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4:22

Hacker Newsroom for 04 August: Dont Be Meat Proxy,...

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2026/08/04

Hacker Newsroom for 04 August recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through dont be meat proxy, sqlite critical cves or llm, llms reward expertise, devtools must be open source. 1. Dont Be Meat Proxy The next story is a blog post called Don't Be a Meat Proxy, arguing that pasting raw Claude output into Slack threads, pull requests, and code reviews adds no value unless you read it, verify it, and restate it in your own words. Hacker News mostly agreed with that complaint, but the

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4:35

Hacker Newsroom for 03 August: Karpathy Pelican,...

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2026/08/03

Hacker Newsroom for 03 August recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through karpathy pelican, seedance 2 5, go 1 27, ai finance. 1. Karpathy Pelican The next story is Karpathy’s Pelican, a viral X post where Andrej Karpathy describes giving Opus 5 the first paragraph of The Lord of the Rings, a million-token budget, and roughly two hours to build a janky but working Three. js scene in about 5,500 lines of code. Story link Hacker News discussion 2. Seedance 2 5 The next story is

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5:26

Hacker Newsroom for 02 August: Google RSS, AI Math...

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2026/08/02

Hacker Newsroom for 02 August recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through google rss, ai math advances, exist, cursor costs.1. Google RSS The next story is about a post arguing that Google helped undermine mainstream RSS adoption by repeatedly building around open feeds, then stripping support from products like Chrome, FeedBurner, Google Reader, Google Alerts, and Google News. The article's main point is that those reversals did more than kill individual features: they trained

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4:39

Hacker Newsroom for 01 August: Elevator Algorithms,...

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2026/08/01

Hacker Newsroom for 01 August recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through elevator algorithms, session portability, deepseek beta, deepseek economics.1. Elevator Algorithms The next story is Elevators, an interactive article about the ordinary misery of waiting for an elevator and the algorithms behind it. It explains the classic LOOK approach, shows how multi-car systems use scoring methods like Otis's Relative System Response to weigh pickup time, load, and anti-bunching, and

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5:21

Hacker Newsroom for 31 July: UEFA Vs FIFA, Streaming...

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2026/07/31

Hacker Newsroom for 31 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through uefa vs fifa, streaming stick malware, closed ai research, github stacked prs.1. UEFA Vs FIFA The next story is about UEFA and all 55 of its national associations saying they will not participate in FIFA competitions if FIFA moves ahead with selling ownership interests in the World Cup and other competitions. The statement argues that these tournaments are part of football's sporting structure, not financial

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8:31

Hacker Newsroom for 30 July: Gemma On 2GB Macs,...

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2026/07/30

Hacker Newsroom for 30 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through gemma on 2gb macs, koreader, superlogical, vision pro house.1. Gemma On 2GB Macs The next story is a Show HN post about TurboFieldfare, an open-source Swift and Metal runtime that runs the Gemma 4 26B model on Apple Silicon Macs while keeping only about 2 gigabytes of weights and cache in memory and streaming the rest of the needed experts from SSD. The GitHub project says that tradeoff lets the model run even

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6:41

Hacker Newsroom for 29 July: Japan Earthquake, HIV...

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2026/07/29

Hacker Newsroom for 29 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through japan earthquake, hiv vaccine study, stop digital id, substack needs websites.1. Japan Earthquake The next story is an official Japan Meteorological Agency earthquake detail page for a magnitude 7. 1 quake in Japan, centered on the Kumamoto and Kyushu region and important because it was immediately being used as a live reference point for severity and location. Story link Hacker News discussion 2. HIV Vaccine

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9:18

Hacker Newsroom for 28 July: Kimi K3 Release, Rare...

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2026/07/28

Hacker Newsroom for 28 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through kimi k3 release, rare book scanning, open weights policy, bun rust rewrite. 1. Kimi K3 Release The next story is Kimi-K3 on Hugging Face, Moonshot AI's newly posted model card for a 2. 8 trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts system with native vision, a 1 million-token context window, MXFP4 quantization, and benchmark claims that put it close to the current frontier on coding, agent work,

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7:08

Hacker Newsroom for 27 July: Cookie Banners, Airport...

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2026/07/27

Hacker Newsroom for 27 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through cookie banners, airport phone wipe, context engineering, locked device extraction. 1. Cookie Banners Kill the Cookie Banner is a campaign post arguing that cookie popups are not required by privacy law, but are deliberately designed to push people into surrendering tracking consent. The post says the EU Commission proposed a simpler alternative in late 2025: a browser-level privacy signal that would let people

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8:58

Hacker Newsroom for 26 July: Android ADB Limits,...

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2026/07/26

Hacker Newsroom for 26 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through android adb limits, hannah fry prize, claude opus 5, postgres notifications.1. Android ADB Limits The next story is a Kitsumed blog post warning that Android may soon restrict on-device ADB after a Google ADB maintainer suggested binding the daemon to the Wi-Fi interface instead of localhost, a change the post says would break Shizuku, libadb-based tools, rootless call recording, and phone-only developer

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9:10

Hacker Newsroom for 25 July: Claude Opus 5, Losing...

