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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
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• Stop Making TUIs
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• I'm becoming AI-blind
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• I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
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• Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
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• Kobo can run apps now
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• Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
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• There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
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• Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
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• Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
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• Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
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• The August 17 outage
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• AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
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• AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
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• DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
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• Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
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• Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
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• Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
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• Felony Bench
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
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• Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming
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• HTML Can Do That
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• Casio F-B100W-1A
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• Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
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• Go 1.27
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• Don't paste the AI, please
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• AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
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• Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
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• Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Being ambitious and being a dad
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• Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
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• Beware Management Consultants
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• Cerebras CS-4
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• OpenLogi
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• A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
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• Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027
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• Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
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• Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees
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• OpenRouter is joining Stripe
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Olo (Color)
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• Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
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• Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
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• Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
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• GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
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• Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
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• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
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• Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
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• Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
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• The Amazon tax
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The AI Credit Resale Economy
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• Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
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• Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
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• Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
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• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
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• Incident with Github.com
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• Incident with Github.com
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• A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
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• Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
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• AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Asus Bike Booster
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• RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
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• Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding
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• At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
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• Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
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• Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
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• Research papers using \"kidney disappointment\" instead of \"kidney failure\"
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• Claude: System Prompts
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• Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
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• A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to \"RISC-V They Should Have Known Better\"
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Seven books I keep close because I love them
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• Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
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• AI by Hand
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• RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
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• Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
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• Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
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• The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
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• Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
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• Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
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• AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
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• Ordinary Abundance
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• Mistral OCR 4.1
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• Choose Boring Technology (2015)
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• Understanding is the new bottleneck
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• GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
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• Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
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• Every Fucking Website (2020)
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• Qwen 3.8 27B
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• Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
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• Grok 4.6
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• Delta
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• Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview
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• Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
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• DeepSeek Harness developer preview
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• Gloomberb
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• Spaghettifying DRAM
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• Gemini 3.7 Flash
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• Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
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• Compression is prediction
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• LinkedIn CringeBot 3000
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• Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta
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• 2026 Eclipse Webcams
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• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
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• Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug
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• License plate reader searches should require a warrant
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• Qwen3.8-2.4T
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• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead
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• Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
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• How Claude marks AI-generated content
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• As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
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• The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
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• Chicken Scheme 6.0
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• H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon
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• France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
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• England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
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• Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-10

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Sonic Pi v5
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• Everything you do is being recorded
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• Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
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• Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
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• What Happened to HackerOne?
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• Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
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• Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
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• Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open
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• Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
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• Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding
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• Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
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• _for-sale DNS records
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• Fastmail offers EU data region
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• We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled
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• My server is a phone now
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• Dithered QR Codes
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• Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
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• Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
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• How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
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• 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
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• Assembly Hall of Shame
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• U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
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• The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
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• NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
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• Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
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• DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
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• “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
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• Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
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• GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
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• Taste Is All That's Left
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• AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
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• New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
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• US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
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• What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
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• A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
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• Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
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• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
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• Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
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• Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
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• Zed DeltaDB
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• Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
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• I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
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• The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
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• Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
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• Mario Meets Pareto
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• Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest
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• Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
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• Waymo in Dallas
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• Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
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• libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
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• Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
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• Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
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• Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
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• Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind
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• Discovery Loop
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• More German than many Germans
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• Twenty Years of Pandoc
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• There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
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• FFmpeg 9.0
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• DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
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• Ray Bradbury's \"There Will Come Soft Rains\" is set today (2026-08-04)
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• AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
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• Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
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• Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
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• In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF
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• Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
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• Don't be a meat proxy
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• Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
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• Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
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• SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
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• Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
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• Devtools must be open source
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• Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
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• LLMs reward expertise
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• RamenHaus
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• The Art of 64-bit Assembly
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• NetBSD 11.0
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• Diátaxis
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• Seedance 2.5
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• AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
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• Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
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• Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built
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• Karpathy’s Pelican
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• Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights
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• Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s
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• Big Food vs. the People
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• How to Exist
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• Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
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• Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
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• RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
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• A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention
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• Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export
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• How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-07-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on July 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
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• We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447
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• The session you cannot take with you
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• DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
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• Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
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• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
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• The End of an Era
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• Elevators
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• qm
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• Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
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