news, !paper 2026-08-02

854 Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork / qwen.ai / 431

591 Karpathy’s Pelican / twitter.com/karpathy / 406

405 Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench / github.com/humanlayer / 119

341 Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm / en.wikipedia.org / 324

340 A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review / fermisense.com / 127

290 Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF / sf.isopolis.city / 65

250 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout / ft.com / 129

238 Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM / github.com/wie-project / 61

236 SwiftUI After 7 Years / ykvm.com / 243

236 Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust / stackoverflow.blog / 129

232 How the words we teach English language learners changed / pudding.cool / 175

212 EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation / linuxiac.com / 159

212 Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300 / wafer.ai / 103

208 Vehicle Motion Cues / support.apple.com / 112

198 Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side / meshdiff.com / 21

196 US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market / ft.com / 183

188 Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences / abc.net.au / 136

180 F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language / fstar-lang.org / 93

180 Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops / getbor.dev / 26

178 Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America / old.reddit.com / 92

178 Folding Paper Globes / foldingglobes.com / 35

162 Twenty Years of RISC OS Open / riscosopen.org / 37

161 Show HN: ssh ssh.place / ssh.place / 87

157 I don't recommend Tailwind CSS / en.andros.dev / 158

157 Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours / github.com/pg83 / 135

147 My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw” / frogs.vaguespac.es / 81

146 A Rant About “Technology” (2005) / ursulakleguin.com / 84

140 Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1 / nbcsandiego.com / 88

139 Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2 / 16-bits.org / 56

136 Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge / publicdomainreview.org / 33

134 AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest / ohiostatefair.com / 175

132 Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API / telnyx.com / 88

132 Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap / andreagrandi.it / 85

124 DConf 2026 in London / dconf.org / 68

119 Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark / github.com/graham33 / 39

117 Read the novels and forget everything else / hedgehogreview.com / 101

116 The myth of Snow Leopard / rubenerd.au / 92

114 Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N / blog.juni-mp4.com / 25

113 Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language / fuselang.org / 40

107 Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T / runtimewire.com / 33

105 Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective / blog.rust-lang.org / 56

104 MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 / oldvcr.blogspot.com / 19

102 Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America / linuxiac.com / 75

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