top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-13

Gemini 3.7 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/

2 months ago

2 changes

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

https://deepseek.com/harness/en/

2 months ago

★ 32.9k TypeScript MIT3 changes

Spaghettifying DRAM

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts

2 months ago

★ 1.8k C MIT

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai

2 months ago

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

https://community.openai.com/t/codex-in-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-is-now-in-preview/1390027

2 months ago

2 changes

Gloomberb

https://gloom.sh/

2 months ago

Understanding is the new bottleneck

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck

2 months ago

1 change

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

2 months ago

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

https://tradersunion.com/news/central-banks/show/2973571-deutsche-bank-becomes/

2 months ago

Ordinary Abundance

https://ordinaryabundance.com/

2 months ago

2 changes

Mistral OCR 4.1

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1

2 months ago

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/nine-pbs-sues-iron-mountain-over-blocked-access-to-archival-data/

2 months ago

4 changes

Hello, me. It's been a while

https://themech.net/2026/08/hello-me-its-been-a-while/

2 months ago

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

https://donkeybas.com/

2 months ago

Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/40262

2 months ago

★ 16.6k C GPL-2.0

NP-overrated

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-13/

2 months ago

1 change

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/

2 months ago

1 change

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

https://support.google.com/photos/thread/256212140/how-do-i-permanently-disable-google-photos-pop-up-prompt-to-backup-my-photos-i?hl=en

2 months ago

1 change

Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

https://0.mk/blog/link-rot

2 months ago

A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D)

https://kolja.rs/algorithm-d/

2 months ago