Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-11

  1. Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows research.meta.ai - 599 comments 1097 points
  2. Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open bobdahacker.com - 188 comments 571 points
  3. Mark Zuckerberg attacks ‘closed’ AI rivals as Meta returns to open models www.ft.com - 435 comments 474 points
  4. The UK’s war on anonymity has come to America www.effort.news - 324 comments 434 points
  5. Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it’s 20g bigger than today’s www.bbc.com - 480 comments 326 points
  6. Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification linuxstans.com - 439 comments 313 points
  7. Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots cactuscompute.com - 106 comments 289 points
  8. Squeak 6.1 squeak.org - 125 comments 253 points
  9. Stop Killing Games: It’s time to sue Sony, join us www.massaschadeconsument.nl - 119 comments 228 points
  10. Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls” patentsgazette.uspto.gov - 183 comments 217 points
  11. Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes ethw.org - 53 comments 216 points
  12. H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon github.com - 25 comments 198 points
  13. Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb kuber.studio - 126 comments 195 points
  14. Learning more about Claude’s mathematical capabilities www.anthropic.com - 122 comments 180 points
  15. 50k Boat Names www.beautifulpublicdata.com - 108 comments 174 points
  16. Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia earthquake.usgs.gov - 67 comments 174 points
  17. ‘Pervert glasses’: Backlash against Meta’s smart glasses grows www.seattletimes.com - 256 comments 172 points
  18. Rust SIMD on the GPU www.vectorware.com - 81 comments 169 points
  19. Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution arstechnica.com - 137 comments 167 points
  20. Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik’s Cube states everycube.alen.is - 51 comments 163 points
  21. Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt github.com - 55 comments 151 points
  22. Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints www.wcax.com - 162 comments 149 points
  23. What’s the best programming language for coding agents? danluu.com - 98 comments 147 points
  24. Chicken Scheme 6.0 code.call-cc.org - 17 comments 143 points
  25. As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing thewalrus.ca - 128 comments 141 points
  26. Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent - 2025 lwn.net - 128 comments 140 points
  27. Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines blog.sshh.io - 20 comments 140 points
  28. Show HN: Ante, a coding agent in a single binary that runs offline github.com - 76 comments 126 points
  29. Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women’s employment than a degree finance.yahoo.com - 177 comments 124 points
  30. Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook thetokyohermit.substack.com - 73 comments 113 points