top 50% 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

46 upvotes – 16 comments

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

45 upvotes – 2 comments

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

53 minutes ago

23 upvotes – 6 comments

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

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

1 hour ago

13 upvotes – 5 comments

Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone

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

1 hour ago

10 upvotes – 3 comments

TSMC Uses Old Fabs to Make New Chips [video]

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

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 2 comments

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

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons

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

45 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Claude: System Prompts

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

13 hours ago

544 upvotes – 228 comments

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

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

12 hours ago

538 upvotes – 221 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

376 upvotes – 200 comments

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

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

13 hours ago

360 upvotes – 130 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

286 upvotes – 69 comments

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

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

6 hours ago

270 upvotes – 153 comments

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

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

18 hours ago

234 upvotes – 205 comments

The AI Credit Resale Economy

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

11 hours ago

226 upvotes – 89 comments

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

199 upvotes – 145 comments

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

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

23 hours ago

180 upvotes – 130 comments

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

178 upvotes – 120 comments

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

158 upvotes – 125 comments

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing

4 hours ago

147 upvotes – 156 comments

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers

9 hours ago

139 upvotes – 68 comments

A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4335-1.html

12 hours ago

115 upvotes – 85 comments

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)

https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/

1 day ago

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111 upvotes – 27 comments

ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/16/ricardo-parias-ice-detention-journalist-los-angeles/

5 hours ago

110 upvotes – 49 comments

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp

7 hours ago

109 upvotes – 80 comments

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-reports-2026-08-14/

4 hours ago

102 upvotes – 31 comments

Banned Words List

https://pen.org/banned-words-list/

13 hours ago

97 upvotes – 45 comments

Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318906

14 hours ago

90 upvotes – 111 comments

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/

13 hours ago

87 upvotes – 9 comments

Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/young-people-ai-ceos-executives-poll

4 hours ago

85 upvotes – 68 comments

The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/08/12/the-us-forgot-the-lessons-of-iraq-now-its-desperate-for-ideas-on-iran-01033217

20 hours ago

85 upvotes – 61 comments

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

https://ivan-gavran.github.io/0-social-processes-paper

5 hours ago

82 upvotes – 79 comments

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

https://www.micdrop.gg/

1 day ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments

AI Coding Without the Vibes

https://peterbloem.nl/blog/craft-coding

15 hours ago

77 upvotes – 45 comments

US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/strategic-petroleum-reserve-trump-iran-war-gas-prices-b3033680.html

13 hours ago

73 upvotes – 62 comments

GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/gps-and-the-lost-art-of-getting-lost

11 hours ago

73 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users

https://wildstatic.com/

12 hours ago

69 upvotes – 62 comments

Falstad Math and Physics Simulations

https://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html

21 hours ago

65 upvotes – 13 comments

The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators

https://breck.lol/plMakers.html

21 hours ago

63 upvotes – 20 comments

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent

https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/

7 hours ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Stop Turning every purchase into a tip request

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/america-needs-stop-turning-every-purchase-uncomfortable-tip-request

4 hours ago

56 upvotes – 66 comments

Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext

https://github.com/jitpass/jit

19 hours ago

★ 106 Go
51 upvotes – 74 comments

Claude Seems Down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324078

4 hours ago

48 upvotes – 46 comments

Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny

https://nntaleb.substack.com/p/have-another-drink

22 hours ago

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47 upvotes – 79 comments
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