Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-03

1. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork qwen.ai - 277 comments 551 points
2. Don’t be a meat proxy gruhn.me - 215 comments 505 points
3. Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm en.wikipedia.org - 317 comments 335 points
4. More German than many Germans mertbulan.com - 176 comments 256 points
5. ‘Crush this lady’: how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout www.ft.com - 119 comments 236 points
6. How the words we teach English language learners changed pudding.cool - 168 comments 219 points
7. Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM github.com - 55 comments 219 points
8. Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF sf.isopolis.city - 49 comments 214 points
9. EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation linuxiac.com - 137 comments 203 points
10. US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market www.ft.com - 172 comments 193 points
11. SwiftUI After 7 Years ykvm.com - 175 comments 192 points
12. Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side meshdiff.com - 21 comments 191 points
13. F: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language fstar-lang.org - 88 comments 179 points
14. OpenAI’s super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics www.modelrepublic.org - 80 comments 179 points
15. Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops getbor.dev - 23 comments 176 points
16. Twenty Years of RISC OS Open www.riscosopen.org - 31 comments 158 points
17. A Rant About “Technology” - 2005 www.ursulakleguin.com - 83 comments 145 points
18. Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours github.com - 129 comments 142 points
19. My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw” frogs.vaguespac.es - 75 comments 140 points
20. Californians’ data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1 www.nbcsandiego.com - 81 comments 134 points
21. AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest www.ohiostatefair.com - 156 comments 130 points
22. Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge publicdomainreview.org - 31 comments 127 points
23. Show HN: Sprocket – The Best AI Agent for Hardware and Software Development sprocket-demo.spikonado.com - 12 comments 123 points
24. Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark github.com - 35 comments 117 points
25. Show HN: ssh ssh.place ssh.place - 67 comments 112 points
26. Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language fuselang.org - 36 comments 110 points
27. Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N blog.juni-mp4.com - 24 comments 110 points
28. Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective blog.rust-lang.org - 51 comments 103 points
29. Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America linuxiac.com - 74 comments 100 points
30. Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T runtimewire.com - 25 comments 99 points