top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-08-12

Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug

https://tailscale.com/blog/sqlite-wal-reset-bug

2 months ago

3 changes
1221 upvotes – 239 comments

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813

2 months ago

2 changes
1041 upvotes – 453 comments

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html

2 months ago

1 change
1006 upvotes – 936 comments

uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/08/ublock-origin-stops-chasing-facebook-ads.html

2 months ago

2 changes
726 upvotes – 918 comments

Qwen3.8-2.4T

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

2 months ago

2 changes
712 upvotes – 171 comments

Delta

https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta

2 months ago

1 change
679 upvotes – 260 comments

License plate reader searches should require a warrant

https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/08/12/license-plate-reader-searches-should-require-a-warrant/

2 months ago

1 change
640 upvotes – 397 comments

Grok 4.6

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6

2 months ago

1 change
632 upvotes – 616 comments

Asus Bike Booster

https://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/

2 months ago

624 upvotes – 447 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)

2 months ago

533 upvotes – 104 comments

2026 Eclipse Webcams

https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/

2 months ago

513 upvotes – 143 comments

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

https://www.cringebot3000.com/

2 months ago

481 upvotes – 204 comments

Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696

2 months ago

1 change
479 upvotes – 338 comments

llama.cpp

https://llama.app

2 months ago

364 upvotes – 165 comments

Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/grok-4-6-benchmarks-and-analysis

2 months ago

1 change
343 upvotes – 416 comments

Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome

https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/

2 months ago

1 change
336 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

https://woxi.ad-si.com

2 months ago

314 upvotes – 46 comments

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html

2 months ago

1 change
304 upvotes – 43 comments

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

https://knownagents.com/insights

2 months ago

304 upvotes – 228 comments

Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful

https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Impressions/PrincipiaMathematica.html

2 months ago

279 upvotes – 157 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon

2 months ago

269 upvotes – 69 comments

What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/

2 months ago

1 change
259 upvotes – 163 comments

HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

https://en.andros.dev/blog/ef4968f5/html-over-websockets-real-time-spas-with-barely-any-javascript/

2 months ago

255 upvotes – 195 comments

Shade Map

https://shademap.app

2 months ago

246 upvotes – 61 comments

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

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

2 months ago

225 upvotes – 204 comments

Flutter 3.47

https://flutter.dev/blog/whats-new-in-flutter-3-47

2 months ago

1 change
206 upvotes – 215 comments

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/

2 months ago

203 upvotes – 93 comments

The Human Is the Loop

https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/the-human-is-the-loop/

2 months ago

199 upvotes – 89 comments

Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI

https://www.404media.co/company-offering-100-human-written-never-ai-peer-review-is-entirely-ai/

2 months ago

196 upvotes – 52 comments

Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them

https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-ads-are-so-hard-to-block-that-ublock-origin-stopped-filtering-them/

2 months ago

196 upvotes – 4 comments

Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf

https://corneroffifth.studio/why-cant-you-find-canned-sardines-right-now/

2 months ago

1 change
191 upvotes – 327 comments

Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/delphi-13-community-edition-is-now-available/

2 months ago

182 upvotes – 150 comments

Pixel Watch 5

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/pixel-watch-5/

2 months ago

173 upvotes – 396 comments

Lovable raises $400M Series C

https://lovable.dev/blog/series-c

2 months ago

2 changes
166 upvotes – 201 comments

Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?

https://brandur.org/fragments/postgres-without-pgbouncer

2 months ago

164 upvotes – 113 comments

Breaking the WAL

https://antithesis.com/blog/2026/wal-reset-bug/

2 months ago

162 upvotes – 51 comments

Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/

2 months ago

161 upvotes – 36 comments

Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2026/08/why-vibe-code-in-lisp.html

2 months ago

155 upvotes – 151 comments

A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02498-1

2 months ago

149 upvotes – 51 comments

Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin

https://32bits.substack.com/p/under-the-microscope-ecco-the-dolphin-98c

2 months ago

133 upvotes – 33 comments

Pixel 11 Pro Fold

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/devices/pixel/pixel-11-pro-fold/

