top 20 hacker news stories for today

Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API

https://www.ballet.dev/

2 hours ago

California Uber, Lyft drivers win union recognition

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/california-uber-lyft-drivers-win-union-recognition/

1 hour ago

NYC's wealthiest neighborhood has zero Flock cameras

https://maps.deflock.org/

2 hours ago

McDonald's Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I'll Never Stop Eating There

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/

2 hours ago

My Homelab Got Hacked – A Postmortem

https://phunky.cafe/my-homelab-got-hacked/

1 hour ago

Anthropic in Talks to Buy World Model AI Startup Decart for $6B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/anthropic-said-in-talks-to-buy-ai-startup-decart-for-6-billion

31 minutes ago

Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug

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

11 hours ago

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

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

10 hours ago

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

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

13 hours ago

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License plate reader searches should require a warrant

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

11 hours ago

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Qwen3.8-2.4T

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

11 hours ago

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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

16 hours ago

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LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

https://www.cringebot3000.com/

19 hours ago

2026 Eclipse Webcams

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

14 hours ago

Grok 4.6

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

10 hours ago

1 change

Delta

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

8 hours ago

1 change

llama.cpp

https://llama.app

21 hours ago

Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

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

9 hours ago

1 change

uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

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

14 hours ago

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Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome

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

12 hours ago

1 change
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