HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-08-14

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Qwen 3.8 27B (huggingface.co)

    1438 points · HN #49299605

  2. 02

    GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities (z.ai)

    1171 points · HN #49294997

  3. 03

    Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? (mun-logadan.github.io)

    993 points · HN #49296740

  4. 04

    Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption (blog.google)

    498 points · HN #49300314

  5. 05

    RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland (rustdesk.com)

    346 points · HN #49300759

  6. 06

    Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking (cryptographyengineering.com)

    461 points · HN #49304447

  7. 07

    AI by Hand (byhand.ai)

    367 points · HN #49300568

  8. 08

    Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions (claude.com)

    319 points · HN #49300800

  9. 09

    Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (pcworld.com)

    1765 points · HN #49303202

  10. 10

    I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone (heyjonny.dev)

    228 points · HN #49299081

  11. 11

    Introducing Toast 1 (mixedbread.com)

    219 points · HN #49299746

  12. 12

    Every Fucking Website (2020) (lxe.github.io)

    873 points · HN #49299222

  13. 13

    Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out (0.mk)

    229 points · HN #49289532

  14. 14

    Ultraviolet Bird Photography (uvbirds.com)

    168 points · HN #49211375

  15. 15

    Seven books I keep close because I love them (plover.com)

    386 points · HN #49299675

  16. 16

    Hello, me. It's been a while (themech.net)

    381 points · HN #49290166

  17. 17

    Don't classify, hallucinate (softwaredoug.com)

    246 points · HN #49249523

  18. 18

    Bluesky Protocol Services (atproto.com)

    213 points · HN #49293324

  19. 19

    Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS (hansotten.com)

    115 points · HN #49269809

  20. 20

    Super Mario Derivations (fzakaria.com)

    140 points · HN #49215682

  21. 21

    DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update (deepseek.com)

    238 points · HN #49296627

  22. 22

    Blog about things you don't understand yet (seangoedecke.com)

    169 points · HN #49293087

  23. 23

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

    100 points · HN #49303046

  24. 24

    In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices (yale.edu)

    362 points · HN #49298910

  25. 25

    Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes (github.com/carpdiem)

    114 points · HN #49232870

  26. 26

    Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election (bbc.com)

    473 points · HN #49301260

  27. 27

    The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

    177 points · HN #49297637

  28. 28

    Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua (ad-si.com)

    106 points · HN #49301215

  29. 29

    Differential Heuristics (redblobgames.com)

    141 points · HN #49231490

  30. 30

    France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s (reuters.com)

    239 points · HN #49300671