It's 2026-08-10. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's | comment
Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification | comment
The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America | comment
Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots | 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
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | 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
Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model | comment
Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | comment
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | comment
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | comment
How I use LLMs to learn complex topics | comment
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't | comment
Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents | comment
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK | comment
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon | comment
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM | comment
A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava | comment
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability | comment
Fastmail offers EU data region | comment
What Happened to HackerOne? | comment
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation | comment
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year | comment
Zed DeltaDB | comment
Mario Meets Pareto | 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
How I use LLMs to learn complex topics | comment
Substack writers, you need a website | comment
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