top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-08-05

Discovery Loop

https://www.discoveryloop.com/

1 week ago

953 upvotes – 602 comments

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/

1 week ago

4 changes
864 upvotes – 933 comments

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/

1 week ago

663 upvotes – 331 comments

Zed DeltaDB

https://zed.dev/deltadb

1 week ago

528 upvotes – 314 comments

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/

1 week ago

499 upvotes – 278 comments

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/

1 week ago

481 upvotes – 528 comments

A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/

1 week ago

2 changes
443 upvotes – 105 comments

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/

1 week ago

1 change
442 upvotes – 213 comments

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html

1 week ago

442 upvotes – 524 comments

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency

1 week ago

435 upvotes – 127 comments
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