top 20 hacker news stories for today

Cerebras CS4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4

1 hour ago

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

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

52 minutes ago

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

46 minutes ago

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

Trump's Broken Promises, in 11 Charts

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

53 minutes ago

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

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

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

The Amazon tax

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

12 hours ago

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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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Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/

17 hours ago

Beware Management Consultants

https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/beware-management-consultants/

6 hours ago

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/

12 hours ago

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/

12 hours ago

1 change

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

https://www.fairphone.com/nl/stories/the-fairphone-gen-6-is-all-about-giving-you-more

12 hours ago

Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainablebuildings/article/7/2/024501/1233035/Data-Center-Waste-Heat-as-an-Emerging-Urban

8 hours ago

1 change

Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk

https://theconversation.com/babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-grew-into-adults-with-lower-cancer-risk-289873

11 hours ago

Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-may-august-2026-weekly-limits-promotion

8 hours ago

1 change

Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340013

1 day ago

Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/17/meta-files-patent-for-facial-recognition-automatic-recording-of-people/

13 hours ago

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