2026Hacker News – 01 Aug 2026
Table of Contents
AI and Software Development
AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

The development pipeline is a production system

Data Visualization and Tools
Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

G'mic 4.0: Squaring the Pixel, Easier

Workplace Innovations
Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers

qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

Philosophical Musings and Personal Software
How to Exist

Software for One

Miscellaneous Insights
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Attention Decode on AMD MI450 GPUs: A Gluon Kernel Optimization Guide
...more
5min
July 31, 2026Hacker News – 31 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI and Data Ownership
The session you cannot take with you

I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

Energy and Environment
Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

Software Development Innovations
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

Robotics and Performance
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

Networking and Performance Metrics
Simulating TCP loss and congestion in browser using Go/WASM

The mean means nothing: data visualization to debug a latency problem
...more
4min
July 30, 2026Hacker News – 30 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI Research and Ethics
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands

Innovative Technologies
The coolest use for the Vision Pro

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

Programming and Productivity
The Productivity Mirage

Concurrency, interactivity, mutability, choose two

Creative Projects and Applications
Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)

Kuna: Decompiler Development in the Age of Coding Agents
...more
4min
July 29, 2026Hacker News – 29 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Tailscale and Kindle Innovations
More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

Nostalgia in User Interfaces
User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

SQLite in Production
SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers

Innovative Tools and Platforms
Codex Security

Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

The Future of Learning and Design
LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one-to-one learning experiences

Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design
...more
2min
July 28, 2026Hacker News – 28 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Earthquake Alerts
7.1 Earthquake in Japan

AI Developments and Discussions
Our position on open-weights models

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

Software and Programming Innovations
What Even Are Microservices?

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

Hardware and Gaming News
RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

Language and Accessibility in Programming
EYG: A Programming Language for Humans

Programming Languages Are Authoring Tools for Platforms
...more
4min
July 27, 2026Hacker News – 27 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI & Machine Learning
Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27

Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary

Software & Development
PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]

Innovations & Projects
Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room

Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs

History & Nostalgia
How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM

HTMX 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy

Nature & Technology
French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time

Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees
...more
4min
July 26, 2026Hacker News – 26 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
Python and Scripting Enhancements
Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59

A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway

Overloaded Overloading

Security and Data Management
GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices

Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history

Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers

Innovative Projects and Research
An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk

Show HN: I mapped every US golf course

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home

AI and Machine Learning Developments
DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

Inflect-Micro-v2: complete voice in 9.36M parameters

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

Business and Legal Education
Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era

JetZero
...more
5min
July 25, 2026Hacker News – 25 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI Innovations
Claude Opus 5

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

ARC-AGI Leaderboard

Tech Enhancements
GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Security Concerns
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

UK AISI / CAISI Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3's Cyber Capabilities

Sustainable Living
NYC Apartment Aquaponics

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

Cultural Curiosities
Extinct Media Museum Tokyo

Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico
...more
4min
July 24, 2026Hacker News – 24 Jul 2026
Table of Contents
AI Innovations and Developments
Flux 3

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

Cognitive and Software Quality Insights
Writing by hand is good for your brain

What happened to TheNumbers.com

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

Nothing works and everyone is euphoric

Personal Reflections and Experiences
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

I regret migrating to Codeberg

Learning and Resources
Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL

Claude Cookbook

The Book Prize Index
...more
4min

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