DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING
2026-08-04
Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗
- 01
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
- 02
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
- 03
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (stephenwolfram.com)
- 04
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
- 05
Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
- 06
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
- 07
Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
- 08
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
- 09
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
- 10
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
- 11
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)
- 12
Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
- 13
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (hartwork.org)
- 14
Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)
- 15
Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
- 16
We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
- 17
Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
- 18
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
- 19
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
- 20
Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
- 21
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
- 22
I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
- 23
Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
- 24
Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)
- 25
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)
- 26
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
- 27
FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/ffmpeg)
- 28
Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)
- 29
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (troyhunt.com)
- 30
Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)