top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-08-31

Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

https://webiterate.dev/google-removed-extensions-ublock-origin-108/

1 month ago

761 upvotes – 621 comments

Playa Phone

https://playaphone.com/

1 month ago

751 upvotes – 234 comments

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-system-with-birdnet-go/

1 month ago

1 change
628 upvotes – 172 comments

OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/

1 month ago

1 change
603 upvotes – 140 comments

Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/

1 month ago

1 change
501 upvotes – 595 comments

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A

1 month ago

1 change
401 upvotes – 65 comments

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary

1 month ago

1 change
401 upvotes – 239 comments

Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/

1 month ago

399 upvotes – 121 comments

A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/

1 month ago

1 change
388 upvotes – 106 comments

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

https://datacolada.org/138

1 month ago

365 upvotes – 277 comments
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