top 50% hacker news stories for today

OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

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

14 hours ago

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Playa Phone

https://playaphone.com/

9 hours ago

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

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

3 hours ago

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/

18 hours ago

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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/

7 hours ago

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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

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

16 hours ago

Understanding ChatGPT Work

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

22 hours ago

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/

11 hours ago

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I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

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

12 hours ago

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P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names

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

20 hours ago

uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache

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

18 hours ago

★ 89.2k Rust Apache-2.0

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

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

5 hours ago

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A CVE Dispute

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/24/a-cve-dispute/

13 hours ago

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

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

10 hours ago

Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT

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

21 hours ago

Agent memory as a file format

https://calpaterson.com/memoryfields.html

12 hours ago

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Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable

https://maurycyz.com/misc/etherfiles/

20 hours ago

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

https://ravynos.com/

7 hours ago

Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Zuse-Computer-Museum-ZCOM-in-Hoyerswerda-faces-closure-11344513.html

7 hours ago

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ReactOS 0.4.16

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0416-released/

16 hours ago

OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

https://openclaw.ai/blog/openclaw-2-accidentally

20 hours ago

UC Berkeley indefinitely suspends international student work authorizations

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/after-second-ice-threat-uc-berkeley-indefinitely-suspends-international-student-work-authorizations/article_0e9ae0c0-dd4d-4455-a25b-e8be7b47e350.html

20 hours ago

Malleable software = solid bases and custom code

https://www.mdubakov.me/malleable-software-solid-bases-custom-code/

13 hours ago

Why do I lose my passion and want to do nothing?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505014

21 hours ago

Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/101053-rakuten-kobo-re-enters-u-s-retail-as-sales-double.html

9 hours ago

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Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP

https://iggy.apache.org/blogs/2026/08/24/apache-iggy-top-level-project-tlp-graduation/

9 hours ago

You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting

https://www.olafalders.com/2026/08/31/you-rename-my-lake-i-move-my-hosting/

6 hours ago

Study: Blue light impairs the eye's ability to distinguish fine detail most

https://research.uga.edu/news/blue-light-has-a-surprising-effect-on-your-eyes-study-finds/

15 hours ago

Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message

https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school

6 hours ago

The safest job from AI may be writing

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-safest-job-from-ai-may-be-writing.html

6 hours ago

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C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments

https://www.cppstories.com/2026/hardening-experiments/

9 hours ago

Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine

https://www.neowin.net/news/the-ceo-of-americas-biggest-surveillance-network-just-got-a-taste-of-his-own-medicine/

21 hours ago

You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad)

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/you-probably-own-this-7-eleven

7 hours ago

I attended the State of the Map conference

https://povesham.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/state-of-the-map-2026-openstreetmap-conference/

15 hours ago

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The Snow/Leavis ‘two cultures’ clash

https://aeon.co/essays/at-the-heart-of-the-snow-leavis-two-cultures-clash

9 hours ago

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Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains

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

23 hours ago

Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2093742322525810912

17 hours ago

SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030

https://www.sammyfans.com/2026/08/29/sk-hynix-ceo-sees-memory-chip-shortage-lasting-until-2030/

16 hours ago

My experience has nuance, yours is a data point

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/nuance-for-me-none-for-you/

9 hours ago

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Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails

https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116091/meta-security-researchers-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails

16 hours ago

Kids These Days

https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/kids-these-days

6 hours ago

Mental Health Workers Say Algorithmic Triage Is Hurting Patients

https://capitalandmain.com/mental-health-workers-say-algorithmic-triage-is-hurting-patients

7 hours ago

AI-written code is still your code

https://martiansoftware.com/articles/ai-written-code-is-still-yours

12 hours ago

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Marx, Keynes, and AI

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/marx-keynes-and-ai

9 hours ago

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Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/1password-and-37signals-become-distinguished-corporate-patrons/

10 hours ago

'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/stunning-percolation-proof-solves-decades-old-puzzle-about-phase-transitions-20260831/

6 hours ago

The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers

https://tokenstead.ai/guides/eu-ai-act-first-enforcement-security-rfis

20 hours ago

Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

https://serverbox.stupidlabs.lol/

10 hours ago

The British state has lost the argument

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-british-state-has-lost-the-argument

12 hours ago

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DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/diy-archivists-push-budget-nikons-to-902-000-clicks-to-save-1-800-rare-books-team-trains-neural-net-on-photoshop-edits-to-process-526-000-scans

13 hours ago

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

https://usealmanac.com/

8 hours ago

Early 2000s were peak of humanity

https://lukaszkups.net/notes/early-2000s-were-peak-of-humanity/

15 hours ago

Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/31/forbidden-planet-was-plutos-2006-demotion-a-big-mistake

18 hours ago

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