Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-08-08

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
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• Don't be a meat proxy
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• SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
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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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• 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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• In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
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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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• Discovery Loop
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• Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
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• Mario Meets Pareto
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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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• DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-08-01

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Stolen Buttons
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• Kill The Cookie Banner
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• US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
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• PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
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• Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
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• AI companies are shredding rare books
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• Our position on open-weights models
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• 7.1 Earthquake in Japan
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• New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
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• KOReader
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• Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
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• Superlogical
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• The coolest use for the Vision Pro
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• Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
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• Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
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• UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
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• The session you cannot take with you
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• DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
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• Elevators
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• qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-07-25

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Transcribe.cpp
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• Qwen 3.8
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• Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
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• Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
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• Airport Simulator
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• Who's afraid of Chinese models?
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• Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
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• China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
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• Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
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• Advertise in ChatGPT
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• OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
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• Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
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• Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
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• Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
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• John C. Dvorak has died
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• Writing by hand is good for your brain
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• Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
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• If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
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• Claude Opus 5
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• Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-07-18

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
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• Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
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• Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
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• The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
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• Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
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• Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
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• How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
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• Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
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• Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
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• Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
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• Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
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• The lost joy of music piracy
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• Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them
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• Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
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• Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
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• Decoy Font
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• AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
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• Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
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• Regressive JPEGs
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• LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-07-11

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending July 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
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• Organic Maps
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• OpenPrinter
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• Resetting Xbox
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• OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
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• CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
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• StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time
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• Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
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• Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
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• Chatto is now open source
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• GPT‑Live
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• Grok 4.5
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• John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement
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• Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
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• Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
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• EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
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• Show HN: 18 Words
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• GPT-5.6
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• QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
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• Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
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