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2026/07/25

Hacker Newsroom for 25 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through claude opus 5, losing focus, software gets worse, open weight rules. 1. Claude Opus 5 The next story is Anthropic’s launch of Claude Opus 5, a new model the article says gets close to Claude Fable 5’s frontier-level intelligence at about half the cost, with strong results on coding, automation, science, and visual tasks. The post frames Opus 5 as a practical everyday flagship, pointing to benchmark wins over

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8:20

Hacker Newsroom for 20 July: Bowling ESP32 Retrofit,...

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2026/07/20

Hacker Newsroom for 20 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through bowling esp32 retrofit, qwen 3.8, transcribe.cpp, ai rental listings.1. Bowling ESP32 Retrofit The next story is a Show HN post about a bowling alley owner replacing a proprietary scoring and control setup that would have cost about 120 thousand dollars with roughly 1,600 dollars of ESP32-based hardware. The linked article text is missing from the ingredient file, but the post title and discussion make clear

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8:49

Hacker Newsroom for 19 July: LG Monitor Installs,...

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2026/07/19

Hacker Newsroom for 19 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through lg monitor installs, regressive jpegs, gpt 5 6 math proof, ai logo sameness. 1. LG Monitor Installs The next story is about reports that LG monitors can trigger Windows Update to install companion software without a clear opt-in, turning a display into another channel for unwanted utilities and ads. The news story landed as a mix of outrage and resignation on Hacker News, with many people saying the surprising

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7:15

Hacker Newsroom for 18 July: AWS Billing Glitch,...

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2026/07/18

Hacker Newsroom for 18 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through aws billing glitch, recurse center anniversary, kaggle agi scoring, nurse ai surveillance. 1. AWS Billing Glitch Top of Hacker News is a post about AWS showing wildly inaccurate estimated bills, with some users briefly seeing charges in the billions or even trillions. The post centers on an AWS billing incident on July 17, 2026, where estimated cost data in the Billing and Cost Management Console was wrong, AWS

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8:14

Hacker Newsroom for 17 July: Kimi K3, Thinking...

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2026/07/17

Hacker Newsroom for 17 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through kimi k3, thinking machines inkling, music piracy nostalgia, sony deletes movies. 1. Kimi K3 The next story is Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence, a launch post for Kimi's new 2. 8-trillion-parameter model with native vision, a 1-million-token context window, and claims of frontier-level performance that still trails the very top proprietary systems. Story link Hacker News discussion 2. Thinking Machines

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8:27

Hacker Newsroom for 16 July: Jurassic Park Computers,...

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2026/07/16

Hacker Newsroom for 16 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through jurassic park computers, inkling open weights, sleep regularity risk, claude memory heist. 1. Jurassic Park Computers The next story is a post called Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail, a meticulous teardown of the real Macs, SGI workstations, backup arrays, and display tricks shown on screen, along with the production backstory behind why that hardware ended up in the film. It matters because the

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6:49

Hacker Newsroom for 15 July: Japan Battery Recycling,...

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2026/07/15

Hacker Newsroom for 15 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through japan battery recycling, no xcode app shipping, bonsai 27b phone, eu age verification. 1. Japan Battery Recycling The next story is about Japan's reported breakthrough in recycling EV batteries, with a news story claiming engineers can recover up to 90 percent of lithium from used packs by reusing lithium hydroxide in the process, cutting emissions and potentially reducing import dependence if it scales. Hacker

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8:19

Hacker Newsroom for 14 July: Zig Vs Anthropic,...

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2026/07/14

Hacker Newsroom for 14 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through zig vs anthropic, pacific heat spike, apple speech api, grok data upload. 1. Zig Vs Anthropic The next story is an opinion post titled Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke, and it argues that the public story around Bun's Rust rewrite says more about Anthropic marketing than about Zig itself. The Hacker News reaction was sharply split between people who saw Andrew Kelley's response as a

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8:34

Hacker Newsroom for 13 July: Claude Code Overhead,...

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2026/07/13

Hacker Newsroom for 13 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through claude code overhead, grok cli telemetry, tao coding agents, llms versus hype. 1. Claude Code Overhead The next story is about a benchmark claiming Claude Code sends far more tokens than OpenCode before a user prompt even arrives, with the article putting the gap at roughly 33,000 versus 7,000 tokens on the same model and arguing that tool schemas, instruction files, MCP servers, and subagents are the main

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7:57

Hacker Newsroom for 12 July: Apple Trade Secrets, NYC...

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2026/07/12

Hacker Newsroom for 12 July recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through apple trade secrets, nyc subscription ban, cycle double cover, relativity chemical bonds. 1. Apple Trade Secrets The next story is about Apple suing OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft tied to former Apple employees now working on OpenAI’s hardware effort. The 9to5Mac article says Apple claims ex-employees took confidential files, prototypes, supplier knowledge, and even used insider terminology and a

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