top 50% hacker news stories for today

Cerebras CS4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4

1 hour ago

26 upvotes – 7 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

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

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

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

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

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

1 change
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

2 changes
565 upvotes – 386 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

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

17 hours ago

508 upvotes – 275 comments

Beware Management Consultants

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

6 hours ago

440 upvotes – 122 comments

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/

12 hours ago

403 upvotes – 64 comments

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
356 upvotes – 242 comments

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

350 upvotes – 178 comments

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
285 upvotes – 422 comments

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

267 upvotes – 55 comments

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
259 upvotes – 228 comments

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

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

1 day ago

248 upvotes – 165 comments

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

244 upvotes – 165 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming

18 hours ago

224 upvotes – 128 comments

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc79.html

7 hours ago

223 upvotes – 141 comments

Norway should buy OpenAI

https://www.onethousandmeans.com/p/norway-should-buy-openai

6 hours ago

2 changes
210 upvotes – 228 comments

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec

7 hours ago

★ 15.3k Rust MIT
203 upvotes – 27 comments

The Benchmarkpocalypse

https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/

23 hours ago

170 upvotes – 61 comments

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/

8 hours ago

162 upvotes – 90 comments

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/

12 hours ago

160 upvotes – 33 comments

Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964

13 hours ago

153 upvotes – 64 comments

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly

3 hours ago

★ 149 Swift
153 upvotes – 35 comments

Finger: Social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/

18 hours ago

151 upvotes – 51 comments

Degraded performance for multiple models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/q7txxvbsftgq

9 hours ago

1 change
146 upvotes – 127 comments

California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

https://grist.org/transportation/californias-new-tire-efficiency-rules-could-save-drivers-1b-a-year/

22 hours ago

140 upvotes – 209 comments

US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvnl0elz47o

6 hours ago

138 upvotes – 66 comments

I don't enjoy the Internet any more

https://btao.org/posts/2026-08-17-i-dont-enjoy-the-internet/

20 hours ago

131 upvotes – 93 comments

Mojo is now open source!

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source

9 hours ago

127 upvotes – 29 comments

Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-announces-changes-for-apps-in-the-european-union/

9 hours ago

113 upvotes – 173 comments

Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a

https://cdn.kuber.studio/chat/hp-laser-1008a-driver

4 hours ago

110 upvotes – 72 comments

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-just-not-as-much-fun-for-me-anymore-deus-ex-creator-warren-spector-is-retiring-from-game-development/

12 hours ago

110 upvotes – 79 comments

Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791%2826%2900405-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379126004052%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

20 hours ago

99 upvotes – 60 comments

Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/google-spirit-airlines-bankruptcy

1 day ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/as-wisconsin-cities-flee-flock-its-shared-camera-network-loses-value/

14 hours ago

86 upvotes – 85 comments

One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime

https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/oakland-police-overtime/

10 hours ago

83 upvotes – 121 comments

What Happens If OpenAI Dies?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-happens-if-openai-dies/

10 hours ago

82 upvotes – 58 comments

GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3

3 hours ago

77 upvotes – 35 comments

fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.

https://fx.sh

3 hours ago

76 upvotes – 48 comments

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/

7 hours ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

Expert Witness to ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault"

https://www.404media.co/show-how-3m-is-0-at-fault-expert-witness-used-chatgpt-to-write-report-defending-company-in-deadly-explosion-lawsuit/

21 hours ago

1 change
67 upvotes – 40 comments

I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore

https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/08/i-used-to-be-excited-about-new-tech-but-i-rarely-am-anymore/

10 hours ago

66 upvotes – 99 comments

Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/diesel-margins-top-100-a-barrel-to-reach-record-high-as-supply-crunch-grows

9 hours ago

65 upvotes – 46 comments

PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/08/17/prime-minister-carney-announces-largest-clean-energy-investment-north

1 day ago

64 upvotes – 33 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw

10 hours ago

63 upvotes – 3 comments

Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977733/amazon-order-emails-google-gmail-ai-agents-data

8 hours ago

62 upvotes – 29 comments

Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI

https://machine0.io

9 hours ago

61 upvotes – 37 comments

Companies promote incompetent employees to management to limit damage they do

https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/dilbert-principle/

4 hours ago

1 change
58 upvotes – 62 comments

Composable Tests

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/composable-tests

12 hours ago

1 change
58 upvotes – 57 comments

An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet

https://pleated-jeans.com/2026/08/15/engineers-forgotten-recipe-hack-viral-divides-internet/

11 hours ago

55 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Openleetcode – Local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo

https://github.com/therepanic/openleetcode

10 hours ago

★ 122 Haskell Unlicense1 change
52 upvotes – 14 comments

Flock impersonates journalist in order to cancel his hotel reservations

https://xcancel.com/bennjordan/status/2089430236945342508

3 hours ago

51 upvotes – 29 comments

Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22738

10 hours ago

47 upvotes – 37 comments
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