Hacker News Weekly

Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-08-22

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• Claude: System Prompts
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• Being ambitious and being a dad
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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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• Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
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• AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
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• Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
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• The Amazon tax
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• I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
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• OpenLogi
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• A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
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• HTML Can Do That
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• OpenRouter is joining Stripe
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• Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
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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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• Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
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• Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
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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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Weekly Hacker News for the 7 days ending 2026-08-15

The 20 highest-rated articles on Hacker News in the 7 days ending August 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Weekly are:

• “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
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• How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
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• Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
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• As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
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• France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
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• Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
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• uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
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• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
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• Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
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• Qwen3.8-2.4T
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• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
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• DeepSeek Harness developer preview
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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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• 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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• Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
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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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