Hacker News on Saturday, 1 August 2026

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)(openrss.org)

541 points by pudgywalsh 2 months ago | 190 comments

An Open RSS blog post arguing that Google's product decisions and behavior significantly reduced adoption of RSS feeds.

Diátaxis(diataxis.fr)

510 points by ryanseys 2 months ago | 57 comments

Homepage of Diátaxis, a systematic framework for technical documentation organized around tutorials, how-to guides, reference, and explanation.

Seedance 2.5(seed.bytedance.com)

416 points by njaremko 2 months ago | 242 comments

ByteDance Seed blog post announcing Seedance 2.5, a video generation model featuring one-take creation and flexible referencing.

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science(openai.com)

373 points by milkshakes 2 months ago | 252 comments

OpenAI page about ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science; it loaded only a Cloudflare verification challenge.

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest(simonwillison.net)

360 points by tosh 2 months ago | 204 comments

Simon Willison blog post on the stateless MCP 2.0 specification release and the mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp tools it inspired him to build.

São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest(saopaulosecreto.com)

330 points by rmason 2 months ago | 119 comments

Article about a retired São Paulo resident who planted trees alone on degraded land, creating the Tiquatira Linear Park urban forest over 20 years.

Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export(forum.cursor.com)

307 points by EugeneOZ 2 months ago | 140 comments

AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions(mitsloan.mit.edu)

306 points by foxtrot8672 2 months ago | 287 comments

200 Milliseconds(200ms.thenodebook.com)

297 points by dimitarpanov 2 months ago | 90 comments

NetBSD 11.0(blog.netbsd.org)

286 points by jaypatelani 2 months ago | 128 comments

A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention(michaelgeist.ca)

272 points by iamnothere 2 months ago | 147 comments

RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches(github.com)

259 points by throwaway2037 2 months ago | 176 comments

Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era(microsoft.github.io)

255 points by vinhnx 2 months ago | 67 comments

RamenHaus(ramen.haus)

229 points by oler 2 months ago | 109 comments

The Art of 64-bit Assembly(nostarch.com)

217 points by 0x54MUR41 2 months ago | 98 comments

Carl's Required Reading(carlkolon.com)

212 points by cckolon 2 months ago | 26 comments

Google has abandoned Google News?(elgan.com)

210 points by mikelgan 2 months ago | 142 comments

AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job(weeraman.com)

210 points by smckk 2 months ago | 195 comments

The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder(zaksa.zip)

191 points by Kaizeras 2 months ago | 126 comments

BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising(consumerrights.wiki)

172 points by goplayoutside 2 months ago | 92 comments

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576(leodemoura.github.io)

160 points by juhopitk 2 months ago | 59 comments

Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified(nascompares.com)

153 points by giuliomagnifico 2 months ago | 139 comments

A directory of people who love RSS(andrewshell.org)

151 points by speckx 2 months ago | 80 comments

SupererDuperer(shirtpocket.com)

148 points by zdw 2 months ago | 30 comments

The development pipeline is a production system(sundry.jerryorr.com)

147 points by firefoxd 2 months ago | 71 comments

Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga(seriouseats.com)

141 points by stasomatic 2 months ago | 83 comments

Anime User Interfaces(animeuserinterface.tumblr.com)

118 points by akyuu 2 months ago | 33 comments

On the non-use of AI in my writing process(antipope.org)

108 points by jwx48 2 months ago | 81 comments

Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter(chrismorgan.info)

107 points by frizlab 2 months ago | 61 comments

Dates That Don't Exist (2015)(blog.yossarian.net)

107 points by EndXA 2 months ago | 74 comments

Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation(kyoto-u.ac.jp)

104 points by hhs 2 months ago | 44 comments

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses(alexiglad.github.io)

102 points by DSemba 2 months ago | 25 comments

But can your calculator run Linux?(raymii.org)

99 points by jandeboevrie 2 months ago | 9 comments

Building a local positioning system to track runners using Ultra-Wideband(zeus.ugent.be)

98 points by robinpdev 2 months ago | 8 comments

Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers(github.com)

91 points by earcar 2 months ago | 38 comments

CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting(censys.com)

89 points by speckx 2 months ago | 62 comments

How to Do Great Work (2023)(paulgraham.com)

78 points by tosh 2 months ago | 56 comments

A week in Matrix(piegames.de)

75 points by Kesseki 2 months ago | 40 comments

GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement(lalitm.com)

67 points by lalitmaganti 2 months ago | 88 comments

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

66 points by Jimmc414 2 months ago | 17 comments

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue(github.com)

64 points by handfuloflight 2 months ago | 53 comments

Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast(brandur.org)

63 points by brandur 2 months ago | 37 comments

YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview(sfstandard.com)

61 points by theanonymousone 2 months ago | 19 comments

BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat(theautopian.com)

58 points by CharlesW 2 months ago | 39 comments

Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search

57 points by tehwebguy 2 months ago | 28 comments

Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter(kaisel.dev)

54 points by TheWiggles 2 months ago | 8 comments

EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2(engadget.com)

52 points by vrganj 2 months ago | 41 comments

Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran(nytimes.com)

47 points by jbegley 2 months ago | 35 comments

Google kills Earth AI generator after one day(twitter.com)

46 points by BlueBerry2001 2 months ago | 46 comments

Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices(npr.org)

44 points by speckx 2 months ago | 42 comments

Battle of the Beams(en.wikipedia.org)

44 points by petethomas 2 months ago | 12 comments

Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon(nytimes.com)

42 points by wglb 2 months ago | 11 comments

What liberal arts education is for (2024)(innig.net)

39 points by mr_wiglaf 2 months ago | 39 comments

Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?(theguardian.com)

36 points by bookofjoe 2 months ago | 18 comments

Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team(lists.archlinux.org)

33 points by datakan 2 months ago | 10 comments

Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets(trufflesecurity.com)

31 points by 882542F3884314B 2 months ago | 8 comments

Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert(firerescue1.com)

30 points by gurjeet 2 months ago | 33 comments

A stray commit buried multiple levels deep cost me months(droppedasbaby.com)

29 points by offbyone42 2 months ago | 22 comments

Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now(worseonpurpose.com)

29 points by xbryanx 2 months ago | 17 comments

Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours(uclahealth.org)

29 points by gmays 2 months ago | 9 comments