top 20 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

Stop Making TUIs

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/

2 months ago

430 upvotes – 561 comments

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/hello-world/

2 months ago

422 upvotes – 112 comments

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/

2 months ago

390 upvotes – 226 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md

2 months ago

★ 228 MIT1 change
362 upvotes – 237 comments

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/

2 months ago

1 change
287 upvotes – 185 comments

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/

2 months ago

277 upvotes – 147 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/

2 months ago

268 upvotes – 71 comments

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

https://htmlcat.net/

2 months ago

250 upvotes – 64 comments

A week of using Codex more than Claude

https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-claude/

2 months ago

1 change
246 upvotes – 281 comments

OTel isn’t going well

https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/

2 months ago

2 changes
234 upvotes – 124 comments
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