Hacker News on Sunday, 2 August 2026

Karpathy’s Pelican(twitter.com)

571 points by delichon 2 months ago | 389 comments

Andrej Karpathy's X post describing Claude Opus 5 writing 5,500 lines of three.js code over two hours to procedurally render the opening of Lord of the Rings.

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour(victoriametrics.com)

339 points by Hixon10 2 months ago | 171 comments

VictoriaMetrics blog post giving an interactive tour of the new features and changes in the Go 1.27 release.

Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF(sf.isopolis.city)

319 points by nuwandavek 2 months ago | 71 comments

Isopolis is an interactive isometric pixel-art map of San Francisco generated by fine-tuned Qwen Image Edit on 3D Google Map renders, with guided tours and radio.

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

305 points by tomilan 2 months ago | 99 comments

Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm(en.wikipedia.org)

260 points by akolbe 2 months ago | 239 comments

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

237 points by vlad_kalinkin 2 months ago | 60 comments

SwiftUI After 7 Years(ykvm.com)

233 points by mpweiher 2 months ago | 235 comments

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

219 points by c-oreills 2 months ago | 168 comments

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2(gnu.org)

206 points by plaguna 2 months ago | 139 comments

'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout(ft.com)

201 points by JumpCrisscross 2 months ago | 96 comments

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

192 points by ilreb 2 months ago | 94 comments

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

188 points by projscope 2 months ago | 19 comments

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

171 points by ducktective 2 months ago | 78 comments

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

165 points by eniac111 2 months ago | 22 comments

Show HN: ssh ssh.place(ssh.place)

163 points by jeninh 2 months ago | 88 comments

US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market(ft.com)

159 points by 23pointsNorth 2 months ago | 112 comments

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open(riscosopen.org)

154 points by AlexeyBrin 2 months ago | 30 comments

Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America(old.reddit.com)

153 points by dviola 2 months ago | 62 comments

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

139 points by thebigship 2 months ago | 73 comments

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation(linuxiac.com)

137 points by RobotToaster 2 months ago | 83 comments

Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours(github.com)

129 points by pshirshov 2 months ago | 119 comments

Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap(andreagrandi.it)

128 points by pizzaiolo 2 months ago | 83 comments

Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1(nbcsandiego.com)

125 points by MilnerRoute 2 months ago | 70 comments

A Rant About “Technology” (2005)(ursulakleguin.com)

123 points by jamesgill 2 months ago | 67 comments

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

117 points by graham33 2 months ago | 33 comments

The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener(danielmangum.com)

116 points by hasheddan 2 months ago | 24 comments

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

116 points by jruohonen 2 months ago | 28 comments

I don't recommend Tailwind CSS(en.andros.dev)

115 points by andros 2 months ago | 116 comments

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

109 points by mindracer 2 months ago | 24 comments

The myth of Snow Leopard(rubenerd.au)

109 points by speckx 2 months ago | 86 comments

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

100 points by goldenskye 2 months ago | 14 comments

AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest(ohiostatefair.com)

100 points by AlexAplin 2 months ago | 96 comments

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language(fuselang.org)

100 points by the_unproven 2 months ago | 27 comments

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

96 points by plug_world 2 months ago | 41 comments

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

91 points by pkaeding 2 months ago | 44 comments

CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K(github.com)

90 points by TMWNN 2 months ago | 44 comments

Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective(blog.rust-lang.org)

85 points by dcminter 2 months ago | 41 comments

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door(github.com)

84 points by arcaege 2 months ago | 16 comments

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

84 points by Funes- 2 months ago | 44 comments

Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow(regen.co.uk)

82 points by thelastgallon 2 months ago | 87 comments

Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share(cleantechnica.com)

80 points by 01-_- 2 months ago | 82 comments

Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)(nature.com)

78 points by davidbarker 2 months ago | 25 comments

Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power(sharedobject.blog)

74 points by firer 2 months ago | 16 comments

Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America(linuxiac.com)

73 points by leephillips 2 months ago | 43 comments

ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification(peterneufeld.wordpress.com)

72 points by ta988 2 months ago | 11 comments

Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores(github.com)

69 points by quambo 2 months ago | 24 comments

ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)(github.com)

64 points by csmantle 2 months ago | 9 comments

Bubble Memory(en.wikipedia.org)

60 points by jacquesm 2 months ago | 20 comments

Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)(ykiko.me)

60 points by rramadass 2 months ago | 60 comments

The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)(plato.stanford.edu)

60 points by cyanregiment 2 months ago | 45 comments

Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now.(lists.archlinux.org)

57 points by EbNar 2 months ago | 39 comments

Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%(theverge.com)

55 points by BlueBerry2001 2 months ago | 42 comments

Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks(medium.com)

52 points by fagnerbrack 2 months ago | 9 comments

TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console(blog.lon.tv)

49 points by throwoutway 2 months ago | 18 comments

Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents(github.com)

48 points by asim 2 months ago | 15 comments

Has the New Cocaine Arrived?(playboy.substack.com)

48 points by bookofjoe 2 months ago | 41 comments

Cyberscript(cyberscript.dev)

46 points by dtj1123 2 months ago | 45 comments

IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System(osadmins.com)

44 points by naves 2 months ago | 23 comments

AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens(seanhelvey.com)

39 points by Lambda11 2 months ago | 32 comments

An internal OpenAI Astra model solved 10 major open math and CS problems(twitter.com)

38 points by wa5ina 2 months ago | 24 comments