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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