top 50% hacker news stories for today

Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees

https://sf.gazetteer.co/corgi-kills-short-lived-website-that-ranked-its-female-employees

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 2 comments

Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 0 comments

The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

https://blog.ploopy.co/the-aplus-is-finally-here-499

39 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 2 comments

I made the fastest open source CAD renderer in the world

https://twitter.com/i/status/2088075553077072088

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3

20 hours ago

1 change
1028 upvotes – 515 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8

10 hours ago

1 change
902 upvotes – 585 comments

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

https://mun-logadan.github.io/why-does-opus-5-feel-worse/

15 hours ago

783 upvotes – 724 comments

Every Fucking Website (2020)

https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/

11 hours ago

1 change
742 upvotes – 448 comments

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce97mm3vvemo

8 hours ago

431 upvotes – 345 comments

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports-ublock-origin.html

6 hours ago

397 upvotes – 159 comments

In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/australia-home-batteries

11 hours ago

1 change
315 upvotes – 251 comments

Qwen3.8-27B

https://twitter.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2088280182356611304

10 hours ago

297 upvotes – 3 comments

Seven books I keep close because I love them

https://blog.plover.com/2026/08/02/

10 hours ago

296 upvotes – 131 comments

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/

9 hours ago

1 change
277 upvotes – 167 comments

US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/us-government-spied-anti-ice-protesters

22 hours ago

245 upvotes – 87 comments

DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260813/

15 hours ago

237 upvotes – 3 comments

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/

9 hours ago

217 upvotes – 94 comments

Bluesky Protocol Services

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

1 day ago

204 upvotes – 65 comments

France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s

https://www.reuters.com/world/frances-top-court-rules-social-media-ban-curtails-freedom-expression-2026-08-14/

9 hours ago

1 change
203 upvotes – 152 comments

AI by Hand

https://www.byhand.ai/

9 hours ago

202 upvotes – 17 comments

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/

4 hours ago

1 change
197 upvotes – 118 comments

Dear people who work at the airport

https://life-after-ssri.bearblog.dev/dear-people-who-work-at-the-airport/

13 hours ago

190 upvotes – 244 comments

Introducing Toast 1

https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1

10 hours ago

177 upvotes – 58 comments

When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs

https://weightythoughts.com/p/when-genius-failsthe-intellectual

11 hours ago

170 upvotes – 186 comments

SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles

https://sparrowmap.com/

1 day ago

163 upvotes – 39 comments

I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

https://heyjonny.dev/posts/rss-to-eink-newspaper/

11 hours ago

144 upvotes – 59 comments

The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-temu-fication-of-software-digital-goods-services/

13 hours ago

141 upvotes – 100 comments

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions

9 hours ago

130 upvotes – 90 comments

RISC-V: They should have known better

https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV

2 hours ago

1 change
117 upvotes – 78 comments

'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier

https://www.theverge.com/policy/979852/that-is-not-acceptable-judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-installs-easier

23 hours ago

109 upvotes – 44 comments

Cursor is now a part of SpaceX

https://cursor.com/blog/joining-spacex

12 hours ago

1 change
96 upvotes – 109 comments

CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/business/vishal-garg-better-ceo

5 hours ago

92 upvotes – 77 comments

WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do

https://www.whatcable.uk/

13 hours ago

89 upvotes – 63 comments

Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun

https://www.frandroid.com/marques/xiaomi/3211257_photo-de-leclipse-on-a-perce-a-jour-la-petite-triche-du-xiaomi-17-ultra-qui-confond-la-lune-et-le-soleil

18 hours ago

84 upvotes – 80 comments

Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness

https://www.ft.com/content/47dd5308-dd17-404a-a615-61046defd697

1 hour ago

82 upvotes – 39 comments

Ntfy – open-source Push to Mobile

https://ntfy.sh/

14 hours ago

80 upvotes – 39 comments

Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain

https://www.elttam.com/blog/ruby-4-0-universal-rce-deserialization-gadget-chain

19 hours ago

73 upvotes – 22 comments

Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

https://luacad.ad-si.com

8 hours ago

1 change
72 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP

https://goonhost.rocks/blog/implementing-ipv8-internet-draft

12 hours ago

69 upvotes – 61 comments

Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no

5 hours ago

1 change
69 upvotes – 57 comments

Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant

https://getsmall.xyz/post/cmstjfl9l000if70ljmpzr4va

2 hours ago

1 change
68 upvotes – 44 comments

Private prisons announce $1.4B in revenue as immigration detentions climb

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/08/nx-s1-5923881/geo-group-corecivic-immigration-detention

10 hours ago

67 upvotes – 58 comments

Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files

https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF

10 hours ago

65 upvotes – 4 comments

Qwen3.8 27B

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

21 hours ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

Earth.nullschool.net

https://earth.nullschool.net/

10 hours ago

61 upvotes – 21 comments

Self-hosted web push Cloudflare Worker, works on iOS

https://kukuroo.cc/

10 hours ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artillery-factory-failed

9 hours ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones

https://www.oulu.fi/en/news/study-links-coffee-consumption-metabolic-health-and-sex-hormones

4 hours ago

60 upvotes – 56 comments

Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/14/apple-proposes-to-take-a-15-cut-of-purchases-made-outside-the-app-store/

7 hours ago

60 upvotes – 50 comments

The American sports plutocracy

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-american-sports-plutocracy-is

6 hours ago

1 change
53 upvotes – 39 comments

France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers

https://korben.info/en/france-tax-authority-data-breach-680000-taxpayers.html

12 hours ago

52 upvotes – 37 comments

Soup Raiders goes native: What you gain by building your own game engine

https://eliasfarhan.ch/gamedev/cpp/2026/08/14/srnative-01-why-a-custom-engine.html

6 hours ago

1 change
52 upvotes – 53 comments

AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph

https://run.cosmograph.app/public/ca9fd1ad-fe83-4238-8b69-b707c633aef0

11 hours ago

52 upvotes – 8 comments

Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf]

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/f61d49fa5596956a5dec75fea0e973bf6a6a8378/Redacted%20Risk%20Report%20August%202026%20.pdf

6 hours ago

52 upvotes – 49 comments

Every fucking website: 2026 edition

https://op.tngl.io/every-fucking-website/

7 hours ago

51 upvotes – 16 comments
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