top 20 hacker news stories for today

Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/06/should-ai-labs-be-treated-like-the-owners-of-dangerous-animals

1 hour ago

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413

40 minutes ago

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

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

15 hours ago

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 day ago

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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

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

7 hours ago

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

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

13 hours ago

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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

8 hours ago

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

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

11 hours ago

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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

13 hours ago

App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

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

6 hours ago

Assembly Hall of Shame

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

7 hours ago

★ 276 C MIT

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/

14 hours 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

17 hours ago

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

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

10 hours ago

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/

11 hours ago

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Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

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

13 hours ago

★ 130 OCaml Apache-2.0

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

9 hours ago

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

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

7 hours ago

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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

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

15 hours ago

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

12 hours ago

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