top 50% 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

EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality

https://www.osnews.com/story/145883/easyeffects-should-be-part-of-every-linux-distribution-and-desktop-environment-to-massively-improve-laptop-speaker-sound-quality/

1 month ago

2 changes
222 upvotes – 94 comments

'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-mad-honey-heart-sold-online.html

1 month ago

215 upvotes – 123 comments

Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV

https://neilalexander.dev/2026/06/30/flooding-contributions

1 month ago

213 upvotes – 144 comments

Migrating to HTTPX2

https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/httpx2.md

1 month ago

★ 31.5k Python Apache-2.01 change
209 upvotes – 96 comments

Stopping the smart TV from being used against you

https://www.s-config.com/stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you/

1 month ago

205 upvotes – 162 comments

Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”

https://www.thehealthy.com/news/chicken-recall-fsis-august-2026/

1 month ago

1 change
198 upvotes – 168 comments

Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-28/advent-stripe-consortium-is-said-to-drop-pursuit-of-paypal

1 month ago

1 change
195 upvotes – 271 comments

I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again

https://joshkaramuth.com/blog/aws-cognito-authentication-startup-nightmare/

1 month ago

1 change
193 upvotes – 132 comments

State of the Map 2026

https://2026.stateofthemap.org/

1 month ago

1 change
191 upvotes – 63 comments

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-08-25-verschlimmbesserung/

1 month ago

178 upvotes – 120 comments

9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight

https://azmirror.com/2026/08/28/9th-circuit-sides-with-states-in-kalshi-gambling-fight-potentially-reviving-arizonas-prosecution/

1 month ago

170 upvotes – 168 comments

Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map

https://cartographia40k.com/

1 month ago

1 change
162 upvotes – 59 comments

Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02506-4

1 month ago

159 upvotes – 245 comments

An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/are-crows-really-our-friends

1 month ago

2 changes
148 upvotes – 91 comments

Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation

https://mastodon.bida.im/@cavallette/117172989300228024

1 month ago

145 upvotes – 105 comments

Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio

https://terminalbytes.com/run-qwen-3-8-27b-locally/

1 month ago

140 upvotes – 99 comments

Corporate profits hit highest share since WWII, as worker payouts wilt

https://www.ft.com/content/6f3ada65-c56c-499c-8eb6-008fac58949d

1 month ago

138 upvotes – 54 comments

Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

https://www.vectorian.be/articles/2026-06-07/sumerian-king-list-paleoclimate-alignment-explorer/

1 month ago

135 upvotes – 85 comments

HTTPX2 – A next-generation HTTP client for Python

https://github.com/pydantic/httpx2

1 month ago

★ 1.3k Python BSD-3-Clause1 change
132 upvotes – 43 comments

USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/usda-recalls-30000-pounds-of-argentine-beef-sold-in-texas-and-florida

1 month ago

125 upvotes – 85 comments

Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public

https://www.wallpaper.com/design-interiors/labirinto-borges-venice-reopening

1 month ago

124 upvotes – 37 comments

Highlighting My Code Based on How Much I Care

https://hank.bond/posts/highlighting-my-code-based-on-how-much-i-care/

1 month ago

122 upvotes – 70 comments

Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23691

1 month ago

122 upvotes – 40 comments

Climate change is strengthening El Niño, coral records suggest

https://www.science.org/content/article/climate-change-strengthening-el-ni%C3%B1o-coral-records-suggest

1 month ago

121 upvotes – 125 comments

Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes

https://www.gadgetreview.com/flock-ceos-address-spread-online-as-surveillance-backlash-explodes

1 month ago

118 upvotes – 129 comments

Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows

https://www.terminal-bench-science.ai/announcement

1 month ago

117 upvotes – 36 comments

Don't use musl if you care about performance

https://blog.brokk.ai/dont-use-musl-if-you-care-about-performance/

1 month ago

109 upvotes – 77 comments

Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock over 2k times

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/us/flock-kentucky-police-officer-arrest

1 month ago

104 upvotes – 30 comments

Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/debugging-my-new-network-when-10-gigabit-ethernet-runs-at-300-megabits

1 month ago

102 upvotes – 60 comments

Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why

https://lwn.net/Articles/1088279/

1 month ago

100 upvotes – 60 comments

“Weird” is a weird word

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/weird-is-a-weird-word

1 month ago

1 change
91 upvotes – 33 comments

Barrier lake continues to pose flood risk, China warns

https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/08/28/barrier-lake-continues-to-pose-flood-risk-china-warns

1 month ago

1 change
90 upvotes – 23 comments

My Business Is Dying

https://bankstatementconverter.com/blog/posts/2026-08-28-business-is-dying/

1 month ago

89 upvotes – 89 comments

Creating the Aetheryte Radio

https://haz.ee/posts/aetheryte-radio.html

1 month ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

https://subsmith.app

1 month ago

78 upvotes – 51 comments

Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/africa-wild-dogs-most-hated-carnivores-continent-heres-why-conservationists-saving-them-anyway-180989287/

1 month ago

3 changes
77 upvotes – 32 comments

How Dactyl Works

https://dactyl.dev/blog/how-dactyl-works/

1 month ago

72 upvotes – 16 comments

Bye, Bye GitHub

https://log.ozgur.works/bye-bye-github.html

1 month ago

71 upvotes – 75 comments

That's a Lot of YAML

https://noyaml.com/

1 month ago

69 upvotes – 77 comments

Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbzMqJGH4k

1 month ago

69 upvotes – 78 comments

Building an interactive instrument for a one-of-a-kind festival

https://benholmen.com/blog/halfmoon-chimes/

1 month ago

67 upvotes – 8 comments

Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager

https://usesesame.app/

1 month ago

65 upvotes – 85 comments
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