top 50% hacker news stories for today

Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

https://fetzu.ch/blog/20260819_claudevsdrobo/

1 hour ago

11 upvotes – 1 comments

Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13664

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

The Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 3 comments

Chatgpt.com is down – all signups and logins are down as of

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M0E7K87VJNMGW0QTMHPEQQ39

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Call-buying near Trump's Hyperliquid comments shows some eyebrow-raising trades

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/call-buying-bonanza-around-trump-s-hyperliquid-comments-includes-some-eyebrow-raising-trades/ar-AA2avTM9

50 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Moderna and Merck shares soar on mRNA cancer vaccine

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/moderna-merck-mrna-cancer-vaccine

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

OpenLogi

https://openlogi.org/en

23 hours ago

1512 upvotes – 402 comments

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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

14 hours ago

750 upvotes – 114 comments

OpenRouter is joining Stripe

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

8 hours ago

4 changes
627 upvotes – 334 comments

Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027

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

13 hours ago

1 change
575 upvotes – 364 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

520 upvotes – 250 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

10 hours ago

492 upvotes – 245 comments

Cerebras CS-4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4

1 day ago

1 change
452 upvotes – 261 comments

Go 1.27

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

7 hours ago

1 change
440 upvotes – 109 comments

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

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

9 hours ago

1 change
409 upvotes – 293 comments

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

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

13 hours ago

403 upvotes – 75 comments

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

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

1 day ago

1 change
387 upvotes – 360 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

1 day ago

1 change
384 upvotes – 266 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

23 hours ago

1 change
308 upvotes – 287 comments

PostgreSQL for Everything

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

12 hours ago

301 upvotes – 187 comments

Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive

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

7 hours ago

288 upvotes – 120 comments

Casio F-B100W-1A

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

10 hours ago

1 change
274 upvotes – 222 comments

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

https://theremin.bizibah.com/

15 hours ago

1 change
248 upvotes – 86 comments

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

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

17 hours ago

209 upvotes – 101 comments

Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs

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

7 hours ago

184 upvotes – 66 comments

Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

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

22 hours ago

174 upvotes – 38 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/

6 hours ago

172 upvotes – 60 comments

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

https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html

10 hours ago

168 upvotes – 58 comments

Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere

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

7 hours ago

★ 142k Python
167 upvotes – 153 comments

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

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

23 hours ago

★ 35 Python
141 upvotes – 83 comments

Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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

4 hours ago

★ 142k Python 1 change
131 upvotes – 76 comments

Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker

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

6 hours ago

129 upvotes – 35 comments

Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?

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

19 hours ago

1 change
122 upvotes – 79 comments

Mathematics in the age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753

10 hours ago

1 change
119 upvotes – 120 comments

How Kubernetes Probes Work

https://ngrok.com/blog/probes

9 hours ago

115 upvotes – 21 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/

18 hours ago

106 upvotes – 20 comments

Extensible Software in the age of LLMs

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

9 hours ago

1 change
105 upvotes – 49 comments

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong

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

17 hours ago

103 upvotes – 102 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

1 hour ago

99 upvotes – 48 comments

Rules of good social skills (2025)

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

7 hours ago

3 changes
91 upvotes – 46 comments

λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics

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

19 hours ago

85 upvotes – 17 comments

Router by Ramp

https://router.com

6 hours ago

1 change
82 upvotes – 49 comments

DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel

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

5 hours ago

71 upvotes – 9 comments

Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08679

9 hours ago

1 change
59 upvotes – 36 comments

U.S. government debt passes $40T, more than doubling in a decade

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/us-government-debt-passes-40-trillion-mark-for-the-first-time.html

4 hours ago

59 upvotes – 38 comments

Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman

https://www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shiny-thing-cop-explains-why-he-used-license-plate-reader-to-stalk-woman/

7 hours ago

56 upvotes – 44 comments

Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1

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

5 hours ago

1 change
56 upvotes – 40 comments
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