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8–14 August 2026

Monday, 2026-08-10

    Tuesday, 2026-08-11

    1. Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows — 1,142 points, 615 comments
    2. As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing — 810 points, 821 comments
    3. Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models — 603 points, 566 comments
    4. Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — 659 points, 294 comments
    5. England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C — 541 points, 383 comments

    Wednesday, 2026-08-12

    1. DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 — 991 points, 425 comments
    2. AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? — 818 points, 745 comments
    3. uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook — 628 points, 750 comments
    4. Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug — 1,121 points, 212 comments
    5. Grok 4.6 — 602 points, 555 comments

    Thursday, 2026-08-13

    1. Gemini 3.7 Flash — 913 points, 457 comments
    2. DeepSeek Harness developer preview — 697 points, 282 comments
    3. Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast — 675 points, 262 comments
    4. Spaghettifying DRAM — 675 points, 168 comments
    5. Choose Boring Technology (2015) — 389 points, 217 comments

    Friday, 2026-08-14

    1. GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities — 972 points, 486 comments
    2. Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? — 581 points, 545 comments
    3. Hello, me. It's been a while — 334 points, 177 comments
    4. Every Fucking Website (2020) — 626 points, 362 comments
    5. Qwen 3.8 27B — 578 points, 380 comments