news, !paper 2026-08-14

1726 Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin / pcworld.com / 705

1423 Qwen 3.8 27B / huggingface.co / 789

1159 GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities / z.ai / 575

973 Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? / mun-logadan.github.io / 860

860 Every Fucking Website (2020) / lxe.github.io / 491

495 Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption / blog.google / 285

471 Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election / bbc.com / 385

457 Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking / blog.cryptographyengineering.com / 247

380 Seven books I keep close because I love them / blog.plover.com / 180

366 AI by Hand / byhand.ai / 30

360 In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices / e360.yale.edu / 315

342 RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland / rustdesk.com / 158

316 Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions / claude.com / 182

298 Qwen3.8-27B / twitter.com/alibaba_qwen / 3

245 Don't classify, hallucinate / softwaredoug.com / 104

238 DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update / api-docs.deepseek.com / 3

236 France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s / reuters.com / 178

225 I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone / heyjonny.dev / 100

224 Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia / earthquake.usgs.gov / 56

219 Introducing Toast 1 / mixedbread.com / 66

216 eigendrum / eigendrum.com / 1

213 Dear people who work at the airport / life-after-ssri.bearblog.dev / 261

176 When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs / weightythoughts.com / 201

176 The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services / xn--gckvb8fzb.com / 133

175 RISC-V: They should have known better / dmitry.gr / 1

149 Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware / hwbusters.com / 44

147 Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant / getsmall.xyz / 106

144 Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018) / arxiv.org / 79

144 The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here / blog.ploopy.co / 70

142 Racket v9.3 / blog.racket-lang.org / 20

141 Differential Heuristics / redblobgames.com / 8

136 Super Mario Derivations / fzakaria.com / 18

135 Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness / ft.com / 118

134 SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX / pikuma.com / 60

126 Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile / ntfy.sh / 51

120 Every fucking website: 2026 edition / op.tngl.io / 33

113 CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back / cnn.com / 98

110 WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do / whatcable.uk / 79

105 Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua / luacad.ad-si.com / 25

104 Cursor is now a part of SpaceX / cursor.com / 128

104 Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros / chiply.dev / 37

100 Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal / github.com/lajosdeme / 14

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