top 50% 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

51 minutes ago

16 upvotes – 6 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

59 minutes ago

8 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/

56 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 2 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 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

The Most Arrogant Science Book Ever Written [video]

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

57 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Investors are having doubts about Elon Musk's grandiose ambitions

https://economist.com/business/2026/08/05/investors-are-having-doubts-about-elon-musks-grandiose-ambitions

6 minutes 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
495 upvotes – 601 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

478 upvotes – 241 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 – 161 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 – 169 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

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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

6 hours ago

218 upvotes – 181 comments

Qwen Image 3.0 Pro

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

11 hours ago

1 change
191 upvotes – 53 comments

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

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

11 hours ago

187 upvotes – 189 comments

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

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

7 hours ago

184 upvotes – 111 comments

Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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

17 hours ago

179 upvotes – 129 comments

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

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

9 hours ago

176 upvotes – 71 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/

11 hours ago

1 change
174 upvotes – 118 comments

Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness

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

12 hours ago

159 upvotes – 77 comments

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

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

5 hours ago

1 change
158 upvotes – 71 comments

The Valley of Webhooks

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

11 hours ago

156 upvotes – 73 comments

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

https://github.com/denoland/celld

9 hours ago

★ 936 Rust Apache-2.0
152 upvotes – 28 comments

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

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

7 hours ago

143 upvotes – 149 comments

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

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

14 hours ago

130 upvotes – 155 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

12 hours ago

1 change
129 upvotes – 0 comments

Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

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

14 hours ago

1 change
126 upvotes – 125 comments

I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

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

9 hours ago

1 change
119 upvotes – 199 comments

Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck

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

12 hours ago

118 upvotes – 111 comments

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

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

5 hours ago

109 upvotes – 19 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/

20 hours ago

108 upvotes – 70 comments

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

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

12 hours ago

108 upvotes – 42 comments

The Entropy of a Markov Chain

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

12 hours ago

107 upvotes – 9 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04221

1 day ago

105 upvotes – 93 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29377

21 hours ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Painting with Gaussians

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

12 hours ago

92 upvotes – 16 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

91 upvotes – 14 comments

NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

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

5 hours ago

1 change
90 upvotes – 13 comments

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

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

1 day ago

86 upvotes – 110 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

85 upvotes – 87 comments

Faster Than Ninja

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

12 hours ago

83 upvotes – 30 comments

Jeff Dean Leaving Google

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

10 hours ago

79 upvotes – 2 comments

A Sick People

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

12 hours ago

78 upvotes – 115 comments

Bugtraq is back

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

1 day ago

1 change
78 upvotes – 30 comments

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395

8 hours ago

1 change
78 upvotes – 54 comments

The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized

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

21 hours ago

1 change
74 upvotes – 70 comments

I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

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

5 hours ago

2 changes
70 upvotes – 101 comments

An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3

https://github.com/Carloscodix/qapla

22 hours ago

★ 67 C Apache-2.0
65 upvotes – 20 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

11 hours ago

63 upvotes – 30 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

8 hours ago

1 change
62 upvotes – 16 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

13 hours ago

2 changes
60 upvotes – 111 comments

Stop sending me your errors

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

9 hours ago

1 change
59 upvotes – 10 comments

International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF)

https://knock-knock.net/blog/citigroup-idaho-build-a-bear/

11 hours ago

1 change
58 upvotes – 16 comments

Flowise is shutting down

https://flowiseai.com/sunset

1 day ago

1 change
58 upvotes – 45 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

12 hours ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments

What happens if you put work into the second dimension?

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

7 hours ago

51 upvotes – 44 comments

The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices

16 hours ago

51 upvotes – 79 comments

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

https://tson.io/

12 hours ago

50 upvotes – 50 comments

Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w1lvn7d9go

14 hours ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

No Data Centers in My Backyard

https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard

15 hours ago

49 upvotes – 143 comments

Proxmox VE now available for ARM64

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

11 hours ago

49 upvotes – 15 comments

OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record

https://community.openai.com/t/how-openai-lost-a-paying-customer-over-160-it-refuses-to-explain/1389233

5 hours ago

49 upvotes – 26 comments

Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure

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

9 hours ago

48 upvotes – 13 comments

Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base

https://www.wardsauto.com/news/the-auto-industry-is-building-for-a-past-thats-never-coming-back/825594/

22 hours ago

1 change
48 upvotes – 108 comments

Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else

https://observer.co.uk/news/science-technology/article/silicon-valley-sees-ai-as-the-solution-for-everyone-else-its-the-problem

12 hours ago

47 upvotes – 51 comments

Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog

https://sagredo.dev/projects/sula/

7 hours ago

46 upvotes – 2 comments

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

https://www.hyperprobe.co

9 hours ago

45 upvotes – 31 comments
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