top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-08-10

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model

2 months ago

2 changes
1205 upvotes – 639 comments

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

https://thewalrus.ca/google-search-is-dying/

2 months ago

1 change
937 upvotes – 986 comments

Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents

https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/

2 months ago

693 upvotes – 396 comments

The UK's war on anonymity has come to America

https://www.effort.news/uk-lobby

2 months ago

1 change
670 upvotes – 761 comments

Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878

2 months ago

1 change
641 upvotes – 600 comments

Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

https://bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack

2 months ago

1 change
632 upvotes – 208 comments

Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

https://cactuscompute.com/needle

2 months ago

532 upvotes – 183 comments

How Claude marks AI-generated content

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content

2 months ago

451 upvotes – 425 comments

Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1kjy7gewo

2 months ago

407 upvotes – 605 comments

What Happened to HackerOne?

https://blog.teknogeek.io/posts/what-happened-to-hackerone/

2 months ago

388 upvotes – 201 comments

Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification

https://linuxstans.com/illinois-hb5511-operating-system-age-verification/

2 months ago

1 change
344 upvotes – 545 comments

Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

https://everycube.alen.is/

2 months ago

294 upvotes – 123 comments

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code

https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code

2 months ago

291 upvotes – 313 comments

Squeak 6.1

https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/

2 months ago

2 changes
290 upvotes – 147 comments

Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities

https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta

2 months ago

280 upvotes – 177 comments

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work

https://duckdb.org/2026/07/31/asynchronous-io

2 months ago

280 upvotes – 31 comments

What's the best programming language for coding agents?

http://danluu.com/pl-tokens/

2 months ago

1 change
261 upvotes – 188 comments

Don't classify, hallucinate

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2026/08/10/hypothetical-classifications

2 months ago

1 change
245 upvotes – 107 comments

Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us

https://www.massaschadeconsument.nl/collectieve-acties/playstation/

2 months ago

244 upvotes – 139 comments

Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum

https://baselashraf81.github.io/eigendrum/

2 months ago

1 change
240 upvotes – 102 comments

Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Parametron,_1954

2 months ago

240 upvotes – 59 comments

Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

https://patentsgazette.uspto.gov/week26/OG/html/1547-5/US12670045-20260630.html

2 months ago

1 change
233 upvotes – 198 comments

Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Humanising-LLM-Outputs-is-Actually-Dumb

2 months ago

229 upvotes – 176 comments

Rust SIMD on the GPU

https://www.vectorware.com/blog/simd-on-gpu/

2 months ago

222 upvotes – 115 comments

Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice

https://www.whodunnitai.com/

2 months ago

214 upvotes – 89 comments

50k Boat Names

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/boat-names/

2 months ago

194 upvotes – 111 comments

Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro

https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/Klepton

2 months ago

★ 163 C
192 upvotes – 63 comments

Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/amazon-funds-biggest-gas-power-plant-in-us-despite-climate-pledge/

2 months ago

191 upvotes – 149 comments

Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

2 months ago

★ 311 C MIT
191 upvotes – 80 comments

Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tjl2/executive

2 months ago

187 upvotes – 72 comments

'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/pervert-glasses-backlash-against-metas-smart-glasses-grows/

2 months ago

185 upvotes – 276 comments

Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

https://arachnoid.com/lutusp/sailbook.html

2 months ago

172 upvotes – 65 comments

Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline

https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante

2 months ago

★ 1.7k Rust Apache-2.0
169 upvotes – 90 comments

Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1034703/

2 months ago

1 change
169 upvotes – 160 comments

A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/3.html

2 months ago

164 upvotes – 37 comments

Antiqua–Fraktur dispute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute

2 months ago

1 change
159 upvotes – 76 comments

Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines

https://blog.sshh.io/p/exploring-claudegpt-knowledge-cutoffs

2 months ago

156 upvotes – 24 comments

Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints

https://www.wcax.com/2026/08/07/kinney-drugs-pulls-back-ai-phone-assistant-after-hundreds-customer-complaints/

2 months ago

153 upvotes – 173 comments

World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world

https://worldtrainmap.com/

2 months ago

153 upvotes – 60 comments

How We Pushed CDC into Postgres

https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgres-to-snowflake-replication-mirroring/

