top 20 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

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

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

9 hours ago

1 change
234 upvotes – 62 comments

Everything I own, owned

https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/

2 hours ago

1 change
215 upvotes – 64 comments

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

https://securelist.com/android-head-unit-malware/121106/

12 hours ago

210 upvotes – 106 comments

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

https://martypc.net/

21 hours ago

207 upvotes – 89 comments

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes

11 hours ago

189 upvotes – 66 comments

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

https://www.ft.com/content/5ee49718-c258-4f01-aa32-7e5b76ae5245

6 hours ago

187 upvotes – 147 comments

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/

19 hours ago

174 upvotes – 84 comments

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/

1 day ago

1 change
172 upvotes – 105 comments

Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

https://blog.elis.cc/articles/google-workspace-thinks-my-domain-is-an-email-provider/

5 hours ago

1 change
165 upvotes – 37 comments

Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

6 hours ago

160 upvotes – 63 comments

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/

19 hours ago

155 upvotes – 95 comments
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