top 50% 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

1761 upvotes – 715 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B

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

2 months ago

1 change
1437 upvotes – 792 comments

GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

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

2 months ago

1 change
1171 upvotes – 584 comments

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

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

2 months ago

992 upvotes – 870 comments

Every Fucking Website (2020)

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

2 months ago

1 change
871 upvotes – 497 comments

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
498 upvotes – 290 comments

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

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

2 months ago

473 upvotes – 388 comments

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
460 upvotes – 249 comments

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

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

2 months ago

394 upvotes – 452 comments

Seven books I keep close because I love them

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

2 months ago

384 upvotes – 188 comments

AI by Hand

https://www.byhand.ai/

2 months ago

367 upvotes – 31 comments

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
361 upvotes – 320 comments

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

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

2 months ago

345 upvotes – 162 comments

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

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

2 months ago

319 upvotes – 184 comments

Qwen3.8-27B

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

2 months ago

299 upvotes – 3 comments

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

284 upvotes – 101 comments

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
239 upvotes – 181 comments

DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update

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

2 months ago

238 upvotes – 3 comments

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

227 upvotes – 103 comments

Introducing Toast 1

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

2 months ago

219 upvotes – 66 comments

eigendrum

https://eigendrum.com/#p=circle

2 months ago

216 upvotes – 1 comments

Dear people who work at the airport

https://life-after-ssri.bearblog.dev/dear-people-who-work-at-the-airport/

2 months ago

215 upvotes – 262 comments

Bluesky Protocol Services

https://atproto.com/blog/introducing-bluesky-protocol-services

2 months ago

213 upvotes – 72 comments

Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things

https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/activation-energy-is-a-good-model

2 months ago

183 upvotes – 56 comments

The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-temu-fication-of-software-digital-goods-services/

2 months ago

177 upvotes – 134 comments

When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs

https://weightythoughts.com/p/when-genius-failsthe-intellectual

2 months ago

176 upvotes – 202 comments

RISC-V: They should have known better

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

2 months ago

1 change
175 upvotes – 1 comments

SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles

https://sparrowmap.com/

2 months ago

168 upvotes – 39 comments

Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

2 months ago

157 upvotes – 129 comments

Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant

https://getsmall.xyz/post/cmstjfl9l000if70ljmpzr4va

2 months ago

1 change
148 upvotes – 109 comments

Racket v9.3

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/racket-v9-3.html

2 months ago

143 upvotes – 20 comments

Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness

https://www.ft.com/content/47dd5308-dd17-404a-a615-61046defd697

2 months ago

135 upvotes – 117 comments

Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-forged-meteorites-fashionable-ancient-greek.html

2 months ago

134 upvotes – 55 comments

Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile

https://ntfy.sh/

2 months ago

127 upvotes – 51 comments

Every fucking website: 2026 edition

https://op.tngl.io/every-fucking-website/

2 months ago

121 upvotes – 33 comments

CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/business/vishal-garg-better-ceo

2 months ago

114 upvotes – 98 comments

WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do

https://www.whatcable.uk/

2 months ago

110 upvotes – 79 comments

'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier

https://www.theverge.com/policy/979852/that-is-not-acceptable-judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier

2 months ago

110 upvotes – 55 comments

Cursor is now a part of SpaceX

https://cursor.com/blog/joining-spacex

2 months ago

1 change
107 upvotes – 129 comments

Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no

2 months ago

1 change
106 upvotes – 126 comments

Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

https://luacad.ad-si.com

2 months ago

1 change
106 upvotes – 25 comments

Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

https://github.com/lajosdeme/mole

2 months ago

★ 286 Go Apache-2.0
100 upvotes – 14 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/winning-and-losing-at-the-great-game-of-intimacy/

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/weve-flown-a-radiation-blocking-vest-to-the-moon-and-back-and-it-worked/

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 55 comments

The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/running-empty/

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 68 comments

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/zkp/

2 months ago

89 upvotes – 37 comments

Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun

https://www.frandroid.com/marques/xiaomi/3211257_photo-de-leclipse-on-a-perce-a-jour-la-petite-triche-du-xiaomi-17-ultra-qui-confond-la-lune-et-le-soleil

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 86 comments

Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/14/apple-proposes-to-take-a-15-cut-of-purchases-made-outside-the-app-store/

2 months ago

85 upvotes – 62 comments

Earth.nullschool.net

https://earth.nullschool.net/

2 months ago

83 upvotes – 27 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 0 comments

Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain

https://www.elttam.com/blog/ruby-4-0-universal-rce-deserialization-gadget-chain

2 months ago

78 upvotes – 22 comments

The American sports plutocracy

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-american-sports-plutocracy-is

2 months ago

1 change
77 upvotes – 62 comments

Private prisons announce $1.4B in revenue as immigration detentions climb

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/08/nx-s1-5923881/geo-group-corecivic-immigration-detention

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 70 comments

Self-hosted web push Cloudflare Worker, works on iOS

https://kukuroo.cc/

2 months ago

76 upvotes – 16 comments

How Claude's text watermarking works

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark

2 months ago

75 upvotes – 69 comments

Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP

https://goonhost.rocks/blog/implementing-ipv8-internet-draft

2 months ago

73 upvotes – 69 comments

Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artillery-factory-failed

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 17 comments

Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files

https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 5 comments

Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones

https://www.oulu.fi/en/news/study-links-coffee-consumption-metabolic-health-and-sex-hormones

2 months ago

68 upvotes – 68 comments

AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph

https://run.cosmograph.app/public/ca9fd1ad-fe83-4238-8b69-b707c633aef0

2 months ago

66 upvotes – 8 comments

Qwen3.8 27B

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

2 months ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments
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