Hacker News on Friday, 7 August 2026

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers(noemamag.com)

970 points by RickJWagner 2 months ago | 1138 comments

Noema Magazine essay arguing that tech and knowledge workers are realizing their work feels pointless and that AI may cause a whole class to lose faith in careers.

US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects(bbc.com)

782 points by defrost 2 months ago | 749 comments

BBC News article reporting that the US agreed to pay a German firm $1.2bn to halt its offshore wind projects.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731(arcprize.org)

761 points by tosh 2 months ago | 454 comments

ARC Prize verified results page for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731, reporting its ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2 scores and cost per task on a leaderboard chart.

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK(app.dealroom.co)

494 points by delduca 2 months ago | 356 comments

Dealroom news feed item reporting that Oracle has banned AI-generated code contributions to OpenJDK, contrasting with Larry Ellison's claims about Oracle's internal AI use.

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out(ign.com)

469 points by inigyou 2 months ago | 450 comments

IGN news article reporting that memory (RAM) production capacity for 2027 is reportedly sold out, with 2028 not looking much better.

Sonic Pi v5(patreon.com)

420 points by samaaron 2 months ago | 103 comments

Patreon post by Sam Aaron announcing Sonic Pi v5; the capture shows only a Cloudflare security verification page.

Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead(stowaway.live)

417 points by thunderbong 2 months ago | 50 comments

Stowaway is a web app that lets users view the simulated window-seat perspective from any plane or satellite currently overhead.

Assembly Hall of Shame(github.com)

403 points by piotrgrabowski 2 months ago | 99 comments

GitHub repository by xoreaxeaxeax collecting x86 assembly instructions and code patterns that perform pathologically slowly, such as clflush, cpuid, denormals and fdiv.

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website(patronview.com)

401 points by petercooper 2 months ago | 367 comments

A site owner's account of a year spent fighting scraper bots on a 1.5 million-page website; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative(genesisopenmodels.anl.gov)

344 points by moelf 2 months ago | 146 comments

Announcement page for the U.S. DOE Genesis Open Models Initiative and Genesis-Science-1, an open-weight scientific model built with Arcee AI, with a contribution portal.

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD(malisper.me)

302 points by poly2it 2 months ago | 155 comments

U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal(nbcnews.com)

301 points by ceejayoz 2 months ago | 292 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale(databricks.com)

286 points by moonikakiss 2 months ago | 238 comments

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength(twitter.com)

267 points by ilamont 2 months ago | 192 comments

App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours(daringfireball.net)

267 points by _da_ 2 months ago | 156 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it(ancientlibrary.net)

249 points by aagha 2 months ago | 78 comments

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief(theregister.com)

203 points by Bender 2 months ago | 133 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates(blog.cloudflare.com)

202 points by m3h 2 months ago | 57 comments

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language(github.com)

199 points by v0id_isgood 2 months ago | 108 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities(openai.com)

191 points by artninja1988 2 months ago | 185 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes(sdss.org)

181 points by MarcoDewey 2 months ago | 40 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice(sciencealert.com)

177 points by jnord 2 months ago | 110 comments

Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

172 points by BoxOfRain 2 months ago | 55 comments

Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video](youtube.com)

168 points by Bender 2 months ago | 41 comments

USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data(niemanlab.org)

166 points by cdrnsf 2 months ago | 67 comments

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS(textlog.cc)

161 points by stagas 2 months ago | 66 comments

Ultraviolet Bird Photography(uvbirds.com)

154 points by EndXA 2 months ago | 25 comments

Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today(worm.net)

141 points by doener 2 months ago | 45 comments

Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)(lse.ac.uk)

133 points by mooreds 2 months ago | 88 comments

Super Mario Derivations(fzakaria.com)

119 points by domenkozar 2 months ago | 17 comments

Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day(community.frame.work)

113 points by RobinHirst11 2 months ago | 39 comments

AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot(fastcompany.com)

111 points by rwmj 2 months ago | 59 comments

An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/f Noise (2007)(dsprelated.com)

105 points by q7m 2 months ago | 24 comments

Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word(fabscene.medium.com)

101 points by extralongdivisi 2 months ago | 19 comments

The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate(currentaffairs.org)

84 points by Anon84 2 months ago | 44 comments

Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder(chefsbinge.com)

83 points by doublepg23 2 months ago | 27 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords(quuxplusone.github.io)

74 points by ibobev 2 months ago | 10 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)(github.com)

74 points by theanonymousone 2 months ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux(github.com)

73 points by xiaoyu2006 2 months ago | 8 comments

Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler(lordgoati.us)

72 points by amatheus 2 months ago | 28 comments

DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says(politico.com)

68 points by ceejayoz 2 months ago | 36 comments

Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server(github.com)

65 points by Gander5739 2 months ago | 15 comments

U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower(wsj.com)

64 points by JumpCrisscross 2 months ago | 3 comments

"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)(publicdomainreview.org)

64 points by Thevet 2 months ago | 12 comments

Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029(eco3min.fr)

60 points by brandonb 2 months ago | 74 comments

This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again(bloomberg.com)

59 points by mooreds 2 months ago | 27 comments

ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests'(apnews.com)

55 points by geox 2 months ago | 13 comments

The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale(w.on-t.work)

46 points by meetpateltech 2 months ago | 35 comments

I won't read LLM authored fiction(mccormick.cx)

38 points by chr15m 2 months ago | 27 comments

Software is about people, not code (2020)(letterstoanewdeveloper.com)

37 points by venamresm__ 2 months ago | 39 comments

Immersion lithography saved Moore's Law (2023)(asml.com)

35 points by wsgeorge 2 months ago | 0 comments

The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5(theclaudyssey.com)

34 points by spinchange 2 months ago | 39 comments

About Rx Kids(rxkids.org)

32 points by mooreds 2 months ago | 39 comments

The punched card tabulator(ibm.com)

31 points by Bluestein 2 months ago | 12 comments

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money(finance.yahoo.com)

30 points by frays 2 months ago | 34 comments

Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?(economist.com)

29 points by reasonableklout 2 months ago | 38 comments

Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined(freeformatter.com)

29 points by eappleby 2 months ago | 24 comments

Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java(choral-lang.org)

28 points by dplyukhin 2 months ago | 7 comments

How a device finds encrypted DNS by itself(blog.dundns.eu)

27 points by majorchord 2 months ago | 5 comments

Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas(newsweek.com)

26 points by almog 2 months ago | 1 comments