top 50% hacker news stories for today

US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2g23ng8p4o

55 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 1 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

14 hours ago

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672 upvotes – 1 comments

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

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

1 day ago

620 upvotes – 480 comments

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

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

18 hours ago

1 change
477 upvotes – 1212 comments

Scrap

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

7 hours ago

307 upvotes – 166 comments

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

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

10 hours ago

295 upvotes – 101 comments

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

https://munderdiffl.in/

15 hours ago

248 upvotes – 114 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

13 hours ago

200 upvotes – 164 comments

A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber

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

11 hours ago

194 upvotes – 83 comments

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

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

11 hours ago

187 upvotes – 93 comments

New MCP Roadmap

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

11 hours ago

1 change
173 upvotes – 126 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

7 hours ago

171 upvotes – 53 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

163 upvotes – 151 comments

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

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

6 hours ago

158 upvotes – 63 comments

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

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

1 day ago

140 upvotes – 56 comments

Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

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

15 hours ago

1 change
114 upvotes – 55 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

8 hours ago

97 upvotes – 80 comments

NetBSD and my life (2005)

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

6 hours ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 23 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

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

20 hours ago

86 upvotes – 77 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

23 hours ago

76 upvotes – 53 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

11 hours ago

57 upvotes – 80 comments

Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/the-hollywood-creatives-training-ai-to-do-their-jobs

11 hours ago

1 change
52 upvotes – 66 comments
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