top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-08-21

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296

2 months ago

1272 upvotes – 395 comments

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html

2 months ago

1 change
1105 upvotes – 1381 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/

2 months ago

849 upvotes – 348 comments

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/

2 months ago

714 upvotes – 402 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too latedead

https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html

2 months ago

1 change
703 upvotes – 2 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa

2 months ago

1 change
688 upvotes – 89 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/

2 months ago

659 upvotes – 213 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html

2 months ago

647 upvotes – 917 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind

2 months ago

1 change
521 upvotes – 510 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/

2 months ago

498 upvotes – 155 comments
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