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12:25

8.7.26 | Mario Meets Pareto, AMD acquires Taalas for...

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2026/08/07

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

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14:16

8.6.26 | Discovery Loop, Google DeepMind leadership...

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2026/08/06

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

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11:58

8.5.26 | Simple skin tone algorithm, Mistral's...

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2026/08/05

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

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14:22

8.4.26 | LLMs reward expertise, Devtools must be open...

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2026/08/04

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

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14:06

8.3.26 | Karpathy’s Pelican, Qwen3.8-Max coding and...

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2026/08/03

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

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12:16

8.2.26 | Google impacts RSS adoption, Seedance 2.5...

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2026/08/02

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) -

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14:47

8.1.26 | Elevators, qm multiplayer agent harness for...

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2026/08/01

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) -

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13:55

7.31.26 | UEFA and national associations exclude...

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2026/07/31

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

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13:57

7.30.26 | Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B on...

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2026/07/30

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

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13:37

7.29.26 | Substack writers need a website, Codex...

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2026/07/29

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

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13:23

7.28.26 | Our position on open-weights models,...

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2026/07/28

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

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12:30

7.27.26 | Kill The Cookie Banner, US citizen charged...

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2026/07/27

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) -

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11:12

7.26.26 | The new rules of context engineering for...

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2026/07/26

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) -

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14:23

7.25.26 | Claude Opus 5, Nvidia Microsoft Meta warn...

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2026/07/25

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 25, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Claude Opus 5 (01:45) - Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models (03:08) - India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch (04:31) - My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page (05:54) - Firefox Containers Preview (07:23) - Half-Life 2

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13:32

7.24.26 | Writing by hand boosts brain, Startup...

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2026/07/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 24, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Writing by hand is good for your brain (01:17) - Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI (02:41) - OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened (04:06) - 98.css (05:28) - Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight

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12:10

7.23.26 | Terence Tao discusses Jacobian Conjecture...

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2026/07/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 23, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample (01:37) - Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab) (03:03) - John C. Dvorak has died (03:41) - Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? (05:09) - So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (06:32) - The

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14:11

7.22.26 | OpenAI and Hugging Face security incident,...

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2026/07/22

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 22, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation (01:41) - Advertise in ChatGPT (03:14) - Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber (04:57) - Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA (06:13) - FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers (07:25) - 'VPNs are lawful

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14:08

7.21.26 | China's open-weights AI strategy is...

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2026/07/21

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning (02:00) - Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database (03:22) - Who's afraid of Chinese models? (04:54) - Kimi Work (06:18) - Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls (07:27) - Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police,

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13:24

7.20.26 | I replaced a $120k bowling center system...

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2026/07/20

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 20, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s (01:52) - Qwen 3.8 (03:11) - Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now (04:43) - What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard (05:57) - Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture (07:17) -

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13:42

7.19.26 | GPT-5.6 closes convex optimization gap,...

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2026/07/19

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Jul 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization (01:53) - Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise (03:21) - Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb (04:33) - Transcribe.cpp (05:53) - If You Build It, They Will Come (07:05) - The Kimi K3 Moment (08:26) - Fable 5 vs

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