top 20 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

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/

2 months ago

Compression is prediction

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

2 months ago

1 change

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

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

2 months ago

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

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

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

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

2 months ago

★ 2.1k C MIT2 changes

Mojo 1.0

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

2 months ago

1 change

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

Nvidia's Risky Business

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

2 months ago

Grok Bot

https://x.ai/bot

2 months ago

2 changes

Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

https://github.com/trycua/cua/blob/main/blog/gpu-passthrough-macos-vms.md

2 months ago

★ 21.4k HTML MIT1 change

Chicken Scheme 6.0

https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS

2 months ago

1 change

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/

2 months ago

More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3q5nxpgk1o

2 months ago

Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide

https://guessingheadlights.com/yall-failed-me-woman-pulled-over-at-gunpoint-twice-after-flock-camera-glitch/

2 months ago

3 changes

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/

2 months ago

2 changes

US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-gamer-air-traffic-controllers-faa-recruitment-sean-duffy/

2 months ago

What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/i-put-github-copilot-behind-a-mitm

2 months ago

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Filtre_%C3%A0_eau_c%C3%A9ramique/en

2 months ago