top 50% 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

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

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

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

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

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

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/

15 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

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

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

12 hours ago

★ 84 MIT1 change
209 upvotes – 147 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/

13 hours ago

1 change
208 upvotes – 154 comments

Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU

https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/117128107757895678

1 day ago

186 upvotes – 208 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study

https://canews24.online/?p=71

11 hours ago

1 change
165 upvotes – 9 comments

Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

10 hours ago

1 change
162 upvotes – 152 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

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

7 hours ago

154 upvotes – 50 comments

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/37674

23 hours ago

★ 111.4k Rust Apache-2.0
146 upvotes – 62 comments

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon

19 hours ago

143 upvotes – 82 comments

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

https://ixuvo.com/blog/tigerbeetle-core-system-architecture-performance-engineering

14 hours ago

124 upvotes – 41 comments

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

https://catalystneuro.com/blog/cost-of-intelligence-drops-100x/

13 hours ago

120 upvotes – 128 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html

11 hours ago

120 upvotes – 33 comments

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

https://investors.micron.com/news/press-release/2026/Micron-Unveils-Micron-Research-Labs-a-U-S--Based-Long-Horizon-Innovation-Hub-to-Shape-the-Future-of-Memory-and-AI/default.aspx

22 hours ago

119 upvotes – 64 comments

It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use

http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-sign-of-times-that-amazon-gets-to.html

1 day ago

118 upvotes – 90 comments

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/

10 hours ago

1 change
109 upvotes – 28 comments

c100

https://caligra.com/c100/

11 hours ago

106 upvotes – 89 comments

I Just Want to Search

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/just-want-to-search

10 hours ago

103 upvotes – 47 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory

10 hours ago

101 upvotes – 18 comments

WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust

https://www.winonapost.com/news/wpd-wont-replace-stolen-flock-cameras-citing-public-trust/article_06a67859-2d97-414b-aa8f-d8751ad214bb.html

12 hours ago

99 upvotes – 83 comments

Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214

12 hours ago

97 upvotes – 33 comments

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/

1 day ago

93 upvotes – 172 comments

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-factory/

10 hours ago

1 change
87 upvotes – 51 comments

What we lost when search stopped making us think

https://blog.8ball.space/what-we-lost-when-search/

12 hours ago

1 change
86 upvotes – 55 comments

Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/health/flight-attendants-pilots-radiation-cancer-deaths

11 hours ago

3 changes
82 upvotes – 91 comments

Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude

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

6 hours ago

81 upvotes – 86 comments

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)

https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-crumb-from-weirdo-17/

20 hours ago

78 upvotes – 63 comments

Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (2007)

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2007/07/19/yes-no-cancel-causes-aspirin-sales-to-soar.html

13 hours ago

1 change
77 upvotes – 68 comments

'Ghost job' ads are getting so bad that lawmakers want to ban them

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ghost-job-ads-are-getting-so-bad-that-lawmakers-want-to-ban-them-2580bc3e

4 hours ago

1 change
74 upvotes – 38 comments

Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

https://github.com/yaroslav/kino

15 hours ago

★ 231 Ruby MIT
68 upvotes – 16 comments

Stop Making TUIs

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

20 hours ago

67 upvotes – 128 comments

Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark

https://twitter.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2090786258981466231

13 hours ago

67 upvotes – 37 comments

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.html

14 hours ago

67 upvotes – 16 comments

Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/062dcd2aead00c3b47c14ff5b6c40313f7a775f5/etc/HISTORY

18 hours ago

★ 5.1k Emacs Lisp GPL-3.0
65 upvotes – 20 comments

US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d8z72nn02o

12 hours ago

62 upvotes – 106 comments

Three important steps in my maturation process

https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/

4 hours ago

60 upvotes – 17 comments

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023)

https://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/

7 hours ago

1 change
59 upvotes – 8 comments

Paul Atkins misreads Adam Smith and the American founding

https://sites.duke.edu/thefinregblog/2026/08/03/paul-atkins-misreads-adam-smith-and-the-american-founding/

2 hours ago

1 change
59 upvotes – 4 comments

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser

13 hours ago

59 upvotes – 6 comments

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-samos-readout/

12 hours ago

1 change
56 upvotes – 3 comments

Better Batteries

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/20/better-batteries.html

18 hours ago

55 upvotes – 24 comments

When the shortage is the strategy

https://nooneshappy.com/article/when-the-shortage-is-the-strategy/

9 hours ago

55 upvotes – 49 comments

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

https://github.com/vivekhaldar/seed

21 hours ago

★ 78 Python
54 upvotes – 20 comments

The US techlash is real

https://www.ft.com/content/105b8b46-7109-402d-84cf-2616b17bfac1

10 hours ago

49 upvotes – 9 comments
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