top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-08-29

Creepy Crawlies

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies

1 month ago

1385 upvotes – 708 comments

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/

1 month ago

852 upvotes – 544 comments

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

https://lwn.net/Articles/1091231/

1 month ago

517 upvotes – 486 comments

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/good-culture-is-the-biggest-productivity

1 month ago

480 upvotes – 123 comments

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/internet_predatory_cesspit/

1 month ago

1 change
464 upvotes – 319 comments

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonprofits

1 month ago

464 upvotes – 105 comments

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/

1 month ago

445 upvotes – 349 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/

1 month ago

1 change
386 upvotes – 257 comments

American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died

https://simpleflying.com/american-airlines-mechanic-passes-away-100-record-80-years/

1 month ago

2 changes
385 upvotes – 163 comments

Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn45vdxyvvlo

1 month ago

340 upvotes – 489 comments

GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3mua32q4ds22e

1 month ago

328 upvotes – 197 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/

1 month ago

1 change
295 upvotes – 102 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing

1 month ago

284 upvotes – 110 comments

What I learned from my mom (1941-2026)

https://experimentalliving.substack.com/p/what-i-learned-from-my-mom-1941-2026

1 month ago

1 change
281 upvotes – 11 comments

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface

1 month ago

276 upvotes – 197 comments

Show HN: Laser Graffiti

https://laser.consti.de

1 month ago

253 upvotes – 61 comments

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator

https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck

1 month ago

★ 3.6k JavaScript Apache-2.0
247 upvotes – 65 comments

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

https://tucker.wales/writing/bias-towards-action/

1 month ago

188 upvotes – 80 comments

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

https://github.com/kingroryg/turbokv

1 month ago

★ 260 Rust Apache-2.0
182 upvotes – 90 comments

Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-08-26/highest-ever-ocean-temperature-measured-as-powerful-el-nino-forms

1 month ago

173 upvotes – 220 comments
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