Hacker News on Monday, 10 August 2026

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of research.meta.ai: Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows (research.meta.ai)

1156 points by riordan 2 months ago | 624 comments

Meta blog post announcing Muse Glimmer, an open 30B-parameter agentic model designed to run locally on devices for always-on agent workflows.

muse-glimmer meta on-device-ai ai-agents

Screenshot of thewalrus.ca: As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing (thewalrus.ca)

845 points by awnird 2 months ago | 844 comments

A Walrus essay by Vass Bednar arguing that Google Search is declining as AI reshapes the web, and that the internet's collective memory is disappearing.

google-search generative-ai web-archiving search-engines

Screenshot of ft.com: Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models (ft.com)

620 points by root-parent 2 months ago | 577 comments

Financial Times article on Mark Zuckerberg criticizing closed AI rivals as Meta returns to releasing open AI models; the capture shows a Cloudflare security check.

meta mark-zuckerberg open-source-ai llama

Screenshot of docker.com: Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents

Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents (docker.com)

619 points by etoxin 2 months ago | 344 comments

Docker product page for Docker Sandboxes, disposable isolated local sandboxes for running AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex safely.

docker sandboxing ai-agents claude-code

Screenshot of effort.news: The UK's war on anonymity has come to America

The UK's war on anonymity has come to America (effort.news)

592 points by slowin 2 months ago | 635 comments

An Effort investigation reporting that UK NGOs behind Britain's digital ID and anti-anonymity laws are lobbying US state legislatures to adopt similar rules.

online-anonymity digital-id age-verification uk-online-safety-act

Screenshot of bobdahacker.com: Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open (bobdahacker.com)

526 points by colesantiago 2 months ago | 173 comments

Security researcher blog post describing a misconfigured Firestore database at meeting recorder tl;dv that exposed 181,874 meetings, still unfixed six months after reporting.

tldv firestore data-exposure vulnerability-disclosure

Screenshot of cactuscompute.com: Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots (cactuscompute.com)

501 points by HenryNdubuaku 2 months ago | 169 comments

Product page for Cactus Needle 2, an open 14MB agentic LLM for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction on phones, wearables, and tiny devices.

cactus-needle edge-ai small-language-models tool-calling

Screenshot of support.claude.com: How Claude marks AI-generated content

How Claude marks AI-generated content (support.claude.com)

387 points by mfiguiere 2 months ago | 362 comments

Claude Support article explaining how Anthropic plans to mark AI-generated content under the EU AI Act Article 50(2) Code of Practice on transparency.

claude anthropic eu-ai-act ai-content-marking