top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-08-24

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs

1 month ago

1645 upvotes – 1030 comments

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926

1 month ago

1 change
1003 upvotes – 736 comments

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/

1 month ago

861 upvotes – 436 comments

Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

https://www.modelrepublic.org/articles/a16z-portfolio

1 month ago

753 upvotes – 427 comments

Oceans hit highest temperature on record

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o

1 month ago

705 upvotes – 661 comments

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

https://sf.thijs.gg/

1 month ago

610 upvotes – 172 comments

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm

1 month ago

605 upvotes – 206 comments

Executable Is a SQLite Database

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/23/your-executable-is-a-sqlite-database

1 month ago

563 upvotes – 109 comments

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

https://larsfaye.com/articles/ai-coding-will-prevent-expertise

1 month ago

560 upvotes – 545 comments

Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

https://zackbartel.com/blog/2026/08/tether/

1 month ago

539 upvotes – 218 comments

IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of-ipfs-at-shipyard/

1 month ago

363 upvotes – 206 comments

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-bathrooms-go/

1 month ago

1 change
348 upvotes – 828 comments

What's new in Emacs 31.1

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-311

1 month ago

1 change
346 upvotes – 119 comments

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing

1 month ago

338 upvotes – 344 comments

Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice

1 month ago

334 upvotes – 71 comments

RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython

https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/

1 month ago

305 upvotes – 66 comments

Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-owes-340-million-lost-several-domains-but-its-still-online/

1 month ago

304 upvotes – 196 comments

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

https://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/

1 month ago

272 upvotes – 183 comments

Moon (2024)

https://ciechanow.ski/moon/

1 month ago

1 change
267 upvotes – 40 comments

New EU-wide product repair rules come into force

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0824/1588931-repair-rules/

1 month ago

261 upvotes – 144 comments

SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support

1 month ago

255 upvotes – 56 comments

Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders

https://ssx360.github.io/rack-02/?src=hn

1 month ago

240 upvotes – 48 comments

Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0344538

1 month ago

231 upvotes – 108 comments

SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64

https://proofcraft.systems/news-2026/#2026-08-21

1 month ago

201 upvotes – 53 comments

Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-are-some-octopuses-so-smart-the-answer-might-lie-in-a-never-before-seen-mutation-that-helps-them-accurately-build-proteins-180989319/

1 month ago

198 upvotes – 186 comments

Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/24/woman-stranded-spain-uk-evisa-system-mistakes-twin-sister

1 month ago

194 upvotes – 151 comments

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

https://boydkane.com/essays/llms-could-control-their-host-machines-by-exploiting-inference-engines

1 month ago

194 upvotes – 108 comments

FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/fda-clears-blood-test-to-aid-evaluation-for-alzheimers-disease/

1 month ago

190 upvotes – 106 comments

One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/style/china-tang-dynasty-never-existed-hoax-intl-hnk

1 month ago

178 upvotes – 176 comments

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

https://github.com/murerkinn/bookshelf

1 month ago

★ 342 TypeScript MIT
174 upvotes – 64 comments

Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file

https://www.hamiltonulmer.com/customer-dashboards-r2-hyparquet/

1 month ago

173 upvotes – 23 comments

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/

1 month ago

1 change
164 upvotes – 31 comments

Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe

https://acko.net/blog/curvature-beziers/

1 month ago

1 change
162 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage

https://picomq.com/

1 month ago

159 upvotes – 31 comments

What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

https://askmike.org/articles/ai-coding-lessons-in-the-90s-from-my-dad/

1 month ago

146 upvotes – 82 comments

Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store

https://github.com/tobi/walgit

1 month ago

★ 2.3k Rust MIT
141 upvotes – 59 comments

OCR It – pull text out of un-copyable documents for your LLM

https://github.com/thiagotigaz/ocr-it

1 month ago

★ 340 JavaScript MIT
140 upvotes – 35 comments

The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/24/treasury-bonds-trump-administration-debt

1 month ago

136 upvotes – 190 comments

Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer

https://galaxium.app

1 month ago

1 change
136 upvotes – 39 comments

Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)

https://kylezhe.ng/writes/crafting-qr-codes

1 month ago

1 change
134 upvotes – 13 comments

Visualizing Binary Files

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-05/0/POSTING-en.html

1 month ago

134 upvotes – 18 comments

Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo

https://www.afro.who.int/countries/democratic-republic-of-congo/news/over-5200-cases-recorded-democratic-republic-congocrosses100-days-ebola-outbreak-declaration

1 month ago

132 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are

https://glassbox.codecanary.org

1 month ago

1 change
132 upvotes – 63 comments

Monzo Stand-In

https://monzo.com/blog/tolerating-full-cloud-outages-with-monzo-stand-in

1 month ago

130 upvotes – 68 comments

Tracking Costco gas prices

https://www.jack.bio/blog/costco-gas-tracking

1 month ago

2 changes
128 upvotes – 115 comments

Anger, Anxiety and Agency

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/24/anger-anxiety-agency/

1 month ago

127 upvotes – 133 comments

A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more

https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2026/07/16/beam-living-graphql-data-exposure

1 month ago

1 change
123 upvotes – 56 comments

Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49418675

1 month ago

123 upvotes – 128 comments

Nearly 3M Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g6ggdg030o

1 month ago

120 upvotes – 153 comments

The Future Belongs to the Weird

https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/weird/

1 month ago

104 upvotes – 97 comments

Experiments with Plotter Art

https://sometimes.digital/posts/experiments-with-plotter-art/

1 month ago

101 upvotes – 12 comments

Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-cuda-targets-risc

1 month ago

1 change
98 upvotes – 14 comments

Fences, Not Sandboxes

https://yegge.ai/essays/fences-not-sandboxes/

1 month ago

95 upvotes – 98 comments

Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260821-why-older-tech-is-sometimes-safer-from-hackers

1 month ago

91 upvotes – 84 comments

Ox-Alpha Is GLM?

https://dejan.ai/blog/ox-alpha/

1 month ago

1 change
89 upvotes – 71 comments

We never use AI. For anything

https://corkmac.app/our-ai-stance/

1 month ago

85 upvotes – 100 comments

Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog

https://textlog.cc/post/2059

1 month ago

84 upvotes – 42 comments

Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16603

1 month ago

1 change
82 upvotes – 87 comments

Mourning Steve French

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090098/

1 month ago

81 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: How to mentally calculate the day of the week for any date

https://tinkerandsee.com/weekday/

1 month ago

1 change
80 upvotes – 24 comments

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49417766

1 month ago

80 upvotes – 105 comments

Man Dressed as Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6042349-darth-vader-flock-surveillance/

1 month ago

79 upvotes – 16 comments

What Is a Syslog Server?

https://blog.greencloudvps.com/what-is-a-syslog-server.php

1 month ago

76 upvotes – 52 comments

Anthropic Claude and API service outages

https://status.claude.com/uptime

1 month ago

76 upvotes – 61 comments

Why is Anthropic's public writing style so unlike Claude's?

https://cmart.blog/claude-writing/

2 months ago

75 upvotes – 76 comments

Former OC actor Ben McKenzie on crusade to take down 'stupid' cryptocurrency

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/celebrity/former-oc-actor-ben-mckenzie-on-crusade-to-take-down-stupid-cryptocurrency

2 months ago

74 upvotes – 49 comments

Agent Is Not the Model

https://code.joejag.com/2026/your-agent-is-not-the-model.html

1 month ago

74 upvotes – 34 comments
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