Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-06

  1. Discovery Loop www.discoveryloop.com - 459 comments 739 points
  2. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs blog.google - 693 comments 643 points
  3. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work blog.cloudflare.com - 263 comments 549 points
  4. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking www.wired.com - 245 comments 468 points
  5. Zed DeltaDB zed.dev - 215 comments 410 points
  6. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind www.axios.com - 1 comments 369 points
  7. I’m switching my phone from Android to Linux runarcn.no - 303 comments 314 points
  8. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search www.404media.co - 185 comments 312 points
  9. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models neon.com - 76 comments 308 points
  10. Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet www.nytimes.com - 9 comments 297 points
  11. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery www.wired.com - 217 comments 292 points
  12. Position: LLMs Can’t Jump openreview.net - 182 comments 269 points
  13. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage blog.fogus.me - 229 comments 252 points
  14. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 research.meta.ai - 145 comments 251 points
  15. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing randsinrepose.com - 115 comments 251 points
  16. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In www.vincentschmalbach.com - 100 comments 238 points
  17. Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo www.costar.com - 265 comments 226 points
  18. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls www.promptarmor.com - 90 comments 218 points
  19. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects github.com - 33 comments 205 points
  20. The “Disability Dongle”: Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You sightlessscribbles.com - 191 comments 196 points
  21. The Valley of Webhooks weli.dev - 84 comments 192 points
  22. Qwen Image 3.0 Pro www.qwencloud.com - 53 comments 191 points
  23. Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 www.cnelecar.com - 122 comments 184 points
  24. Helsinki Hacker News Meetup calpaterson.com - 130 comments 180 points
  25. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent www.primeintellect.ai - 33 comments 176 points
  26. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness www.campion.edu.au - 81 comments 172 points
  27. Three Six Mafia – Data about “6/6/6 dating” - 2024 divingintheshallowend.com - 179 comments 143 points
  28. Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com - 51 comments 137 points
  29. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI www.quantamagazine.org - 128 comments 135 points
  30. I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy naomibashkansky.com - 204 comments 128 points