top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-08-16

Being ambitious and being a dad

https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/

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Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing

2 months ago

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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/

2 months ago

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts

2 months ago

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios

2 months ago

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322107

2 months ago

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/

2 months ago

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Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-for-7b/

2 months ago

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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22

2 months ago

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose

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