top 20 hacker news stories for today

CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9281-26

1 hour ago

DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-attack-on-delta-flight/

1 hour ago

Xinjiang Internment Camps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

2 hours ago

Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/11/gen-z-has-rediscovered-the-joy-of-going-to-the-movies

30 minutes ago

New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner

https://newbedfordlight.org/new-bedford-police-officer-accused-of-using-flock-cameras-to-track-and-follow-ex-romantic-partner/

28 minutes ago

Jellyfish force shutdown of three reactors at French nuclear plant

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/11/jellyfish-force-shutdown-of-three-reactors-at-french-nuclear-plant_6756372_7.html

1 hour ago

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

17 hours ago

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/

12 hours ago

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

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

13 hours ago

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

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

1 day ago

★ 1.2k C MIT2 changes

Mojo 1.0

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

9 hours ago

1 change

Chicken Scheme 6.0

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

1 day ago

1 change

Nvidia's Risky Business

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

16 hours ago

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

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

11 hours ago

★ 21.2k HTML MIT1 change

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

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

13 hours 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/

9 hours ago

1 change

Compression is prediction

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

6 hours ago

1 change

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

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

16 hours 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/

9 hours ago

3 changes

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/

16 hours ago

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