2 months ago

152 upvotes – 31 comments

Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgx4yd1gl2o

2 months ago

151 upvotes – 56 comments

GPT 5.6 Cyber

https://openai.com/index/expanding-daybreak-as-the-cyber-defense-window-narrows/

2 months ago

132 upvotes – 71 comments

Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree

https://finance.yahoo.com/healthcare/articles/harvard-study-links-glp-1-123000637.html

2 months ago

1 change
131 upvotes – 196 comments

Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

https://openai.com/index/responsible-ai-infrastructure-texas/

2 months ago

1 change
124 upvotes – 242 comments

Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent

https://www.dpreview.com/news/panasonic-did-what-apple-sony-and-nikon-couldnt-overturn-a-red-raw-video-patent/

2 months ago

122 upvotes – 26 comments

The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29380

2 months ago

114 upvotes – 78 comments

Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook

https://thetokyohermit.substack.com/p/itadakimasu-a-word-you-say-to-the

2 months ago

1 change
114 upvotes – 78 comments

The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich (2021)

https://jdh.hamkins.org/the-lattice-of-sets-of-natural-numbers-is-rich/

2 months ago

1 change
111 upvotes – 28 comments

Defending my own brain against enshittification

https://mrmarket.lol/how-i-feel-calmin-control-of-my-life-in-the-time-of-enshittification/

2 months ago

111 upvotes – 94 comments

Felix and I

https://jacobfilipp.com/felix/

2 months ago

107 upvotes – 40 comments

Force-Fed by ICE

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/ice-force-feeding-detention-gabar-choli

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 28 comments

A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2026/08/10/a-mysterious-buying-spree-is-unsettling-europes-booksellers/

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 67 comments

Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail

https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/08/because-it-s-not-fun-enough

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 138 comments

Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years

https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN9.0000000000000152

2 months ago

84 upvotes – 82 comments

Möbius strips and differential equations

https://hidden-phenomena.com/articles/monodromy

2 months ago

1 change
84 upvotes – 23 comments

Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

https://foldingglobes.com/

2 months ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

We're not done with point clouds

https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/mvt/

2 months ago

81 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: A tiny LLM running at 21,000 tok/s on a $250 FPGA (Live Demo)

https://www.mikeayles.com/blog/on-chip-llm-kv260/

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 32 comments

Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

https://www.stoaexchange.com

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

Toxic underground fires spreading at California landfills

https://www.newstribune.com/news/2026/aug/07/toxic-underground-fires-spreading-at-california/

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 29 comments

Ocean heat records broken as hottest July temperature recorded

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvw8vmmgrwo

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 44 comments

We Got Better at Keeping You Alive. Not at Keeping You Healthy

https://julienreszka.com/blog/we-got-better-at-keeping-you-alive-not-at-keeping-healthy/

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 22 comments

The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI

https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/08/06/the-philippines-big-offshoring-industry-is-growing-despite-ai

2 months ago

75 upvotes – 88 comments

The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/library-ashurbanipal

2 months ago

1 change
73 upvotes – 16 comments

Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11

https://pim.murata.com/asset/pim4/siliconCapacitor/SICAP_X2SC422522_PDF_SILICONCAPACITOR

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 34 comments

an ambiguity in C89 which will never be fixed

https://sebsite.pw/w/20260810-c89ambiguity.html

2 months ago

1 change
72 upvotes – 46 comments

There is no “done”: Reflections on a completed Appalachian Trail thru-hike (2022)

https://thetrek.co/appalachian-trail/there-is-no-done-reflections-on-a-completed-at-thru-hike/

2 months ago

3 changes
68 upvotes – 15 comments

Why do we assume everyone should be working?

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/08/10/why-do-we-assume-everyone-should-be-working/

2 months ago

67 upvotes – 127 comments

DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years

https://twitter.com/thdxr/status/2086599224674681242

2 months ago

67 upvotes – 62 comments

Long-Run Effects of H-1B Immigration on the U.S. Economy (July 2026)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35560

2 months ago

64 upvotes – 26 comments

I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)

https://www.michelebologna.net/2026/ssh-port-22-fwknop-single-packet-authorization/

2 months ago

63 upvotes – 103 comments
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