top 50% hacker news stories for today

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempic-moment

1 hour ago

24 upvotes – 13 comments

Queryable Executables

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables

2 hours ago

18 upvotes – 3 comments

Hacker News now has an active (official) X account

https://twitter.com/hackernews/status/2092359322433191997

2 hours ago

14 upvotes – 13 comments

Letter from Dolly Parton to Eminem

https://twitter.com/Eminem/status/2092367272891310482

25 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

Engineers laid off at Apple headquarters

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-engineers-layoff-22403206.php

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Dolly Parton has died

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

8 hours ago

3 changes
1252 upvotes – 192 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/

13 hours ago

2 changes
979 upvotes – 913 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/

13 hours ago

1 change
709 upvotes – 461 comments

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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

9 hours ago

★ 13.5k Nim AGPL-3.02 changes
668 upvotes – 563 comments

My Friend Aaron

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

9 hours ago

458 upvotes – 126 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/

13 hours ago

1 change
437 upvotes – 268 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

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

12 hours ago

2 changes
345 upvotes – 240 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/

14 hours ago

315 upvotes – 116 comments

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

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

14 hours ago

310 upvotes – 139 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

7 hours ago

1 change
292 upvotes – 148 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

8 hours ago

290 upvotes – 74 comments

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

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

12 hours ago

1 change
277 upvotes – 144 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

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

12 hours ago

272 upvotes – 194 comments

How much of HN is AI?

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

11 hours ago

250 upvotes – 300 comments

Starbase, LA

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

9 hours ago

1 change
239 upvotes – 408 comments

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html

1 day ago

237 upvotes – 291 comments

XCancel also down, at least for time being

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

5 hours ago

1 change
219 upvotes – 14 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590

9 hours ago

195 upvotes – 132 comments

Why some US restaurants are banning tips

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

16 hours ago

187 upvotes – 389 comments

Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

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

4 hours ago

154 upvotes – 137 comments

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

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

1 day ago

2 changes
149 upvotes – 235 comments

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

14 hours ago

147 upvotes – 291 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/

11 hours ago

135 upvotes – 160 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 day ago

132 upvotes – 54 comments

SiFive's First Server Platform

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

23 hours ago

131 upvotes – 41 comments

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

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

9 hours ago

130 upvotes – 61 comments

Headlong: A microharness for persistent agents

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

22 hours ago

1 change
119 upvotes – 53 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/

9 hours ago

1 change
118 upvotes – 28 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

12 hours ago

117 upvotes – 123 comments

Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

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

19 hours ago

116 upvotes – 89 comments

France's tax agency got hacked (in French)

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

13 hours ago

116 upvotes – 53 comments

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb

9 hours ago

★ 234 Zig MIT2 changes
114 upvotes – 33 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/

14 hours ago

111 upvotes – 119 comments

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

https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch

11 hours ago

★ 113 Python
108 upvotes – 25 comments

Dolly Parton Has Died

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

7 hours ago

88 upvotes – 9 comments

Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth

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

12 hours ago

88 upvotes – 29 comments

C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality

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

6 hours ago

85 upvotes – 38 comments

HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly

14 hours ago

★ 200 Assembly 2 changes
83 upvotes – 46 comments

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

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

5 hours ago

69 upvotes – 30 comments

US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons

https://forgeeks.net/us-data-centers-water-use-17-billion-gallons/

13 hours ago

69 upvotes – 156 comments
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