top 10 hacker news stories for today

China overtakes US to lead global R&D spending, hitting $615B

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/science/china-overtakes-us-to-lead-global-r-d-spending-hitting-615bn

1 hour ago

The AI Apocalypse Is Here

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here/

26 minutes ago

“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

11 hours ago

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Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments

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

7 hours ago

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DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

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

16 hours ago

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

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

1 day 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

1 day ago

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_for-sale DNS records

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

12 hours ago

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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge

18 hours ago

★ 2.5k C MIT

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

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

14 hours ago

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