top 20 hacker news stories for today

Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04221

1 hour ago

13 upvotes – 3 comments

US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-used-virtually-all-its-long-range-precision-missiles-during-iran-war-2026-08-04/

1 hour ago

13 upvotes – 2 comments

Bugtraq Is Back

https://lists.securityfocus.com/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/CHKLXLA7SJEWLDFHWXB3QU57ADOXGL2E/

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 2 comments

Flowise Is Shutting Down

https://flowiseai.com/sunset

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 3 comments

Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-1-28b/

50 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

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/

6 hours ago

2 changes
893 upvotes – 46 comments

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

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

13 hours ago

732 upvotes – 435 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/

13 hours ago

589 upvotes – 632 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

15 hours ago

494 upvotes – 6 comments

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

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

10 hours ago

459 upvotes – 86 comments

FFmpeg 9.0

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

15 hours ago

★ 62.8k C
423 upvotes – 94 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

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

15 hours ago

★ 95 Python Apache-2.0
365 upvotes – 88 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/

8 hours ago

346 upvotes – 211 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

14 hours ago

340 upvotes – 619 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/

9 hours ago

331 upvotes – 251 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

300 upvotes – 72 comments

Harness engineering for self-improvement

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

19 hours ago

1 change
300 upvotes – 70 comments

Apple is getting this wrong

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

19 hours ago

271 upvotes – 282 comments

Waymo in Dallas

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

6 hours ago

1 change
245 upvotes – 346 comments

Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack

14 hours ago

230 upvotes – 123 comments
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