The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2026

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Don't be a meat proxy gruhn.me · ngruhn · 3 Aug 2026

1.8k pts 742 comments

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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin pcworld.com · DemiGuru · 14 Aug 2026

1.8k pts 718 comments

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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence blog.curiousquail.com · speckx · 20 Aug 2026

1.7k pts 400 comments

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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years writings.stephenwolfram.com · jdcampolargo · 4 Aug 2026

1.6k pts 95 comments

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OpenLogi openlogi.org · amatheus · 19 Aug 2026

1.6k pts 432 comments

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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs lectronz.com · l-one-lone · 24 Aug 2026

1.6k pts 1k comments

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Dolly Parton has died theguardian.com · helsinkiandrew · 25 Aug 2026

1.6k pts 241 comments

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Qwen 3.8 27B huggingface.co · erdaltoprak · 14 Aug 2026

1.4k pts 793 comments

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Everything I own, owned schlarp.com · schlarpc · 23 Aug 2026

1.4k pts 348 comments

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LLMs reward expertise seangoedecke.com · MaxMussio · 3 Aug 2026

1.4k pts 573 comments

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The Amazon tax seths.blog · herbertl · 18 Aug 2026

1.4k pts 702 comments

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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra apple.com · interpol_p · 25 Aug 2026

1.3k pts 1.3k comments

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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results kagi.com · speckx · 21 Aug 2026

1.3k pts 395 comments

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Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug tailscale.com · ropbear · 12 Aug 2026

1.2k pts 239 comments

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Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows research.meta.ai · riordan · 10 Aug 2026

1.2k pts 639 comments

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Mario Meets Pareto mayerowitz.io · theanonymousone · 6 Aug 2026

1.2k pts 169 comments

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GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities z.ai · pella · 14 Aug 2026

1.2k pts 584 comments

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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B businessinsider.com · mfiguiere · 27 Aug 2026

1.2k pts 491 comments

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Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices github.com · Banditoz · 25 Aug 2026

1.2k pts 1.1k comments

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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork qwen.ai · ai2027 · 3 Aug 2026

1.1k pts 615 comments

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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) rickmanelius.com · mooreds · 17 Aug 2026

1.1k pts 691 comments

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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers noemamag.com · RickJWagner · 7 Aug 2026

1.1k pts 1.3k comments

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Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border nytimes.com · floathub · 21 Aug 2026

1.1k pts 1.4k comments

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Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots responsiblestatecraft.org · DeepLogin · 17 Aug 2026

1.1k pts 881 comments

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France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls lemonde.fr · aziaziazi · 11 Aug 2026

1.1k pts 510 comments

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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint blog.laserphile.com · emctech · 20 Aug 2026

1.1k pts 337 comments

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Don't paste the AI, please dontpastetheai.com · pjerem · 20 Aug 2026

1.1k pts 581 comments

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AWS Acquires DuckLabs ducklabs.com · onderkalaci · 26 Aug 2026

1.1k pts 306 comments

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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 openrouter.ai · explosion-s · 12 Aug 2026

1k pts 453 comments

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GLM-5.3-Flash z.ai · Philpax · 26 Aug 2026

1k pts 519 comments

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A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare sprocketfox.io · kareiva · 19 Aug 2026

1k pts 169 comments

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HTML Can Do That chrisburnell.com · encyclopedism · 19 Aug 2026

1k pts 231 comments

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AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? blog.florianherrengt.com · florianherrengt · 12 Aug 2026

1k pts 937 comments

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Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded twitter.com · tosh · 24 Aug 2026

997 pts 733 comments

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Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? mun-logadan.github.io · numeri · 14 Aug 2026

993 pts 873 comments

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Gemini 3.7 Flash blog.google · thisisauserid · 13 Aug 2026

968 pts 495 comments

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OpenRouter is joining Stripe openrouter.ai · rvz · 19 Aug 2026

962 pts 498 comments

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Being ambitious and being a dad nicholascharriere.com · nichochar · 16 Aug 2026

956 pts 766 comments

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Discovery Loop discoveryloop.com · xtreak29 · 5 Aug 2026

954 pts 603 comments

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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon theregister.com · itvision · 6 Aug 2026

949 pts 723 comments

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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers blog.senko.net · senko · 8 Aug 2026

946 pts 590 comments

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As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing thewalrus.ca · awnird · 10 Aug 2026

938 pts 994 comments

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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects bbc.com · defrost · 7 Aug 2026

910 pts 887 comments

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Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study ysph.yale.edu · karakoram · 17 Aug 2026

901 pts 978 comments

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Every Fucking Website (2020) lxe.github.io · doubletwoyou · 14 Aug 2026

872 pts 498 comments

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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs blog.google · colesantiago · 5 Aug 2026

867 pts 933 comments

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I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers experimental-history.com · Ariarule · 18 Aug 2026

867 pts 341 comments

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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID xusheng.dev · ComputerGuru · 24 Aug 2026

852 pts 432 comments

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Felony Bench felonybench.com · colinprince · 21 Aug 2026

849 pts 347 comments

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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics laurentiugabriel.github.io · laurentiurad · 9 Aug 2026

835 pts 548 comments

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Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code grapheneos.social · Animux · 19 Aug 2026

827 pts 337 comments

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Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing daringfireball.net · ropbear · 16 Aug 2026

824 pts 733 comments

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New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra apple.com · interpol_p · 25 Aug 2026

819 pts 551 comments

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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health theguardian.com · boplicity · 7 Aug 2026

816 pts 433 comments

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Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive ft.com · naves · 23 Aug 2026

815 pts 700 comments

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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things simonwillison.net · bilsbie · 16 Aug 2026

802 pts 384 comments

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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 arcprize.org · tosh · 7 Aug 2026

796 pts 476 comments

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AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog nelson.cloud · meysamazad · 4 Aug 2026

796 pts 465 comments

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Claude: System Prompts platform.claude.com · tosh · 16 Aug 2026

761 pts 284 comments

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Go 1.27 go.dev · database64128 · 19 Aug 2026

757 pts 265 comments