top 50% 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

I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul

https://sfstandard.com/2026/08/29/burning-man-lost-its-soul-founder/

1 month ago

164 upvotes – 127 comments

You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

https://matduggan.com/you-know-gdpr-is-good-based-on-who-hates-it/

1 month ago

163 upvotes – 180 comments

Lion-man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man

1 month ago

1 change
146 upvotes – 85 comments

Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online

https://defrag98.com

1 month ago

134 upvotes – 77 comments

Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT

https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr/status/2093524390390694232

1 month ago

1 change
132 upvotes – 82 comments

Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3830438.3830958

1 month ago

125 upvotes – 50 comments

Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)

https://www.inventati.org/who/manifesto

1 month ago

1 change
113 upvotes – 60 comments

Quantifying Colour

https://ekunazanu.foo/lab/quantifying-colour/

1 month ago

110 upvotes – 8 comments

vLLM v0.28.0

https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/releases/tag/v0.28.0

1 month ago

★ 90.9k Python Apache-2.0
107 upvotes – 43 comments

Magic eye tube

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

1 month ago

102 upvotes – 29 comments

Domain-Driven Agents

https://coldtake.dev/blog/domain-driven-agents

1 month ago

96 upvotes – 21 comments

How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018)

https://www.dougbarnesauthor.com/2018/06/how-bicycle-coaster-brakes-work.html

1 month ago

89 upvotes – 91 comments

What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)

https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/what-we-want-is-a-hunter-gatherer

1 month ago

1 change
81 upvotes – 104 comments

Fractal Jittered Voronoi Partitions

https://www.boristhebrave.com/2026/08/29/fractal-jittered-voronoi-partitions/

1 month ago

77 upvotes – 8 comments

Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop

https://www.kumander.org/

1 month ago

75 upvotes – 51 comments

Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-08-29.html

1 month ago

74 upvotes – 62 comments

When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-fruit-is-scarce-these-monkeys-hunt-animals-the-behavior-may-offer-clues-about-the-origins-of-humans-meat-eating-habits-180989412/

1 month ago

1 change
73 upvotes – 42 comments
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