Don't be a meat proxy(gruhn.me)
1668 points by ngruhn | 676 comments
A blog post asking people not to paste verbatim AI chatbot responses into Slack, pull request reviews, or group chats, arguing it adds effort rather than value.
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LLMs reward expertise(seangoedecke.com)
1278 points by MaxMussio | 527 comments
Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing that the most important skill in prompting LLMs is expertise in the domain being prompted for.
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork(qwen.ai)
1023 points by ai2027 | 544 comments
Qwen team blog post announcing Qwen3.8-Max, a new large language model aimed at coding and collaborative work tasks.
Devtools must be open source(blog.exe.dev)
695 points by bryanmikaelian | 227 comments
Blog post by David Crawshaw on exe.dev arguing that developer tools must be open source, starting from how engineers rarely wrote software for themselves.
SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?(research.jfrog.com)
690 points by ymir_e | 342 comments
JFrog Security Research blog post examining whether recently published critical SQLite CVEs are real vulnerabilities or LLM-generated slop reports.
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science(openai.com)
609 points by milkshakes | 892 comments
OpenAI publication page announcing ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, with links to the paper and reasoning walkthroughs.
More German than many Germans(mertbulan.com)
539 points by mertbio | 381 comments
Personal blog post by developer Mert Bulan reflecting on moving to Germany for an internship and building a life there, feeling more German than many Germans.
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code(ankursethi.com)
502 points by mpweiher | 413 comments
A personal blog post arguing that developers should manually retype code generated by LLM coding assistants to keep understanding it and avoid cognitive debt.
![Screenshot of users.wpi.edu: There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/8/4/8facc4b4-8da8-46e8-b4f8-422119f48b7f.jpg)
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf](users.wpi.edu)
407 points by pmg101 | 414 comments
PDF of Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story "August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains," about an automated house running on after nuclear war.
Twenty Years of Pandoc(pandoc.org)
365 points by fiddlosopher | 46 comments
A retrospective by pandoc's creator marking twenty years since the first release of the Haskell document converter in 2006.
Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library(github.com)
362 points by KolmogorovComp | 148 comments
GitHub repository for Bonsai, Jane Street's OCaml library for building dynamic web apps using Js_of_ocaml.
Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs(clickhouse.com)
318 points by nikolay_sivko | 67 comments
ClickHouse blog post by Andy Pavlo announcing he is joining ClickHouse to establish and lead a new research team called ClickHouse Labs.
MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video(blog.comfy.org)
317 points by vblanco | 89 comments
ComfyUI newsletter post announcing day-0 support for MiniMax H3, an open-weights omni-modal video model with stereo audio and 2K output that runs locally.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
210 points by whoishiring | 195 comments
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
130 points by whoishiring | 302 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/8/7/bfbac736-b6ba-4d49-b125-6a7cf1e82c75.jpg)
Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)(xvw.lol)
72 points by birdculture | 7 comments
SearXNG in Rust(github.com)
56 points by dluuuu | 21 comments
Datalog Disassembly(github.com)
48 points by aboardRat4 | 6 comments
Reverse Jevons Paradox(mht.wtf)
47 points by martinhath | 39 comments
