top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-14

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports-ublock-origin.html

2 months ago

Qwen 3.8 27B

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8

2 months ago

1 change

GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3

2 months ago

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Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

https://mun-logadan.github.io/why-does-opus-5-feel-worse/

2 months ago

Every Fucking Website (2020)

https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/

2 months ago

1 change

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/

2 months ago

1 change

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce97mm3vvemo

2 months ago

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/

2 months ago

1 change

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV

2 months ago

Seven books I keep close because I love them

https://blog.plover.com/2026/08/02/

2 months ago

AI by Hand

https://www.byhand.ai/

2 months ago

In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/australia-home-batteries

2 months ago

1 change

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/

2 months ago

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions

2 months ago

Qwen3.8-27B

https://twitter.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2088280182356611304

2 months ago

US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters

2 months ago

France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s

https://www.reuters.com/world/frances-top-court-rules-social-media-ban-curtails-freedom-expression-2026-08-14/

2 months ago

1 change

DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update

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

2 months ago

I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

https://heyjonny.dev/posts/rss-to-eink-newspaper/

2 months ago

Introducing Toast 1

https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1

2 months ago