top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-26

GLM-5.3-Flash

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

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AWS Acquires DuckLabs

https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws

1 month ago

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U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23

1 month ago

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Tim Curry has died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film

1 month ago

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next

1 month ago

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Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat

1 month ago

★ 5.8k Go BSD-3-Clause2 changes

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/

1 month ago

Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/

1 month ago

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Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/

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RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think

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An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/

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Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com

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Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/china-s-z-ai-made-ox-alpha-stealth-model-that-rivals-deepseek

1 month ago

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/

1 month ago

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The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

1 month ago

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

1 month ago

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Actually Queryable Executables

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables

1 month ago

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CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-venezuela-response/

1 month ago

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/

1 month ago

Zohran and the Short Link

https://iamwillwang.com/notes/zohran-and-the-short-link/

1 month ago