HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-08-02

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Seedance 2.5 (bytedance.com)

    442 points · HN #49138302

  2. 02

    Karpathy’s Pelican (twitter.com/karpathy)

    618 points · HN #49140998

  3. 03

    Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM (github.com/wie-project)

    255 points · HN #49145937

  4. 04

    Go 1.27 Interactive Tour (victoriametrics.com)

    370 points · HN #49140218

  5. 05

    Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust (stackoverflow.blog)

    250 points · HN #49097961

  6. 06

    Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built (github.com/tom-ilan)

    338 points · HN #49140396

  7. 07

    Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management (unattributed.cc)

    257 points · HN #49084324

  8. 08

    F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language (fstar-lang.org)

    189 points · HN #49143925

  9. 09

    Folding Paper Globes (foldingglobes.com)

    193 points · HN #49093845

  10. 10

    When transit passes were designed by hand (2022) (letterformarchive.org)

    153 points · HN #49123003

  11. 11

    Twenty Years of RISC OS Open (riscosopen.org)

    167 points · HN #49143967

  12. 12

    MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

    107 points · HN #49140702

  13. 13

    Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side (meshdiff.com)

    204 points · HN #49143479

  14. 14

    Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300 (wafer.ai)

    220 points · HN #49141073

  15. 15

    How the words we teach English language learners changed (pudding.cool)

    255 points · HN #49145590

  16. 16

    SwiftUI After 7 Years (ykvm.com)

    279 points · HN #49147263

  17. 17

    Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark (github.com/graham33)

    132 points · HN #49146267

  18. 18

    Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor (mattbeton.com)

    136 points · HN #49122655

  19. 19

    Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2 (16-bits.org)

    153 points · HN #49094151

  20. 20

    ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine (plug-world.com)

    114 points · HN #49140213

  21. 21

    Nyctography: A substituton cypher by Lewis Carroll (wikipedia.org)

    82 points · HN #49081851

  22. 22

    Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops (getbor.dev)

    197 points · HN #49142569

  23. 23

    Read the novels and forget everything else (hedgehogreview.com)

    143 points · HN #49129676

  24. 24

    Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences (abc.net.au)

    221 points · HN #49078283

  25. 25

    RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 (rfc-editor.org)

    84 points · HN #49139711

  26. 26

    Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific (science.org)

    97 points · HN #49140599

  27. 27

    Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N (juni-mp4.com)

    123 points · HN #49145883

  28. 28

    When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work (btcpp.dev)

    94 points · HN #49140405

  29. 29

    My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw” (vaguespac.es)

    157 points · HN #49147622

  30. 30

    Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge (publicdomainreview.org)

    140 points · HN #49143001