top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-25

Dolly Parton has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead

1 month ago

3 changes
1602 upvotes – 249 comments

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/

1 month ago

2 changes
1312 upvotes – 1302 comments

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442

1 month ago

★ 14k Nim AGPL-3.02 changes
1210 upvotes – 1348 comments

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/

1 month ago

1 change
823 upvotes – 562 comments

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron

1 month ago

684 upvotes – 184 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia

1 month ago

2 changes
584 upvotes – 381 comments

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-new-m6-and-m5-pro/

1 month ago

1 change
549 upvotes – 356 comments

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuously-monitors-both-ketone-levels-and-blood-sugar

1 month ago

1 change
490 upvotes – 238 comments

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1

1 month ago

445 upvotes – 141 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown

1 month ago

443 upvotes – 272 comments

EVE Online moves to Python 3

https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins

1 month ago

403 upvotes – 227 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/

1 month ago

397 upvotes – 131 comments

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs

1 month ago

1 change
364 upvotes – 202 comments

Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

1 month ago

336 upvotes – 172 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590

1 month ago

300 upvotes – 223 comments

Starbase, LA

https://www.spacex.com/sites/starbase-la

1 month ago

1 change
287 upvotes – 591 comments

How much of HN is AI?

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/how-much-of-hn-is-ai

1 month ago

275 upvotes – 356 comments

How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/how-credit-card-rewards-became-multibillion-dollar-wealth-transfer

1 month ago

1 change
257 upvotes – 452 comments

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html

1 month ago

249 upvotes – 304 comments

XCancel also down, at least for time being

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440786

1 month ago

1 change
238 upvotes – 2 comments
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