Being ambitious and being a dad(nicholascharriere.com)
867 points by nichochar | 675 comments
Personal blog post by Nicholas Charriere on balancing startup ambition with being a father of two, referencing Paul Graham's essay on having kids.
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Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing(daringfireball.net)
736 points by ropbear | 641 comments
John Gruber's Daring Fireball post criticizing Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude-generated text via word-choice steganography to comply with EU regulation.
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things(simonwillison.net)
732 points by bilsbie | 343 comments
Simon Willison blog post reviewing Alibaba's Apache 2 licensed Qwen 3.8 27B vision LLM run locally, noting strong results but excessive default reasoning.
Claude: System Prompts(platform.claude.com)
727 points by tosh | 276 comments
Anthropic documentation page listing the core system prompts used by Claude on claude.ai and its iOS and Android apps, organized by model and date.
Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker(support.mozilla.org)
639 points by pentagrama | 255 comments
Mozilla support article explaining how to block ads in Firefox for iOS; the captured page shows only a loading spinner.
A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”(rvembedded.com)
589 points by Narishma | 304 comments
A blog post on rvembedded.com responding to criticism of RISC-V; the captured page shows a rate limit exceeded error instead of the article.
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
565 points by stagas | 173 comments
A Tell HN post warning that Cloudflare automatically injected a JavaScript analytics snippet into a user's site after switching nameservers, requiring opt-out.
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+(techcrunch.com)
396 points by zacharyozer | 244 comments
A news report that Stripe will reportedly acquire AI model gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion; the captured page shows a Bloomberg bot-check captcha.
Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"(scholar.google.com)
342 points by Alifatisk | 122 comments
Google Scholar search for papers containing the tortured phrase "kidney disappointment"; the page loaded as an unusual-traffic block page.
The AI Credit Resale Economy(vectoral.com)
313 points by mlenhard | 123 comments
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose(w4g1.dev)
290 points by hruvhwe | 163 comments
![Screenshot of ischool.berkeley.edu: The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/8/17/b2afcaf4-c9d6-4209-8ad9-77a0dbcc1ea4.jpg)
The weekend is 100 years old(theguardian.com)
169 points by lentil_soup | 100 comments
Protobuf has LSP support(buf.build)
164 points by theanonymousone | 116 comments
AI Coding Without the Vibes(peterbloem.nl)
64 points by riskone | 39 comments
The Chauffeur Problem(engines.egr.uh.edu)
48 points by leowoo91 | 29 comments
The Mystery of Dark Oxygen(newyorker.com)
45 points by rbanffy | 13 comments
Claude Seems Down
45 points by zhan_eg | 35 comments
Banned Words List(pen.org)
44 points by structuredPizza | 15 comments
