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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-21: 1. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search r...; tinyurl.com/253kd6ws 2. Kobo can run ap...; tinyurl.com/2xrffoxq 3. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US ...; tinyurl.com/25lrywps
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-20: 1. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that b...; tinyurl.com/2b7gpc8s 2. I like 'em thick: an apol...; tinyurl.com/27k45ojs 3. Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta d...; tinyurl.com/24424whc
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-19: 1. OpenLogi; tinyurl.com/2xu42obc 2. A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare; tinyurl.com/2cg3pads 3. OpenRouter is joining Stripe; tinyurl.com/2c93xhek

OpenLogi

A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust. Remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift over HID++ — no account, no telemetry.

openlogi.org
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-18: 1. The Amazon tax; tinyurl.com/27q2gybc 2. GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter; tinyurl.com/25yrj6sl 3. Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM; tinyurl.com/2yvrlnlf

The Amazon tax

It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search ad…

seths.blog
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-17: 1. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthin...; tinyurl.com/269jw3as 2. AI;DR (AI; D...; tinyurl.com/29rh67fq 3. Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion...; tinyurl.com/27np3ph7

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

simonwillison.net
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-16: 1. Asus Bike Booster; tinyurl.com/23cqenfe 2. Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker; tinyurl.com/29x497xe 3. Claude: System Prompts; tinyurl.com/23v89r9k

Oxiis Intelligent Bike Booster｜Bike Booster｜ASUS Global

ASUS Oxiis E250G1 transforms any bike with 500W peak boost, 50 km eco range, app control, fast USB-C charging, and easy install now for riders

asus.com
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-15: 1. Semaglutide linked to lower predi...; tinyurl.com/2buu3la2 2. AI has access to a vastly larger working memory th...; tinyurl.com/2asuenke 3. At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme...; tinyurl.com/2y4qblyb

Semaglutide attenuates a proteomics‐based dementia risk signature in older adults with overweight...

INTRODUCTION Plasma proteomics detect multi-pathway biological changes preceding dementia onset. The Dementia SomaSignal Test (dSST) is a validated 25-protein score predicting 5- and 20-year all-ca...

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-14: 1. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities; tinyurl.com/2xz63pwn 2. Qwen 3.8 27B; tinyurl.com/292ww7ur 3. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?; tinyurl.com/299hzn2t
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-13: 1. Gemini 3.7 Flash; tinyurl.com/229uws42 2. DeepSeek Harness developer preview; tinyurl.com/22n5xb5t 3. Spaghettifying DRAM; tinyurl.com/2bg2thq6

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

Gemini 3.7 Flash is our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.

blog.google
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-09: 1. My server is a phone now; tinyurl.com/28k35zba 2. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics; tinyurl.com/23gm37db 3. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours; tinyurl.com/2yt8jffk

my server is a phone now

rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.

seg6.space
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-08: 1. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to uploa...; tinyurl.com/266bol6y 2. U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models...; tinyurl.com/236b93ay 3. Hardware backdoors in so...; tinyurl.com/yd2fjhva

A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night

Meet Mollie, the 10-month-old hamster who’s been logging serious mileage.

runnersworld.com
Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-08-04: 1. Xbox goes down. You can't play ...; tinyurl.com/29owyhz6 2. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to genera...; tinyurl.com/29zfxtfl 3. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks f...; tinyurl.com/27d47gm6

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc.

Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from...

birchtree.me
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-07-30: 1. UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FI...; tinyurl.com/24sfuzby 2. Read this before you buy that TV ...; tinyurl.com/24fvnah7 3. AI's top startups are barely publishing...; tinyurl.com/2ajgkxzo

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.

uefa.com
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-07-29: 1. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac; tinyurl.com/256m9met 2. KOReader; tinyurl.com/2k7ccggr 3. Superlogical; tinyurl.com/2dy9t2nu

GitHub - drumih/turbo-fieldfare: Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in ~2 GB of RAM on any M-series MacBook

Gemma 4 26B-A4B inference in ~2 GB of RAM on any M-series MacBook - drumih/turbo-fieldfare

github.com
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-07-27: 1. Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace; tinyurl.com/29clymkm 2. PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works; tinyurl.com/2cpfqkho 3. Our position on open-weights models; tinyurl.com/2ann6mxn

moonshotai/Kimi-K3 · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-07-26: 1. Kill The Cookie Ba...; tinyurl.com/25qn76sc 2. GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked dev...; tinyurl.com/22wj6hdz 3. Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go ...; tinyurl.com/2c7hpguw
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-07-21: 1. Who's afraid of Chinese ...; tinyurl.com/2cklns3w 2. OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model eva...; tinyurl.com/2xh2htnj 3. Human mathematicians are being outcountere...; tinyurl.com/28z37dsu

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?

Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.

stratechery.com
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-07-20: 1. China’s open-weights AI strategy is ...; tinyurl.com/2assj48a 2. Hacker wipes Romania's land registry d...; tinyurl.com/2ad2vll9 3. Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Con...; tinyurl.com/28o5fo8n

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.

China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.

werd.io
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-07-09: 1. John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement; tinyurl.com/26mcxr44 2. EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0; tinyurl.com/2bptunun 3. GPT-5.6; tinyurl.com/2yd6moqf

John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement

John Deere owners should soon feel free to fix their own machines. The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general have secured a “right to repair” settlement with farming equipment...

apnews.com
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Top 3 Hacker News from 2026-07-06: 1. OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router; tinyurl.com/2bvf5x68 2. AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit; tinyurl.com/25e8u9bu 3. CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps; tinyurl.com/2xwrzkgq
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