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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-13

  1. We tracked down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug tailscale.com - 186 comments 979 points
  2. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 openrouter.ai - 352 comments 877 points
  3. AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? blog.florianherrengt.com - 769 comments 844 points
  4. Qwen3.8-2.4T huggingface.co - 135 comments 588 points
  5. License plate reader searches should require a warrant andrewpwheeler.com - 344 comments 575 points
  6. Delta zed.dev - 178 comments 511 points
  7. Grok 4.6 x.ai - 464 comments 510 points
  8. 2026 Eclipse Webcams jonty.github.io - 128 comments 476 points
  9. Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta www.abc.net.au - 321 comments 468 points
  10. LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 www.cringebot3000.com - 202 comments 468 points
  11. uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook digitalescapetools.com - 545 comments 425 points
  12. Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index artificialanalysis.ai - 358 comments 327 points
  13. Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome guillaumetech.github.io - 63 comments 291 points
  14. Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation woxi.ad-si.com - 40 comments 287 points
  15. Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot knownagents.com - 200 comments 267 points
  16. Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died amiga-news.de - 31 comments 263 points
  17. What sort of maths are LLMs good at? gowers.wordpress.com - 142 comments 254 points
  18. Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them www.neowin.net - 2 comments 191 points
  19. HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript en.andros.dev - 125 comments 184 points
  20. Shade Map shademap.app - 45 comments 183 points
  21. Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available blogs.embarcadero.com - 128 comments 172 points
  22. Pixel Watch 5 blog.google - 253 comments 135 points
  23. Launch HN: Discovered Materials - YC P26 – AI agents to discover new materials discoveredmaterials.com - 28 comments 132 points
  24. Lovable raises $400M Series C lovable.dev - 123 comments 131 points
  25. Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk - 198 comments 129 points
  26. Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful okmij.org - 58 comments 129 points
  27. People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more julienreszka.com - 136 comments 117 points
  28. 5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe www.severe-weather.eu - 161 comments 115 points
  29. German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses www.reuters.com - 46 comments 112 points
  30. Pixel 11 Pro Fold blog.google - 164 comments 109 points