Story ranking for the past week

  1. Don't be a meat proxy | 734
  2. Show HN: Elevators | 413
  3. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | 95
  4. LLMs reward expertise | 566
  5. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork | 613
  6. Mario Meets Pareto | 155
  7. Discovery Loop | 582
  8. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | 895
  9. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog | 465
  10. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? | 374
  11. Devtools must be open source | 232
  12. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc | 764
  13. qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work | 165
  14. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't | 207
  15. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work | 321
  16. More German than many Germans | 491
  17. How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) | 249
  18. Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion | 217
  19. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | 933
  20. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones | 100
  21. Karpathy’s Pelican | 434
  22. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis | 312
  23. Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI | 609
  24. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon | 434
  25. Diátaxis | 63
  26. Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage | 293
  27. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code | 442
  28. Zed DeltaDB | 302
  29. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) | 6
  30. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking | 273
  31. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | 304
  32. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation | 133
  33. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 | 238
  34. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | 0
  35. FFmpeg 9.0 | 97
  36. The End of an Era | 458
  37. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux | 490
  38. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] | 439
  39. Seedance 2.5 | 255
  40. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | 115
  41. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing | 204
  42. Twenty Years of Pandoc | 53
  43. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage | 488
  44. How to Exist | 243
  45. All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen | 248
  46. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library | 154
  47. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI | 283
  48. Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest | 219
  49. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X | 107
  50. U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war | 713
  51. Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time | 330
  52. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability | 304
  53. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind | 1
  54. Go 1.27 Interactive Tour | 202
  55. Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm | 348
  56. AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions | 403
  57. Taste Is All That's Left | 263
  58. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF | 78
  59. Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak | 370
  60. Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s | 166
  61. Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | 76
  62. Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) | 81
  63. Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export | 154
  64. Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built | 111
  65. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video | 95
  66. 200 Milliseconds | 103
  67. Waymo in Dallas | 720
  68. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search | 192
  69. Harness engineering for self-improvement | 79
  70. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 | 257
  71. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery | 263
  72. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo | 473
  73. NetBSD 11.0 | 162
  74. libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months | 72
  75. I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel | 234
  76. A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention | 166
  77. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone | 140
  78. Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days | 263
  79. Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet | 9
  80. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls | 135
  81. Position: LLMs Can't Jump | 209
  82. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol | 247
  83. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI | 248
  84. Apple is getting this wrong | 295
  85. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If | 108
  86. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs | 203
  87. Google has abandoned Google News? | 209
  88. RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches | 195
  89. SwiftUI After 7 Years | 331
  90. Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era | 70
  91. Big Food vs. the People | 183
  92. 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout | 136
  93. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects | 52
  94. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update | 140
  95. Severance | 98
  96. Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard | 220
  97. Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale | 66
  98. Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed | 287
  99. AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job | 293
  100. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In | 110