top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-08-19

OpenLogi

https://openlogi.org/en

2 months ago

1635 upvotes – 432 comments

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/08/19/sondehub-and-war/

2 months ago

1033 upvotes – 169 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/

2 months ago

1020 upvotes – 231 comments

OpenRouter is joining Stripe

https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-is-joining-stripe/

2 months ago

4 changes
962 upvotes – 498 comments

Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023

2 months ago

1 change
827 upvotes – 336 comments

Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/go1.27

2 months ago

1 change
756 upvotes – 265 comments

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/08/12/remote-workers-report-highest-well-being-study-7700-employees

2 months ago

651 upvotes – 355 comments

Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730

2 months ago

1 change
650 upvotes – 406 comments

Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

https://twitter.com/NoubarAfeyan/status/2090050162441752787

2 months ago

603 upvotes – 301 comments

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

https://yassa9.github.io/osint/gralhix-004/

2 months ago

529 upvotes – 88 comments

Casio F-B100W-1A

https://www.casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.F-B100W-1A/

2 months ago

1 change
466 upvotes – 387 comments

Cerebras CS-4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4

2 months ago

1 change
463 upvotes – 275 comments

Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/11/civic-hygiene/

2 months ago

1 change
455 upvotes – 340 comments

PostgreSQL for Everything

https://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/postgresql-everything/

2 months ago

445 upvotes – 269 comments

Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone

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

2 months ago

1 change
417 upvotes – 416 comments

Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation

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

2 months ago

1 change
392 upvotes – 286 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning

2 months ago

3 changes
384 upvotes – 383 comments

Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235

2 months ago

★ 142.9k Python 1 change
377 upvotes – 220 comments

Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs

https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/dynamic-3.0-ggufs

2 months ago

321 upvotes – 119 comments

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762

2 months ago

1 change
316 upvotes – 281 comments

Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/18/metas-blockbuster-trial-draws-parallels-to-big-tobacco

2 months ago

1 change
315 upvotes – 305 comments

Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

https://theremin.bizibah.com/

2 months ago

1 change
302 upvotes – 101 comments

Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/07/01/cricut-unlock/

2 months ago

257 upvotes – 67 comments

RF Cafe

https://www.rfcafe.com/

2 months ago

250 upvotes – 44 comments

The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source

https://www.modular.com/blog/modcon-announcements

2 months ago

233 upvotes – 115 comments

Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html

2 months ago

215 upvotes – 75 comments

Mathematics in the age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753

2 months ago

1 change
210 upvotes – 269 comments

Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures

https://coca11272000.wixsite.com/manabukosaka

2 months ago

194 upvotes – 27 comments

Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/77136

2 months ago

★ 143k Python
190 upvotes – 171 comments

Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/affidavit-police-officer-used-flock-cameras-track-estranged-wife-717-times/5DVBYU2XTJEVDJR7LPZCBR7M5M/

2 months ago

189 upvotes – 67 comments

Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/

2 months ago

185 upvotes – 39 comments

Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?

https://tipiirai.com/writing/bun-rust-rewrite-worries

2 months ago

1 change
175 upvotes – 145 comments

Extensible Software in the age of LLMs

https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/extensible-software-in-the-age-of-llms/

2 months ago

1 change
175 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games

https://github.com/katiahayati/lucasartsifier/

2 months ago

★ 47 Python
161 upvotes – 97 comments

How Kubernetes Probes Work

https://ngrok.com/blog/probes

2 months ago

142 upvotes – 25 comments

Rules of good social skills (2025)

https://liamrosen.com/2025/07/24/33-rules-of-good-social-skills/

2 months ago

3 changes
136 upvotes – 56 comments

Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny

https://www.kmbc.com/article/gardner-kansas-flock-cameras-license-plate-readers-privacy/73468724

2 months ago

135 upvotes – 66 comments

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong

https://nautil.us/where-human-sleep-went-wrong-1283797

2 months ago

129 upvotes – 129 comments

Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a

https://os8088.com/spotlight/

2 months ago

120 upvotes – 56 comments

"Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/sabotage-experts-lawmakers-blast-rfk-jr-for-destroying-healthcare-research/

2 months ago

113 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal

https://terminal-code.com

2 months ago

108 upvotes – 29 comments

Router by Ramp

https://router.com

2 months ago

1 change
99 upvotes – 64 comments

DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel

https://inco.ai/blog/dflash2/

2 months ago

99 upvotes – 18 comments

Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era

https://www.theverge.com/tech/981956/google-pixel-11-pro-fold-review

2 months ago

95 upvotes – 261 comments

What's in a PowerPoint File?

https://editide.com/blog/what-is-a-pptx-file/

2 months ago

93 upvotes – 58 comments

λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829151

2 months ago

91 upvotes – 18 comments

Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams

https://github.com/onecli/onecli

2 months ago

★ 3.4k TypeScript Apache-2.0
88 upvotes – 34 comments

U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/business/economy/us-debt-40-trillion.html

2 months ago

84 upvotes – 209 comments

Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2026-August/062280.html

2 months ago

1 change
80 upvotes – 117 comments

A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/revisiting-spectre-attacks-on-workers/

2 months ago

1 change
76 upvotes – 5 comments
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