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HACKER NEWS

Dolly Parton has died | comment
Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices | comment
My Friend Aaron | comment
OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell | comment
Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms | comment
FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels | comment
How much of HN is AI? | comment
Starbase, LA | comment
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence | comment
Don't paste the AI, please | comment
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded | comment
I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day | comment
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID | comment
Felony Bench | comment
Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance | comment
Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future | comment
Kobo can run apps now | comment
Oceans hit highest temperature on record | comment
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint | comment
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late | comment
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs | comment
The entire city of San Francisco as a video game | comment
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute | comment
I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch | comment
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down | comment
The August 17 outage, and the work ahead | comment
Scrap (2006) | comment
ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs | comment
To become a better writer, read as much as you can | comment
Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

OpenLogi | comment
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence | comment
Qwen 3.8 27B | comment
Don't paste the AI, please | comment
GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities | comment
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | comment
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded | comment
OpenRouter is joining Stripe | comment
Gemini 3.7 Flash | comment
I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day | comment
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) | comment
I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers | comment
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID | comment
Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar | comment
Felony Bench | comment
Qwen3.8-2.4T | comment
Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees | comment
Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance | comment
Go 1.27 | comment
Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future | comment
Beware Management Consultants | comment
Kobo can run apps now | 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
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late | comment
Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013) | comment
Grok 4.6 | comment
Oceans hit highest temperature on record | comment
Delta | comment
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