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8.26.26 | Dolly Parton has died, Apple introduces M6...

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2026/08/26

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 26, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:20) - Dolly Parton has died (01:33) - Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra (02:52) - Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices (04:09) - New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra (05:39) - My Friend Aaron (06:53) - New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro (08:22) - OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell (10:03)

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13:32

8.25.26 | Europe harming makers, Xiaomi's CPU...

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2026/08/25

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 25, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs (01:58) - Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded (03:16) - MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (04:34) - The entire city of San Francisco as a video game (05:42) - iCloud+ Hide

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13:47

8.24.26 | Reading to improve writing, Python...

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2026/08/24

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 24, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:17) - To become a better writer, read as much as you can (01:30) - Thinking in Python (02:52) - How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt (04:13) - ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data (05:44) - I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in

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12:57

8.23.26 | Canada matches US tariffs, Scrap from 2006,...

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2026/08/23

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 23, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down (01:47) - Scrap (2006) (03:10) - ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs (04:24) - Hister – A private, full content search index that you control (05:34) - Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones (06:53) - Why your

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14:32

8.22.26 | Kagi adds setting for paywalled links,...

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2026/08/22

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 22, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (01:35) - Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (02:50) - Felony Bench (04:07) - I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (05:58) - Kobo can run apps now (07:25) - I'm becoming

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14:04

8.21.26 | Aaron Swartz prosecution, AliExpress...

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2026/08/21

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (01:41) - AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (02:51) - HTML Can Do That (04:09) - I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (05:43) - Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a

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13:42

8.20.26 | A joke domain purchase turned in...

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2026/08/20

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 20, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare (01:34) - OpenRouter is joining Stripe (02:49) - Go 1.27 (04:21) - Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming (05:46) - Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive (07:01) - PostgreSQL for

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13:45

8.19.26 | Amazon tax, universal health coverage saves...

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2026/08/19

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:20) - The Amazon tax (01:36) - Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study (03:14) - Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (04:31) - Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (05:46) - Beware Management Consultants (06:49) - Being ambitious and being a dad (08:07) - Sticky wage norms and the

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14:43

8.18.26 | AI summaries, DuckDB v2.0 preview,...

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2026/08/18

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 18, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:16) - AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (01:43) - A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (03:27) - Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub (04:39) - Olo (Color) (05:48) - How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (07:19) - AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (08:58) - GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model

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8.17.26 | Firefox for iOS adblocker, Claude system...

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2026/08/17

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (01:21) - Claude: System Prompts (03:05) - A third world engineer responds to ”RISC-V: They should have known better“ (04:39) - Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers (05:56) - Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for

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12:29

8.16.26 | AI's larger working memory, Semaglutide's...

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2026/08/16

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain (01:42) - Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (02:53) - RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (04:08) - Asus Bike Booster (05:12) - At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (06:22) - Abdominal fat

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8.15.26 | Frontier coding with emergent cyber...

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2026/08/15

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities (01:48) - Qwen 3.8 27B (02:59) - Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? (04:31) - Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (05:50) - Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption (07:12) - Seven books I

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13:10

8.14.26 | Gemini 3.7 Flash, DeepSeek Harness...

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2026/08/14

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 14, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Gemini 3.7 Flash (01:47) - DeepSeek Harness developer preview (03:11) - Spaghettifying DRAM (04:25) - Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast (05:50) - Choose Boring Technology (2015) (07:09) - Mistral OCR 4.1 (08:09) - Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data (09:38) - Understanding is the new

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8.13.26 | Tracked 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug,...

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2026/08/13

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 13, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:21) - We tracked down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug (01:47) - DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (03:07) - Qwen3.8-2.4T (04:26) - Delta (05:50) - Grok 4.6 (07:17) - 2026 Eclipse Webcams (08:15) - uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook (09:29) - Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome (10:48) - Someone

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13:20

8.12.26 | Stealing reasoning traces from proprietary...

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2026/08/12

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 12, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (01:43) - England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (03:02) - Compression is prediction (04:16) - OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (05:26) - Mojo 1.0 (06:42) - Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted

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13:57

8.11.26 | Muse Glimmer optimized for local agent...

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2026/08/11

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:19) - Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows (01:57) - Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (03:20) - Sonic Pi v5 (04:16) - Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (05:41) - Squeak 6.1 (07:00) -

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8.10.26 | Learning with LLMs, Windows 11 Weather app...

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2026/08/10

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 10, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:19) - How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (01:33) - Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (03:14) - Everything you do is being recorded (04:35) - Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (05:59) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) (07:02) - Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (08:22) -

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8.9.26 | Code not the hard part, for-sale DNS...

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2026/08/09

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (01:35) - _for-sale DNS records (02:57) - Fastmail offers EU data region (04:16) - Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (05:18) - My server is a phone now (06:29) - Improving Heuristics for A*

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8.8.26 | Meta ordered to pay $567m, DeepSeek V4 Flash...

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2026/08/08

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 8, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:18) - New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health (01:26) - DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (02:30) - What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers (03:46) - Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK (05:07) - 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out (06:08) -

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8.7.26 | Mario Meets Pareto, AMD acquires Taalas for...

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2026/08/07

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 7, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro(00:16) - Mario Meets Pareto (01:24) - AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon (03:03) - GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability (04:12) - Taste Is All That's Left (05:45) - Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak (07:05) - Humans

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