top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-09

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/

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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364205.0.html

2 months ago

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

2 months ago

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Everything you do is being recorded

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/

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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650

2 months ago

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

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

2 months ago

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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233423

2 months ago

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy/

2 months ago

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

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Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/

2 months ago

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803

2 months ago

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The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)

http://longbets.org/601/

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The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves

https://linebender.org/blog/hyperbezier/

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Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981

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There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html

2 months ago

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/

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Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621

2 months ago

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The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-main-way-ive-seen-people-turn

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Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword

2 months ago

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Incentives are for losers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers

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