Episode Details

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 13, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:21) - We tracked down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
• (01:47) - DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
• (03:07) - Qwen3.8-2.4T
• (04:26) - Delta
• (05:50) - Grok 4.6
• (07:17) - 2026 Eclipse Webcams
• (08:15) - uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
• (09:29) - Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome
• (10:48) - Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
• (12:30) - Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died
• (13:33) - Outro

We tracked down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272832

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274600

Qwen3.8-2.4T
https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273478

Delta
https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276574

Grok 4.6
https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274027

2026 Eclipse Webcams
https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270953

uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook
https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270726

Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome
https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272549

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
https://knownagents.com/insights
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272569

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died
https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272655