top 10 hacker news stories for today

Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tkt2/executive

6 hours ago

178 upvotes – 38 comments

The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

https://blog.ploopy.co/the-aplus-is-finally-here-499

6 hours ago

95 upvotes – 44 comments

Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459

7 hours ago

1 change
80 upvotes – 33 comments

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

https://conic.al/writing/the-other-sean-byrne-doesnt-exist/

3 hours ago

74 upvotes – 18 comments

NSA and IETF, Part 9

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260814-update.html

6 hours ago

46 upvotes – 53 comments

"That's not SOC 2 compliant"

https://ampcode.com/notes/thats-not-soc-2-compliant

1 hour ago

1 change
37 upvotes – 16 comments

Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees

https://sf.gazetteer.co/corgi-kills-short-lived-website-that-ranked-its-female-employees

7 hours ago

32 upvotes – 29 comments

Youngest Black professor at Cambridge who faced plagiarism claims is found dead

https://apnews.com/article/jason-arday-cambridge-professor-london-dead-reports-9036e2b405f5849415534e80bb1b9cb1

6 hours ago

31 upvotes – 10 comments

The End of Mathematics

https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/8/11/the-end-of-mathematics

4 hours ago

30 upvotes – 12 comments

Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308059

1 hour ago

29 upvotes – 45 comments
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