top 20 hacker news stories for today

DHS Wants Protesters' Signal Group Chats

https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-protesters-signal-group-chats/

2 hours ago

21 upvotes – 2 comments

LLMs won't break symmetric crypto

https://www.bfswa.blog/p/llms-wont-break-symmetric-crypto

50 minutes ago

14 upvotes – 3 comments

Elon Musk's attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn't been updated in months

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/976004/elon-musk-grokipedia-ai-wikipedia-not-updating-dead

58 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 0 comments

Symbolics Genera now available free for non-commercial use (inv-only early beta)

https://hachyderm.io/@gmpalter/117044268951603975

2 hours ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

The Aviation Herald was sued

https://avherald.com/h?article=53c8958a&opt=0

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write

https://benjcal.space/blog/i-built-a-blog-and-forgot-to-write/

55 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 2 comments

The Most Arrogant Science Book Ever Written [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9iRDPXvT4

55 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

The Mentor: How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/roy-cohn-profile

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Discovery Loop

https://www.discoveryloop.com/

10 hours ago

616 upvotes – 388 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/

10 hours ago

4 changes
493 upvotes – 601 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

478 upvotes – 240 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/

15 hours ago

450 upvotes – 241 comments

Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind

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

10 hours ago

1 change
369 upvotes – 1 comments

Zed DeltaDB

https://zed.dev/deltadb

7 hours ago

321 upvotes – 159 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/

11 hours ago

303 upvotes – 188 comments

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

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

10 hours ago

297 upvotes – 9 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/

6 hours ago

250 upvotes – 199 comments

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

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

15 hours ago

247 upvotes – 168 comments

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

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

13 hours ago

230 upvotes – 97 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

8 hours ago

229 upvotes – 54 comments
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