Hacker News Daily — August 13, 2026

30 stories · August 13, 2026

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1

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

deepseek.com · 495 points · Discussion

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/en/guide...
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Gemini 3.7 Flash

blog.google · 438 points · Discussion

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.7-flas...
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Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

community.openai.com · 431 points · Discussion

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Spaghettifying DRAM

github.com · 405 points · Discussion

Unlocking everything on the CPU with DRAM scrambling — PSP, C6, microcode, SMM, and anything else the specs left out. &x == &x. Usually. Poke the DRAM controller and an address can be made to land…
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Gloomberb

gloom.sh · 344 points · Discussion

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Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

cerebras.ai · 259 points · Discussion

Today, Cerebras and OpenAI are sharing an early look at Ultrafast Mode, a new service tier launching first in the OpenAI API and powered by Cerebras. Ultrafast is available initially to a select group…
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Mistral OCR 4.1

docs.mistral.ai · 183 points · Discussion

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Ordinary abundance

ordinaryabundance.com · 162 points · Discussion

Edward Bellamy once imagined that music on demand would be "the limit of human felicity." A modern apartment is full of things that once drew the same kind of awe. scroll to move through the apartment…
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Choose Boring Technology (2015)

mcfunley.com · 154 points · Discussion

Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I…
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Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

netlify.com · 153 points · Discussion

We just launched a partnership with OpenRouter that lets us offer two new pieces of functionality: First, your projects can use any model on OpenRouter through our AI Gateway. That means that if your…
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Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

oxide.computer · 126 points · Discussion

In late 2024, customers and prospects were eager to run Kubernetes on Oxide, but we had no supported integrations to help them do it. Kubernetes and Oxide are a natural fit. Kubernetes defines the…
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Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

donkeybas.com · 124 points · Discussion

Space / tap — switch lanes Esc — title Sound CRT Cheat About DONKEY.BAS shipped with early IBM PC DOS as a demo of color graphics and sound in BASICA. It was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates…
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I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10

alexmorleyfinch.github.io · 120 points · Discussion

marlin Sunday, 2am. I couldn’t sleep and I was annoyed at search engines again. Every query I actually cared about, portfolios, zines, weird little art projects, one-person software, drowned under a…
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Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

0.mk · 85 points · Discussion

An old 0.mk database backup held 657,958 links created between 2009 and 2014, along with their click counts. We restored 657,607 of those records as pre-2015 links and followed every destination in…
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Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

github.com · 75 points · Discussion

systemd version the issue has been seen with 257.9 Used distribution Debian 13 Linux kernel version used 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 Component systemd-journald Expected behaviour you didn't see Log writes…
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How art invented humanity

aeon.co · 66 points · Discussion

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AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

jdagostino.github.io · 61 points · Discussion

No, We Have AI At Home Chapter 1: A Box Of Scraps August 13 2026 It's an interesting time to be a software dev; the transformer large language model is, in my opinion, the first really new and…
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Understanding is the new bottleneck

geoffreylitt.com · 53 points · Discussion

Hot take: I think it's still important to understand the code that our agents write! In this talk I'll explain why that's the case, and show some ideas for how to efficiently understand code. Alright,…
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Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo

uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com · 53 points · Discussion

As you are reading this post, you are almost certainly looking at a computer… a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone.  As I look around my shared workspace, I can see, without moving from…
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Tocharian Online

lrc.la.utexas.edu · 42 points · Discussion

Tocharian Online Series Introduction Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum Tocharian denotes two closely related languages of the Indo-European family, denoted simply Tocharian A and Tocharian B. Though…
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Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

codewithbullet.com · 36 points · Discussion

Hi HN! We’re Adi and Alex, founders of Bullet, a faster coding agent. Bullet started in a senior year dorm. We were fresh out of working at AppLovin and Citadel, and naturally thought we were on a…
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GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

goaccess.io · 32 points · Discussion

Why GoAccess? GoAccess was designed to be a fast, terminal-based log analyzer. Its core idea is to quickly analyze and view web server statistics in real time without needing to use your browser (…
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JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

tschatzl.github.io · 28 points · Discussion

OpenJDK 28 release is on the horizon I thought it would be time to discuss interesting changes in OpenJDK’s stop-the-world collectors in the HotSpot VM once more. The complete list of resolved/closed…
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How Compaction Works in Pi

earendil.com · 28 points · Discussion

If you have ever had a long coding session in a coding agent like Pi, Claude Code, or Codex, you will have triggered a compaction. In this post we explain how compaction works and when Pi needs to…
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How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]

cdn.openai.com · 25 points · Discussion

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How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)

quantamagazine.org · 25 points · Discussion

In 1931, the Austrian logician Kurt Gödel pulled off arguably one of the most stunning intellectual achievements in history. Mathematicians of the era sought a solid foundation for mathematics: a set…
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NP-Overrated

gruhn.me · 25 points · Discussion

If you learned about NP-hard problems in university, your takeaway was probably this: NP-hard problems are solvable in theory but it's hopelessly expensive in practice. It's basically proven that no…
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Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game

nicole.express · 18 points · Discussion

We’re back into the strip mahjong games today, here going back to 1991. Video System is a company that’s probably best known in retro-gaming circles for Aero Fighters / Sonic Wings, but mahjong games…
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How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website

littlelanguagemodels.com · 13 points · Discussion

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Conway's Game of Life, in real life

lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion

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