It's 2026-08-14. What's happening?

HACKER NEWS

Qwen 3.8 27B | comment
Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election | comment
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin | comment
Seven books I keep close because I love them | comment
Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption | comment
US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters | comment
RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland | comment
AI by Hand | comment
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking | comment
France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s | comment
Introducing Toast 1 | comment
GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities | comment
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | comment
France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls | comment
Gemini 3.7 Flash | comment
Discovery Loop | comment
“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers | comment
Qwen3.8-2.4T | 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
LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 | comment
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast | comment
Grok 4.6 | comment
Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents | comment
Delta | comment
Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content | 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
H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple 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
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | comment
France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls | 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
Gemini 3.7 Flash | 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
7.1 Earthquake in Japan | comment
Superlogical | comment
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments | comment
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog | comment
Qwen3.8-2.4T | comment
Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model | 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
LLMs reward expertise | comment
LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 | comment
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science | comment
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | comment
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast | comment
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