top 50% 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

Grok Bot

https://x.ai/bot

2 months ago

2 changes
348 upvotes – 332 comments

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
306 upvotes – 42 comments

Chicken Scheme 6.0

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

2 months ago

1 change
303 upvotes – 62 comments

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

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

2 months ago

277 upvotes – 88 comments

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

269 upvotes – 323 comments

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
262 upvotes – 240 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

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

2 months ago

2 changes
262 upvotes – 138 comments

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

211 upvotes – 160 comments

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

200 upvotes – 30 comments

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter

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

2 months ago

196 upvotes – 64 comments

U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/university-of-michigan-grades-mental-health-1a5701d4

2 months ago

2 changes
194 upvotes – 551 comments

Making holograms with a pen plotter

https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/Penplotter-holography/

2 months ago

183 upvotes – 26 comments

Manus will return to operating as an independent company

https://manus.im/blog/a-note-to-our-users

2 months ago

169 upvotes – 92 comments

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-we-used-to-get-jobs/

2 months ago

2 changes
167 upvotes – 138 comments

Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife

2 months ago

★ 393 TypeScript 1 change
166 upvotes – 101 comments

CSS properties you should know for better text designs

https://master.dev/blog/typographic-css-tricks/

2 months ago

132 upvotes – 22 comments

Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/blueskys-active-user-base-is-shrinking-as-its-focus-expands-beyond-the-app/

2 months ago

131 upvotes – 246 comments

The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/us-mexico-border-area-money-transfer-rule-change-small-businesses

2 months ago

124 upvotes – 211 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4

2 months ago

122 upvotes – 32 comments

Recycle – Floppydisks

https://www.floppydisk.com/recycle

2 months ago

120 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE

https://github.com/ArcadeMakerSources/ArcadeMaker

2 months ago

★ 115 C# MIT
118 upvotes – 64 comments

OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.5

2 months ago

2 changes
117 upvotes – 38 comments

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempic-moment

2 months ago

116 upvotes – 181 comments

Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

https://writemd.app/

2 months ago

1 change
107 upvotes – 78 comments

$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/usd580-million-undersea-cable-rerouted-to-avoid-the-grave-of-dobby-the-house-elf-company-caves-to-fan-demands-to-safeguard-harry-potter-filming-location-will-instead-pass-by-bronze-age-burial-site

2 months ago

105 upvotes – 103 comments

Lean Eval for Alignment on Faithfulness

https://www.millenniumresearch.ai/leanscreen.html#catch

2 months ago

103 upvotes – 4 comments

It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91DoiansHqk

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 116 comments

Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month

https://www.propublica.org/article/foia-requests-responses

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 20 comments

The Color of White Light

https://ludens.cl/photo/spectra/spectra.html

2 months ago

97 upvotes – 50 comments

Hyperspace

https://hypercritical.co/hyperspace/

2 months ago

88 upvotes – 64 comments

Why Did OpenAI's Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Leave?

https://aimagazine.com/news/why-did-openai-head-of-ethics-chloe-bakalar-leave

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 5 comments

Greenland issues "strong warning" as American oil firm illegally drills wells

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

2 months ago

83 upvotes – 76 comments

Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data

https://flowingdata.com/2026/08/10/flock-wanted-to-tap-dashcams-in-rideshare-vechicles-to-add-to-surveillance-data/

2 months ago

81 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client

https://github.com/activeing123/mcptoon

2 months ago

★ 173 Python Apache-2.01 change
73 upvotes – 49 comments

Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01828

2 months ago

72 upvotes – 33 comments

This Hi-Fi Tape Recorder Changed Radio Forever

https://spectrum.ieee.org/magnetophon-laugh-track

2 months ago

1 change
68 upvotes – 19 comments

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

2 months ago

66 upvotes – 45 comments

Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

https://correctiv.org/en/europe/2026/04/21/half-of-europes-towns-and-villages-have-fewer-residents-than-60-years-ago/

2 months ago

66 upvotes – 119 comments

pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries

https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_clickhouse-whats-new-july-2026

2 months ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments

Don't Look Up

https://www.wheresyoured.at/dont-look-up/

2 months ago

61 upvotes – 56 comments

An image can overflow

https://master.dev/blog/something-nobody-told-you-about-the-image-element-it-can-overflow/

2 months ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-secret-flight-nato-return

2 months ago

60 upvotes – 50 comments

Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo

https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/come-for-eniac-stay-for-univac-and-skeduflo/

2 months ago

1 change
60 upvotes – 22 comments

Grok Bot by SpaceXAI

https://x.ai/news/introducing-grok-bot

2 months ago

59 upvotes – 14 comments

Zuckerberg's superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/zuckerbergs-super-yacht-stood-by-while-stranded-boaters-looked-for-help/

2 months ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments
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