8.12.26 | Stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, England aims to eliminate hepatitis C, compression is prediction

Hacker News Highlights · Aug 12, 2026 · 13m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 12, 2026.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:18) - Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

(01:43) - England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

(03:02) - Compression is prediction

(04:16) - OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

(05:26) - Mojo 1.0

(06:42) - Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

(07:59) - London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

(09:24) - Show HN…