top 20 hacker news stories for today

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

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

1 hour ago

57 upvotes – 51 comments

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

18 upvotes – 13 comments

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

17 upvotes – 2 comments

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

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

1 hour ago

17 upvotes – 6 comments

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

7 upvotes – 0 comments

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

5 upvotes – 1 comments

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

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296

12 hours ago

1023 upvotes – 346 comments

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

702 upvotes – 2 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/

13 hours ago

639 upvotes – 366 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

14 hours ago

1 change
588 upvotes – 764 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/

11 hours ago

545 upvotes – 229 comments

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

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

23 hours ago

536 upvotes – 840 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

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

16 hours ago

470 upvotes – 144 comments

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

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

13 hours ago

1 change
457 upvotes – 52 comments

Kobo can run apps now

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

10 hours ago

446 upvotes – 149 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/

21 hours ago

351 upvotes – 204 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

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

14 hours ago

1 change
278 upvotes – 288 comments

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

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

19 hours ago

250 upvotes – 137 comments

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

https://htmlcat.net/

16 hours ago

210 upvotes – 54 comments
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