Story ranking for the past week

  1. Don't be a meat proxy | 740
  2. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | 95
  3. LLMs reward expertise | 571
  4. Mario Meets Pareto | 165
  5. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork | 613
  6. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers | 1213
  7. Discovery Loop | 595
  8. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon | 694
  9. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects | 871
  10. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | 928
  11. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health | 424
  12. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog | 465
  13. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 462
  14. Devtools must be open source | 233
  15. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? | 374
  16. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc | 767
  17. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers | 414
  18. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't | 215
  19. Taste Is All That's Left | 534
  20. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work | 331
  21. More German than many Germans | 498
  22. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | 938
  23. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones | 99
  24. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments | 251
  25. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | 348
  26. Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage | 293
  27. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code | 444
  28. Zed DeltaDB | 311
  29. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK | 379
  30. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability | 409
  31. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) | 6
  32. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out | 477
  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 | 518
  37. FFmpeg 9.0 | 97
  38. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] | 443
  39. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website | 411
  40. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage | 521
  41. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing | 211
  42. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | 122
  43. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava | 97
  44. Twenty Years of Pandoc | 53
  45. Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak | 418
  46. Assembly Hall of Shame | 109
  47. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update | 202
  48. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones | 123
  49. All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen | 248
  50. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library | 155
  51. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded | 203
  52. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI | 283
  53. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face | 371
  54. _for-sale DNS records | 141
  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 | 721
  57. Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time | 332
  58. Fastmail offers EU data region | 190
  59. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind | 1
  60. NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year | 81
  61. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs | 100
  62. Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm | 348
  63. U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal | 350
  64. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF | 81
  65. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative | 151
  66. App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours | 223
  67. Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | 76
  68. Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) | 82
  69. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs | 244
  70. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video | 94
  71. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 | 260
  72. Waymo in Dallas | 729
  73. Harness engineering for self-improvement | 79
  74. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search | 193
  75. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD | 164
  76. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery | 268
  77. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo | 474
  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 | 236
  80. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users | 273
  81. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone | 142
  82. Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days | 263
  83. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun | 61
  84. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls | 136
  85. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale | 262
  86. Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet | 9
  87. Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard | 242
  88. Position: LLMs Can't Jump | 213
  89. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol | 247
  90. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI | 249
  91. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If | 111
  92. Apple is getting this wrong | 295
  93. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects | 54
  94. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide | 429
  95. 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout | 136
  96. SwiftUI After 7 Years | 331
  97. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open | 186
  98. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength | 192
  99. Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale | 66
  100. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In | 110