Hacker News Daily — August 2, 2026
30 stories · August 2, 2026
In this issue
- 1
Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
victoriametrics.com · 340 points · Discussion
Go 1.27 is coming soon, so it’s a good time to get a head start on what’s new. The official release notes are pretty dry, so here’s a hands-on version with runnable examples showing what changed and…
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Karpathy’s Pelican
twitter.com · 277 points · Discussion
https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319
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How the words we teach English language learners changed
pudding.cool · 168 points · Discussion
Look through the words scattered around this page. Every one of them is among the most commonly used words in the English language. They come from a 2023 list of about 2,800 words, shown to cover over…
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Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side
meshdiff.com · 156 points · Discussion
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Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops
getbor.dev · 153 points · Discussion
Hi HN! I've been working on Bor, an open-source system for centralized Linux desktop management. Bor consists of a lightweight Go agent and a central server. Policies are streamed to clients over…
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Twenty Years of RISC OS Open
riscosopen.org · 131 points · Discussion
On 20 June 2006 we incorporated RISC OS Open Ltd with one slightly mad ambition: to take a proprietary operating system and open it up to anyone who fancied helping. Twenty years on, that has largely…
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F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language
fstar-lang.org · 125 points · Discussion
Introduction F* (pronounced F star ) is a general-purpose proof-oriented programming language, supporting both purely functional and effectful programming. It combines the expressive power of…
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Folding Paper Globes
foldingglobes.com · 121 points · Discussion
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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge
publicdomainreview.org · 115 points · Discussion
Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne…
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Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
github.com · 114 points · Discussion
Userspace macOS ARM64 → Linux aarch64 translation layer (CLI-first, no JIT). Load Darwin Mach-O on Linux aarch64, map a freestanding libSystem, translate BSD syscalls, and run real guests (clang…
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Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
16-bits.org · 103 points · Discussion
I have written a portable Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2. Here's a screenshot. What is Fasttracker II? Read about it on Wikipedia. Note: If you have more than one monitor connected to your PC,…
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Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language
fuselang.org · 89 points · Discussion
Hi HN! I've been working on the fuse programming language, it's a statically typed purely functional language with higher-kinder types and ad-hoc polymorphism. It compiles to the GRIN whole-program…
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Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
stackoverflow.blog · 85 points · Discussion
About six years ago, we ran a piece about IDEs where the gist was that IDEs were getting to be so powerful and capable that it was a marvel that anybody used Vim or Emacs like a caveman. While yes, it…
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When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)
letterformarchive.org · 70 points · Discussion
February 9, 2022 Collections In the 1930s–60s, Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company offered trolley and bus riders a weekly burst of color and hand lettering. About 300 of these tickets are now…
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Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark
github.com · 64 points · Discussion
Try DGX Spark playbooks using Nix on DGX OS, or install NixOS on your DGX Spark for the full Nix experience. The repository provides USB images and a NixOS module with settings for DGX Spark systems.…
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Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N
blog.juni-mp4.com · 61 points · Discussion
2 Aug 2026 Now, let me just preface this with a disclaimer:… and get used to this puppo, as you may see this a few more times in this post:’). In light of continuing my bumbling foray into the…
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'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
ft.com · 55 points · Discussion
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Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
unattributed.cc · 45 points · Discussion
Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?, and found myself writing a lengthy response. But, after I wrote…
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Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share
cleantechnica.com · 41 points · Discussion
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of…
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EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?
euronews.com · 30 points · Discussion
As of today, the EU's rules on AI models become enforceable, cementing the European Commission's role as the world's most prominent regulator of this disruptive technology. Euronews takes a deep dive…
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German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe
ft.com · 28 points · Discussion
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My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw."
frogs.vaguespac.es · 27 points · Discussion
The model added significant editorializing beyond a literal depiction, including invented royal status ("Royal Imperial Collar," "Imperial Habsburg Crown," "Golden Fleece Medal") and mood/bearing…
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Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network
uphillsecurity.com · 25 points · Discussion
I’ve been working on this honeypot network for the past couple of months, and I’d now like to share some information from the first 30 days. In this article:: Intro and short summary the Data -…
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Turtle-inspired interactive Python project
codembark.com · 13 points · Discussion
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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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Show HN: I rewrote my 2012 self-signed cert generator in Go – cert-depot.com
9 points · Discussion
Back in 2012 I built https://cert-depot.com as a weekend project. Node.js + Express + jQuery, shelling out to OpenSSL for certificate generation. It worked but I eventually let it rot.…
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Making your JITted Code known: Let me count the ways
wakelift.de · 9 points · Discussion
AOT Compilers It has been normal and expected for a long long time that any machine code they spit out would come with a bunch of metadata that is meant to be used by different pieces of the target…
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Npm-scan: Modern supply chain security for the npm ecosystem
github.com · 9 points · Discussion
Supply chain threat detection that catches what npm audit, Snyk, and Socket miss. Detects obfuscated payloads, credential stealers, kernel rootkits, eBPF hooks, memory extraction, GitHub spoofing, and…
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When Coupled Volcanoes Talk, These Researchers Listen
quantamagazine.org · 9 points · Discussion
Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that could lead to improved eruption forecasts. Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall…