top 10 hacker news stories for today

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/

8 hours ago

696 upvotes – 423 comments

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)

https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj

9 hours ago

487 upvotes – 6 comments

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/

7 hours ago

467 upvotes – 522 comments

FFmpeg 9.0

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES

10 hours ago

★ 62.8k C
404 upvotes – 91 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x

9 hours ago

★ 74 Python Apache-2.0
320 upvotes – 76 comments

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/

4 hours ago

313 upvotes – 70 comments

All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/every-flock-camera-winona-minnesota-cut-down-stolen-coordinated-theft/

2 hours ago

309 upvotes – 186 comments

Apple is getting this wrong

https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/

14 hours ago

263 upvotes – 269 comments

Harness engineering for self-improvement

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/

13 hours ago

1 change
261 upvotes – 56 comments

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai/

4 hours ago

224 upvotes – 168 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev
sort by: datescorecomments