top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-08-11

France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/06/france-to-ban-unsolicited-telemarketing-calls-from-august-11_6756208_7.html

2 months ago

1061 upvotes – 510 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/

2 months ago

697 upvotes – 308 comments

Compression is prediction

https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction

2 months ago

1 change
671 upvotes – 298 comments

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o

2 months ago

560 upvotes – 403 comments

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0

2 months ago

4 changes
523 upvotes – 489 comments

Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/

2 months ago

1 change
440 upvotes – 541 comments

H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/antirez/h3.c

2 months ago

★ 2.1k C MIT2 changes
440 upvotes – 99 comments

Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here

2 months ago

1 change
428 upvotes – 243 comments

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/

2 months ago

385 upvotes – 520 comments

Nvidia's Risky Business

https://stratechery.com/2026/nvidias-risky-business/

2 months ago

356 upvotes – 178 comments
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