top 10 hacker news stories for today

Cerebras CS4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4

1 hour ago

26 upvotes – 7 comments

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro

52 minutes ago

9 upvotes – 0 comments

New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 [pdf]

https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BFI_WP_2026-108-1.pdf

47 minutes ago

9 upvotes – 5 comments

Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?

https://konstantintkachuk.com/writing/depin-is-dead-long-live-infrastructure-as-a-service/

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 0 comments

Trump's Broken Promises, in 11 Charts

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/18/opinion/trump-economy-campaign-promises.html

54 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

OpenAI's overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/19/openais-overhead-will-rise-20-percent-for-some-workloads-as-it-hardens-security/5289303

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

MAGA loyalists who collectively lost billions buying Trump stocks and crypto

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/the-greatest-theft-con-job-he-has-ever-done-maga-loyalists-who-collectively-lost-billions-buying-trump-stocks-and-crypto-believe-they-were-scammed/ar-AA2apLJR

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

The Amazon tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/

12 hours ago

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932 upvotes – 539 comments

Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962

15 hours ago

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565 upvotes – 386 comments
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