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Hacker News (16 Aug 2026)
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Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
458 points • 192 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Claude: System Prompts
447 points • 195 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
340 points • 120 comments • aug 16, 2026
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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
242 points • 130 comments • aug 16, 2026
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What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
231 points • 203 comments • aug 16, 2026
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The AI Credit Resale Economy
191 points • 70 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
179 points • 48 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
177 points • 130 comments • aug 16, 2026
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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
169 points • 108 comments • aug 16, 2026
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The weekend is 100 years old
155 points • 89 comments • aug 16, 2026