top 20 hacker news stories for today

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf

1 hour ago

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/

1 hour ago

Israeli minister calls for killing '30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/16/israeli-minister-calls-for-killing-30-to-40-palestinians-in-gaza-nightly

54 minutes ago

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html

1 hour ago

Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone

https://brennan.day/webmaster-a-manifesto-for-everyone/

1 hour ago

TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDxVYQrxeiQ

1 hour ago

Kindred Sciences Unveils First Dogs Genetically Edited to Remove Dog Allergen

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260805451804/en/Kindred-Companion-Sciences-Unveils-First-Dogs-Genetically-Edited-to-Remove-the-Major-Dog-Allergen

1 hour ago

Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260815064805.htm

46 minutes ago

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts

13 hours ago

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios

12 hours ago

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/

8 hours ago

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22

13 hours ago

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322107

8 hours ago

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose

6 hours ago

What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/

18 hours ago

The AI Credit Resale Economy

https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers

11 hours ago

Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-for-over-7-billion

5 hours ago

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems

23 hours ago

The weekend is 100 years old

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/16/the-weekend-is-100-years-old-skiveday-fridays-and-hybrid-working-ruined-it

10 hours ago

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-unit-1-manually-shut-down-after-3-control-rods-drop-into-reactor-core

10 hours ago

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