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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Qwen 3.8 27B

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

<a href="https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/about_disgusting_facebook_devs/" rel="nofollow">https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/about_dis...</a><p><a href="https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-ads-are-so-hard-to-block-that-ublock-origin-stopped-filtering-them/" rel="nofollow">https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-ads-are-so-hard-to-bloc...</a>

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

<a href="https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/amd-acquires-taalas-to-advance-compute-solutions-for-rapidly-growing-ai-inference-market" rel="nofollow">https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/am...</a><p><a href="https://chatjimmy.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://chatjimmy.ai/</a>

US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

Discovery Loop

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

<a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa...</a><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leadership-deepmind-chief-shifts-role-2026-08-05/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leaders...</a><p><a href="https://www.discoveryloop.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.discoveryloop.com/</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960</a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724</a>, <a href="https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724</a>

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

LLMs reward expertise

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Don't be a meat proxy