Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Article URL: https://kagi.com/changelog#11296 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154 Points: 883 # Comments: 302
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Weekly digest
Top radar items ranked by score * feed weight / rebuilt 2026-08-21 21:06 UTC
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Last 7 days
2026-08-14 - 2026-08-21 UTC / top 10
The Amazon tax
Article URL: https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345263 Points: 699 # Comments: 450
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343559 Points: 542 # Comments: 369
Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
Article URL: https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342719 Points: 471 # Comments: 222
Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
Article URL: https://twitter.com/NoubarAfeyan/status/2090050162441752787 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361395 Points: 452 # Comments: 207
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330781 Points: 449 # Comments: 73
Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
Article URL: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319633 Points: 432 # Comments: 188
Claude: System Prompts
Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319556 Points: 427 # Comments: 188
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331033 Points: 417 # Comments: 269
OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Previously: Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323381 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364559 Points: 383 # Comments: 234
8-14 days ago
2026-08-07 - 2026-08-14 UTC / top 10
Qwen 3.8 27B
Article URL: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299605 Points: 671 # Comments: 433
Every Fucking Website (2020)
Article URL: https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299222 Points: 656 # Comments: 373
Gemini 3.7 Flash
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.7-flas... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289112 Points: 439 # Comments: 265
England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257377 Points: 439 # Comments: 314
Spaghettifying DRAM
Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286341 Points: 406 # Comments: 122
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
Article URL: https://stolen-thoughts.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257876 Points: 381 # Comments: 152
Gloomberb
Article URL: https://gloom.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285982 Points: 344 # Comments: 173
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
Article URL: https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216946 Points: 333 # Comments: 139
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220126 Points: 328 # Comments: 103
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
Article URL: https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189 Points: 321 # Comments: 224
15-21 days ago
2026-07-31 - 2026-08-07 UTC / top 10
Mario Meets Pareto
Article URL: https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195231 Points: 913 # Comments: 151
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
https://www.reuters.com/world/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-p... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexic... https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nm-court-orders-meta-to-pay-5... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7lz3wr2rlo https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492043...
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
Article URL: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192566 Points: 645 # Comments: 200
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/?intelligence=agentic-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200652 Points: 454 # Comments: 289
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/am... https://chatjimmy.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201970 Points: 434 # Comments: 336
Discovery Loop
Article URL: https://www.discoveryloop.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 Points: 432 # Comments: 272
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165 Points: 410 # Comments: 16
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos...
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Article URL: https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214008 Points: 351 # Comments: 212
GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/br0l2tvcx85d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198302 Points: 348 # Comments: 280