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Hacker News (16 Aug 2026)
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What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
210 points • 180 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Claude: System Prompts
160 points • 68 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
156 points • 107 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
129 points • 56 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
116 points • 36 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)
88 points • 22 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
72 points • 33 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
58 points • 72 comments • aug 16, 2026
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US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged
57 points • 46 comments • aug 16, 2026
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The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators
55 points • 16 comments • aug 16, 2026