top 50% hacker news stories for today

Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent

https://www.dpreview.com/news/panasonic-did-what-apple-sony-and-nikon-couldnt-overturn-a-red-raw-video-patent/

1 hour ago

29 upvotes – 3 comments

How We Pushed CDC into Postgres

https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgres-to-snowflake-replication-mirroring/

1 hour ago

21 upvotes – 0 comments

America's Military Is Dangerously Exposed

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/americas-military-is-dangerously-exposed-26706217

2 hours ago

9 upvotes – 7 comments

Forbidden fruit: Buick Electra gets 435 mile range and 376 HP for $25K in China

https://electrek.co/2026/08/06/forbidden-fruit-buick-electra-gets-435-mile-ev-range-and-25000-price-tag/

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 2 comments

Blender MCP maintainer GitHub account hacked

https://twitter.com/sidahuj/status/2086445625147793503

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

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

13 hours ago

563 upvotes – 256 comments

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

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

7 hours ago

1 change
435 upvotes – 254 comments

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

11 hours ago

378 upvotes – 313 comments

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

22 hours ago

1 change
327 upvotes – 64 comments

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/

11 hours ago

240 upvotes – 192 comments

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

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

11 hours ago

223 upvotes – 72 comments

Everything you do is being recorded

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

14 hours ago

2 changes
217 upvotes – 173 comments

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

http://longbets.org/601/

21 hours ago

2 changes
200 upvotes – 97 comments

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

10 hours ago

188 upvotes – 144 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

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

11 hours ago

1 change
188 upvotes – 44 comments

Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud

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

10 hours ago

1 change
185 upvotes – 86 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

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

19 hours ago

184 upvotes – 31 comments

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)

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

1 day ago

1 change
174 upvotes – 203 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

174 upvotes – 660 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword

20 hours ago

★ 143 C
162 upvotes – 68 comments

Incentives are for losers

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

1 day ago

1 change
161 upvotes – 118 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/

12 hours ago

127 upvotes – 85 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html

14 hours ago

1 change
125 upvotes – 86 comments

Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age

https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/

22 hours ago

1 change
118 upvotes – 115 comments

Saying No

https://rozumem.xyz/posts/19

7 hours ago

117 upvotes – 93 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

https://openchamber.dev/

8 hours ago

110 upvotes – 55 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-from-us-classifies-the-technology-as-military-grade-in-a-proposal-that-could-also-hit-thermal-models-and-the-swarms-used-drone-light-shows

9 hours ago

106 upvotes – 97 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32

13 hours ago

★ 83 C++
105 upvotes – 16 comments

Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

https://www.wtoc.com/2026/08/07/savannah-police-department-fires-6-employees-over-flock-safety-system-misuse/

5 hours ago

101 upvotes – 83 comments

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

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

6 hours ago

1 change
99 upvotes – 81 comments

Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/08/09/poland-now-sixth-largest-eu-economy-ahead-of-switzerland-and-belgium

6 hours ago

99 upvotes – 120 comments

The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)

https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article

6 hours ago

1 change
96 upvotes – 69 comments

SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost

https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/

18 hours ago

1 change
92 upvotes – 68 comments

CSS: The bomb inside your inbox

https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox

16 hours ago

92 upvotes – 33 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

https://theoremdb.org/

1 day ago

1 change
89 upvotes – 15 comments

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html

16 hours ago

85 upvotes – 67 comments

Is it all just vapourware?

https://kirahowe.com/2026/aug/8/is-it-all-just-vapourware

5 hours ago

84 upvotes – 164 comments

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

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

7 hours ago

2 changes
83 upvotes – 57 comments

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/chatgpt-stops-cloning-famous-writers-voices-but-may-capture-a-similar-feeling/

1 day ago

81 upvotes – 60 comments

Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change

https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/08/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change/

10 hours ago

81 upvotes – 72 comments

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

https://propelmusic.co.nz/articles/the-sound-went-quiet-nz-music-media

5 hours ago

78 upvotes – 44 comments

Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/business/energy-environment/plug-in-balcony-solar.html

7 hours ago

78 upvotes – 72 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition

6 hours ago

76 upvotes – 42 comments

Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NufJ7g63KSY

14 hours ago

1 change
75 upvotes – 126 comments

70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68X8yEatepQ

14 hours ago

1 change
72 upvotes – 90 comments

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/09/ransomware-gangs-skip-the-ceo-head-straight-for-the-40-something-it-manager/5284499

7 hours ago

69 upvotes – 32 comments

Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazon-secretly-circumvents-community-vote-for-massive-ai-data-center-45-year-old-rules-lock-gilroy-residents-out-of-public-comment-window

13 hours ago

60 upvotes – 65 comments

If experience is the goal, then you always win

https://www.startingfromnix.com/p/if-experience-is-the-goal-then-you

7 hours ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/

10 hours ago

59 upvotes – 19 comments

Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

https://github.com/yegors/deGDID

6 hours ago

★ 641 PowerShell MIT
58 upvotes – 44 comments

Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/12/gas-propane-stoves-nitrogen-dioxide-exposure-health-risks-switching-electric

15 hours ago

1 change
57 upvotes – 100 comments

An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power

https://ai-updates.net/an-openai-strategist-says-ai-labs-should-rival-government-power/

10 hours ago

55 upvotes – 66 comments

Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/09/israeli-startup-irregular-linked-to-ai-hacks-openai-anthropic-meta.html

13 hours ago

49 upvotes – 18 comments

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon

https://frequal.com/aptera/ProductionImminent.html

9 hours ago

49 upvotes – 51 comments

I've yet to see any"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union

https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/117061512483182546

5 hours ago

48 upvotes – 16 comments

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

https://tuxedono2.com

5 hours ago

48 upvotes – 11 comments

AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986

4 hours ago

47 upvotes – 41 comments

The AI Apocalypse Is Here

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

1 day ago

47 upvotes – 50 comments

Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g64152v71o

21 hours ago

45 upvotes – 53 comments

The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyrzn8p94o

1 day ago

45 upvotes – 31 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them

10 hours ago

★ 35 Clojure
44 upvotes – 11 comments
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