top 20 hacker news stories for today

Macron confirms school mobile phone ban effective from new term

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/08/24/macron-confirms-school-mobile-phone-ban-effective-from-new-term

21 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

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

11 hours ago

1032 upvotes – 648 comments

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

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

9 hours ago

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711 upvotes – 476 comments

Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

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

17 hours ago

649 upvotes – 344 comments

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

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

9 hours ago

538 upvotes – 217 comments

Executable Is a SQLite Database

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

19 hours ago

486 upvotes – 90 comments

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

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

8 hours ago

442 upvotes – 447 comments

Oceans hit highest temperature on record

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

5 hours ago

380 upvotes – 262 comments

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

https://sf.thijs.gg/

7 hours ago

321 upvotes – 113 comments

IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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

8 hours ago

316 upvotes – 161 comments

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

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

9 hours ago

286 upvotes – 259 comments

New EU-wide product repair rules come into force

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

18 hours ago

243 upvotes – 135 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/

9 hours ago

241 upvotes – 163 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

14 hours ago

181 upvotes – 141 comments

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

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

2 hours ago

178 upvotes – 36 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/

18 hours ago

178 upvotes – 98 comments

SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64

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

13 hours ago

170 upvotes – 37 comments

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

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

8 hours ago

162 upvotes – 63 comments

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

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

11 hours ago

157 upvotes – 29 comments

Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file

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

16 hours ago

150 upvotes – 16 comments
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