Hacker News Daily — August 14, 2026
30 stories · August 14, 2026
In this issue
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GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
z.ai · 993 points · Discussion
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Qwen 3.8 27B
huggingface.co · 672 points · Discussion
This repository contains FP8-quantized model weights and configuration files for the post-trained model in the Hugging Face Transformers format. These artifacts are compatible with Hugging Face…
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Every Fucking Website (2020)
lxe.github.io · 657 points · Discussion
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Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
mun-logadan.github.io · 629 points · Discussion
In my opinion and that of the colleagues I've spoken with, working with Opus 5 feels like a downgrade compared to Opus 4.7, Opus 4.8, and Fable. I'm not claiming a step backwards in capabilities – it…
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In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices
e360.yale.edu · 285 points · Discussion
NSW Climate and Energy Action A little more than one year ago, Australia rolled out a program to heavily subsidize home batteries, part of a larger effort to make use of the huge volumes of solar…
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Seven books I keep close because I love them
blog.plover.com · 241 points · Discussion
Sun, 02 Aug 2026 Seven books I keep close because I love them The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the…
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DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update
api-docs.deepseek.com · 232 points · Discussion
We’re launching DeepSeek-V4-Pro today! 🚀 🔷 Major Agent upgrades with strong production gains! 🔷 Flexible reasoning effort for V4-Pro & V4-Flash: low for simple tasks, high for daily Agent…
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Don't classify, hallucinate
softwaredoug.com · 193 points · Discussion
Using LLMs to classify products, search queries, etc is by now boring. Yet it can still be difficult to constrains the LLM’s output to the legal vocabulary of brands, colors, categories, etc your…
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France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
reuters.com · 180 points · Discussion
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Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
blog.google · 175 points · Discussion
Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-secure private AI inference.…
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RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland
rustdesk.com · 153 points · Discussion
Wayland support has been one of the harder parts of Linux remote desktop. RustDesk can now provide true unattended access on Wayland, without requiring someone at the remote machine to approve every…
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Introducing Toast 1
mixedbread.com · 145 points · Discussion
Toast 1, our first specialised search agent, is available today. It provides frontier search quality, matching or outperforming Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while being up to 10× cheaper and 12×…
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The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
xn--gckvb8fzb.com · 112 points · Discussion
A hypothesis on the not-so-distant future of software, books, music, and movies, in which most of what we consume gets cheaper, more abundant, and noticeably worse, while the human-made variant moves…
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I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone
heyjonny.dev · 100 points · Discussion
I really like personal blogs. I read them for entertainment, learning, and to keep myself updated on the latest trends in software engineering. I prefer to read them in a horizontal position, like on…
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Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
claude.com · 89 points · Discussion
Input and output tokens A request goes through the GPU in two phases, and they cost different amounts.  First, during prefill, the model reads your request and context: the system prompt, your…
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Ultraviolet Bird Photography
uvbirds.com · 73 points · Discussion
    Here are all of the captions from the slides shown above: The irridescent display feathers of Anna's hummingbird reflect red and ultraviolet light, giving them a hidden dimension of…
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Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua
luacad.ad-si.com · 51 points · Discussion
LuaCAD models solids in Lua rather than the OpenSCAD language, with operator overloading for CSG (`a + b`, `a - b`, `a * b`). It ships with a CLI and a desktop app, including a preview area and a text…
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CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back
cnn.com · 44 points · Discussion
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Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS – Pascal for Small Machines
pascal.hansotten.com · 44 points · Discussion
Pascal compilers for the MSX The Pascal language was named after  Blaise Pascal (see picture), a French mathematician who was a pioneer in computer development history. In 1641, at the age of…
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Forbidden City Cabbage
cnn.com · 42 points · Discussion
EDITOR’S NOTE:   Curio is a CNN Style series spotlighting small objects and the big ideas behind them. Taipei, Taiwan  —  The Louvre’s “Mona Lisa,” the British Museum’s Rosetta Stone,…
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Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf]
www-cdn.anthropic.com · 29 points · Discussion
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Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal
github.com · 22 points · Discussion
Doing research with agents is fun until they blow way past budget, jumble the sources, and don't even give you the best possible answer, just sound confident. And if you want to run some research task…
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Moving integer division to floating-point is trivial
marc-b-reynolds.github.io · 21 points · Discussion
Integer division q=(x/y) and remainder (of Euclidean division) r=(x%y) hardware operations are very sad on current hardware. Typically very long latency and poor throughput. In contrast floating-point…
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Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes
github.com · 21 points · Discussion
Most color palettes collapse if you've got a strong redshift/nightshift color filter actively suppressing green and blue channels. I made one that doesn't. Ember has terminal, chart, heatmap, and UI…
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A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels
arxiv.org · 20 points · Discussion
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Systems that generate GPU kernels with language models report high correctness rates. Those rates come from a single loose test: run the kernel on a few random…
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Open WireGuard Endpoints
proxylity.com · 15 points · Discussion
Two new capabilities are available in UDP Gateway today. The first allows WireGuard Listeners to accept connections from any client without pre-registration — the same model HTTPS uses for websites.…
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How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website
littlelanguagemodels.com · 13 points · Discussion
Company A has acquired Company B, C, and D. How do we organize their sites, for multiple products with different audiences, while making it easy to find relevant product information and quickly…
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
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New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant
arxiv.org · 11 points · Discussion
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: We establish new bounds on the Grothendieck constant $K_G$: \[ \frac{6\pi}{11} \le K_G \le \frac{\pi}{2\log(1+\sqrt2)} - 10^{-4}. \] Methodologically, our lower…