top 20 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

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

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

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

Understanding ChatGPT Work

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/

1 month ago

351 upvotes – 197 comments

Run macOS Software on Linux

https://www.darlinghq.org/

1 month ago

296 upvotes – 94 comments

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/

1 month ago

256 upvotes – 51 comments

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/

1 month ago

245 upvotes – 63 comments

RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

https://ravynos.com/

1 month ago

1 change
239 upvotes – 139 comments

Holden's Lightning Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight

1 month ago

234 upvotes – 53 comments

uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/21327

1 month ago

★ 89.5k Rust Apache-2.0
231 upvotes – 121 comments

Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/ntppost.html

1 month ago

229 upvotes – 183 comments

P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names

https://ruurtjan.com/articles/p99-0ms-autocomplete-for-240-million-domain-names

1 month ago

225 upvotes – 88 comments

Tmp.0ut Volume 5

https://tmpout.sh/5/

1 month ago

216 upvotes – 42 comments
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