top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-08-22

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvyy4x2mvo

2 months ago

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724 upvotes – 1698 comments

Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada-U.S. trade negotiationsdead

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations

2 months ago

2 changes
672 upvotes – 1 comments

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

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

2 months ago

668 upvotes – 500 comments

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917

2 months ago

508 upvotes – 206 comments

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html

2 months ago

496 upvotes – 149 comments

Scrap (2006)

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491

2 months ago

2 changes
419 upvotes – 230 comments

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

https://munderdiffl.in/

2 months ago

311 upvotes – 146 comments

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

2 months ago

307 upvotes – 98 comments

Thinking in Python

https://thinkinginpython.com/

2 months ago

1 change
305 upvotes – 60 comments

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

https://geometridae.bearblog.dev/a-friendly-introduction-to-racket/

2 months ago

271 upvotes – 184 comments

New MCP Roadmap

https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/

2 months ago

1 change
270 upvotes – 161 comments

A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber

https://decodingvibes.com/blog/a-kantian-critique-of-sorry-by-justin-bieber/

2 months ago

236 upvotes – 105 comments

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy

2 months ago

221 upvotes – 196 comments

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

https://twitter.com/argofowl/status/2091150597374537729

2 months ago

216 upvotes – 190 comments

Nostr is an inclusive communication commons

https://nostr.org/

2 months ago

210 upvotes – 190 comments

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/7.html

2 months ago

188 upvotes – 90 comments

NetBSD and my life (2005)

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html

2 months ago

1 change
152 upvotes – 51 comments

Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/mi/2021/06/09623402/1yJTvlRLmhi

2 months ago

1 change
150 upvotes – 75 comments

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

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

2 months ago

148 upvotes – 61 comments

NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier

https://www.primeintellect.ai/research/nanogpt-speedrun

2 months ago

140 upvotes – 39 comments

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

https://marcua.net/minitools/figmimic/

2 months ago

132 upvotes – 22 comments

Things I want in a modern relational query language

https://sporks.space/2026/08/19/things-i-want-in-a-modern-relational-query-language/

2 months ago

115 upvotes – 119 comments

Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/europe/prince-belgium-secret-son-scli-intl

2 months ago

109 upvotes – 100 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol

2 months ago

94 upvotes – 78 comments

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

https://rwwgreene.substack.com/p/i-set-a-trap-for-a-book-marketing

2 months ago

89 upvotes – 60 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

2 months ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

https://www.soverybright.com/

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 88 comments

Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/22/chinese-robot-runs-100m-sprint-quicker-usain-bolt-world-record

2 months ago

66 upvotes – 119 comments
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