top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-27

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8

1 month ago

2 changes
1982 upvotes – 925 comments

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive

1 month ago

★ 3.5k Python
1032 upvotes – 717 comments

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/

1 month ago

924 upvotes – 285 comments

Small Models Have Arrived

https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived

1 month ago

799 upvotes – 348 comments

Microduck

https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/

1 month ago

1 change
782 upvotes – 252 comments

Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

https://louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/

1 month ago

1 change
703 upvotes – 326 comments

507 Mechanical Movements

https://507movements.com/

1 month ago

1 change
683 upvotes – 80 comments

Trade (and Tariffs)

https://xkcd.com/3290/

1 month ago

558 upvotes – 271 comments

Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462253

1 month ago

1 change
516 upvotes – 325 comments

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extending-to-the-fundamental-cosmological-makeup-of-the-universe

1 month ago

502 upvotes – 259 comments

Gemini-3.5-Transcribe

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5-transcribe/

1 month ago

363 upvotes – 127 comments

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8

1 month ago

323 upvotes – 218 comments

The Twelve-Factor App (2025)

https://12factor.net/

1 month ago

1 change
316 upvotes – 172 comments

Reverse engineering my ADHD test

https://nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-adhd-test

1 month ago

1 change
316 upvotes – 236 comments

Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2584861-antidepressant-withdrawal-symptoms-are-prompting-a-radical-rethink-of-how-we-treat-depression/

1 month ago

1 change
301 upvotes – 363 comments

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/

1 month ago

296 upvotes – 237 comments

We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer

https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24290

1 month ago

293 upvotes – 252 comments

US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist"

https://crimethinc.com/2026/08/27/us-government-designates-host-of-noblogsorg-a-global-terrorist

1 month ago

1 change
287 upvotes – 160 comments

Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-story-of-suica

1 month ago

284 upvotes – 268 comments

Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days

https://blog.chrislewis.au/decompiling-a-nintendo-64-game-in-84-days/

1 month ago

1 change
270 upvotes – 182 comments
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