top 50% 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

https://www.netlify.com/blog/one-prompt-11-models-very-different-results/

2 months ago

How Compaction Works in Pi

https://earendil.com/posts/compaction-in-pi/

2 months ago

Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

https://oxide.computer/blog/kubernetes-on-oxide

2 months ago

1 change

Blog about things you don't understand yet

https://www.seangoedecke.com/blog-about-things-you-dont-understand-yet/

2 months ago

AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/12/ai-agents-lie-cheat-and-steal-that-is-putting-off-users

2 months ago

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware

https://hwbusters.com/news/comma-ai-egpu-dock-runs-open-source-firmware-249-bare-799-with-an-rx-9060/

2 months ago

Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft

https://www.heartaerospace.com/newsroom/heart-aerospace-completes-first-flight-of-world-s-largest-electric-aircraft

2 months ago

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Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-ai-watermarks/

2 months ago

How AI text watermarking works

https://declaude.org/watermarking/

2 months ago

I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10

https://alexmorleyfinch.github.io/marlin/history/v1/article/the_birth.html

2 months ago

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SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

https://pikuma.com/blog/programming-intel-pentium-mmx-simd

2 months ago

DeepSeek API Pricing Update

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260813/

2 months ago

3 changes

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

https://jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o-scraps/index.html

2 months ago

1 change

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/how-organizations-use-chatgpt.pdf

2 months ago

Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737

https://www.wired.com/story/this-coin-sized-device-can-hack-a-boeing-737/

2 months ago

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Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga

https://nnamgreb.de/blog/Clamiga+-+Common+Lisp+for+the+Amiga

2 months ago

Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

https://www.codewithbullet.com

2 months ago

1 change

How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-proof-works-20200714/

2 months ago

1 change

Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy

2 months ago

★ 3.5k Rust MIT

2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/07/colossal-2500-year-old-sculpture-discovered-turkey-unesco-site

2 months ago

Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model?

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12326764-can-i-use-my-outputs-to-train-an-ai-model

2 months ago

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Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet

https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-trebuchet

2 months ago

Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-rapid-atlantic-circulation-2c-slower.html

2 months ago

Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal>

https://www.solidjs.com/blog/solid-2-0-rc-the-big-reveal

2 months ago

The Conceptual Reasoning Index

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/conceptual-reasoning-index/

2 months ago

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The oldest bar in every state

https://www.businessinsider.com/oldest-bar-every-state

2 months ago

1 change

I want extern "fil-C"

https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/13/i-want-extern-fil-c/

2 months ago

Show HN: MCP-stama – An ultra-fast Rust MCP server with no dependencies

https://github.com/StamManif/mcp-stama

2 months ago

★ 10 Rust Apache-2.0

AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions

https://unric.org/en/ais-environmental-costs-threaten-water-land-and-climate/

2 months ago

GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

https://goaccess.io/

2 months ago

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Gakutensoku

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gakutensoku

2 months ago

Graduate student proves a quantum uncertainty principle for fractals

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-proves-the-fractal-uncertainty-principle-20260812/

2 months ago

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Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5

https://github.com/fellowgeek/mcp-memory

2 months ago

★ 190 Python MIT

We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images

https://www.echo.ai/blog/echo-xnanoclaw-under-the-hood

2 months ago

How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy

https://func25.dev/posts/go-sync-nocopy/

2 months ago

JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

https://tschatzl.github.io/2026/08/10/jdk27-g1-serial-parallel-gc-changes.html

2 months ago

My Rules for Using Spreadsheets

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/my-rules-for-using-spreadsheets/

2 months ago

Tocharian Online

https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/tokol/0

2 months ago

The 37signals Manager Playbook

https://basecamp.com/managers

2 months ago

Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/some-claude-users-are-mad-that-anthropics-new-watermarks-will-catch-them-cheating-at-their-jobs-classes/

2 months ago

US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001

https://www.ft.com/content/9c9c948f-dc8b-4385-a9b9-4b98dc1eadd9

2 months ago

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Flock (Again) Activates a Camera System a Town Had Voted to Shut Down

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/13/flock-again-activates-a-camera-system-a-town-had-voted-to-shut-down/

2 months ago

CUDA Shared Memory Swizzling

https://leimao.github.io/blog/CUDA-Shared-Memory-Swizzling/

2 months ago

California Uber, Lyft drivers win union recognition

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/california-uber-lyft-drivers-win-union-recognition/

2 months ago

Record heat is drying up Europe's major rivers, as these striking images show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2026/08/12/see-receding-water-levels-europes-major-rivers/

2 months ago

Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side with Them

https://www.404media.co/person-hides-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing-telling-ai-to-side-with-them/

2 months ago

The Strongest El Niño Ever Forecast and the Hunger It Will Leave Behind

https://www.4hunger.org/p/scorched-harvest-the-strongest-el

2 months ago

Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10863

2 months ago