Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-15
- Qwen 3.8 27B huggingface.co - 661 comments 1041 points
- Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? mun-logadan.github.io - 758 comments 837 points
- Every Fucking Website - 2020 lxe.github.io - 453 comments 778 points
- Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin www.pcworld.com - 286 comments 752 points
- Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election www.bbc.com - 352 comments 439 points
- Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption blog.google - 205 comments 349 points
- Seven books I keep close because I love them blog.plover.com - 154 comments 341 points
- In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices e360.yale.edu - 283 comments 330 points
- Qwen3.8-27B twitter.com - 3 comments 297 points
- Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking blog.cryptographyengineering.com - 139 comments 293 points
- AI by Hand www.byhand.ai - 20 comments 270 points
- RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland rustdesk.com - 112 comments 261 points
- DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update api-docs.deepseek.com - 3 comments 237 points
- France’s top court blocks social media ban for under-15s www.reuters.com - 156 comments 216 points
- Dear people who work at the airport life-after-ssri.bearblog.dev - 248 comments 198 points
- Introducing Toast 1 www.mixedbread.com - 60 comments 193 points
- Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions claude.com - 113 comments 179 points
- When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs weightythoughts.com - 192 comments 172 points
- I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone heyjonny.dev - 67 comments 171 points
- Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia earthquake.usgs.gov - 35 comments 170 points
- RISC-V: They should have known better dmitry.gr - 151 comments 156 points
- The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services xn–gckvb8fzb.com - 109 comments 156 points
- Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness www.ft.com - 88 comments 115 points
- eigendrum eigendrum.com - 23 comments 108 points
- Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant getsmall.xyz - 78 comments 107 points
- CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back www.cnn.com - 82 comments 100 points
- Cursor is now a part of SpaceX cursor.com - 110 comments 98 points
- WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do www.whatcable.uk - 65 comments 93 points
- Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile ntfy.sh - 42 comments 89 points
- The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here blog.ploopy.co - 39 comments 89 points
August 15, 2026 ∙