Hacker News on Thursday, 13 August 2026

Gemini 3.7 Flash(blog.google)

930 points by thisisauserid 2 months ago | 470 comments

Google's Gemini API documentation page for Gemini 3.7 Flash, the next multimodal reasoning model in the Gemini 3 series.

DeepSeek Harness developer preview(deepseek.com)

703 points by bjin 2 months ago | 287 comments

GitHub repository for DeepSeek Harness, a developer preview of DeepSeek's agent harness tooling, with apps, docs, and agent configuration.

Spaghettifying DRAM(github.com)

680 points by matt_d 2 months ago | 170 comments

GitHub repository by xoreaxeaxeax, skitter-creek-bath-salts, describing a technique for unlocking everything on the CPU via DRAM scrambling, with kernel and userspace code.

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast(cerebras.ai)

678 points by pr337h4m 2 months ago | 263 comments

Cerebras blog post announcing that it powers OpenAI's Ultrafast Mode for GPT-5.6 Sol in the OpenAI API, delivering up to 750 output tokens per second.

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview(community.openai.com)

436 points by allanrbo 2 months ago | 295 comments

OpenAI community forum post announcing a preview of Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app for Linux; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification challenge.

Understanding is the new bottleneck(geoffreylitt.com)

401 points by sebg 2 months ago | 221 comments

Geoffrey Litt's written version of an AI Engineer conference talk arguing developers still need to understand agent-written code, with ideas for understanding it efficiently.

Choose Boring Technology (2015)(mcfunley.com)

398 points by tosh 2 months ago | 225 comments

Dan McKinley's 2015 essay arguing that engineering teams should favor proven, well-understood technologies and spend limited 'innovation tokens' carefully.

Mistral OCR 4.1(docs.mistral.ai)

394 points by spelk 2 months ago | 159 comments

Mistral AI documentation page for the OCR 4.1 model, a Document AI OCR service with paragraph-level bounding boxes and structural block labels.

Gloomberb(gloom.sh)

381 points by rbanffy 2 months ago | 193 comments

Landing page for Gloomberb, an open-source, keyboard-driven, extensible finance terminal available as a desktop app or TUI.

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data(current.org)

367 points by vinayakborkar 2 months ago | 208 comments

News article reporting that PBS station Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archival TV data after its cloud vendor went defunct and is suing Iron Mountain to preserve it.

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe(tradersunion.com)

349 points by Markoff 2 months ago | 381 comments

Traders Union news article reporting that Deutsche Bank has become the first foreign bank in Europe approved to clear yuan transactions.

Ordinary Abundance(ordinaryabundance.com)

347 points by yen223 2 months ago | 169 comments

An illustrated essay site on how everyday items in a modern apartment were once marvels, opening with Edward Bellamy's vision of music on demand.

Hello, me. It's been a while(themech.net)

336 points by somesoftdev 2 months ago | 178 comments

A personal blog post in which a programmer returns after fourteen years to reflect on filling every quiet moment with podcasts, audiobooks, and social media.

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory(donkeybas.com)

265 points by jkrauska 2 months ago | 135 comments

Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes(github.com)

233 points by ValdikSS 2 months ago | 176 comments

NP-overrated(gruhn.me)

226 points by theanonymousone 2 months ago | 159 comments

Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out(0.mk)

211 points by tdx 2 months ago | 197 comments

Bluesky Protocol Services(atproto.com)

201 points by danabramov 2 months ago | 54 comments

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results(netlify.com)

201 points by toddmorey 2 months ago | 85 comments

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)(support.google.com)

199 points by dt3ft 2 months ago | 138 comments

How Compaction Works in Pi(earendil.com)

193 points by tosh 2 months ago | 81 comments

Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations(oxide.computer)

183 points by stevehipwell 2 months ago | 78 comments

A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D)(kolja.rs)

173 points by nk_kolja 2 months ago | 43 comments

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program(wired.com)

168 points by thehoff 2 months ago | 204 comments

I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10(alexmorleyfinch.github.io)

138 points by dreamforever 2 months ago | 72 comments

Blog about things you don't understand yet(seangoedecke.com)

138 points by gfysfm 2 months ago | 41 comments

SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles(sparrowmap.com)

138 points by paulnpace 2 months ago | 34 comments

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX(pikuma.com)

134 points by ibobev 2 months ago | 58 comments

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware(hwbusters.com)

134 points by txrx0000 2 months ago | 39 comments

AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users(economist.com)

128 points by andsoitis 2 months ago | 120 comments

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga(nnamgreb.de)

120 points by emptybits 2 months ago | 23 comments

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf](cdn.openai.com)

118 points by malshe 2 months ago | 94 comments

Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove(seangoedecke.com)

117 points by pseudolus 2 months ago | 122 comments

Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737(wired.com)

114 points by _tk_ 2 months ago | 83 comments

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps(jdagostino.github.io)

114 points by timmmmmmay 2 months ago | 52 comments

How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)(quantamagazine.org)

104 points by tzury 2 months ago | 44 comments

DeepSeek API Pricing Update(twitter.com)

103 points by mfiguiere 2 months ago | 35 comments

Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft(heartaerospace.com)

100 points by chha 2 months ago | 83 comments

Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent(codewithbullet.com)

97 points by adi1 2 months ago | 73 comments

Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library(github.com)

88 points by robin_reala 2 months ago | 29 comments

How AI text watermarking works(declaude.org)

86 points by padolsey 2 months ago | 59 comments

2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey(theartnewspaper.com)

82 points by speckx 2 months ago | 23 comments

Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet(science.org)

80 points by hermitcrab 2 months ago | 55 comments

The oldest bar in every state(businessinsider.com)

65 points by NaOH 2 months ago | 33 comments

We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images(echo.ai)

58 points by omrimaya 2 months ago | 39 comments

CUDA Shared Memory Swizzling(leimao.github.io)

57 points by jxmorris12 2 months ago | 2 comments

Tocharian Online(lrc.la.utexas.edu)

56 points by Bluestein 2 months ago | 13 comments

Gakutensoku(en.wikipedia.org)

55 points by benbreen 2 months ago | 10 comments

How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy(func25.dev)

55 points by func25 2 months ago | 50 comments

Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index(alignment.anthropic.com)

54 points by optimalsolver 2 months ago | 38 comments

The 37signals Manager Playbook(basecamp.com)

54 points by tosh 2 months ago | 5 comments

Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse(phys.org)

54 points by maxboone 2 months ago | 39 comments

Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal>(solidjs.com)

53 points by GavinAnderegg 2 months ago | 33 comments

If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?(support.claude.com)

52 points by DarenWatson 2 months ago | 36 comments

Graduate student proves a quantum uncertainty principle for fractals(quantamagazine.org)

51 points by bookofjoe 2 months ago | 8 comments

Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5(github.com)

49 points by pcbmaker20 2 months ago | 31 comments

I want extern "fil-C"(domenkozar.com)

48 points by domenkozar 2 months ago | 14 comments

GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer(goaccess.io)

44 points by gregsadetsky 2 months ago | 9 comments

My Rules for Using Spreadsheets(leancrew.com)

43 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 39 comments

PBS loses 70 years of TV history after cloud storage vendor goes defunct(tomshardware.com)

42 points by doener 2 months ago | 10 comments