top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-08-26

GLM-5.3-Flash

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash

1 month ago

1 change
1131 upvotes – 579 comments

AWS Acquires DuckLabs

https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws

1 month ago

1 change
1102 upvotes – 317 comments

U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23

1 month ago

1 change
839 upvotes – 1449 comments

Tim Curry has died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film

1 month ago

1 change
723 upvotes – 238 comments

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next

1 month ago

2 changes
704 upvotes – 233 comments

Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat

1 month ago

★ 5.8k Go BSD-3-Clause2 changes
687 upvotes – 134 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/

1 month ago

581 upvotes – 423 comments

Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/

1 month ago

1 change
543 upvotes – 547 comments

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/

1 month ago

534 upvotes – 167 comments

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think

1 month ago

515 upvotes – 216 comments

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/

1 month ago

489 upvotes – 232 comments

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com

1 month ago

473 upvotes – 197 comments

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/china-s-z-ai-made-ox-alpha-stealth-model-that-rivals-deepseek

1 month ago

435 upvotes – 146 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/

1 month ago

1 change
408 upvotes – 234 comments

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

1 month ago

364 upvotes – 6 comments

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

1 month ago

2 changes
360 upvotes – 624 comments

Actually Queryable Executables

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

1 month ago

1 change
341 upvotes – 86 comments

CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-venezuela-response/

1 month ago

339 upvotes – 87 comments

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/

1 month ago

335 upvotes – 463 comments

Zohran and the Short Link

https://iamwillwang.com/notes/zohran-and-the-short-link/

1 month ago

333 upvotes – 215 comments

France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

https://cartefibre.arcep.fr

1 month ago

324 upvotes – 239 comments

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/

1 month ago

300 upvotes – 210 comments

Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

https://blog.happyfellow.dev/merchants-of-insecurity/

1 month ago

2 changes
296 upvotes – 444 comments

FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer

1 month ago

1 change
286 upvotes – 74 comments

XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446210

1 month ago

282 upvotes – 3 comments

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html

1 month ago

276 upvotes – 210 comments

GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

https://isgithubcooked.com/

1 month ago

275 upvotes – 189 comments

It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/

1 month ago

1 change
263 upvotes – 189 comments

Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f

1 month ago

1 change
263 upvotes – 169 comments

Stripe acquires Clerky

https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe

1 month ago

2 changes
249 upvotes – 62 comments

Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda

1 month ago

247 upvotes – 51 comments

US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616

1 month ago

1 change
235 upvotes – 230 comments

The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada

https://thetariffcost.com/

1 month ago

231 upvotes – 302 comments

The Harness Is the Thing

https://scott-fryxell.github.io/blog/the-harness-is-the-thing/

1 month ago

208 upvotes – 124 comments

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

1 month ago

1 change
198 upvotes – 374 comments

VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/

1 month ago

192 upvotes – 147 comments

Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project

https://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/08/oim-charter-project/

1 month ago

187 upvotes – 33 comments

Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228

1 month ago

1 change
186 upvotes – 30 comments

Study reveals UnitedHealth's profit margins four times what it claimed [pdf]

https://insurancewatchdogcoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/UHG-Profits-Study_August-2026.pdf

1 month ago

1 change
180 upvotes – 80 comments

U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/u-s-govt-moves-to-suppress-pushback-on-data-centers-by-removing-requirements-for-public-input-on-pollution-epa-change-would-allow-air-pollution-permits-without-publicizing-them

1 month ago

178 upvotes – 153 comments

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

https://acceptmarkdown.com/

1 month ago

176 upvotes – 108 comments

Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

https://www.actinideinc.com/press/actinide-becomes-first-startup-to-ever-enrich-natural-uranium-to-produce-haleu

1 month ago

1 change
175 upvotes – 89 comments

IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generation-dual-architecture-processor-for-ibm-z-and-linuxone

1 month ago

1 change
175 upvotes – 131 comments

11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76809

1 month ago

166 upvotes – 123 comments

PageRank explained

https://praveshkoirala.com/2026/08/26/you-could-have-invented-pagerank/

1 month ago

1 change
148 upvotes – 95 comments

Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/scotland-woodlands-antidepressants

1 month ago

148 upvotes – 17 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash

1 month ago

139 upvotes – 60 comments

More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/more-half-adults-us-say-they-lack-basic-statistical-understanding

1 month ago

138 upvotes – 217 comments

YouTube Format IDs

https://gist.github.com/MartinEesmaa/2f4b261cb90a47e9c41ba115a011a4aa

1 month ago

134 upvotes – 84 comments

Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service

https://parowozowniawolsztyn.pl/?page_id=2141

1 month ago

119 upvotes – 27 comments

Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

https://typebase.io

1 month ago

118 upvotes – 49 comments

Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2026/08/go-runtime-netpoll-bug/

1 month ago

117 upvotes – 15 comments

Visual Analysis of Binary Files

https://binvis.io/#/

1 month ago

115 upvotes – 27 comments

LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8

1 month ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)

https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/einstein-szilard-refrigerator

1 month ago

1 change
109 upvotes – 55 comments

A curmudgeon tries a language server

https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server

1 month ago

106 upvotes – 82 comments

Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/paper-product-toilet-paper-tariffs-us-canada

1 month ago

102 upvotes – 114 comments

Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm

1 month ago

2 changes
101 upvotes – 25 comments

Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence

https://var0.xyz/posts/beyond-recall-and-the-illusion-of-competence.html

1 month ago

100 upvotes – 31 comments

Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia

https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-influence-campaign-russia/

1 month ago

98 upvotes – 65 comments

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 month ago

96 upvotes – 84 comments

Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0j3z6147jo

1 month ago

94 upvotes – 59 comments

Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math

https://ben3d.ca/blog/processing-in-memory

1 month ago

93 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker

https://pantsforbirds.com/the-worlds-smallest-dual-band-ads-b-receiver-module/

1 month ago

93 upvotes – 23 comments

X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project

https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/26/nitter-no-more-x-sends-in-the-lawyers-to-shut-down-open-source-project/5292548

1 month ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

https://johan-sjolen.github.io/post/compiler-sympathy/compiler-sympathy/

1 month ago

89 upvotes – 46 comments

A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw-humanity-from-two-billion-years-away/

1 month ago

89 upvotes – 17 comments

Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)

https://rupertlinacre.com/buslens/

1 month ago

84 upvotes – 55 comments

The End of Programming

https://pauldix.com/the-end-of-programming

1 month ago

84 upvotes – 121 comments

Letter from Dolly Parton to Eminem

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

1 month ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Tim Curry Has Died

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

1 month ago

80 upvotes – 2 comments

Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21503

1 month ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Recovering Corrupt Zip Files

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/recovering-corrupt-zip-files-1895

1 month ago

75 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: How much of Hacker News is about AI?

https://hnstats.com

1 month ago

1 change
74 upvotes – 48 comments

Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist/

1 month ago

72 upvotes – 2 comments

Notes on Private Trackers

https://www.jenn.site/notes-on-private-trackers/

1 month ago

68 upvotes – 58 comments

Memory Ordering in CPUs

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2026/08/25/memory-ordering-in-cpus/

1 month ago

68 upvotes – 7 comments

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

https://iafisher.com/2026/08/sigprint

1 month ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic

https://relm4.org/

1 month ago

64 upvotes – 40 comments
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