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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: Mumbai, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes — Hyderabad or Bengaluru preferred Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Express, LoopBack, REST, microservices, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Linux, Jenkins, AWS, Python, React, Next.js, React Native, LangChain, RAG, Qdrant, OpenAI, Gemini Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1McNKRI8AjV41mFbi9iz2hMiKZec... Email: codeursahil2233@gmail.com Know more about me: https://www.sahilsdevlab.com/ Senior SDE at Valuefy, a wealth-management fintech — about three years in, promoted to Senior within a year of graduating. I own backend delivery across three HDFC Bank programs: a domestic portfolio reporting platform, an offshore product for high-AUM clien…

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: Mumbai, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes — Hyderabad or Bengaluru preferred Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Express, LoopBack, REST, microservices, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Linux, Jenkins, AWS, Python, React, Next.js, React Native, LangChain, RAG, Qdrant, OpenAI, Gemini Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1McNKRI8AjV41mFbi9iz2hMiKZec... Email: codeursahil2233@gmail.com Know more about me: https://www.sahilsdevlab.com/ Senior SDE at Valuefy, a wealth-management fintech — about three years in, promoted to Senior within a year of graduating. I own backend delivery across three HDFC Bank programs: a domestic portfolio reporting platform, an offshore product for high-AUM clien…

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

- See "Llama.cpp vs Ollama"[0] and "Llama.cpp vs LM Studio"[1] for a high-level features comparison and find out which one suite you best (check out the "Target Users" category[0][1], at least). - If you're still not sure, "LM Studio"[2] is ok to start with as you'll be able to download, start/stop/manage and chat with your LLM model all in one place: a single desktop app. Also, once installed, enable "Developer mode" under "Settings > Developer" tab; you might find it useful later. - Regarding LLM models you can, based on your hardware spec, start with Qwen3.6, Google's Gemma4, OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b or Nvidia's Nemotron; use LM Studio's "Model Browser" screen to search for LLM models (each one listed with their organizational name/brand & logo: ignore the one you don't r…

"not a single vulnerability was found by a US frontier model."

This is cope. All of the Chinese labs are publishing papers describing their models and each one contains actually novel approaches and solutions. In a few months when they surpass OpenAI and Anthropic, what will be the excuse then?

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

Didn’t Anthropic acquire Cerebras? Seems like a move into the same direction. I also think that etching models into ASICs may be a bit too inflexible for what OpenAI and Anthropic want.

Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds

FYI I find that Whisper is far from the best transcription models out there as well. I did a bunch of testing and I found that Assembly AI's transcription models are significant better than Whisper and even ElevenLabs. I guess I now sound like an ad.

OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents

Kinda misleading title too no? Is MCSFT and Vercel actually "rivals"? Last time I checked it was Anthropic and Elon that we're doing the rivalry. And yesit does sound like gate control - and also maybe this is another one of those attempts to fill in the news cycle with the familiar narrative "wow they're so powerful now they need to be standardized and reigned in"

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

Oh I do. Headless 128GB RAM machine serving llama.cpp with a number of local models that I use on a daily basis. • Qwen3-VL picks up new images in a NAS, auto captions and adds the text descriptions as a hidden EXIF layer into the image, which is used for fast search and organization in conjunction with a Qdrant vector database. • Gemma3:27b is used for personal translation work (mostly English and Chinese). • Some small 8b models (like llama3.1) for sentiment analysis on text. But haven't really tried using local LLMs in conjunction with agentic harnesses yet.

OpenAI's ring-shaped smart speaker will reportedly cost between $300 and $400

> Sources told Gurman that the product would have a ring-shaped design about the size of a hockey puck. The form factor is meant to be battery-powered and portable, so a user could easily carry it around with them. If there is any company I would hope people weren’t carrying a microphone around for, it would be OpenAI.

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

> HLE, AA-LCR and AA-Omniscience are now graded by GPT-5.6 Luna (medium), replacing GPT-4o, Qwen3 235B A22B 2507, and Gemini 3 Flash Preview respectively. These checks are now unified under a more capable modern model, selected for strong agreement with human judgment in our grader validation Interesting that they chose a nano-sized model from OpenAI to be a grader for benchmarks involving knowledge and hallucination.

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

Is there any LLM from exactly one year ago that would be worth running? In Aug 2025 you had - OpenAI o3 - Opus 4.1 - Gemini 2.5 Pro - Grok 4 Even if those were almost free to run, you'd be way better off with Deepseek flash 0731 or GPT 5.6 Luna, which already are almost free. Other than for things where the t/s are critical, it seems like a bad idea to etch a model into silicon.

OpenAI's ring-shaped smart speaker will reportedly cost between $300 and $400

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

OpenAI and Anthropic are both designing ASICs.

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

OpenAI and Anthropic are both designing ASICs.

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

Apparently Anthropic is moving that way: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropic-confirms-plans-...

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

Aws is an infrastructure company that builds services on top of that infra to sell more of it at a higher margin. Anthropic trains models on AWS's (and GCPs, and Microslop's) infrastructure, then skims margin off of selling inference also on the infrastructure owned by the other companies. These are extremely different businesses.

OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents

Microsoft filings suggest "around 70%" of its AI revenue is on OpenAI

The msft-openai tie-up is probably the least concerning of the "circular" deals since it's a natural outgrowth of a rather pedestrian investment/incubation. I'm not saying you're saying that, just pointing it out.

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

Because Openai and anthropic are not hardware companies. They outsource that to Broadcom and AWS' Annapurna labs.

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

Because Openai and anthropic are not hardware companies. They outsource that to Broadcom and AWS' Annapurna labs.