top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-08-31

Why Syracuse Can't Attract the Students It Needs to Pay the Bills

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/syracuse-student-application-enrollment-crisis-budget-ff142896

1 month ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2094450188911845827

1 month ago

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123 upvotes – 99 comments

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

https://datacolada.org/138

1 month ago

365 upvotes – 277 comments

A Genealogy of Freudenthal's Lincos

https://www.shellsandpebbles.com/2026/01/19/a-genealogy-of-freudenthals-lincos-part-i-looking-up-from-the-ruins-of-babel/

1 month ago

13 upvotes – 1 comments

How to Spot a Psychopath

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/27/how-to-spot-a-psychopath-its-like-the-difference-between-a-domestic-cat-and-a-wild-cat

1 month ago

7 upvotes – 2 comments

Private 5G for Mining and Remote Operations [pdf]

https://framerusercontent.com/assets/vxB6lcIp0xnKVuPekXC2GeJb1Nw.pdf

1 month ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Anthropic signs $35B cloud deal backed by Nvidia

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-signs-35-billion-cloud-deal-backed-by-nvidia-f12622f1

1 month ago

8 upvotes – 0 comments

Study finds sustained benefit for people using Oregon psilocybin services

https://news.ohsu.edu/2026/08/19/study-finds-sustained-benefit-for-people-using-oregon-psilocybin-services

1 month ago

7 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Saccade – Live semantic browser truth for AI agents

https://github.com/nanlogic/saccade

1 month ago

★ 3 JavaScript Apache-2.0
5 upvotes – 0 comments

Top Web Design Styles of 1993

https://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/

1 month ago

68 upvotes – 14 comments
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