Hacker News Daily — August 1, 2026

29 stories · August 1, 2026

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Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

forum.cursor.com · 252 points · Discussion

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Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

microsoft.github.io · 236 points · Discussion

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RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

github.com · 224 points · Discussion

Please tick this box to confirm you have reviewed the above. I have a different issue. What version of ripgrep are you using? ripgrep 15.2.0 (rev e89fff8 ) features:+pcre2…
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A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

michaelgeist.ca · 217 points · Discussion

༒ Nhac Ny ༒, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons News July 23, 2026 Last week, the government announced that Canada has signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, with Ministers Anita…
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RamenHaus

ramen.haus · 194 points · Discussion

Welcome to RamenHaus, home of rotating ramen. So far, 114 bowls have been photographed, slurped and posted. Start with the latest entry, click a bowl to continue, or browse the complete index.…
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Google has abandoned Google News?

elgan.com · 186 points · Discussion

You know that scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest sees Lieutenant Dan on the shore and is so distracted by him that he jumps off and swims to shore, allowing the boat to crash into the dock? …
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The Art of 64-bit Assembly

nostarch.com · 145 points · Discussion

Machine-Level OOP, Exceptions, and Concurrency Available June 2026, 792 pp. Contents Download Chapter 1: Advanced Macros You can ask an AI to explain how vtables work in x86. It will give you…
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NetBSD 11.0

blog.netbsd.org · 141 points · Discussion

NetBSD 11.0 released! August 01, 2026 posted by Martin Husemann The NetBSD project is pleased to (finally) announce the NetBSD 11.0 release! See the release announcement for details. If you want to…
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A directory of people who love RSS

andrewshell.org · 140 points · Discussion

Andrew Shell's Weblog Today, I launched  I ♥ RSS, a directory for people who love RSS. I’ve already added the badge to my footer and submitted my site to the directory. It also shows a nice…
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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

openrss.org · 104 points · Discussion

August 14, 2023 Although RSS feeds are alive and still heavily used today, their level of adoption has suffered because of how difficult a handful of popular technology companies have made it to use…
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Manual: •.,:;…!?·

type.today · 104 points · Discussion

Dots and commas, reading numbers in English, distinguishing between bullet, interpunct, and multiplication operator Quotation marks, braсkets, and various kinds of spaces are a multi-faceted…
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Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers

github.com · 86 points · Discussion

A long-awaited feature thanks to @crmne on this release: instead of using a thread pool to run jobs in multiple threads per works, you can now use fibers on a single fiber reactor thread. To use this,…
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Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

leodemoura.github.io · 78 points · Discussion

2026-08-01 A soundness bug in the Lean kernel ( #14576 ) was reported and fixed during the week of July 27. It has had visibility on Zulip and social media (e.g., X, LinkedIn, and Mastodon). What…
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Linux on ESP32

github.com · 77 points · Discussion

Linux 6.12 for ESP32-S31 Linux port with Sv32 virtual memory, Supervisor mode, XIP, and a Buildroot userspace, running natively on an ESP32-S31 microcontroller. Module tested: ESP32-S31-WROOM-3…
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Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

alexiglad.github.io · 59 points · Discussion

Website: https://explorative-modeling.github.io/ GitHub: https://github.com/alexiglad/XM TLDR: We introduce Explorative Modeling, a new paradigm for generative modeling that acts as a third…
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Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

brandur.org · 51 points · Discussion

I was reminded by Cup o’ Go yesterday of the existence of Peter Downs’ pgtestdb, a Go/Postgres testing package. pgtestdb is built around Postgres template databases, a built-in feature that you can…
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Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

seriouseats.com · 43 points · Discussion

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Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

kaisel.dev · 41 points · Discussion

Get started Terminal window flutter pub add kaisel The getting started guide takes you from install to navigating with typed routes in a few minutes — sealed class, exhaustive switch, done. Sealed…
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The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

zaksa.zip · 32 points · Discussion

A few years I met a guy, let’s call him Jim, who was trying to break in tech by going to a bootcamp to become a developer. In the meantime, he worked as a bartender and had been living off the support…
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Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now

worseonpurpose.com · 29 points · Discussion

A couple of years ago, the small All-Clad pan I fry eggs in cut me as I was pulling it out of the dishwasher. A clean slice on my index finger off the rim. I patched it up. Didn’t think much else of…
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Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future

arstechnica.com · 27 points · Discussion

“Disc 2” is just the Internet DoesItPlay tracks the many “physical” games that don’t work without the Internet. Once the download servers go down, this might as well be the fate of many game discs.…
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Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor

glyphsapp.com · 25 points · Discussion

Create fonts. Love the process. Glyphs 4 is the leading Mac font editor: draw quickly, manage efficiently, release with confidence. Idris Sharp Made in Glyphs by Pascal Zoghbi. Create icons.…
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But can your calculator run Linux?

raymii.org · 22 points · Discussion

One of my all time favorite calculators is the HP 16C. It is an RPN calculator aimed at computer programmers with support for hex, binary, octal and decimal and all sorts of useful operations like bit…
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CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting

censys.com · 21 points · Discussion

Download the full brief →  Introduction CISA issued an alert on July 30, 2026 warning that threat actors are increasingly targeting internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the…
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Diátaxis

diataxis.fr · 20 points · Discussion

Back to top Toggle table of contents sidebar A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring. Diátaxis is a way of thinking about and doing documentation. It prescribes approaches to…
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Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity

rjp.io · 19 points · Discussion

We compiled nine small kernels while progressively reserving registers with gcc -ffixed-<reg>, then measured spills and runtime on one machine. Reserving registers reliably increases spills, but the…
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Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll

en.wikipedia.org · 16 points · Discussion

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nyctography In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti in nictography. Script type Alphabet Creator Lewis Carroll Created 1891 Direction Left-to-right Languages…
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How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website

littlelanguagemodels.com · 13 points · Discussion

Company A has acquired Company B, C, and D. How do we organize their sites, for multiple products with different audiences, while making it easy to find relevant product information and quickly…
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life

lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion

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