top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-08-08

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers

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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments

https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/

2 months ago

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My server is a phone now

https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/

2 months ago

Fastmail offers EU data region

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/

2 months ago

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/

2 months ago

_for-sale DNS records

https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/

2 months ago

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Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/

2 months ago

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The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

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

2 months ago

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge

2 months ago

★ 2.5k C MIT

Dithered QR Codes

https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/

2 months ago

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year

2 months ago

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We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations

2 months ago

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Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

https://photosynthesis.camera

2 months ago

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with-cluster-of-deaths-by-suicide

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Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-qa-mushroom-tiny-people-hallucinations.html

2 months ago

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country

2 months ago

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

https://os8088.com/

2 months ago

New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html

2 months ago

Don't use your phone while you poop

https://nate.spot/no-phone-while-poop/

2 months ago

Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/

2 months ago

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/

2 months ago

Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme

https://jolt-lang.github.io

2 months ago

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-projection%2Cosm&lat=43.4623&lon=-3.8099&opacity=besselian%3A0.2%2Cumbra-live%3A0.2&zoom=6&palier=minute

2 months ago

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3

2 months ago

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

https://github.com/andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker

2 months ago

★ 102 Shell MIT

Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117058483039362779

2 months ago

Message your other Claude Code sessions

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging

2 months ago

Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires/

2 months ago

Making an AI bid writer refuse to lie

https://ailucius.com/blog/making-an-ai-bid-writer-refuse-to-lie

2 months ago

To save C, we must save ABI (2022)

https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-function-abi

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Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles

2 months ago

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/

2 months ago

Picking berries is my meditation

https://www.tsoon.com/posts/picking-berries-meditation/

2 months ago

Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/08/05/dnr-closes-additional-areas-of-cunningham-falls-state-park-following-second-beaver-attack/

2 months ago

Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator

https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/

2 months ago

Finite State Machines in Forth (1994)

https://www.forth.org/literature/noble.html

2 months ago

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

https://web.archive.org/web/20260731053721/http://github.com/ancaferro/myNetwork/pull/3

2 months ago