top 10 hacker news stories for today

I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day

https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/

10 hours ago

612 upvotes – 266 comments

To become a better writer, read as much as you can

https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/

21 hours ago

1 change
425 upvotes – 250 comments

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-slovakia-finds-russian-backdoor-in-traffic-speed-cameras/

10 hours ago

359 upvotes – 136 comments

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

https://www.xda-developers.com/qwen-3-8-27b-reverse-engineering-job-frontier-model/

15 hours ago

311 upvotes – 137 comments

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed

https://www.xda-developers.com/wi-fi-8-first-wireless-upgrade-years-isnt-chasing-speed-home-networks-need-it/

18 hours ago

300 upvotes – 238 comments

What Is a Harness?

https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/

10 hours ago

290 upvotes – 131 comments

A website for debloated open source alternatives

https://debloat.dev/

8 hours ago

257 upvotes – 88 comments

How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

https://lalitm.com/post/find-problems-staff-engineer/

5 hours ago

1 change
253 upvotes – 96 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

9 hours ago

1 change
234 upvotes – 62 comments

GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost

https://reinvently.co.uk/tools/ed-o-meter/

8 hours ago

234 upvotes – 108 comments
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