top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-04

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/

2 months ago

2 changes
1643 upvotes – 95 comments

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

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

2 months ago

795 upvotes – 465 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/

2 months ago

713 upvotes – 771 comments

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

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

2 months ago

625 upvotes – 99 comments

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/

2 months ago

546 upvotes – 294 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

2 months ago

503 upvotes – 6 comments

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/08/xibalba64-making-of

2 months ago

492 upvotes – 252 comments

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/

2 months ago

481 upvotes – 133 comments

FFmpeg 9.0

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

2 months ago

★ 63.1k C
465 upvotes – 97 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 months ago

396 upvotes – 248 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/

2 months ago

388 upvotes – 283 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

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

2 months ago

★ 141 Python Apache-2.0
382 upvotes – 109 comments

U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-report.html

2 months ago

380 upvotes – 724 comments

Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)

https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/

2 months ago

1 change
337 upvotes – 82 comments

Harness engineering for self-improvement

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

2 months ago

1 change
332 upvotes – 79 comments

Waymo in Dallas

https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/

2 months ago

1 change
330 upvotes – 731 comments

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/

2 months ago

320 upvotes – 73 comments

I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

https://twitter.com/gwern/status/2084739205071343837

2 months ago

3 changes
317 upvotes – 241 comments

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/04/ai-fuels-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-africa-as-digital-scams-surge-interpol/

2 months ago

2 changes
292 upvotes – 248 comments

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963

2 months ago

291 upvotes – 249 comments
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