top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-07

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/

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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o

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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta

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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731

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Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-claim-oracle-isn-t-writing-its-own-code

2 months ago

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out

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A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/

2 months ago

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Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead

https://stowaway.live/

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Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame

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★ 877 C MIT

Sonic Pi v5

https://www.patreon.com/samaaron/posts/sonic-pi-v5-166001392

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U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/

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U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/july-2026-jobs-report-rcna591138

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App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/app_store_rejection_of_the_week_dark_hours

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Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/

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Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale

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Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805

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Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/

2 months ago

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-internet-says-ex-nsa-chief-after-suspected-iran-attacks/5285070

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Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer

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★ 226 OCaml Apache-2.0

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/

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