top 50% hacker news stories for today

Bluesky Protocol Services

https://atproto.com/blog/introducing-bluesky-protocol-services

1 hour ago

SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles

https://sparrowmap.com/

1 hour ago

How Obama's BlackBerry got secured (2023)

https://www.electrospaces.net/2013/04/how-obamas-blackberry-got-secured.html

1 hour ago

Kennedy Center Board Decides to Inscribe Trump's Name on Building

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/design/kennedy-center-closure-board-vote-trump.html

1 hour ago

Life without vaccines: Americans need to understand what they save us from

https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/13/trump-vaccine-executive-order-mmr-separate-shots-policy/

36 minutes ago

Gemini 3.7 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/

8 hours ago

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DeepSeek Harness developer preview

https://deepseek.com/harness/en/

12 hours ago

★ 32.9k TypeScript MIT3 changes

Spaghettifying DRAM

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts

11 hours ago

★ 993 C MIT

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

https://community.openai.com/t/codex-in-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-is-now-in-preview/1390027

20 hours ago

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Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai

7 hours ago

Gloomberb

https://gloom.sh/

11 hours ago

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

https://tradersunion.com/news/central-banks/show/2973571-deutsche-bank-becomes/

13 hours ago

Mistral OCR 4.1

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1

8 hours ago

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

7 hours ago

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/nine-pbs-sues-iron-mountain-over-blocked-access-to-archival-data/

12 hours ago

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I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

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

11 hours ago

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Ordinary abundance

https://ordinaryabundance.com/

12 hours ago

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Understanding is the new bottleneck

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck

6 hours ago

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Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

https://donkeybas.com/

7 hours ago

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

https://www.netlify.com/blog/one-prompt-11-models-very-different-results/

12 hours ago

Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

https://oxide.computer/blog/kubernetes-on-oxide

11 hours ago

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AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/12/ai-agents-lie-cheat-and-steal-that-is-putting-off-users

12 hours ago

NP-Overrated

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-13/

5 hours ago

Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/40262

7 hours ago

★ 16.5k C GPL-2.0

I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10

https://alexmorleyfinch.github.io/marlin/history/v1/article/the_birth.html

12 hours ago

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Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

https://0.mk/blog/link-rot

7 hours ago

DeepSeek API Pricing Update

https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2087864589895798968

12 hours ago

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Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft

https://www.heartaerospace.com/newsroom/heart-aerospace-completes-first-flight-of-world-s-largest-electric-aircraft

11 hours ago

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How Compaction Works in Pi

https://earendil.com/posts/compaction-in-pi/

7 hours ago

Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-ai-watermarks/

10 hours ago

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

https://jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o-scraps/index.html

9 hours ago

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Can I use my Outputs to train an AI model?

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12326764-can-i-use-my-outputs-to-train-an-ai-model

16 hours ago

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Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

https://www.codewithbullet.com

17 hours ago

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Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-rapid-atlantic-circulation-2c-slower.html

15 hours ago

How AI text watermarking works

https://declaude.org/watermarking/

2 hours ago

Show HN: MCP-stama – An ultra-fast Rust MCP server with no dependencies

https://github.com/StamManif/mcp-stama

3 hours ago

★ 1 Rust Apache-2.0

The Conceptual Reasoning Index

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/conceptual-reasoning-index/

11 hours ago

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How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-godels-proof-works-20200714/

5 hours ago

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We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images

https://www.echo.ai/blog/echo-xnanoclaw-under-the-hood

11 hours ago

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/how-organizations-use-chatgpt.pdf

6 hours ago

Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal>

https://www.solidjs.com/blog/solid-2-0-rc-the-big-reveal

7 hours ago

Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/some-claude-users-are-mad-that-anthropics-new-watermarks-will-catch-them-cheating-at-their-jobs-classes/

15 hours ago

Graduate student proves a quantum uncertainty principle for fractals

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-proves-the-fractal-uncertainty-principle-20260812/

11 hours ago

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Tocharian Online

https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/tokol/0

8 hours ago

California Uber, Lyft drivers win union recognition

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

1 day ago

My Rules for Using Spreadsheets

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/my-rules-for-using-spreadsheets/

12 hours ago

Record heat is drying up Europe's major rivers, as these striking images show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2026/08/12/see-receding-water-levels-europes-major-rivers/

16 hours ago

Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5

https://github.com/fellowgeek/mcp-memory

11 hours ago

★ 108 Python MIT

AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions

https://unric.org/en/ais-environmental-costs-threaten-water-land-and-climate/

7 hours ago

GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

https://goaccess.io/

9 hours ago

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The Strongest El Niño Ever Forecast and the Hunger It Will Leave Behind

https://www.4hunger.org/p/scorched-harvest-the-strongest-el

20 hours ago

Gemini 3.7 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/

8 hours ago

PBS loses 70 years of TV history after cloud storage vendor goes defunct

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/nine-pbs-loses-access-to-70-years-of-data-after-contracted-cloud-storage-vendor-goes-defunct-public-tv-channel-sues-iron-mountain-data-center-which-hosts-archival-materials-to-ensure-preservation

2 hours ago

Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10863

11 hours ago

Three years after police raid on Kansas newspaper, reporter settles for $850K

https://kansasreflector.com/2026/08/11/three-years-after-police-raid-on-kansas-newspaper-reporter-settles-lawsuit-for-850k/

12 hours ago

Flock (Again) Activates a Camera System a Town Had Voted to Shut Down

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/13/flock-again-activates-a-camera-system-a-town-had-voted-to-shut-down/

8 hours ago

US sells 30-year bonds at highest borrowing costs since 2001

https://www.ft.com/content/9c9c948f-dc8b-4385-a9b9-4b98dc1eadd9

3 hours ago

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JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

https://tschatzl.github.io/2026/08/10/jdk27-g1-serial-parallel-gc-changes.html

8 hours ago

Person Hides Prompt Injection in Legal Filing Telling AI to Side with Them

https://www.404media.co/person-hides-prompt-injection-in-legal-filing-telling-ai-to-side-with-them/

6 hours ago

Trump has amassed staggering wealth in 'most openly corrupt' presidency

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-presidency-revenue-wealth

12 hours ago

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