Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 2, 2026.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:19) - How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
  • (01:31) - Seedance 2.5
  • (02:52) - Diátaxis
  • (03:49) - AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
  • (05:05) - NetBSD 11.0
  • (05:57) - Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
  • (07:16) - Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
  • (08:39) - Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga
  • (09:49) - Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built
  • (10:57) - Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
  • (12:11) - Outro

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136821

Seedance 2.5
https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138302

Diátaxis
https://diataxis.fr/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138188

AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-financial-advice-surprisingly-good-especially-if-you-ask-right-questions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139102

NetBSD 11.0
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136736

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140218

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137060

Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga
https://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135426

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built
https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140396

Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
https://www.wafer.ai/blog/kimi-k3-mi355x
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141073

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Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.