top 10 hacker news stories for today

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

https://danluu.com/perf-opt/

1 hour ago

Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395700

1 hour ago

OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20%

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-cuts-developer-pricing-frontier-gpt-56-sol-model-by-more-than-20-2026-08-21/

1 hour ago

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117136278553665985

1 hour ago

5 years on, Afghan girls still barred from education under Taliban

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-girls-excluded-secondary-education-taliban-618c7f5c7659d43ede2a3f71a7cf845f

2 hours ago

Trump, Vance and Bessent try to calm the bond market with 'alternative facts'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/trump-vance-and-bessent-try-to-calm-the-bond-market-with-alternative-facts/ar-AA2aFoPp

2 hours ago

Nvidia to Pay AI Startup Poolside a $6B License, Newcomer Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/nvidia-to-pay-ai-startup-poolside-a-6-billion-license-newcomer-says

2 hours ago

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296

12 hours ago

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

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

16 hours ago

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/

13 hours ago

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