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Federal government finalizes ownership reporting exemption for US firms

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-finalizes-ownership-reporting-exemp...
2•anigbrowl•35s ago•0 comments

Hypothetical Document Embeddings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10496
1•kaycebasques•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are your unfinished projects?

1•adam_gyroscope•1m ago•0 comments

I bought the most expensive cable I could find. It still died

https://medium.com/@pokhts/i-bought-the-most-expensive-cable-i-could-and-it-still-died-welcome-to...
1•PhilYeh75•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs

https://mib-viewer.com/
1•beefstew123•4m ago•0 comments

"Solving a largely imaginary user goal"

https://unsung.aresluna.org/solving-a-largely-imaginary-user-goal/
1•euthymiclabs•4m ago•0 comments

Is AI Coding Effecting Our Mental Health? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUn1Fnfn0k
1•torartc•4m ago•0 comments

The Java Story – The official documentary [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGSg4b_cZA
1•kimi•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Eve Software Factory Template

https://github.com/vercel-labs/eve-software-factory-template
2•flashbrew•5m ago•0 comments

A Plane Ran Out of Fuel over the Atlantic. The Pilots Saved 306 Lives

https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a73413706/air-transat-flight-fuel-glider/
2•ilamont•7m ago•0 comments

Agentic engineering optimizes for rejecting output, not generating it

https://dparkmit.substack.com/p/how-i-used-agentic-engineering-to
2•dparkmit•9m ago•0 comments

Google Is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption

https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/
2•u1hcw9nx•10m ago•2 comments

Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/taylor-farms-connections-to-trump-admin-spurs-probe-into-c...
2•cratermoon•10m ago•0 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B Pelican

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1voa3ch/comment/p3o0om9/
2•T0mSIlver•11m ago•0 comments

Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things

https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/activation-energy-is-a-good-model
2•surprisetalk•13m ago•0 comments

The Other Sean Byrne Doesn't Exist

https://conic.al/writing/the-other-sean-byrne-doesnt-exist/
2•seanieb•14m ago•0 comments

Ed Zitron Was Wrong About AI

https://www.drjoshcsimmons.com/writing/ed-zitron-ai-predictions
3•joshcsimmons•15m ago•1 comments

Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/too-little-too-late-flock-admits-their-technology-needs-ref...
4•Brajeshwar•15m ago•1 comments

Agent Host Protocol

https://microsoft.github.io/agent-host-protocol/
2•eatmyshardz•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SVC16 = a specified virtual computer to build compilers for

https://janneuendorf.github.io/SVC16/
2•JanNeuendorf•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Remarc – contextual feedback for coding agents via MCP

https://github.com/metedata/Remarc
2•young_mete•18m ago•0 comments

Animica – a post-quantum Layer 1 blockchain built primarily in Python

https://animica.org/
3•animica•19m ago•0 comments

The Treasury market's toxic codependency

https://www.ft.com/content/e3cd352e-5202-4748-952f-ed623ccdc774
2•petethomas•19m ago•0 comments

Explain to Me in Simple Technical English

https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/explain-to-me-in-simple-technical-english/
2•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

Chery didn't exist in the UK last year but just outsold Honda and Mazda combined

https://www.carscoops.com/2026/08/chery-uk-market-share/
2•daau•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sloppy Fast Group Scroll Svelte

https://prathje.github.io/fast-group-scroll-shadcn-svelte/
2•prathje•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Realistic AI Image Generator for portraits and product shots

https://realisticaiimagegenerator.online/
2•realisticaigen•20m ago•0 comments

RIP Claude

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/rip-claude/
4•herbertl•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mininote: Instant, plain-text note taking without tracking or lock-in

https://mininote.ink/
4•helba-ai•23m ago•0 comments

A knowledge base that notices when it stops being true

https://github.com/pollockchris083-arch/counterentry/blob/main/ESSAY.md
2•chrispollock•25m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8
52•erdaltoprak•53m ago

Comments

TomGarden•50m ago
Really excited to see what people do with this. 3.7 27B was probably the best compromise between size and intelligence to run on consumer hardware
erdaltoprak•48m ago
This is one of the most important model releases since most use cases don't need SOTA/Frontier
expedited123•39m ago
Kinda was expecting to see Gemma 4 26B in benchmark comparisons :(
kamranjon•16m ago
Since Qwen 3.6 27b outperforms Gemma 4 26b in most benchmarks I'm not sure the value - also Gemma 26b is a MOE model whereas this is a dense model, so not typically direct competitors at their sizes - Gemma 4 31b comparison would be interesting though.
onlyrealcuzzo•37m ago
If the benchmarks don't lie, this is getting very close to Opus 4.6 capability - which was the turning point for me for when AI was "good enough" that it became very hard to justify not using it.

I'm sure there's some benchmaxxing going on, and some things you get only with a a larger model.

But I'm feeling pretty confident if not by Gemma 5 than by mid 2028 we'll have local models that are almost always as good as Opus 4.6 was and in many cases far better.

DanielHB•16m ago
What kind of things you only get with a larger model?
versteegen•7m ago
IME using 5.6 Luna and DS V4 Flash, I notice that although they are excellent at programming, even Opus-like in the way they try to debug, the thing they are worst at is inferring user intent and making good decisions with little information. They are absolutely terrible at that, will misinterpret small wording ambiguities. I suspect that's an ability you can't add with RL training, it requires raw pre-training world-knowledge.
ThouYS•36m ago
I am so happy right now, qwen3.6-27b was an absolute game changer. To see another one in the same league.. phew
karimf•24m ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299684
xlayn•24m ago
The file "Just loads" on llama.cpp, the Unsloth https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF is an MTP file, I see mostly the same speed on pp and generation. There has to be something wrong with those benchmarks, I find extremely hard to believe a 27B model can work similar or exceed opus 4.6.
Mr_Eri_Atlov•15m ago
This is the homelab model hands down
synergy20•14m ago
I wish this can run directly on my RTX 4090, seems like 30B is the sweet spot for dense model to run locally, sadly RTX 5090 is very expensive and I need a new PC and new power supply(and UPS) to run that, adding a second RTX 4090 is another option, but not sure if my PC can do that yet.
baron3dl•10m ago
even a 3090 will give you the VRAM headroom. i run Q8 on an 3090/A6500 combo. well, Q8 of 3.6-27B. I'm building the Q8 GGUF for 3.8 now, assuming mine will finish before someone else's.
piyh•14m ago
Qwen 3.6 is ~$2/m tok, 3.8 should be drop in replacement. Gemma 31B is $0.34/m tok. The price differential on these models is massive on openrouter.