top 20 hacker news stories for today

Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/flock-cameras-can-track-every-car-in-america-police-love-them-citizens-dont.html

1 hour ago

Chicken Scheme 6.0

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

1 hour ago

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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir

https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-lexisnexis-millions-for-data-to-feed-to-palantir/

2 hours ago

No, local models will not win

https://www.seangoedecke.com/local-models-will-not-win/

1 hour ago

Sergey Brin has now spent $100M to fight the billionaire tax

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-has-now-spent-100-million-to-fight-the-billionaire-tax/

1 hour ago

SpaceX's Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds of Twitter's Ad Business

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/10/spacexs-earnings-show-elon-wiped-out-two-thirds-of-twitters-ad-business/

1 hour ago

The AI Slop Backlash Is Having an Impact

https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-slop-backlash-is-actually-having-an-impact/

2 hours ago

Greenland issues 'strong warning' as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/08/greenland-iwarning-trump-linked-oil-firm-prepares-drill

1 hour ago

Harry Potter fans force diverting UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8mgpl27dpo

1 hour ago

The End of MacSurf

https://www.patreon.com/posts/166335760

2 hours ago

A Lost Civilization Is Baffling Experts and Rewriting China's Origin Story

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/a-lost-civilization-is-baffling-experts-and-rewriting-chinas-origin-story-cda8dba7

1 hour ago

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model

16 hours ago

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Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents

https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/

20 hours ago

Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

https://bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack

13 hours ago

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Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878

12 hours ago

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What Happened to HackerOne?

https://blog.teknogeek.io/posts/what-happened-to-hackerone/

23 hours ago

Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1kjy7gewo

10 hours ago

Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification

https://linuxstans.com/illinois-hb5511-operating-system-age-verification/

5 hours ago

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code

https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code

22 hours ago

Squeak 6.1

https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/

14 hours ago

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