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

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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 many Germans
• (10:35) - Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
• (12:38) - SwiftUI After 7 Years
• (13:56) - Outro

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150470

Don't be a meat proxy
https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151933

How the words we teach English language learners changed
https://pudding.cool/2026/07/essential-words/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145590

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
https://github.com/wie-project/kakehashi
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145937

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/29/developers-are-attached-to-tools-because-tools-encode-trust/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097961

Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF
https://sf.isopolis.city/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149966

More German than many Germans
https://mertbulan.com/more-german-than-many-germans/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151734

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
https://unattributed.cc/note-taking-and-personal-knowledge-management
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084324

SwiftUI After 7 Years
https://ykvm.com/2026/07/swiftui-a-story-of-mediocrity/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147263