top 50% hacker news stories for today

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

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04221

1 hour ago

13 upvotes – 3 comments

Flowise Is Shutting Down

https://flowiseai.com/sunset

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 3 comments

Bugtraq Is Back

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

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 2 comments

Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

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

45 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

Harness engineering for self-improvement

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

19 hours ago

1 change
300 upvotes – 70 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

300 upvotes – 72 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

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

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

4 hours ago

1 change
220 upvotes – 60 comments

Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/online-advertising-giant-adform-was-hacked-proving-once-again-why-ad-blockers-are-necessary/

10 hours ago

212 upvotes – 79 comments

Web Security is Too Hard

https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/

6 hours ago

2 changes
200 upvotes – 105 comments

Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml

5 hours ago

182 upvotes – 81 comments

Why some people mow a lawn better than others

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/

7 hours ago

167 upvotes – 155 comments

NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data

https://www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/health-and-social-care/nhs-apologises-and-admits-palantir-engineers-have-access-to-identifiable-patient-data/

16 hours ago

151 upvotes – 33 comments

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

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

4 hours ago

3 changes
150 upvotes – 77 comments

Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026

https://solarquarter.com/2026/08/03/germany-records-historic-12-billion-kwh-solar-feed-in-in-july-2026/

11 hours ago

132 upvotes – 186 comments

Everything I Know (1975)

https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/everything-i-know/

13 hours ago

2 changes
131 upvotes – 33 comments

You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

https://pedroth.github.io/?p=post/NoNeedReact

17 hours ago

129 upvotes – 108 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/

3 hours ago

2 changes
128 upvotes – 87 comments

"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-performance

15 hours ago

1 change
120 upvotes – 122 comments

Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup

14 hours ago

★ 202 Python Apache-2.0
118 upvotes – 23 comments

How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

https://www.404media.co/do-not-mention-alpr-usage-how-cops-are-trying-to-hide-the-existence-of-flock/

7 hours ago

111 upvotes – 2 comments

The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/04/16/The-US-is-not-a-democracy-but-an-oligarchy-study-concludes/2761397680051/

15 hours ago

109 upvotes – 78 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 hours ago

105 upvotes – 4 comments

The AI Demand Bubble

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-demand-bubble/

9 hours ago

104 upvotes – 119 comments

Nobel Disease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease

14 hours ago

101 upvotes – 106 comments

Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees

https://www.thisandthat.chat/blog/most-tech-revolutions-made-work-worse-for-employees/

10 hours ago

98 upvotes – 86 comments

Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02412

15 hours ago

98 upvotes – 32 comments

The Warp Agent CLI

https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-the-warp-agent-cli-coding-agent

8 hours ago

93 upvotes – 59 comments

Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-13-billion-airtable-deal

15 hours ago

92 upvotes – 89 comments

It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism

http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/07/its-not-fear-of-ai-communism-its-fear.html

11 hours ago

78 upvotes – 71 comments

When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16763

9 hours ago

77 upvotes – 81 comments

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

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

2 hours ago

76 upvotes – 19 comments

Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game

https://hop.earth/?server=lkhr7&route=fQ5nuu9R

7 hours ago

75 upvotes – 39 comments

Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex

https://github.com/tikalk/adlc-team-skills

10 hours ago

★ 93 Shell MIT
74 upvotes – 39 comments

Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off

https://www.not-ship.com/not-ship-summer-vacation/

9 hours ago

67 upvotes – 72 comments

AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where

https://www.gadgetreview.com/ai-data-centers-are-driving-up-power-bills-this-map-shows-where

7 hours ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments

Perspec 1.0

https://adriansieber.com/announcing-perspec-1-0/

9 hours ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality

https://github.com/david-g-3654/homebench

15 hours ago

★ 41 Python MIT
59 upvotes – 6 comments

Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

https://ing.dk/artikel/ny-rekord-maaned-elbilsalget-private-koeb-ligger-paa-97-procent

19 hours ago

57 upvotes – 76 comments

Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/663bd486c5e4c81588db7a1d/6a724858f7db25c81487016d_Security%20Incident%20INC-2026-07-28-01.pdf

3 hours ago

56 upvotes – 47 comments

Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone

https://learning-rust.github.io

15 hours ago

55 upvotes – 10 comments

Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries

https://www.vlt.io/blog/1-0

7 hours ago

51 upvotes – 16 comments

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/

2 hours ago

48 upvotes – 35 comments
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