top 50% hacker news stories for today

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/

10 hours ago

612 upvotes – 266 comments

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

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

21 hours ago

1 change
425 upvotes – 250 comments

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

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

10 hours ago

359 upvotes – 136 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/

15 hours ago

311 upvotes – 137 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/

18 hours ago

299 upvotes – 238 comments

What Is a Harness?

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

10 hours ago

290 upvotes – 131 comments

A website for debloated open source alternatives

https://debloat.dev/

8 hours ago

257 upvotes – 87 comments

How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

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

5 hours ago

1 change
252 upvotes – 96 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

234 upvotes – 108 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

9 hours ago

1 change
232 upvotes – 62 comments

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

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

11 hours ago

208 upvotes – 106 comments

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

https://martypc.net/

21 hours ago

207 upvotes – 89 comments

Everything I own, owned

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

2 hours ago

1 change
204 upvotes – 62 comments

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

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

11 hours ago

188 upvotes – 66 comments

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

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

6 hours ago

182 upvotes – 145 comments

The End of an Athlon

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

19 hours ago

174 upvotes – 84 comments

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)

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

1 day ago

1 change
172 upvotes – 105 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/

5 hours ago

1 change
163 upvotes – 37 comments

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

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

6 hours ago

160 upvotes – 62 comments

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

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

19 hours ago

154 upvotes – 95 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/

9 hours ago

1 change
141 upvotes – 167 comments

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

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

7 hours ago

140 upvotes – 71 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/

9 hours ago

127 upvotes – 78 comments

I dream of quieter computing

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

22 hours ago

1 change
111 upvotes – 110 comments

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

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

16 hours ago

109 upvotes – 117 comments

Fable and the end of the free lunch

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

5 hours ago

1 change
106 upvotes – 87 comments

Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium

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

14 hours ago

105 upvotes – 69 comments

Fast and Hard Code

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

19 hours ago

104 upvotes – 77 comments

The Vibe Tax

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

6 hours ago

100 upvotes – 77 comments

The Sloppification of Peptides

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

15 hours ago

90 upvotes – 70 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

5 hours ago

84 upvotes – 52 comments

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

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

1 day ago

1 change
82 upvotes – 58 comments

US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired

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

1 day ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

Explain it to me like I'm ten

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

6 hours ago

77 upvotes – 37 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/

15 hours ago

75 upvotes – 54 comments

Death to px, long live ch

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

11 hours ago

60 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive

https://skylens.yantraai.app/

15 hours ago

59 upvotes – 35 comments

We must not grant AI agents legal personhood

https://www.ft.com/content/b8cc4bf4-6d3c-4974-8428-9a091983c473

7 hours ago

59 upvotes – 97 comments

Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/world/europe/poland-estonia-cryptocurrency.html

20 hours ago

58 upvotes – 17 comments

Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/23/amiga-inspired-aros-goes-bare-metal-on-raspberry-pi/

10 hours ago

53 upvotes – 7 comments

Steve French (SMB3/CIFSFS Linux kernel maintainer) has died

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SMB3-CIFS-Maintainer-Change

17 hours ago

52 upvotes – 0 comments

Dutch regulator fines Uber $966M for automating driver suspensions

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/21/netherlands-fines-uber-automated-driver-suspensions

7 hours ago

49 upvotes – 60 comments
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