top 50% 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

20 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

1 change
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

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

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

7 hours ago

1 change
137 upvotes – 277 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

17 hours ago

124 upvotes – 60 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

13 hours ago

120 upvotes – 159 comments

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

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

18 hours ago

★ 196 JavaScript MIT
117 upvotes – 27 comments

Nearly 3M Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles

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

20 hours ago

116 upvotes – 144 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

3 hours ago

114 upvotes – 88 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

113 upvotes – 109 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

8 hours ago

1 change
109 upvotes – 47 comments

The Future Belongs to the Weird

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

15 hours ago

99 upvotes – 89 comments

Anger, Anxiety and Agency

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

6 hours ago

89 upvotes – 98 comments

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

https://picomq.com/

8 hours ago

89 upvotes – 16 comments

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

https://glassbox.codecanary.org

8 hours ago

87 upvotes – 41 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

9 hours ago

87 upvotes – 61 comments

Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers

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

13 hours ago

85 upvotes – 73 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

5 hours ago

85 upvotes – 45 comments

We never use AI. For anything

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

15 hours ago

81 upvotes – 95 comments

Moon (2024)

https://ciechanow.ski/moon/

2 hours ago

1 change
80 upvotes – 13 comments

Anthropic Claude and API service outages

https://status.claude.com/uptime

18 hours ago

75 upvotes – 60 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

22 hours ago

73 upvotes – 47 comments

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

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

7 hours ago

73 upvotes – 14 comments

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

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

21 hours ago

72 upvotes – 65 comments

Mourning Steve French

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

19 hours ago

72 upvotes – 3 comments

Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam

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

7 hours ago

70 upvotes – 9 comments

Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/migrating-a-synology-nas-to-a-unifi-unas-pro-8-with-robocopy-smb-multichannel-and-surprising-performance-traps

23 hours ago

69 upvotes – 57 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/

6 hours ago

68 upvotes – 36 comments

Agent Is Not the Model

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

13 hours ago

63 upvotes – 34 comments

Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16603

8 hours ago

1 change
62 upvotes – 74 comments

Your Open Source Model Could Have a Hidden Time-Release Backdoor

https://morgin.ai/articles/your-open-source-model-could-have-a-hidden-time-release-backdoor.html

18 hours ago

62 upvotes – 79 comments

Adafruit USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer

https://www.adafruit.com/product/6323

9 hours ago

61 upvotes – 54 comments

Write-Ahead Logs on S3: Compatibility Is Not Performance

https://blog.trylle.com/wal-s3

17 hours ago

60 upvotes – 5 comments

We are not going anywhere

https://gist.github.com/omeid/a9d6d1e3c25cb3aa577931e60e006f54

17 hours ago

57 upvotes – 92 comments

Omacom Foundation funding hits $10M

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-funding-hits-10m/

13 hours ago

57 upvotes – 96 comments

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

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

14 hours ago

55 upvotes – 73 comments

Government Proposes New Six-Figure Fee for H1B Visas

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-proposes-new-six-figure-fee-for-h1-b-visas-a0da2d01

7 hours ago

53 upvotes – 40 comments

ICE officers with electric-shock gloves

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/ice-officers-electric-shock-gloves

6 hours ago

52 upvotes – 11 comments

Fences, Not Sandboxes

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

7 hours ago

51 upvotes – 42 comments

Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge

https://codefloe.com/

9 hours ago

51 upvotes – 21 comments

Omakase Computing

https://learn.omacom.io/3/omacom/76/omakase-computing

13 hours ago

50 upvotes – 69 comments
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