top 50% 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

Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it

https://blog.master.dev/tooltips-need-a-delay-and-then-they-need-to-skip-it/

1 month ago

1 change
232 upvotes – 86 comments

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/

1 month ago

204 upvotes – 93 comments

Why some US restaurants are banning tips

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g36yze692o

1 month ago

195 upvotes – 406 comments

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb

1 month ago

★ 631 Zig MIT2 changes
189 upvotes – 54 comments

Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

https://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html

1 month ago

189 upvotes – 228 comments

C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html

1 month ago

182 upvotes – 142 comments

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python

https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability

1 month ago

1 change
178 upvotes – 75 comments

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/

1 month ago

2 changes
161 upvotes – 245 comments

SiFive's First Server Platform

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/sifives-first-server-platform

1 month ago

151 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch

1 month ago

★ 273 Python AGPL-3.0
146 upvotes – 68 comments

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/ai-is-hitting-entry-level-jobs-hardest-stanford-study-finds/

1 month ago

145 upvotes – 175 comments

Sort branches by last commit date

https://ryangreenberg.com/til/git-branches-by-commit-date/

1 month ago

139 upvotes – 53 comments

Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2026/august/thomson-reuters-leverages-its-world-class-data-assets-to-launch-its-own-frontier-model

1 month ago

134 upvotes – 54 comments

Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

https://dfarq.homeip.net/happy-20th-birthday-to-windows-95/

1 month ago

132 upvotes – 104 comments

Headlong: A microharness for persistent agents

https://www.laude.org/updates/headlong-a-microharness-for-persistent-agents

1 month ago

1 change
125 upvotes – 55 comments

Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-san-francisco-staff-work-remote-office-security-strike-2026-8

1 month ago

123 upvotes – 131 comments

Tmp.0ut Volume 5

https://tmpout.sh/5/

1 month ago

1 change
120 upvotes – 2 comments

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/24/openai-restores-5-hour-codex-and-work-limits-for-chatgpt-plus-users/

1 month ago

120 upvotes – 125 comments

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

https://github.com/swimmingbrain/texbrain

1 month ago

★ 180 Svelte MIT
118 upvotes – 27 comments

France's tax agency got hacked (in French)

https://www.cybernetica.fr/piratage-des-impots-comment-en-est-on-arrive-la/

1 month ago

118 upvotes – 53 comments

Orbs

https://ampcode.com/notes/orbs-explained

1 month ago

115 upvotes – 42 comments

Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others

https://github.com/runetes/maiao

1 month ago

★ 169 Go MIT
114 upvotes – 74 comments

JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps

https://blog.jupyter.org/jupytergis-0-16-new-visualization-capabilities-collaborative-story-maps-and-more-03e6b78bacc0

1 month ago

112 upvotes – 10 comments

Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types

https://docs.python.org/3.16/library/time-complexity.html

1 month ago

112 upvotes – 42 comments

The service XCancel is stopped until further notice

https://xcancel.com

1 month ago

99 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter

https://github.com/gbin/defragger

1 month ago

★ 46 Rust Apache-2.0
96 upvotes – 73 comments

HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly

1 month ago

★ 208 Assembly 2 changes
92 upvotes – 52 comments

Dolly Parton Has Died

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

1 month ago

91 upvotes – 10 comments

More Fucked Today Than Yesterday

https://climatecasino.substack.com/p/more-fucked-today-than-yesterday

1 month ago

90 upvotes – 66 comments

Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/25/apple-releases-new-polishing-cloth/

1 month ago

89 upvotes – 30 comments

Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html

1 month ago

1 change
87 upvotes – 20 comments

Polishing Cloth Updated

https://512pixels.net/2026/08/polishing-cloth-updated/

1 month ago

81 upvotes – 56 comments

Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language

https://r136a1.dev/2026/08/24/sleepwalker-a-passive-backdoor-with-its-own-command-language/

1 month ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)

https://www.wired.com/2015/03/illegal-sand-mining/

1 month ago

4 changes
77 upvotes – 29 comments

Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler

https://www.kurz.net/posts/fuzzing-gleam-compiler

1 month ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments
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