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  1. 8h ago

    8.2.26 | Google impacts RSS adoption, Seedance 2.5 update, Diátaxis framework

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 2, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) (01:31) - Seedance 2.5 (02:52) - Diátaxis (03:49) - AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions (05:05) - NetBSD 11.0 (05:57) - Go 1.27 Interactive Tour (07:16) - Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576 (08:39) - Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga (09:49) - Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (10:57) - Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300 (12:11) - Outro How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feedshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136821Seedance 2.5https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138302 Diátaxishttps://diataxis.fr/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138188 AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questionshttps://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-financial-advice-surprisingly-good-especially-if-you-ask-right-questionshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139102 NetBSD 11.0https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_releasedhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136736 Go 1.27 Interactive Tourhttps://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140218 Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576https://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 Gahttps://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135426 Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Builthttps://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearboxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140396 Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300https://www.wafer.ai/blog/kimi-k3-mi355xhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141073

  2. 1d ago

    8.1.26 | Elevators, qm multiplayer agent harness for work, Tailscale didn't stop Hugging Face intrusion

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 1, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Elevators (01:53) - qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work (03:10) - Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion (04:25) - Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI (05:47) - Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s (07:07) - Big Food vs. the People (08:35) - Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio (10:21) - The most official water costs $120k a gallon (11:35) - How to Exist (12:50) - Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons? (14:42) - Outro Elevatorshttps://john.fun/elevatorshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124218qm – Multiplayer agent harness for workhttps://github.com/yc-software/qmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126604 Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusionhttps://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306 Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AIhttps://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/shttps://github.com/sqliteai/wastehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123386 Big Food vs. the Peoplehttps://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124858 Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studiohttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/getting-25g-ethernet-mac-thunderbolt/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125034 The most official water costs $120k a gallonhttps://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/26/the-most-official-water-costs-120000-a-gallon/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124042 How to Existhttps://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

  3. 2d ago

    7.31.26 | UEFA and national associations exclude FIFA, advice for TV streaming stick purchase, stacked PRs launched on GitHub

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 31, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions (01:42) - Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick (02:56) - Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub (04:17) - Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 (05:36) - Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots (07:06) - The AI Aesthetic (08:21) - GCC steering committee announces AI policy (09:56) - The session you cannot take with you (11:15) - The Economic Benefit of Refactoring (12:35) - Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up (13:50) - Outro UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitionshttps://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=49113929Read this before you buy that TV streaming stickhttps://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 GitHubhttps://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‑5.6https://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 robotshttps://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111237 The AI Aesthetichttps://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099 GCC steering committee announces AI policyhttps://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108685 The session you cannot take with youhttps://earendil.com/posts/session-portability/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118781 The Economic Benefit of Refactoringhttps://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111176 Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Uphttps://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111305

  4. 3d ago

    7.30.26 | Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B on Mac, KOReader, Superlogical

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 30, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac (01:43) - KOReader (03:02) - Superlogical (04:34) - The coolest use for the Vision Pro (06:02) - Kimi K3-256k (07:15) - AI's top startups are barely publishing their research (08:43) - Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident (10:09) - Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice (11:24) - A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands (12:39) - LLM Honeypot (13:52) - Outro Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Machttps://github.com/drumih/turbo-fieldfarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098510KOReaderhttps://koreader.rocks/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095865 Superlogicalhttps://www.superlogical.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098965 The coolest use for the Vision Prohttps://christianselig.com/2026/07/vision-pro-house/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102774 Kimi K3-256khttps://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/modelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101852 AI's top startups are barely publishing their researchhttps://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-researchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103285 Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incidenthttps://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timelinehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089500 Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming micehttps://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-micehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099715 A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousandshttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098198 LLM Honeypothttps://llm2human.pages.dev/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104117

  5. 4d ago

    7.29.26 | Substack writers need a website, Codex Security, Kimi K3 Architecture Overview

