top 50% hacker news stories for today

DHH: Future of Programming – Lex Fridman Podcast #501 [YouTube, 5 Hours]

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

57 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Flock Exec Alleges Opponents Would Let All Children Die Before Supporting Flock

https://ipvm.com/reports/flock-all-of-them

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

AWS Acquires DuckLabs

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

12 hours ago

1 change
965 upvotes – 289 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash

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

11 hours ago

1 change
878 upvotes – 442 comments

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

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

12 hours ago

2 changes
620 upvotes – 197 comments

Tim Curry has died

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

9 hours ago

1 change
581 upvotes – 195 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/

12 hours ago

1 change
478 upvotes – 458 comments

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

https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat

7 hours ago

★ 679 Go BSD-3-Clause2 changes
470 upvotes – 90 comments

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

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

16 hours ago

430 upvotes – 177 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

15 hours ago

418 upvotes – 142 comments

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com

10 hours ago

340 upvotes – 129 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/

11 hours ago

314 upvotes – 156 comments

Queryable Executables

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

1 day ago

307 upvotes – 79 comments

An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

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

7 hours ago

305 upvotes – 136 comments

France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

https://cartefibre.arcep.fr

12 hours ago

296 upvotes – 219 comments

XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp

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

15 hours ago

281 upvotes – 3 comments

Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues

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

13 hours ago

2 changes
281 upvotes – 412 comments

U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

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

8 hours ago

1 change
263 upvotes – 342 comments

Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

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

10 hours ago

1 change
256 upvotes – 156 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

13 hours ago

239 upvotes – 42 comments

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

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/

11 hours ago

235 upvotes – 158 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/

8 hours ago

192 upvotes – 46 comments

Bill Gates: 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

12 hours ago

180 upvotes – 238 comments

GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

https://isgithubcooked.com/

5 hours ago

178 upvotes – 98 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/

10 hours ago

1 change
176 upvotes – 93 comments

Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project

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

16 hours ago

173 upvotes – 33 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

14 hours ago

172 upvotes – 147 comments

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

https://thetariffcost.com/

7 hours ago

170 upvotes – 185 comments

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

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

6 hours ago

169 upvotes – 207 comments

The turbulent AI era is here

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

9 hours ago

168 upvotes – 153 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

7 hours ago

1 change
167 upvotes – 76 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

9 hours ago

1 change
157 upvotes – 42 comments

US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati

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

9 hours ago

1 change
150 upvotes – 166 comments

VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

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

10 hours ago

142 upvotes – 114 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

19 hours ago

135 upvotes – 201 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

6 hours ago

1 change
132 upvotes – 67 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

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

10 hours ago

132 upvotes – 53 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

125 upvotes – 92 comments

PageRank explained

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

11 hours ago

1 change
115 upvotes – 81 comments

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/

1 hour ago

105 upvotes – 36 comments

YouTube Format IDs

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

8 hours ago

104 upvotes – 53 comments

LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

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

13 hours ago

104 upvotes – 14 comments

Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants

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

11 hours ago

104 upvotes – 15 comments

Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia

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

18 hours ago

95 upvotes – 65 comments

Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence

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

15 hours ago

94 upvotes – 27 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 day ago

94 upvotes – 85 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

12 hours ago

94 upvotes – 112 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

13 hours ago

89 upvotes – 28 comments

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

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

20 hours ago

2 changes
88 upvotes – 22 comments

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

https://acceptmarkdown.com/

5 hours ago

86 upvotes – 46 comments

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

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

16 hours ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

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

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

14 hours ago

81 upvotes – 38 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

5 hours ago

1 change
81 upvotes – 56 comments

Letter from Dolly Parton to Eminem

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

23 hours ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

The End of Programming

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

16 hours ago

80 upvotes – 117 comments

Tim Curry Has Died

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

9 hours ago

80 upvotes – 2 comments

Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21503

22 hours ago

78 upvotes – 27 comments

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

https://rupertlinacre.com/buslens/

17 hours ago

77 upvotes – 54 comments

A curmudgeon tries a language server

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

12 hours ago

73 upvotes – 48 comments

Zohran and the Short Link

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

1 hour ago

70 upvotes – 24 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/

11 hours ago

70 upvotes – 17 comments

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

https://hnstats.com

11 hours ago

1 change
68 upvotes – 45 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/

6 hours ago

67 upvotes – 2 comments

Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228

4 hours ago

1 change
64 upvotes – 9 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

2 hours ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

AI Is a Harsh Mistress

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-is-a-harsh-mistress-on-anima-machina-herd-acceptance-and-the-politics-of-conscious-machines/

11 hours ago

55 upvotes – 51 comments

WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents

https://sreenathmenon.com/blog/2026-08-04-webmcp-teaching-websites-to-talk-to-ai-agents/

10 hours ago

55 upvotes – 55 comments

A Citation to Asimov

https://www.bookandsword.com/2026/08/25/a-citation-to-asimov/

11 hours ago

50 upvotes – 18 comments

Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/mark-zuckerberg-had-bold-plan-replace-meta-staff-with-ai-heres-how-it-imploded-2026-08-26/

14 hours ago

49 upvotes – 17 comments

It's Not the End of Programming

https://mathstodon.xyz/@abuseofnotation/117161292083848755

15 hours ago

49 upvotes – 88 comments

Memory Ordering in CPUs

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

12 hours ago

48 upvotes – 5 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

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

2 hours ago

1 change
47 upvotes – 6 comments

Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/25/apple-maps-ads-live/

13 hours ago

46 upvotes – 14 comments

Stripe acquires Clerky

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

4 hours ago

2 changes
46 upvotes – 11 comments
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