top 50% 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

30 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

1 change

Qwen3.8-2.4T

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

11 hours ago

2 changes

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

1 change

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

1 change

Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome

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

12 hours ago

1 change

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

https://woxi.ad-si.com

16 hours ago

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

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

12 hours ago

1 change

What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

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

16 hours ago

1 change

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

https://knownagents.com/insights

12 hours ago

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

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

1 day 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/

1 day ago

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/

1 day ago

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/

14 hours ago

The Human Is the Loop

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

1 day ago

Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available

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

15 hours ago

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/

9 hours ago

Shade Map

https://shademap.app

13 hours ago

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

16 hours ago

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

https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/

18 hours ago

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/

14 hours ago

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/

8 hours ago

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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/

12 hours ago

Pixel Watch 5

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

10 hours ago

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/

1 day ago

Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard

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

9 hours ago

Pixel 11 Pro Fold

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

11 hours ago

1 change

Lovable raises $400M Series C

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

9 hours ago

2 changes

My Agent Setup

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

12 hours ago

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

https://usehax.dev/

11 hours ago

I hate packaging my software for Linux

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

14 hours ago

Qwen3.8-2.4T

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

9 hours ago

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly released

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

9 hours ago

Dutch Train Map Simulator

https://spoorkaart.zaza.dev

17 hours ago

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/

22 hours ago

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/

12 hours ago

Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions

https://loudbicycle.com/bb

10 hours ago

Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?

https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/why-dropbox-is-a-obvious-pe-target/

21 hours ago

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Breaking the WAL

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

6 hours ago

DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 Publish

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

10 hours ago

Incident with Pull Requests and Issues – Resolved

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/76t89hbfb09h

9 hours ago

1 change

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

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

4 hours ago

1 change

Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful

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

2 hours ago

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