top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-08-05

Discovery Loop

https://www.discoveryloop.com/

2 months ago

953 upvotes – 602 comments

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/

2 months ago

4 changes
864 upvotes – 933 comments

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/

2 months ago

663 upvotes – 331 comments

Zed DeltaDB

https://zed.dev/deltadb

2 months ago

528 upvotes – 314 comments

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/

2 months ago

499 upvotes – 278 comments

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/

2 months ago

481 upvotes – 528 comments

A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava

https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73355106/hamster-wheel-strava-running/

2 months ago

2 changes
443 upvotes – 105 comments

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html

2 months ago

442 upvotes – 524 comments

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/

2 months ago

1 change
442 upvotes – 213 comments

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency

2 months ago

435 upvotes – 127 comments

Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai

2 months ago

1 change
371 upvotes – 1 comments

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2

2 months ago

333 upvotes – 266 comments

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

https://www.404media.co/cops-used-flock-to-track-a-man-across-state-lines-to-create-pretext-to-search-his-car-for-weed/

2 months ago

330 upvotes – 194 comments

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/

2 months ago

325 upvotes – 270 comments

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data

2 months ago

304 upvotes – 137 comments

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-solar-process/

2 months ago

5 changes
303 upvotes – 65 comments

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt

2 months ago

302 upvotes – 213 comments

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html

2 months ago

299 upvotes – 9 comments

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

https://github.com/denoland/celld

2 months ago

★ 3.1k Rust Apache-2.0
282 upvotes – 53 comments

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-different-website/

2 months ago

267 upvotes – 110 comments

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent

2 months ago

253 upvotes – 69 comments

The Valley of Webhooks

https://weli.dev/blog/the-valley-of-webhooks/

2 months ago

247 upvotes – 102 comments

The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/the-mechanical-miracle-that-ruined

2 months ago

1 change
224 upvotes – 122 comments

Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidias-vera-whitepaper-has-a-thread

2 months ago

2 changes
208 upvotes – 46 comments

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You

https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/

2 months ago

207 upvotes – 204 comments

Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18

https://www.cnelecar.com/blog/oracle-always-free-arm-limits-cut-2026/

2 months ago

1 change
202 upvotes – 131 comments

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

https://www.campion.edu.au/blog/top-25-aristotle-quotes-on-virtue-knowledge-and-happiness/

2 months ago

194 upvotes – 97 comments

Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen-image-3.0-pro

2 months ago

1 change
192 upvotes – 55 comments

Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

https://calpaterson.com/helsinki-hn.html

2 months ago

184 upvotes – 136 comments

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395

2 months ago

1 change
175 upvotes – 107 comments

Making difficulty curves in games

http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 90 comments

Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

https://divingintheshallowend.com/three-six-mafia/

2 months ago

171 upvotes – 198 comments

Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai-20260803/

2 months ago

1 change
155 upvotes – 139 comments

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/the-entropy-of-a-markov-chain

2 months ago

145 upvotes – 15 comments

I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

https://twitter.com/nikitabier/status/2085105586966827343/

2 months ago

2 changes
138 upvotes – 282 comments

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/4/the-grid-that-doubles-the-strength-of-the-ground

2 months ago

138 upvotes – 40 comments

I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

https://naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepathy/

2 months ago

1 change
135 upvotes – 221 comments

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

https://data4sci.com/blog/building-an-advanced-agentic-harness

2 months ago

134 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: What if one fund held tokenized Gold, tech stocks and digital assets?dead

https://wealtii.com/funds/wealtii-tech-digital-asset-growth-fund

2 months ago

1 change
129 upvotes – 0 comments

Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck

https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/intelligence-is-not-the-main-bottleneck

2 months ago

126 upvotes – 119 comments

Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/

2 months ago

120 upvotes – 72 comments

When online commenters detect my art as AI

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai

2 months ago

117 upvotes – 65 comments

Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183198

2 months ago

115 upvotes – 24 comments

Painting with Gaussians

https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-08-03-splat-painter.html

2 months ago

115 upvotes – 23 comments

Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field

https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-new-window-cosmos-field

2 months ago

107 upvotes – 21 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04221

2 months ago

106 upvotes – 102 comments

Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29377

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 13 comments

How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fow-LsdaH2E

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 50 comments

Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260729051515.htm

2 months ago

2 changes
99 upvotes – 101 comments

Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

https://franciscotrindade.me/blog/the-kids-are-alright/

2 months ago

98 upvotes – 103 comments

Faster Than Ninja

https://build2.org/blog/faster-than-ninja.xhtml

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 39 comments

Proxmox VE now available for ARM64

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-virtual-environment-now-available-for-64-bit-arm-arm64.185527/

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 40 comments

No one can afford to make Myst games anymore

https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-can-afford-to-make-myst-games-anymore/

2 months ago

1 change
95 upvotes – 175 comments

Stop sending me your errors

https://kramkow.ski/article/2026/08/05/stop_sending_me_your_errors.html

2 months ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 14 comments

From your doorbell to your home network

https://adepts.of0x.cc/eufy-doorbell-hacking/

2 months ago

92 upvotes – 13 comments

After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted

https://www.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2026080416131786841

2 months ago

88 upvotes – 118 comments

Crickets as pets

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

2 months ago

1 change
88 upvotes – 40 comments

Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC

https://gitlab.com/Kazade/picophysics

2 months ago

★ 8
88 upvotes – 24 comments

A Sick People

https://householderkarl.com/a-sick-people/

2 months ago

86 upvotes – 119 comments

Monitors for Work

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/08/05/monitors-for-work/

2 months ago

86 upvotes – 77 comments

Bugtraq is back

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

2 months ago

1 change
83 upvotes – 32 comments

Jeff Dean Leaving Google

https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 2 comments

The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjejyl34345o

2 months ago

1 change
78 upvotes – 73 comments

What happens if you put work into the second dimension?

https://norbertkozsir.com/posts/work-in-the-second-dimension/

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 58 comments

Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-05/microsoft-s-ai-sales-mostly-come-from-openai-disclosures-show

2 months ago

1 change
74 upvotes – 15 comments

Something is changing in the unit economics of software

https://nicolo.xyz/something-is-changing-in-the-unit-economics-of-software/

2 months ago

73 upvotes – 57 comments

Microsoft Is Quietly Deleting Mentions of 32 GB RAM Recommendation for Win 11

https://www.techpowerup.com/351384/microsoft-is-quietly-deleting-mentions-of-32-gb-ram-recommendation-for-windows-11

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 49 comments

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

https://www.hyperprobe.co

2 months ago

69 upvotes – 51 comments

Findphone: Locate a nearby Bluetooth device by signal strength

https://github.com/ben-z/findphone

2 months ago

★ 1.2k Swift
67 upvotes – 25 comments

An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3

https://github.com/Carloscodix/qapla

2 months ago

★ 80 C Apache-2.0
67 upvotes – 20 comments

Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/attorney-general-brenna-bird-leads-coalition-demanding-transparency-from-openai-after-ai-breach-and

2 months ago

2 changes
62 upvotes – 121 comments

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

https://securelist.com/cloud-platforms-in-phishing/120832/

2 months ago

60 upvotes – 19 comments

TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas

https://tson.io/

2 months ago

59 upvotes – 66 comments
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