8.3.26 | Karpathy’s Pelican, Qwen3.8-Max coding and coworking, don't be a meat proxy

Hacker News Highlights · Aug 3, 2026 · 14m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 3, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:17) - Karpathy’s Pelican

(01:49) - Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

(03:05) - Don't be a meat proxy

(04:09) - How the words we teach English language learners changed

(05:40) - Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

(07:10) - Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

(08:27) - Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

(09:28) - More German than…