Daily Digest — 2026-08-13

Hacker News front page

• Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug — 1125 points, 212 comments (discussion)
• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 — 993 points, 426 comments (discussion)
• Qwen3.8-2.4T — 686 points, 159 comments (discussion)
• uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook — 636 points, 761 comments (discussion)
• Delta — 620 points, 224 comments (discussion)
• Grok 4.6 — 606 points, 560 comments (discussion)
• 2026 Eclipse Webcams — 502 points, 135 comments (discussion)
• ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux — 314 points, 213 comments (discussion)
• Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died — 290 points, 35 comments (discussion)
• Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified — 233 points, 192 comments (discussion)

Wikipedia — today's featured article

Ellis Wackett — Air Vice-Marshal Ellis Charles Wackett, CB, CBE was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Its chief engineer from 1935 to 1959, he served on the RAAF's controlling body, the Air Board, for a record seventeen years, and has been credited with infusing operations with new standards of airworthiness. Commencing his service career as a Royal Australian Navy cadet during World War I, Wackett transfe… (read more)

In the news

• A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes Chocó Department, Colombia, leaving at least 254 people dead. (context)
• In cycling, Demi Vollering wins the Tour de France Femmes. (context)
• Shootings at a residence and a school in Nonthaburi province, Thailand, leave at least nine people dead. (context)
• A consortium led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund purchases video game publisher Electronic Arts in a leveraged buyout. (context)

Space & science

• Paragon lays off staff after Gateway cancellation — A subcontractor for a module that was being developed for NASA’s lunar Gateway has laid off 70 people after NASA halted work on the program. The post Paragon lays off staff after… (SpaceNews)
• Cruise control: the team guiding Hera to its asteroid — First the European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission separated from its launcher on 7 October 2024, next its lengthy ‘cruise phase’ began – the car-sized spacecraft’s journey th… (ESA)
• Astranis unveils geostationary surveillance satellite — The spacecraft is designed to inspect, track and maneuver around satellites in geostationary orbit The post Astranis unveils geostationary surveillance satellite appeared first on… (SpaceNews)
• Sophie Adenot prepares for her first spacewalk — From the ESA Blogs. (ESA)
• MTG-I1 captures eclipse path of totality over Europe — Yesterday between 20:26 and 20:34 CEST, parts of the Iberian peninsula experienced a total solar eclipse. This animation, composed of images from the Meteosat Third Generation Imag… (ESA)

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