top 50% hacker news stories for today

Bug Blindness

https://danluu.com/bug-blind/

38 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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

23 hours ago

793 upvotes – 492 comments

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

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

10 hours ago

470 upvotes – 435 comments

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now

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

6 hours ago

1 change
391 upvotes – 261 comments

Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

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

13 hours ago

324 upvotes – 422 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

6 hours ago

287 upvotes – 43 comments

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

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

9 hours ago

259 upvotes – 130 comments

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

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

18 hours ago

244 upvotes – 92 comments

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

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

7 hours ago

241 upvotes – 55 comments

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

https://github.com/stemdeckapp/stemdeck

23 hours ago

★ 3.1k JavaScript Apache-2.0
205 upvotes – 58 comments

Hy4 preview

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

5 hours ago

1 change
176 upvotes – 115 comments

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

https://github.com/kingroryg/turbokv

22 hours ago

★ 178 Rust Apache-2.0
169 upvotes – 83 comments

You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

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

15 hours ago

150 upvotes – 159 comments

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

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

9 hours ago

1 change
115 upvotes – 56 comments

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

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

7 hours ago

102 upvotes – 41 comments

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

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

17 hours ago

1 change
101 upvotes – 55 comments

vLLM v0.28.0

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

6 hours ago

★ 90.4k Python Apache-2.0
96 upvotes – 31 comments

Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online

https://defrag98.com

2 hours ago

80 upvotes – 40 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 hour ago

73 upvotes – 46 comments

Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop

https://www.kumander.org/

23 hours ago

72 upvotes – 50 comments

Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack

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

10 hours ago

66 upvotes – 42 comments

Quantifying Colour

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

9 hours ago

65 upvotes – 7 comments

The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/why-open-source-projects-ban-ai/

8 hours ago

60 upvotes – 74 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 hour ago

58 upvotes – 23 comments

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

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

4 hours ago

56 upvotes – 51 comments

Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

https://claude.com/blog/how-warp-builds-self-improving-agents-on-claude

5 hours ago

55 upvotes – 54 comments

LLMs are making me lose my savviness

https://pgaleone.eu/ai/2026/08/29/losing-savviness/

6 hours ago

51 upvotes – 67 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 hour ago

48 upvotes – 12 comments

Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV

https://www.dampfkraft.com/posuto.html

9 hours ago

46 upvotes – 3 comments

Domain-Driven Agents

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

5 hours ago

45 upvotes – 6 comments
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