Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-04

  1. LLMs reward expertise www.seangoedecke.com - 360 comments 873 points
  2. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? research.jfrog.com - 361 comments 709 points
  3. Devtools must be open source blog.exe.dev - 199 comments 592 points
  4. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science openai.com - 807 comments 525 points
  5. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code ankursethi.com - 382 comments 472 points
  6. Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time www.intellinews.com - 275 comments 349 points
  7. Bonsai: Janestreet’s UI Library github.com - 145 comments 345 points
  8. Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs clickhouse.com - 64 comments 307 points
  9. MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video blog.comfy.org - 85 comments 293 points
  10. Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days www.marlerblog.com - 234 comments 289 points
  11. ICE Collected Nearly 1M People’s DNA Last Year–Including Young Children www.wired.com - 105 comments 245 points
  12. Twenty Years of Pandoc pandoc.org - 29 comments 231 points
  13. AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU github.com - 78 comments 217 points
  14. Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale blog.cloudflare.com - 50 comments 210 points
  15. Ask HN: Who is hiring? - August 2026 news.ycombinator.com - 149 comments 168 points
  16. Apple is getting this wrong openai.com - 153 comments 157 points
  17. Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years changelog.complete.org - 40 comments 157 points
  18. Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone github.com - 63 comments 155 points
  19. The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact - 2020 www.mcgill.ca - 159 comments 144 points
  20. There Will Come Soft Rains - 1950 - pdf users.wpi.edu - 55 comments 142 points
  21. What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not senderledger.com - 30 comments 131 points
  22. AI’s debt binge can’t last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T fortune.com - 154 comments 127 points
  23. Octane – React’s programming model, compiled octanejs.dev - 46 comments 122 points
  24. Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first www.sltrib.com - 86 comments 115 points
  25. Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone github.com - 32 comments 110 points
  26. Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? - August 2026 news.ycombinator.com - 260 comments 109 points
  27. Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage virtuallyfun.com - 52 comments 102 points
  28. Xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline - 2016 xkcd.com - 15 comments 97 points
  29. DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status status.digdir.no - 62 comments 90 points
  30. Flock’s CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop www.thedrive.com - 111 comments 86 points