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HACKER NEWS

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) | comment
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study | comment
Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis | comment
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots | comment
Sun Clock | comment
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast | comment
Qwen 3.8 27B | comment
GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities | comment
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | comment
Gemini 3.7 Flash | comment
Qwen3.8-2.4T | comment
Incident with Github.com | comment
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast | comment
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin | comment
AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain | comment
Grok 4.6 | comment
Delta | comment
Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content | comment
A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" | comment
Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk | comment
Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? | comment
ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux | comment
Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | comment
Seven books I keep close because I love them | comment
The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist | comment
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers | comment
2026 Eclipse Webcams | comment
Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption | comment
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose | comment
Choose Boring Technology (2015) | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | comment
Qwen 3.8 27B | comment
GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities | comment
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | comment
France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls | comment
US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects | comment
Gemini 3.7 Flash | 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
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
Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election | comment
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | comment
How I use LLMs to learn complex topics | comment
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast | comment
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin | comment
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't | comment
AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain | 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
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK | comment
A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" | 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
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