top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-28

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html

1 month ago

1054 upvotes – 527 comments

Htmx 4.0

https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released

1 month ago

2 changes
827 upvotes – 252 comments

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3

1 month ago

2 changes
805 upvotes – 281 comments

Get your Windows license refund

https://en.refund4freedom.org/

1 month ago

739 upvotes – 350 comments

“It works better in the app”

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/it-works-better-in-the-app/

1 month ago

1 change
715 upvotes – 480 comments

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

https://www.inventati.org/

1 month ago

2 changes
710 upvotes – 772 comments

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/anthropic-government-blacklisting-ruling.html

1 month ago

2 changes
649 upvotes – 437 comments

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

https://www.orbify.eu/demo/

1 month ago

625 upvotes – 189 comments

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/

1 month ago

529 upvotes – 159 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli

1 month ago

★ 10.3k Swift MIT
420 upvotes – 111 comments

Damn fine tiny cafe

https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/tiny-cafe/

1 month ago

2 changes
396 upvotes – 63 comments

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit

1 month ago

395 upvotes – 129 comments

Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-pentagons-anthropic-blacklisting-2026-08-28/

1 month ago

327 upvotes – 3 comments

I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis

https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/

1 month ago

302 upvotes – 86 comments

Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak

https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/

1 month ago

274 upvotes – 140 comments

Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)

https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/blog/hilariously-fast-volume-computation-with-the-divergence-theorem.html

1 month ago

2 changes
266 upvotes – 68 comments

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-issues-permitting-guidance-further-president-trumps-agenda-promoting-data-centers

1 month ago

259 upvotes – 264 comments

It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell

https://blog.vghaisas.com/rube-goldberg-doorbell/

1 month ago

241 upvotes – 265 comments

Sonic Pi

https://sonic-pi.net/

1 month ago

238 upvotes – 55 comments

Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/

1 month ago

1 change
231 upvotes – 30 comments
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