top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-05

Discovery Loop

https://www.discoveryloop.com/

2 months 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/

2 months ago

4 changes
864 upvotes – 933 comments

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

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

2 months ago

663 upvotes – 331 comments

Zed DeltaDB

https://zed.dev/deltadb

2 months 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/

2 months ago

499 upvotes – 278 comments

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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

2 months 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/

2 months ago

2 changes
443 upvotes – 105 comments

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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

2 months 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

2 months 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

2 months ago

435 upvotes – 127 comments

Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai

2 months ago

1 change
371 upvotes – 1 comments

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2

2 months ago

333 upvotes – 266 comments

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

https://www.404media.co/cops-used-flock-to-track-a-man-across-state-lines-to-create-pretext-to-search-his-car-for-weed/

2 months ago

330 upvotes – 194 comments

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/

2 months ago

325 upvotes – 270 comments

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data

2 months ago

304 upvotes – 137 comments

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-solar-process/

2 months ago

5 changes
303 upvotes – 65 comments

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt

2 months ago

302 upvotes – 213 comments

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html

2 months ago

299 upvotes – 9 comments

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

https://github.com/denoland/celld

2 months ago

★ 3.1k Rust Apache-2.0
282 upvotes – 53 comments

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-different-website/

2 months ago

267 upvotes – 110 comments
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