It's 2026-08-09. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics | comment
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM | comment
Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard | comment
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery | comment
Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | comment
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) | comment
Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone | comment
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country | comment
Web Security is Too Hard | comment
Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video] | comment
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) | comment
Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks | comment
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's | comment
Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) | comment
Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud | comment
The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) | comment
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 | comment
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones | comment
Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 | comment
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) | comment
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls | 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
Discovery Loop | comment
“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers | comment
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments | comment
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | 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
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac | comment
US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects | comment
The session you cannot take with you | comment
Discovery Loop | comment
“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers | 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
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments | 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
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
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
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