Hacker News on Friday, 14 August 2026

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin(pcworld.com)

1603 points by DemiGuru 2 months ago | 608 comments

PCWorld news article reporting that Firefox is the last major browser still supporting the uBlock Origin ad blocker after Chrome's Manifest V3 changes.

Qwen 3.8 27B(huggingface.co)

1391 points by erdaltoprak 2 months ago | 779 comments

Hugging Face model card for Qwen3.8-27B-FP8, an FP8-quantized 27B-parameter image-text-to-text model from Qwen released under Apache 2.0.

GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities(z.ai)

1108 points by pella 2 months ago | 543 comments

Z.ai blog post announcing GLM-5.3, a model improved via scaled post-training on GLM-5.2's base for coding, long-horizon tasks, and cyber capabilities.

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?(mun-logadan.github.io)

888 points by numeri 2 months ago | 799 comments

A blog post arguing that Anthropic's Opus 5 feels worse to work with than Opus 4.7, 4.8, and Fable because it makes assumptions and reinterprets plans without asking.

Every Fucking Website (2020)(lxe.github.io)

742 points by doubletwoyou 2 months ago | 446 comments

A satirical website parodying common annoying web patterns like popups, cookie banners, and newsletter prompts, asking why every website behaves this way.

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption(blog.google)

473 points by u1hcw9nx 2 months ago | 276 comments

Google Security blog post by Jeremy Kun on how Google is using homomorphic encryption to make privacy-preserving AI practical.

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

438 points by vslira 2 months ago | 232 comments

Matthew Green blog post reflecting on Usenix Security and how AI may affect encryption, the 'going dark' debate, and law enforcement hacking.

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election(bbc.com)

394 points by tcp_handshaker 2 months ago | 272 comments

BBC News article reporting that novelty candidate Count Binface won over a quarter of the votes in the Clacton by-election.

RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better(dmitry.gr)

357 points by dmitrygr 2 months ago | 402 comments

Blog essay by Dmitry Grinberg critiquing the RISC-V instruction set architecture, covering optionality, missing features, and its instruction encoding.

Seven books I keep close because I love them(blog.plover.com)

338 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 153 comments

A personal blog post on The Universe of Discourse describing the seven books the author keeps on the shelf by his elbow and why he loves them.

AI by Hand(byhand.ai)

336 points by sans_souse 2 months ago | 25 comments

AI by Hand is a site teaching AI and deep learning concepts through hand-worked math exercises; the captured page was blank.

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland(rustdesk.com)

329 points by rustdesk 2 months ago | 142 comments

RustDesk blog post announcing unattended remote access support on Wayland, including multi-monitor setups, with a preview build for Debian/Ubuntu x86_64.

In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices(e360.yale.edu)

285 points by speckx 2 months ago | 213 comments

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions(claude.com)

275 points by twapi 2 months ago | 156 comments

Qwen3.8-27B(twitter.com)

267 points by mfiguiere 2 months ago | 100 comments

DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update(api-docs.deepseek.com)

235 points by fagnerbrack 2 months ago | 124 comments

Supersonic Trebuchet [video](youtube.com)

228 points by CharlesW 2 months ago | 101 comments

Introducing Toast 1(mixedbread.com)

211 points by mplappert 2 months ago | 64 comments

I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone(heyjonny.dev)

207 points by speckx 2 months ago | 88 comments

eigendrum(eigendrum.com)

206 points by bookofjoe 2 months ago | 59 comments

France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s(reuters.com)

181 points by BlueBerry2001 2 months ago | 128 comments

The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services(xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

152 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 103 comments

Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things(homosabiens.substack.com)

150 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 40 comments

US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters(theguardian.com)

138 points by magic_interface 2 months ago | 39 comments

RISC-V: They should have known better(dmitry.gr)

138 points by kaycebasques 2 months ago | 112 comments

When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs(weightythoughts.com)

134 points by gmays 2 months ago | 117 comments

Dear people who work at the airport(life-after-ssri.bearblog.dev)

119 points by nivethan 2 months ago | 108 comments

Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)(arxiv.org)

113 points by E-Reverance 2 months ago | 56 comments

Racket v9.3(blog.racket-lang.org)

112 points by privong 2 months ago | 7 comments

Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated(abc.net.au)

111 points by ahonhn 2 months ago | 83 comments

The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here(blog.ploopy.co)

108 points by big_toast 2 months ago | 56 comments

Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite(phys.org)

108 points by pseudolus 2 months ago | 40 comments

Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant(getsmall.xyz)

97 points by trezm 2 months ago | 66 comments

Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness(ft.com)

95 points by bobstax 2 months ago | 69 comments

Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua(luacad.ad-si.com)

87 points by adius 2 months ago | 17 comments

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life(commonreader.wustl.edu)

83 points by lermontov 2 months ago | 22 comments

CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back(cnn.com)

76 points by pseudolus 2 months ago | 38 comments

We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked(arstechnica.com)

73 points by rbanffy 2 months ago | 35 comments

Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal(github.com)

70 points by lajosdeme 2 months ago | 10 comments

The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes(outsideonline.com)

69 points by cwwc 2 months ago | 48 comments

Cursor is now a part of SpaceX(cursor.com)

69 points by billy_jones_75 2 months ago | 51 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes(byroot.github.io)

69 points by arto 2 months ago | 0 comments

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs(bernsteinbear.com)

67 points by evakhoury 2 months ago | 39 comments

Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain(elttam.com)

67 points by pentestercrab 2 months ago | 17 comments

WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do(whatcable.uk)

66 points by mikecarlton 2 months ago | 44 comments

2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization(studios.disneyresearch.com)

63 points by Jimmc414 2 months ago | 4 comments

Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun(frandroid.com)

61 points by n_plus_1_acc 2 months ago | 41 comments

Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP(goonhost.rocks)

57 points by turborigby 2 months ago | 37 comments

The American sports plutocracy(derekthompson.org)

54 points by momentmaker 2 months ago | 39 comments

The case for overhauling American science(economist.com)

50 points by andsoitis 2 months ago | 43 comments

Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf](www-cdn.anthropic.com)

48 points by artninja1988 2 months ago | 42 comments

Self-hosted web push Cloudflare Worker, works on iOS(kukuroo.cc)

48 points by saiday 2 months ago | 15 comments

Soup Raiders goes native: What you gain by building your own game engine(eliasfarhan.ch)

47 points by kwakwa_cat 2 months ago | 47 comments

Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones(oulu.fi)

46 points by _____k 2 months ago | 45 comments

Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files(huggingface.co)

45 points by apitman 2 months ago | 1 comments

New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant(arxiv.org)

44 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 8 comments

Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K(journals.aps.org)

43 points by supermagnet 2 months ago | 11 comments

Earth.nullschool.net(earth.nullschool.net)

42 points by TremendousJudge 2 months ago | 16 comments

Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead(bbc.com)

42 points by artninja1988 2 months ago | 25 comments

A simple fix for LLM tail latency(engineering.myhoai.com)

42 points by oskrim 2 months ago | 16 comments