top 50% 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

114 upvotes – 91 comments

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

18 upvotes – 4 comments

Xinjiang Internment Camps

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

2 hours ago

10 upvotes – 0 comments

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

29 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 2 comments

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

987 upvotes – 478 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/

12 hours ago

495 upvotes – 208 comments

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

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

13 hours ago

492 upvotes – 355 comments

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

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

1 day ago

★ 1.2k C MIT2 changes
426 upvotes – 94 comments

Chicken Scheme 6.0

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

1 day ago

1 change
296 upvotes – 52 comments

Mojo 1.0

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

9 hours ago

1 change
296 upvotes – 129 comments

Nvidia's Risky Business

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

16 hours ago

295 upvotes – 140 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

11 hours ago

★ 21.2k HTML MIT1 change
287 upvotes – 43 comments

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
282 upvotes – 345 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/

9 hours ago

1 change
276 upvotes – 319 comments

Compression is prediction

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

6 hours ago

1 change
261 upvotes – 119 comments

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

249 upvotes – 284 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/

9 hours ago

3 changes
249 upvotes – 223 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/

16 hours ago

229 upvotes – 255 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

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

6 hours ago

2 changes
182 upvotes – 93 comments

What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy

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

15 hours ago

163 upvotes – 24 comments

Grok Bot

https://x.ai/bot

8 hours ago

2 changes
146 upvotes – 130 comments

Manus will return to operating as an independent company

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

11 hours ago

137 upvotes – 68 comments

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

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

11 hours ago

★ 160 TypeScript 1 change
131 upvotes – 85 comments

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

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

4 hours ago

124 upvotes – 42 comments

Making holograms with a pen plotter

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

7 hours ago

117 upvotes – 12 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

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

12 hours ago

117 upvotes – 29 comments

Recycle – Floppydisks

https://www.floppydisk.com/recycle

1 day ago

114 upvotes – 49 comments

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

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

7 hours ago

2 changes
112 upvotes – 88 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

11 hours ago

108 upvotes – 180 comments

Lean Eval for Alignment on Faithfulness

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

7 hours ago

103 upvotes – 4 comments

OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1

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

8 hours ago

2 changes
102 upvotes – 32 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

6 hours ago

100 upvotes – 148 comments

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

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

11 hours ago

97 upvotes – 19 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

12 hours ago

96 upvotes – 94 comments

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

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

13 hours ago

95 upvotes – 109 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

86 upvotes – 5 comments

Hyperspace

https://hypercritical.co/hyperspace/

1 day ago

86 upvotes – 62 comments

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

https://writemd.app/

12 hours ago

1 change
81 upvotes – 67 comments

CSS properties you should know for better text designs

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

8 hours ago

78 upvotes – 7 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/

12 hours ago

77 upvotes – 30 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 hours ago

77 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client

https://github.com/activeing123/mcptoon

20 hours ago

★ 110 Python Apache-2.01 change
70 upvotes – 43 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

12 hours ago

69 upvotes – 68 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

1 day ago

63 upvotes – 44 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/

20 hours ago

62 upvotes – 111 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/

19 hours ago

59 upvotes – 21 comments

Grok Bot by SpaceXAI

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

8 hours ago

59 upvotes – 13 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

23 hours ago

59 upvotes – 49 comments

Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gulf-states-accept-a-new-normal-in-hormuz-iran-is-in-control-6db8908d

23 hours ago

54 upvotes – 19 comments

University 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

10 hours ago

52 upvotes – 95 comments

Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-admins-unhappy-as-microsoft-found-installing-unexpected-new-onedrive-photos-app/

21 hours ago

51 upvotes – 35 comments

Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/10/why-my-father-is-wrong-a-defense-of-guitar-hero/

22 hours ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/08/10/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-and-thunderbird-releases/

22 hours ago

50 upvotes – 19 comments
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