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HACKER NEWS

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers | comment
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments | comment
Fastmail offers EU data region | comment
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs | comment
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | comment
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code | 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
US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects | comment
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac | comment
Discovery Loop | comment
7.1 Earthquake in Japan | comment
Superlogical | comment
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots | comment
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | comment
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update | comment
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 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
LLMs reward expertise | comment
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | comment
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | comment
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't | comment
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) | comment
Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability | comment
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK | comment
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

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
US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects | 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
Discovery Loop | comment
Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick | comment
7.1 Earthquake in Japan | 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
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | comment
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update | comment
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub | comment
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 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
LLMs reward expertise | comment
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | comment
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | comment
Substack writers, you need a website | comment
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't | comment
Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability | comment
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) | comment
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