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

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324985 Points: 45 # Comments: 17

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Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324087 Points: 45 # Comments: 29

ropbear 1 week ago

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Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request

Article URL: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-needs-stop-turning-every-purchase-uncomfortable-tip-request Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323874 Points: 19 # Comments: 12

gist 1 week ago

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Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-reports-2026-08-14/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323686 Points: 15 # Comments: 0

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Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-ipo-valuation-hinges-190-200-billion-2028-revenue-forecast-sources-say-2026-08-15/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323620 Points: 14 # Comments: 9

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The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

Article URL: https://ivan-gavran.github.io/0-social-processes-paper Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323459 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

ghuntley 1 week ago

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Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-for-over-7-billion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323381 Points: 47 # Comments: 30

zacharyozer 1 week ago

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An open-source, candle-only crypto pump detector–looking for ML contributors

Article URL: https://github.com/aleks-ent/pump-dump-crypto-screener Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323256 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

alekshenderson 1 week ago

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ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/08/16/ricardo-parias-ice-detention-journalist-los-angeles/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323157 Points: 27 # Comments: 1

Jimmc414 1 week ago

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Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI

Article URL: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/red-queen-hypothesis-new-way-forward-self-improving-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323136 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

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The Trumps' Crypto Project Just Got One Step Closer to Becoming a Bank

Article URL: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/donald-trump-world-liberty-regulatory-approval/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322979 Points: 14 # Comments: 12

rib3ye 1 week ago

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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

Article URL: https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322695 Points: 21 # Comments: 0

hruvhwe 1 week ago

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Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

Article URL: https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322573 Points: 14 # Comments: 4

theanonymousone 1 week ago

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MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

Article URL: https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322330 Points: 16 # Comments: 5

homarp 1 week ago

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I've built a free, open-source local and remote memory system for agentw and CL

Article URL: https://www.lorekit.io/blog/give-your-agent-a-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322206 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

mthines 1 week ago

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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had injected a JS analytics snippet in my HTML-only JS-free site textlog.cc — I had to go to the Analytics dashboard, Add the site to the analytics...

stagas 1 week ago

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Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260811052857.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321783 Points: 11 # Comments: 5

jonbaer 1 week ago

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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"

Article URL: https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321717 Points: 5 # Comments: 2

Narishma 1 week ago

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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321353 Points: 29 # Comments: 3

brandonb 1 week ago

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The weekend is 100 years old

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/16/the-weekend-is-100-years-old-skiveday-fridays-and-hybrid-working-ruined-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320984 Points: 44 # Comments: 10

lentil_soup 1 week ago

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St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

Article URL: https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-unit-1-manually-shut-down-after-3-control-rods-drop-into-reactor-core Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320856 Points: 44 # Comments: 16

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GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/gps-and-the-lost-art-of-getting-lost Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320673 Points: 13 # Comments: 8

karakoram 1 week ago

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The AI Credit Resale Economy

Article URL: https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320611 Points: 45 # Comments: 11

mlenhard 1 week ago

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Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/15/anthropic-revenue-jumps-to-over-11point5-billion-in-q2-report.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320144 Points: 7 # Comments: 4

AnodicElegy 1 week ago

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