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Hacker News Edition
Monday, August 17, 2026
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Hacker News

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Simon Willison▲ 259

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

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

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TechCrunch▲ 268

Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+

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Higher Ed Dive▲ 187

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

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Reuters▲ 179

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

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University of California, Berkeley▲ 151

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

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Reticulum▲ 68

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

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EPFL▲ 5

Strong Gravitational Lensing and Microlensing of Supernovae

Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (SNe) are emerging as a new probe of cosmology and astrophysics in recent years. We provide an overview of this nascent research…

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Racket Team▲ 49

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

Rhombus version 1.1 is now available! We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/. _Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy…

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GitHub▲ 23

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

Prolly is a content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees. It gives applications immutable snapshots, cheap branching, structural sharing, efficient diffs and merges, sync primitives,…

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HN — Best of the Week

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Claude▲ 591

Claude: System Prompts

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Mozilla▲ 590

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

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W4G1▲ 297

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

Reasoning scores climb while per-token compute drops. Labs are stripping world knowledge out of models, and I think that

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RV Embedded▲ 421

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

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Simon Willison▲ 219

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

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

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Google▲ 376

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

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Y Combinator▲ 356

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

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The Guardian▲ 187

The weekend is 100 years old

In 1926, Henry Ford gave his employees both Saturdays and Sundays off – and the two-day chunk of time to party, pray or simply do nothing was born. Now it’s changed beyond recognition

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WPTV▲ 174

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

Saint Lucie Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 was manually shut down Aug. 13 after 3 control rods dropped into the core. The NRC classified it as a non-emergency.

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Daring Fireball▲ 172

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

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea…

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