top 50% hacker news stories for today

A Great Rebalancing Is Coming

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/great-rebalancing-coming

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 0 comments

How A Private Equity Group Drove an Apartment Complex into the Ground

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/nyregion/nob-hill-private-equity-fire.html

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 0 comments

Lawsuit: Grok Not Only Generates Child Porn but Was Also Trained on It

https://gizmodo.com/grok-not-only-generates-child-porn-but-was-also-trained-on-it-new-lawsuit-claims-2000804488

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right political commentator, detained by ICE

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-ice

49 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

X claims it found a Chinese bot farm posting anti-AI data center sentiments

https://www.engadget.com/2246140/x-chinese-bot-farm-anti-ai-data-center-sentiments/

43 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Get your Windows license refund

https://en.refund4freedom.org/

12 hours ago

655 upvotes – 273 comments

“It works better in the app”

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

13 hours ago

1 change
628 upvotes – 433 comments

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

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

10 hours ago

610 upvotes – 304 comments

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

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

10 hours ago

2 changes
594 upvotes – 207 comments

Htmx 4.0

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

12 hours ago

2 changes
534 upvotes – 127 comments

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

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

23 hours ago

2 changes
530 upvotes – 395 comments

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

https://www.inventati.org/

12 hours ago

2 changes
485 upvotes – 460 comments

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

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

19 hours ago

449 upvotes – 138 comments

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

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

13 hours ago

429 upvotes – 144 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/

14 hours ago

322 upvotes – 3 comments

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

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

9 hours ago

260 upvotes – 92 comments

Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)

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

16 hours ago

2 changes
249 upvotes – 65 comments

Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak

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

20 hours ago

249 upvotes – 135 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

12 hours ago

236 upvotes – 245 comments

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

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

21 hours ago

207 upvotes – 141 comments

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

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

6 hours ago

1 change
188 upvotes – 156 comments

Migrating to HTTPX2

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

13 hours ago

★ 31.4k Python Apache-2.01 change
186 upvotes – 78 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

23 hours ago

1 change
186 upvotes – 254 comments

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

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

12 hours ago

1 change
162 upvotes – 119 comments

Stopping the smart TV from being used against you

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

5 hours ago

151 upvotes – 122 comments

State of the Map 2026

https://2026.stateofthemap.org/

11 hours ago

1 change
144 upvotes – 51 comments

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

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

11 hours ago

138 upvotes – 98 comments

Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map

https://cartographia40k.com/

17 hours ago

1 change
126 upvotes – 43 comments

Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise

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

13 hours ago

122 upvotes – 176 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

18 hours ago

118 upvotes – 121 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

23 hours ago

117 upvotes – 80 comments

An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations

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

12 hours ago

2 changes
115 upvotes – 65 comments

HTTPX2 – A next-generation HTTP client for Python

https://github.com/pydantic/httpx2

14 hours ago

★ 1.2k Python BSD-3-Clause1 change
113 upvotes – 36 comments

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

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

1 day ago

112 upvotes – 35 comments

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

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

11 hours ago

110 upvotes – 71 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/

10 hours ago

2 changes
100 upvotes – 47 comments

Don't use musl if you care about performance

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

10 hours ago

90 upvotes – 57 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

89 upvotes – 13 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

10 hours ago

1 change
88 upvotes – 21 comments

My Business Is Dying

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

20 hours ago

86 upvotes – 85 comments

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

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

10 hours ago

83 upvotes – 71 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23691

8 hours ago

82 upvotes – 20 comments

That's a Lot of YAML

https://noyaml.com/

18 hours ago

68 upvotes – 73 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/

10 hours ago

3 changes
68 upvotes – 28 comments

“Weird” is a weird word

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

11 hours ago

1 change
68 upvotes – 25 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

6 hours ago

67 upvotes – 21 comments

Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video]

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

1 day ago

67 upvotes – 69 comments

Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

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

2 hours ago

★ 8.6k Swift MIT
65 upvotes – 15 comments

Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes

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

6 hours ago

64 upvotes – 43 comments

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

https://subsmith.app

14 hours ago

64 upvotes – 49 comments

How Dactyl Works

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

10 hours ago

64 upvotes – 13 comments

Bye, Bye GitHub

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

6 hours ago

63 upvotes – 56 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

11 hours ago

63 upvotes – 31 comments

Rubio Uses Terrorism Law to Ban Secure Email Service

https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/

20 hours ago

57 upvotes – 22 comments

Alphabet stock sheds $700B as AI bills climb

https://www.semafor.com/article/08/27/2026/alphabet-stock-sheds-700b-as-ai-bills-climb

23 hours ago

49 upvotes – 6 comments
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