Story ranking for the past week

  1. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | 95
  2. Mario Meets Pareto | 169
  3. Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows | 598
  4. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers | 1320
  5. Discovery Loop | 597
  6. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon | 711
  7. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers | 567
  8. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects | 887
  9. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | 930
  10. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health | 432
  11. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics | 530
  12. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog | 465
  13. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 472
  14. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc | 769
  15. Taste Is All That's Left | 544
  16. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't | 215
  17. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work | 331
  18. Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents | 358
  19. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments | 281
  20. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM | 573
  21. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones | 99
  22. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours | 278
  23. Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open | 188
  24. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | 353
  25. Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage | 294
  26. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK | 382
  27. My server is a phone now | 244
  28. Zed DeltaDB | 314
  29. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out | 494
  30. Fastmail offers EU data region | 290
  31. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability | 414
  32. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) | 6
  33. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking | 278
  34. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 | 252
  35. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation | 133
  36. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux | 523
  37. Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models | 434
  38. FFmpeg 9.0 | 97
  39. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website | 433
  40. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones | 130
  41. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage | 524
  42. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing | 211
  43. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava | 102
  44. _for-sale DNS records | 165
  45. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | 124
  46. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face | 427
  47. The UK's war on anonymity has come to America | 322
  48. Assembly Hall of Shame | 112
  49. Everything you do is being recorded | 357
  50. Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak | 419
  51. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update | 208
  52. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded | 216
  53. All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen | 248
  54. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI | 283
  55. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X | 108
  56. U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war | 724
  57. NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year | 82
  58. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs | 106
  59. Dithered QR Codes | 43
  60. What Happened to HackerOne? | 196
  61. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's | 273
  62. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind | 1
  63. Sonic Pi v5 | 86
  64. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative | 165
  65. U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal | 356
  66. App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours | 241
  67. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection | 68
  68. We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled | 251
  69. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs | 245
  70. Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) | 82
  71. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD | 174
  72. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 | 265
  73. Waymo in Dallas | 731
  74. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search | 194
  75. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery | 269
  76. Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's | 478
  77. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo | 480
  78. libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months | 73
  79. I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel | 238
  80. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale | 267
  81. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users | 279
  82. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide | 523
  83. Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification | 439
  84. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) | 1108
  85. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun | 63
  86. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls | 137
  87. Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard | 242
  88. Position: LLMs Can't Jump | 213
  89. Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet | 9
  90. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength | 219
  91. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | 266
  92. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol | 248
  93. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI | 249
  94. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots | 106
  95. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) | 69
  96. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects | 54
  97. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code | 305
  98. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open | 189
  99. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone | 103
  100. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In | 110