Best tech stories this week

In week 2026-W34, the AI model Qwen 3.8 27B led discussions with 576 points and 377 comments, highlighting ongoing interest in large language models. Firefox for iOS introduced a native ad blocker, garnering 485 points, reflecting user demand for better privacy features. Additionally, developments in AI systems like Claude's system prompts and GLM-5.3's emergent cyber capabilities attracted significant attention, with 472 and 403 points respectively. Other notable stories included a response from a third-world embedded engineer on RISC-V, research papers humorously titled "kidney disappointment," and a breakthrough in auto-research achieving a 232x faster kernel with Codex.

#10

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

223 pts, 60 comments

223 points · 60 comments · Add your take →

#11

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

197 pts, 98 comments

197 points · 98 comments · Add your take →

#12

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

196 pts, 80 comments

196 points · 80 comments · Add your take →

#13

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

178 pts, 42 comments

178 points · 42 comments · Add your take →

#14

Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?

167 pts, 118 comments

167 points · 118 comments · Add your take →

#15

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

166 pts, 55 comments

166 points · 55 comments · Add your take →

#16

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

150 pts, 156 comments

150 points · 156 comments · Add your take →

#17

GitHub down again? no PR access

142 pts, 42 comments

142 points · 42 comments · Add your take →

#18

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

131 pts, 69 comments

131 points · 69 comments · Add your take →

#19

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

127 pts, 51 comments

127 points · 51 comments · Add your take →

#20

AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

122 pts, 6 comments

122 points · 6 comments · Add your take →

#21

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Best tech stories this week

Claude: System Prompts

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Incident with Github.com

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

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

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

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

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

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

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

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

GitHub down again? no PR access

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Buy Your Friends Batteries

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

Self hosted email continues to steeply decline

Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B

People are worried about America's solvency

Sun Clock

Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance

Rethinking Database Programming

Alternatives to GitHub

Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA

The Benchmarkpocalypse

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices

GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114,000 Lives a Year, Yale Study

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals

The Lonely Men Who Work in Patagonia, at the End of the World

Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet

GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates

Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway

Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?

Expert Witness to ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault"

Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with

David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post

On A.I. regulation and messaging

India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup

'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent

Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer?

Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows

Intriguing stories in computer science

How I over-engineered my book

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data

Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data for $10M

A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture

Llama.cpp v0.1.0

scScript for Linux

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models

Sokoban AI Solver

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

How do I permanently disable Google Photos pop-up prompt to backup my photos?

Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car

Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners

Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP

Pi coding agent: config folder is out of place on Linux