top 20 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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Fastmail offers EU data region

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

9 hours 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

15 hours ago

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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

15 hours ago

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

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

8 hours ago

Don't use your phone while you poop

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

11 hours 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

15 hours ago

LinkedIn Feed Blocker

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

9 hours ago

★ 76 Shell MIT

Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?

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

9 hours ago

Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

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

11 hours 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/

15 hours ago

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