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Top of Month - Aug 2026

1. Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
   (27 Aug 2026 | 1982 points | Comments)

2. Don't be a meat proxy
   (3 Aug 2026 | 1842 points | Comments)

3. Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
   (14 Aug 2026 | 1762 points | Comments)

4. Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
   (20 Aug 2026 | 1697 points | Comments)

5. How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
   (24 Aug 2026 | 1645 points | Comments)

6. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
   (4 Aug 2026 | 1643 points | Comments)

7. OpenLogi
   (19 Aug 2026 | 1635 points | Comments)

8. Dolly Parton has died
   (25 Aug 2026 | 1602 points | Comments)

9. Everything I own, owned
   (23 Aug 2026 | 1448 points | Comments)

10. Qwen 3.8 27B
    (14 Aug 2026 | 1437 points | Comments)

11. LLMs reward expertise
    (3 Aug 2026 | 1411 points | Comments)

12. The Amazon tax
    (18 Aug 2026 | 1410 points | Comments)

13. Creepy Crawlies
    (29 Aug 2026 | 1385 points | Comments)

14. Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
    (25 Aug 2026 | 1312 points | Comments)

15. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
    (21 Aug 2026 | 1273 points | Comments)

16. “I just chose words carefully”
    (30 Aug 2026 | 1254 points | Comments)

17. Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
    (12 Aug 2026 | 1221 points | Comments)

18. Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
    (25 Aug 2026 | 1211 points | Comments)

19. Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
    (10 Aug 2026 | 1205 points | Comments)

20. Mario Meets Pareto
    (6 Aug 2026 | 1186 points | Comments)

21. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
    (14 Aug 2026 | 1171 points | Comments)

22. GLM-5.3-Flash
    (26 Aug 2026 | 1132 points | Comments)

23. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
    (3 Aug 2026 | 1122 points | Comments)

24. AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
    (17 Aug 2026 | 1113 points | Comments)

25. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
    (7 Aug 2026 | 1107 points | Comments)

26. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
    (21 Aug 2026 | 1105 points | Comments)

27. AWS Acquires DuckLabs
    (26 Aug 2026 | 1102 points | Comments)

28. France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
    (11 Aug 2026 | 1061 points | Comments)

29. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
    (20 Aug 2026 | 1058 points | Comments)

30. Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
    (17 Aug 2026 | 1056 points | Comments)

31. Don't paste the AI, please
    (20 Aug 2026 | 1055 points | Comments)

32. GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
    (28 Aug 2026 | 1054 points | Comments)

33. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
    (12 Aug 2026 | 1041 points | Comments)

34. A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
    (19 Aug 2026 | 1033 points | Comments)

35. CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
    (27 Aug 2026 | 1032 points | Comments)

36. HTML Can Do That
    (19 Aug 2026 | 1020 points | Comments)

37. AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
    (12 Aug 2026 | 1007 points | Comments)

38. Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
    (24 Aug 2026 | 1003 points | Comments)

39. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
    (14 Aug 2026 | 992 points | Comments)

40. Gemini 3.7 Flash
    (13 Aug 2026 | 968 points | Comments)

41. OpenRouter is joining Stripe
    (19 Aug 2026 | 962 points | Comments)

42. Discovery Loop
    (5 Aug 2026 | 953 points | Comments)

43. Being ambitious and being a dad
    (16 Aug 2026 | 953 points | Comments)

44. AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
    (6 Aug 2026 | 945 points | Comments)

45. “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
    (8 Aug 2026 | 940 points | Comments)

46. As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
    (10 Aug 2026 | 937 points | Comments)

47. Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
    (27 Aug 2026 | 924 points | Comments)

48. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
    (7 Aug 2026 | 909 points | Comments)

49. Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
    (17 Aug 2026 | 901 points | Comments)

50. Every Fucking Website (2020)
    (14 Aug 2026 | 871 points | Comments)

51. I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
    (18 Aug 2026 | 866 points | Comments)

52. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
    (5 Aug 2026 | 864 points | Comments)

53. MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
    (24 Aug 2026 | 861 points | Comments)

54. Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
    (29 Aug 2026 | 852 points | Comments)

55. Felony Bench
    (21 Aug 2026 | 849 points | Comments)

56. U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
    (26 Aug 2026 | 839 points | Comments)

57. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
    (9 Aug 2026 | 831 points | Comments)

58. Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
    (19 Aug 2026 | 827 points | Comments)

59. Htmx 4.0
    (28 Aug 2026 | 827 points | Comments)

60. Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
    (16 Aug 2026 | 823 points | Comments)

61. New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
    (25 Aug 2026 | 823 points | Comments)

62. Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
    (23 Aug 2026 | 819 points | Comments)

63. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
    (7 Aug 2026 | 814 points | Comments)

64. California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
    (30 Aug 2026 | 806 points | Comments)

65. GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
    (28 Aug 2026 | 805 points | Comments)

66. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
    (16 Aug 2026 | 800 points | Comments)

67. Small Models Have Arrived
    (27 Aug 2026 | 799 points | Comments)

68. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
    (4 Aug 2026 | 796 points | Comments)

69. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
    (7 Aug 2026 | 795 points | Comments)

70. Microduck
    (27 Aug 2026 | 782 points | Comments)

71. Claude: System Prompts
    (16 Aug 2026 | 761 points | Comments)

72. Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
    (31 Aug 2026 | 761 points | Comments)

73. Go 1.27
    (19 Aug 2026 | 757 points | Comments)

74. Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
    (24 Aug 2026 | 753 points | Comments)

75. Playa Phone
    (31 Aug 2026 | 751 points | Comments)

76. DeepSeek Harness developer preview
    (13 Aug 2026 | 744 points | Comments)

77. Get your Windows license refund
    (28 Aug 2026 | 739 points | Comments)

78. Devtools must be open source
    (3 Aug 2026 | 728 points | Comments)

79. SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
    (3 Aug 2026 | 727 points | Comments)

80. uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
    (12 Aug 2026 | 726 points | Comments)

81. Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
    (22 Aug 2026 | 724 points | Comments)

82. Tim Curry has died
    (26 Aug 2026 | 723 points | Comments)

83. Incident with Github.com
    (17 Aug 2026 | 719 points | Comments)

84. A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
    (17 Aug 2026 | 718 points | Comments)

85. Spaghettifying DRAM
    (13 Aug 2026 | 715 points | Comments)

86. “It works better in the app”
    (28 Aug 2026 | 715 points | Comments)

87. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
    (4 Aug 2026 | 714 points | Comments)

88. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
    (16 Aug 2026 | 714 points | Comments)

89. Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
    (21 Aug 2026 | 714 points | Comments)

90. Qwen3.8-2.4T
    (12 Aug 2026 | 712 points | Comments)

91. Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
    (13 Aug 2026 | 712 points | Comments)

92. How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
    (17 Aug 2026 | 710 points | Comments)

93. U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
    (28 Aug 2026 | 710 points | Comments)

94. Oceans hit highest temperature on record
    (24 Aug 2026 | 705 points | Comments)

95. AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
    (21 Aug 2026 | 704 points | Comments)

96. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
    (26 Aug 2026 | 704 points | Comments)

97. I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day
    (23 Aug 2026 | 703 points | Comments)

98. Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
    (27 Aug 2026 | 703 points | Comments)

99. Taste Is All That's Left
    (6 Aug 2026 | 702 points | Comments)

100. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
     (6 Aug 2026 | 701 points | Comments)