top 20 hacker news stories for today

Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media

https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7

2 hours ago

58 upvotes – 28 comments

New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-answer-911-calls-instead-of-human-dispatchers-impacts-emergencies-crime/91065014007/

1 hour ago

43 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds

https://github.com/Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap

1 hour ago

Python MIT
14 upvotes – 8 comments

Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/obviously-doge-did-not-save-money/

1 hour ago

12 upvotes – 1 comments

The Investors Whose SpaceX Shares Vanished Before They Could Cash In

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/spacex-ipo-spv-investors-2698a174

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 2 comments

Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2028-ford-fathom-ev-pickup-name-price-official

2 hours ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

I built fingerprint unlock for Mac (no Magic Keyboard) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB3lk-PNA6I

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Meta fined $567M in largest child safety ruling against social media giant

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7lz3wr2rlo

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

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

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

The old world is dying

https://jasmi.news/p/2026-advice

22 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Simon Willison on Technical Blogging

https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Mario Meets Pareto

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto

14 hours ago

877 upvotes – 150 comments

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list

21 hours ago

653 upvotes – 203 comments

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

https://artificialanalysis.ai/?intelligence=agentic-index

7 hours ago

432 upvotes – 280 comments

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-inference-performance-by-etching-models-into-silicon/5284344

5 hours ago

3 changes
380 upvotes – 299 comments

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74

10 hours ago

3 changes
326 upvotes – 273 comments

Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo

https://www.costar.com/article/970809918/nashville-council-approves-eminent-domain-action-to-halt-data-center-project

23 hours ago

316 upvotes – 469 comments

Almost no skill required to cook a steak

https://blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/

10 hours ago

279 upvotes – 322 comments

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/

14 hours ago

257 upvotes – 192 comments

Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard

https://electronicmaterialsoffice.com/

11 hours ago

256 upvotes – 218 comments
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