top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-08-23

Everything I own, owned

https://schlarp.com/posts/everything-i-own-owned/

2 months ago

1 change
1448 upvotes – 349 comments

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

https://www.ft.com/content/5ee49718-c258-4f01-aa32-7e5b76ae5245

2 months ago

819 upvotes – 702 comments

I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day

https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/

2 months ago

703 upvotes – 291 comments

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2091544343589060625

2 months ago

606 upvotes – 681 comments

How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

https://lalitm.com/post/find-problems-staff-engineer/

2 months ago

1 change
589 upvotes – 170 comments

What Is a Harness?

https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/

2 months ago

585 upvotes – 181 comments

To become a better writer, read as much as you can

https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/

2 months ago

1 change
486 upvotes – 264 comments

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

https://fabiensanglard.net/agent.md/index.html

2 months ago

415 upvotes – 176 comments

A website for debloated open source alternatives

https://debloat.dev/

2 months ago

411 upvotes – 131 comments

I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me

https://pantel.is/projects/ai-gaming-companion/

2 months ago

399 upvotes – 76 comments

Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)

https://blog.elis.cc/articles/google-workspace-thinks-my-domain-is-an-email-provider/

2 months ago

1 change
391 upvotes – 156 comments

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-slovakia-finds-russian-backdoor-in-traffic-speed-cameras/

2 months ago

390 upvotes – 155 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

2 months ago

1 change
387 upvotes – 79 comments

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

https://www.xda-developers.com/qwen-3-8-27b-reverse-engineering-job-frontier-model/

2 months ago

369 upvotes – 152 comments

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed

https://www.xda-developers.com/wi-fi-8-first-wireless-upgrade-years-isnt-chasing-speed-home-networks-need-it/

2 months ago

348 upvotes – 291 comments

Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

2 months ago

306 upvotes – 157 comments

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes

2 months ago

284 upvotes – 127 comments

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

https://securelist.com/android-head-unit-malware/121106/

2 months ago

266 upvotes – 143 comments

GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost

https://reinvently.co.uk/tools/ed-o-meter/

2 months ago

240 upvotes – 111 comments

Training AI to Paint with Code

https://surya.website/rling-qwen-to-paint-with-code

2 months ago

228 upvotes – 28 comments

Fable and the end of the free lunch

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/08/23/fable-the-end-of-moore-s-law.html

2 months ago

1 change
225 upvotes – 263 comments

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

https://martypc.net/

2 months ago

218 upvotes – 102 comments

Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling

https://punyamishra.com/2026/04/16/why-sal-khant-on-learning-by-making-but-teaching-by-telling/

2 months ago

202 upvotes – 123 comments

Explain it to me like I'm ten

https://timharford.com/2026/08/explain-it-to-me-like-im-ten/

2 months ago

200 upvotes – 74 comments

Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests

https://studyfinds.com/coconut-oil-jet-fuel-matches-kerosenes-efficiency-in-engine-tests/

2 months ago

1 change
190 upvotes – 239 comments

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/

2 months ago

1 change
182 upvotes – 138 comments

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/

2 months ago

181 upvotes – 92 comments

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/

2 months ago

166 upvotes – 114 comments

The Vibe Tax

https://insufferable.dev/posts/vibe-tax/

2 months ago

166 upvotes – 148 comments

AI Chip Architectures

https://www.jepeake.com/ai-chip-architectures

2 months ago

162 upvotes – 50 comments

The Sloppification of Peptides

https://henryaj.substack.com/p/the-sloppification-of-peptides

2 months ago

158 upvotes – 154 comments

Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines

https://tarjan.itch.io/thoreaubasic

2 months ago

2 changes
156 upvotes – 43 comments

I dream of quieter computing

https://henry.codes/writing/i-dream-of-quieter-computing/

2 months ago

1 change
129 upvotes – 121 comments

'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5925350/the-nerd-reich-tracks-the-unmasking-of-silicon-valleys-true-politics

2 months ago

123 upvotes – 55 comments

Fast and Hard Code

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/22/fast-hard-code/

2 months ago

115 upvotes – 81 comments

Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical

https://erikengdahl.se/autism/isnt/

2 months ago

115 upvotes – 123 comments

Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg92y1wzn8o

2 months ago

109 upvotes – 73 comments

Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/this-rural-village-in-spain-is-welcoming-digital-nomads-with-open-arms

2 months ago

109 upvotes – 134 comments

Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf] (2004)

https://olli.unt.edu/handouts/fall24/tk-writing-sample.pdf

2 months ago

1 change
107 upvotes – 65 comments

The planet now has more trees than it did 35 years ago (2018)

https://psmag.com/environment/the-planet-now-has-more-trees-than-it-did-35-years-ago/

2 months ago

2 changes
95 upvotes – 63 comments

Implementation of GPT-2 in pure CMake

https://github.com/AlpinDale/gpt2.cmake

2 months ago

★ 106 CMake BSD-3-Clause
93 upvotes – 19 comments

Death to px, long live ch

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/death-to-px-long-live-ch/

2 months ago

92 upvotes – 79 comments

US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired

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

2 months ago

81 upvotes – 34 comments

Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/22/iranian-hackers-shut-down-uk-power-plant/

2 months ago

80 upvotes – 65 comments

Kodak DC50 now usable on the Apple II

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/08/23/kodak-dc50-now-usable-on-the-apple-ii/

2 months ago

79 upvotes – 9 comments
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