top 50% 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/

2 months ago

2 changes
1107 upvotes – 1334 comments

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

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

2 months ago

909 upvotes – 887 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

2 months ago

4 changes
814 upvotes – 433 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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

2 months ago

795 upvotes – 476 comments

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

535 upvotes – 382 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

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

2 months ago

1 change
516 upvotes – 497 comments

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

1 change
461 upvotes – 438 comments

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

https://stowaway.live/

2 months ago

1 change
437 upvotes – 69 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

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

2 months ago

★ 877 C MIT
434 upvotes – 112 comments

Sonic Pi v5

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

2 months ago

1 change
429 upvotes – 104 comments

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

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/

2 months ago

355 upvotes – 166 comments

App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

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

2 months ago

351 upvotes – 241 comments

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

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

2 months ago

351 upvotes – 357 comments

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/

2 months ago

338 upvotes – 176 comments

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

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

2 months ago

1 change
315 upvotes – 268 comments

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

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

2 months ago

1 change
301 upvotes – 226 comments

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

https://ancientlibrary.net/

2 months ago

260 upvotes – 82 comments

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

2 months ago

258 upvotes – 168 comments

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

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

2 months ago

★ 226 OCaml Apache-2.0
226 upvotes – 119 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

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

2 months ago

220 upvotes – 63 comments

Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213660

2 months ago

218 upvotes – 73 comments

Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufMqwyO7pY

2 months ago

214 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

https://textlog.cc/about

2 months ago

207 upvotes – 83 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/

2 months ago

206 upvotes – 195 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice

2 months ago

199 upvotes – 125 comments

USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/americas-largest-newspaper-chain-usa-today-co-partners-with-palantir-to-analyze-audience-data/

2 months ago

1 change
194 upvotes – 80 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/

2 months ago

190 upvotes – 40 comments

Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)

https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-benefit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics

2 months ago

188 upvotes – 210 comments

AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

https://www.fastcompany.com/91576086/ai-psychosis-is-the-new-leadership-blind-spot-ai-leadership-blind-spots

2 months ago

175 upvotes – 104 comments

Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today

https://worm.net/

2 months ago

175 upvotes – 55 comments

Ultraviolet Bird Photography

https://uvbirds.com/

2 months ago

168 upvotes – 26 comments

ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests'

https://apnews.com/article/ice-body-cameras-officers-shootings-dab1b294c8dc412d9ef8557ccbebfd57

2 months ago

159 upvotes – 79 comments

The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization

2 months ago

158 upvotes – 206 comments

DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/06/doge-savings-overstated-watchdog-report-01027797

2 months ago

155 upvotes – 67 comments

Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-data-breach-discussion/83939

2 months ago

148 upvotes – 61 comments

Super Mario Derivations

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/05/super-mario-derivations

2 months ago

136 upvotes – 18 comments

An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/f Noise (2007)

https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/40.php

2 months ago

1 change
126 upvotes – 27 comments

Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word

https://fabscene.medium.com/publishing-schematics-before-open-source-was-a-word-55-years-of-akizuki-denshi-japans-be7ca9629704

2 months ago

1 change
117 upvotes – 29 comments

Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder

https://chefsbinge.com/bigos-recipe-builder/

2 months ago

104 upvotes – 49 comments

Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029

https://eco3min.fr/en/us-children-vs-adults-65-and-older/

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 175 comments

Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money

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

2 months ago

92 upvotes – 64 comments

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych

2 months ago

★ 1.1k Assembly BSD-3-Clause1 change
89 upvotes – 4 comments

Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux

https://github.com/yikerman/tamron-lens-control

2 months ago

★ 23 Rust GPL-3.0
82 upvotes – 9 comments

Tail-Call Interpreters in Rust – Jimmy Ostler

https://lordgoati.us/blog/tail-call/

2 months ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-opinion-australia-tungsten-mine-us-war-defense-china/

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 34 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 11 comments

New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software

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/

2 months ago

1 change
79 upvotes – 119 comments

Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

https://www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-plow-through-big-bend-national-park-sparking-fury-in-texas-12295668

2 months ago

75 upvotes – 25 comments

"It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public."

https://unsung.aresluna.org/its-unclear-how-sopwith-escaped-to-the-general-public/

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 4 comments

I won't read LLM authored fiction

https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/why-i-won-t-read-llm-authored-fiction

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 114 comments

Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server

https://github.com/halcyon-video/halcyon-video

2 months ago

★ 357 TypeScript GPL-3.0
72 upvotes – 16 comments

"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh/

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 15 comments

U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower

https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/july-jobs-report-unemployment-0d7c08a7

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 3 comments

Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been

https://www.wired.com/story/mamdani-assembles-his-nyc-tech-team/

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 32 comments
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