It's 2026-08-05. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Discovery Loop | comment
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | comment
Zed DeltaDB | comment
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search | comment
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery | comment
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | comment
I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux | comment
Web Security is Too Hard | comment
Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7 | comment
Diátaxis | comment
How the words we teach English language learners changed | comment
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) | comment
200 Milliseconds | comment
The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You | comment
'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout | comment
Don't be a meat proxy | comment
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | comment
Elevators | comment
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork | comment
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions | comment
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac | comment
The session you cannot take with you | comment
7.1 Earthquake in Japan | comment
Superlogical | comment
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog | comment
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 | comment
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots | comment
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update | comment
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub | comment
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Claude Opus 5 | comment
Don't be a meat proxy | comment
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | comment
Elevators | comment
Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork | comment
Kill The Cookie Banner | comment
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions | comment
Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI | comment
Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27 | comment
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac | comment
Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample | comment
The session you cannot take with you | comment
Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick | comment
7.1 Earthquake in Japan | comment
Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB | comment
Superlogical | comment
Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification | comment
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog | comment
Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 | comment
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots | comment
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update | comment
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub | comment
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones | comment
qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work | comment
Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion | comment
Our position on open-weights models | comment
Flux 3 | comment
LLMs reward expertise | comment
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | comment
Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story | comment
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