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 29, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - Substack writers, you need a website (01:46) - Codex Security (03:13) - Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes (04:40) - Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News' (05:55) - Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript (07:10) - Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals (08:48) - Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 (09:56) - Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9 (11:05) - Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude (12:27) - Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly (13:31) - Outro Substack writers, you need a websitehttps://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086788Codex Securityhttps://github.com/openai/codex-securityhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089755 Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Noteshttps://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2026/kimi-k3-architecture-notes.htmlhttps://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 userscripthttps://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewherehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090607 Zig's Incremental Compilation Internalshttps://mlugg.co.uk/posts/incremental-compilation-internals/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085666 Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7https://sbcl.org/all-news.html?2.6.7https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086971 Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9https://mac-classic.com/news/half-life-ported-to-mac-os-9/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089814 Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claudehttps://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesseshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49087091 Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendlyhttps://unawatch.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084813

  6. 5d ago

    7.28.26 | Our position on open-weights models, Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench, Using an open model feels surprisingly good

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 28, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Our position on open-weights models (01:50) - Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench (03:07) - Using an open model feels surprisingly good (04:21) - Paged Out #9 [pdf] (05:56) - Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap (06:54) - A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review (08:26) - Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions (09:40) - Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages (11:02) - Securing Services with Rootless Containers (12:06) - RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB (13:18) - Outro Our position on open-weights modelshttps://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-modelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076057Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBenchhttps://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076391 Using an open model feels surprisingly goodhttps://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.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070138 Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heaphttps://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/19/observing-gos-garbage-collector-old-and-new.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045474 A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog reviewhttps://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078454 Self-contained highly-portable Python distributionshttps://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073942 Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cageshttps://gpuopen.com/learn/ray-tracing-massive-amounts-animated-geometry/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021007 Securing Services with Rootless Containershttps://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 GBhttps://gpusolutions.net/rbservices/graphics-card-upgrade/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041256

  7. 6d ago

    7.27.26 | Kill The Cookie Banner, US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search, PGSimCity How PostgreSQL Works

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 27, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Kill The Cookie Banner (01:33) - US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search (02:45) - PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works (03:40) - Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy (05:03) - French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time (06:01) - Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS (07:19) - Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room (08:39) - Design is compromise (09:55) - Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper (11:06) - I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music (12:19) - Outro Kill The Cookie Bannerhttps://killthecookiebanner.eu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057175US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport searchhttps://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063022 PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Workshttps://nikolays.github.io/PGSimCity/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063754 Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boyhttps://swag.htmx.org/en-cad/products/htmx-4-the-gamehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057241 French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first timehttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260726-french-firefighters-face-pyrocumulonimbus-for-first-timehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060495 Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOShttps://beyondloom.com/decker/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060856 Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your roomhttps://blackhole.plav.inhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021270 Design is compromisehttps://stephango.com/design-is-compromisehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059367 Show HN: Reverse Minesweeperhttps://sunflowersgame.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057666 I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to musichttps://pentaton.app/blog/2026-07-12-introducing-pentaton-lp/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022355

  8. Jul 26

    7.26.26 | The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models, turning and facing the strange, JetZero

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models (01:33) - Turn And Face The Strange (02:54) - JetZero (04:00) - Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site (05:06) - GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage (06:26) - Show HN: I made some transistor animations (07:25) - Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller (08:35) - LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals (09:52) - Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota (11:07) - Outro The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation modelshttps://claude.com/blog/the-new-rules-of-context-engineering-for-claude-5-generation-modelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051361Turn And Face The Strangehttps://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051369 JetZerohttps://www.jetzero.aerohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054224 Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast sitehttps://brolly.sh/forecast/RWFP2qW8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049693 GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storagehttps://spectrum.ieee.org/sodium-ion-battery-peak-energyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051947 Show HN: I made some transistor animationshttps://brandonli.net/semisim/animationshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039868 Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontrollerhttps://github.com/slvDev/esp32-aihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050512 LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposalshttps://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050859 Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesotahttps://ammoniaenergy.org/articles/flexible-renewable-ammonia-demonstrator-now-operational-in-minnesota/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050735

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