top 20 hacker news stories for today

Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/29/markets/yen-160-dollar-intervention/

1 hour ago

44 upvotes – 38 comments

West Point prof fired for continuing to teach human causes of climate change

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/27/west-point-climate-scientist-fired

2 hours ago

10 upvotes – 5 comments

If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest?

https://joecmarshall.com/posts/if-you-knew-god-exists-wouldnt-you-become-a-priest/

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

Understanding ChatGPT Work

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

40 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

Google Maps Changes Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' on US Phones

https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/6059553-google-maps-renames-lake-america/

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Israel Is Running a Synthetic Think Tank to Influence AI Search Results

https://www.404media.co/israel-is-running-a-synthetic-think-tank-to-influence-ai-search-results/

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Give Your Coding Agent a Journal

https://doug.sh/posts/give-your-coding-agent-a-journal/

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt

22 hours ago

706 upvotes – 344 comments

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/

10 hours ago

426 upvotes – 412 comments

Bug Blindness

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

1 day ago

384 upvotes – 256 comments

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement

10 hours ago

359 upvotes – 150 comments

Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/30/turns-out-brits-would-quite-like-their-private-messages-to-stay-private/5292994

16 hours ago

328 upvotes – 263 comments

“I just chose words carefully”

https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/

3 hours ago

1 change
291 upvotes – 80 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/

14 hours ago

270 upvotes – 184 comments

No AI Fridays

https://noaifridays.com/

13 hours ago

263 upvotes – 187 comments

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/

11 hours ago

263 upvotes – 308 comments

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6

10 hours ago

259 upvotes – 76 comments

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface-hack/

12 hours ago

227 upvotes – 189 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/

17 hours ago

206 upvotes – 84 comments

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389

17 hours ago

192 upvotes – 56 comments
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