Story ranking for the past week

  1. Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows | 637
  2. Mario Meets Pareto | 169
  3. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers | 1326
  4. France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls | 481
  5. Discovery Loop | 600
  6. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon | 718
  7. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers | 575
  8. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects | 887
  9. As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing | 900
  10. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs | 932
  11. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics | 537
  12. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health | 432
  13. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 474
  14. Taste Is All That's Left | 545
  15. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't | 215
  16. Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents | 392
  17. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work | 331
  18. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM | 587
  19. Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments | 283
  20. The UK's war on anonymity has come to America | 741
  21. Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models | 596
  22. Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open | 205
  23. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours | 280
  24. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs | 267
  25. Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | 354
  26. My server is a phone now | 251
  27. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK | 382
  28. Zed DeltaDB | 314
  29. England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C | 372
  30. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots | 173
  31. 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out | 497
  32. Fastmail offers EU data region | 293
  33. GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability | 415
  34. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking | 278
  35. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux | 528
  36. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website | 435
  37. Compression is prediction | 191
  38. DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones | 130
  39. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava | 102
  40. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage | 524
  41. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing | 211
  42. _for-sale DNS records | 165
  43. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models | 127
  44. Everything you do is being recorded | 371
  45. Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face | 432
  46. Assembly Hall of Shame | 112
  47. How Claude marks AI-generated content | 395
  48. Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead | 61
  49. H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon | 93
  50. Sonic Pi v5 | 103
  51. Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak | 420
  52. Quake – 30th Anniversary Update | 209
  53. The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded | 216
  54. Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's | 588
  55. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's | 281
  56. What Happened to HackerOne? | 199
  57. OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining | 391
  58. Dithered QR Codes | 44
  59. NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year | 82
  60. Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs | 107
  61. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind | 1
  62. Mojo 1.0 | 166
  63. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative | 165
  64. U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal | 357
  65. App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours | 241
  66. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection | 69
  67. We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled | 254
  68. Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification | 511
  69. Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs | 245
  70. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD | 176
  71. Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering | 395
  72. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 | 265
  73. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search | 194
  74. Nvidia's Risky Business | 161
  75. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery | 270
  76. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo | 480
  77. US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide | 527
  78. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users | 281
  79. Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale | 268
  80. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) | 1142
  81. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls | 137
  82. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun | 63
  83. Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard | 242
  84. Position: LLMs Can't Jump | 213
  85. Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet | 9
  86. Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength | 221
  87. Chicken Scheme 6.0 | 53
  88. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | 270
  89. London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces | 303
  90. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) | 69
  91. Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp | 43
  92. Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code | 310
  93. Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states | 115
  94. Squeak 6.1 | 143
  95. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects | 53
  96. Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open | 189
  97. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone | 103
  98. Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities | 172
  99. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In | 110
  100. Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country | 169