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Tuesday, August 4, 2026
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Hacker News

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Seang Geedecke▲ 696

LLMs reward expertise

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OpenAI▲ 506

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

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Cloudflare▲ 185

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Serving frontier models like Kimi and GLM means fighting for GPU memory. Here's how we quantize KV caches, compress model weights, and add integrity checks to serve them faster, cheaper,…

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John MacFarlane▲ 172

Twenty Years of Pandoc

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Complete.org▲ 149

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

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OpenAI▲ 80

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

Contribute to leonickson1/Swiftlet development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Y Combinator▲ 144

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

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BumbershootSoft▲ 38

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode

Now that we’ve taken a look at the kind of control that the Spectrum’s BASIC gives us over the hardware, it’s time to dip down into machine language and see what is…

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Om▲ 8

The Myth, the Mythos, and the Man

For a while I have been wondering why Anthropic named its most powerful AI model Mythos. A safety company. A company whose entire justification for existing is that someone needs to tell…

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Hoplite17d ago

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

Hi HN, we’re Bence and Ryan, founders of Hoplite (https://hoplite.sh). Hoplite lets you deploy coding agents in the cloud, with a suite of tools that makes it incredibly easy to QA…

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HN — Best of the Week

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Jfrog Research▲ 706

SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

The JFrog security research team recently identified a supply chain attack targeting the `xinference` package on PyPI. Versions 2.6.0, 2.6.1, and 2.6.2 were compromised and yanked by maintainers after users reported suspicious behavior. If you installed or imported these versions, you must assume your environment is compromised.

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Seang Goedecke▲ 694

LLMs reward expertise

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Exe.dev▲ 555

Devtools must be open source

The age of personalized software is here.

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Intellinews▲ 341

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

More of Germany

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ClickHouse▲ 295

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.

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Marler▲ 286

Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

A company’s public statement in the middle of an outbreak is not marketing. It is evidence — what the company said it knew, and when, published to the

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Comfy▲ 280

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

An open-weights omni-modal video model with real stereo sound and 2K output — this powerful model is greatly optimized in ComfyUI and can run locally on a 3060.

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Wired▲ 242

ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal…

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Cloudflare▲ 184

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Serving frontier models like Kimi and GLM means fighting for GPU memory. Here's how we quantize KV caches, compress model weights, and add integrity checks to serve them faster, cheaper,…

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