Story ranking for the past week

1. Don't be a meat proxy | 738
2. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | 95
3. LLMs reward expertise | 569
4. Mario Meets Pareto | 165
5. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork | 613
6. Discovery Loop | 591
7. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon | 674
8. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects | 829
9. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | 922
10. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog | 465
11. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health | 403
12. Devtools must be open source | 233
13. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? | 374
14. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc | 766
15. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't | 214
16. Taste Is All That's Left | 521
17. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work | 331
18. More German than many Germans | 491
19. How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) | 249
20. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | 937
21. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones | 99
22. Karpathy’s Pelican | 434
23. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 340
24. Diátaxis | 63
25. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers | 639
26. Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage | 293
27. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code | 443
28. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | 343
29. Zed DeltaDB | 310
30. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) | 6
31. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability | 407
32. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking | 276
33. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 | 248
34. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation | 133
35. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux | 517
36. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | 0
37. FFmpeg 9.0 | 97
38. There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] | 442
39. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK | 307
40. Seedance 2.5 | 255
41. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing | 210
42. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | 122
43. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage | 516
44. Twenty Years of Pandoc | 53
45. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website | 369
46. Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak | 415
47. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update | 193
48. All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen | 248
49. Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library | 155
50. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI | 283
51. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X | 107
52. U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war | 717
53. Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time | 330
54. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind | 1
55. Go 1.27 Interactive Tour | 204
56. Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm | 348
57. AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions | 403
58. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF | 80
59. U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal | 342
60. Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | 76
61. São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest | 121
62. Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) | 81
63. Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built | 112
64. Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export | 153
65. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs | 244
66. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video | 94
67. Waymo in Dallas | 727
68. Harness engineering for self-improvement | 79
69. 200 Milliseconds | 103
70. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 | 260
71. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search | 192
72. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery | 265
73. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo | 474
74. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out | 291
75. libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months | 73
76. NetBSD 11.0 | 162
77. I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel | 235
78. A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention | 166
79. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users | 258
80. App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours | 181
81. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone | 141
82. Assembly Hall of Shame | 74
83. Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days | 263
84. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun | 60
85. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls | 136
86. Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet | 9
87. Position: LLMs Can't Jump | 212
88. Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard | 237
89. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol | 247
90. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI | 248
91. Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If | 110
92. Apple is getting this wrong | 295
93. Google has abandoned Google News? | 209
94. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects | 53
95. RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches | 195
96. SwiftUI After 7 Years | 331
97. 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout | 136
98. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open | 184
99. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD | 135
100. AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job | 292