top 50% hacker news stories for today

ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year

https://aicharts.grok.me/c/market-share

1 hour ago

14 upvotes – 20 comments

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain

https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians

7 hours ago

1 change
407 upvotes – 366 comments

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/autoresearch/

14 hours ago

392 upvotes – 86 comments

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

https://conic.al/writing/the-other-sean-byrne-doesnt-exist/

21 hours ago

371 upvotes – 178 comments

Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432

9 hours ago

2 changes
343 upvotes – 239 comments

Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

https://allen.bargi.org/notes/working-with-ai-feels-like-leadership/

14 hours ago

1 change
264 upvotes – 171 comments

Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tkt2/executive

1 day ago

215 upvotes – 55 comments

At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve-lyme-disease-diagnosis-180989235/

11 hours ago

1 change
210 upvotes – 75 comments

A spectre is haunting Unicode

https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html

10 hours ago

1 change
165 upvotes – 56 comments

A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02448-x

8 hours ago

156 upvotes – 73 comments

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-better-than-bmi

4 hours ago

1 change
142 upvotes – 106 comments

Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history

https://horn.gg/blog/engineers-will-do-anything-to-avoid-learning-from-history/

3 hours ago

140 upvotes – 87 comments

The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

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

1 day ago

134 upvotes – 66 comments

Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459

1 day ago

1 change
133 upvotes – 75 comments

Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

https://chenxiachan.github.io/thoughtdag/

20 hours ago

112 upvotes – 52 comments

The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake

https://www.core77.com/posts/144869

8 hours ago

1 change
109 upvotes – 52 comments

Cloudflare's AI Psychosis

https://opensauce.it/cloudflare-ai-psychosis/

11 hours ago

106 upvotes – 86 comments

Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gxy0wqqd9o

8 hours ago

101 upvotes – 92 comments

Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-07-14.html

17 hours ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really

6 hours ago

5 changes
86 upvotes – 43 comments

Could a computer scientist build a brain?

https://stankerstjens.github.io/could-a-computer-scientist-build-a-brain/

12 hours ago

81 upvotes – 60 comments

The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts

https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/

2 hours ago

79 upvotes – 66 comments

Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308059

19 hours ago

77 upvotes – 128 comments

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court-of-using-ai-man-injected-prompts-in-filings-to-try-to-win-case/

17 hours ago

75 upvotes – 56 comments

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas

4 hours ago

1 change
73 upvotes – 19 comments

Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL

https://printytron.com

11 hours ago

1 change
69 upvotes – 31 comments

The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up

https://sina.bio/posts/costco-hotdog.html

9 hours ago

68 upvotes – 65 comments

destruction-certificate.txt

https://stallman.org/articles/destruction-certificate.txt

21 hours ago

66 upvotes – 2 comments

Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00002.html

16 hours ago

66 upvotes – 57 comments

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o

11 hours ago

65 upvotes – 70 comments

2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization

https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2026/07/16/2d-gaussian-splatting-for-bezier-spline-line-art-vectorization/

1 day ago

63 upvotes – 4 comments

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-fall-winter-2026-2027-forecast-impact-united-states-canada-europe-fa/

6 hours ago

62 upvotes – 21 comments

The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal

3 hours ago

62 upvotes – 13 comments

Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/08/desktop-calendar-a-design-journey/

7 hours ago

61 upvotes – 22 comments

AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-designed-virus

9 hours ago

59 upvotes – 120 comments

I Remain a Skeptic

https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/i-remain-a-skeptic

8 hours ago

58 upvotes – 32 comments

Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents

http://www.stephen-cresswell.com/2026/08/15/Yadda-3.0.0-BDD-in-the-Age-of-AI-Agents.html

11 hours ago

56 upvotes – 27 comments

Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died

https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-signal-processing

3 hours ago

54 upvotes – 2 comments

Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2026/08/14/israeli-pr-wants-to-answer-your-chatgpt-questions-01038138

6 hours ago

53 upvotes – 24 comments

TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/savings-bonds/idme-one-month/

7 hours ago

52 upvotes – 54 comments

"That's not SOC 2 compliant"

https://ampcode.com/notes/thats-not-soc-2-compliant

19 hours ago

1 change
51 upvotes – 42 comments

Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing

https://app.deltix.ai

22 hours ago

1 change
50 upvotes – 11 comments

Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-brain-rem-eeg.html

12 hours ago

50 upvotes – 17 comments

NSA and IETF, Part 9

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260814-update.html

1 day ago

50 upvotes – 69 comments

Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline

https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixer/filters/brazil_2026_election_filter.rs

12 hours ago

★ 30.8k Rust Apache-2.0
48 upvotes – 51 comments

388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/388-years-ago-galileo-worked-out-why-human-giants-cant-exist-and-explained-a-law-of-nature/

12 hours ago

48 upvotes – 50 comments

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

https://github.com/wmww/tawc

6 hours ago

★ 142 C GPL-3.0
44 upvotes – 4 comments

BriskDB

https://github.com/schapman1974/briskdb

7 hours ago

★ 47 Rust MIT
43 upvotes – 10 comments

The AI Situation in Software Development

https://srikanth.ch/posts/the-ai-situation/

11 hours ago

40 upvotes – 66 comments

Xorshift Generators

https://www.alanzucconi.com/2026/08/15/xorshift-generators/

12 hours ago

38 upvotes – 25 comments

Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record

https://abc7.com/story/credit-card-debt-rises-126-trillion-nearing-time-record/19667289/

2 hours ago

38 upvotes – 35 comments
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