2 months ago

1 change
133 upvotes – 202 comments

In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a73358518/nazi-rocket-scientist-disappearance/

2 months ago

133 upvotes – 103 comments

Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/beef-and-dairy-drive-41-of-biodiversity-damage-linked-to-global-farmland

2 months ago

132 upvotes – 205 comments

My Agent Setup

https://chad.cm/posts/2026-8-11-my-agent-setup

2 months ago

132 upvotes – 64 comments

People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more

https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-key-to-success-isn-t-more-luck-or-hard-work/

2 months ago

2 changes
131 upvotes – 179 comments

5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/excessive-heat-dome-heatwave-western-europe-mid-august-2026-mk/

2 months ago

123 upvotes – 175 comments

Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT

https://sharktastica.co.uk/articles/pc-fxt-45

2 months ago

121 upvotes – 52 comments

German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/german-advocacy-group-lodges-criminal-complaint-over-meta-ai-glasses-2026-08-12/

2 months ago

119 upvotes – 52 comments

Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C

https://usehax.dev/

2 months ago

116 upvotes – 36 comments

Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS

http://pascal.hansotten.com/delphi/turbo-pascal-on-cpm-msx-dos-and-ms-dos/

2 months ago

1 change
115 upvotes – 49 comments

Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard

https://climate.metoffice.cloud/glaciers.html

2 months ago

110 upvotes – 24 comments

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2

2 months ago

107 upvotes – 58 comments

The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood

https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-race-to-protect-the-species/

2 months ago

106 upvotes – 31 comments

Build Wide, Ship Narrow

https://adapt.com/blog/build-wide-ship-narrow

2 months ago

105 upvotes – 32 comments

How art invented humanity

https://aeon.co/essays/humans-did-not-invent-art-it-was-the-other-way-around

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 53 comments

I hate packaging my software for Linux

https://getfresh.dev/docs/blog/packaging-for-linux/

2 months ago

101 upvotes – 150 comments

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08421

2 months ago

98 upvotes – 39 comments

The Indo-European Family Tree

https://djbinder.com/language-tree/

2 months ago

90 upvotes – 97 comments

Simulacra and Simulation

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

2 months ago

87 upvotes – 36 comments

Qwen3.8-2.4T

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B-FP8

2 months ago

84 upvotes – 12 comments

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly released

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/responses_api/

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 6 comments

Show HN: Silent Shark – tactical map-based WWII submarine sim

https://silentshark.app/

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 38 comments

My Ten Years in No Man's Sky

https://nmsspot.com/2026/08/09/my-ten-years-in-no-mans-sky/

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 88 comments

Dutch Train Map Simulator

https://spoorkaart.zaza.dev

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 51 comments

White House Authorizes Private U.S. Companies to Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/expanding-capabilities-to-combat-transnational-cyber-enabled-crime/

2 months ago

77 upvotes – 21 comments

Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10857-1

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5

https://therad.ninja/from-8-10-seconds-to-3-7-teaching-automatic1111-to-speak-metal-on-an-m3-pro/

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio

https://dronexl.co/2026/08/10/darpa-lift-challenge-results-avidrone/

2 months ago

71 upvotes – 50 comments

A humble cabbage became one of the Forbidden City’s treasures (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/style/jadeite-cabbage-taiwan-forbidden-city-curio-hnk-intl

2 months ago

1 change
70 upvotes – 9 comments

Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions

https://loudbicycle.com/bb

2 months ago

70 upvotes – 67 comments

Numba in the Browser: Unlocking a New Scientific Python Stack in JupyterLite

https://notebook.link/blog/numba-in-the-browser/

2 months ago

68 upvotes – 16 comments

Process as a Proxy for Motivation

https://bengodfrey.dev/blog/process/

2 months ago

68 upvotes – 25 comments
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