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  1. 22h ago

    8.22.26 | Kagi adds setting for paywalled links, citizen faces felony charges for deleting phone data at US Border, Felony Bench

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 22, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results (01:35) - Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border (02:50) - Felony Bench (04:07) - I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases (05:58) - Kobo can run apps now (07:25) - I'm becoming AI-blind (09:02) - AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study (10:19) - There's no reason for software to be slow anymore (11:32) - Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article (12:58) - New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson (14:27) - Outro Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search resultshttps://kagi.com/changelog#11296https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Borderhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386895 Felony Benchhttps://www.felonybench.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389430 I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military baseshttps://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387570 Kobo can run apps nowhttps://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390427 I'm becoming AI-blindhttps://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blindhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386699 AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: studyhttps://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357530 There's no reason for software to be slow anymorehttps://danluu.com/perf-opt/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395628 Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed articlehttps://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.mdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388752 New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibsonhttps://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387525

  2. 1d ago

    8.21.26 | Aaron Swartz prosecution, AliExpress WebAudio fingerprinting, HTML capabilities

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (01:41) - AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (02:51) - HTML Can Do That (04:09) - I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (05:43) - Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (07:27) - The August 17 outage (08:47) - CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (09:46) - Mojo is now open source (11:05) - Git at any scale (12:28) - Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (13:59) - Outro Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequencehttps://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379550AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipointhttps://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372583 HTML Can Do Thathttps://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362689 I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachershttps://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thickhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347543 Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payloadhttps://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374269 The August 17 outagehttps://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378957 CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80shttps://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalinkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368886 Mojo is now open sourcehttps://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-sourcehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348079 Git at any scalehttps://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scalehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348141 Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AIhttps://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378768

  3. 2d ago

    8.20.26 | A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare, OpenRouter is joining Stripe, Go 1.27

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 20, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:18) - A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare (01:34) - OpenRouter is joining Stripe (02:49) - Go 1.27 (04:21) - Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming (05:46) - Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive (07:01) - PostgreSQL for Everything (08:10) - Casio F-B100W-1A (09:43) - Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam (10:53) - Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs (12:26) - fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent. (13:37) - Outro A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfarehttps://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/08/19/sondehub-and-war/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360015OpenRouter is joining Stripehttps://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-is-joining-stripe/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364559 Go 1.27https://go.dev/blog/go1.27https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365405 Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programminghttps://yassa9.github.io/osint/gralhix-004/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360545 Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drivehttps://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364745 PostgreSQL for Everythinghttps://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/postgresql-everything/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361279 Casio F-B100W-1Ahttps://www.casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.F-B100W-1A/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362887 Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcamhttps://theremin.bizibah.com/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359425 Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFshttps://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/dynamic-3.0-ggufshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365443 fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.https://fx.shhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353339

  4. 3d ago

    8.19.26 | Amazon tax, universal health coverage saves lives and money, memory prices spike

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 19, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:20) - The Amazon tax (01:36) - Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study (03:14) - Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months (04:31) - Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative (05:46) - Beware Management Consultants (06:49) - Being ambitious and being a dad (08:07) - Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation (09:51) - How does IKEA come up with names for its products? (11:11) - And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway (12:27) - OpenLogi (13:40) - Outro The Amazon taxhttps://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345263Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: studyhttps://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332981 Memory prices climb 500% in 12 monthshttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to-10x-the-lowest-ever-tracked-prices-128gb-of-ddr5-now-usd3-399https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334960 Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternativehttps://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hostinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334209 Beware Management Consultantshttps://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/beware-management-consultants/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351324 Being ambitious and being a dadhttps://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321298 Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflationhttps://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BFI_WP_2026-108-1.pdfhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355142 How does IKEA come up with names for its products?https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc79.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349984 And then the men with guns tell you to do it anywayhttps://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348912 OpenLogihttps://openlogi.org/enhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355606

  5. 4d ago

    8.18.26 | AI summaries, DuckDB v2.0 preview, alternatives to GitHub

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 18, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:16) - AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) (01:43) - A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 (03:27) - Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub (04:39) - Olo (Color) (05:48) - How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots (07:19) - AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira (08:58) - GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released (10:33) - GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% (11:41) - Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots (13:17) - How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (14:38) - Outro AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-readhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336573A Preview of DuckDB v2.0https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlightshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330781 Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHubhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331033 Olo (Color)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270194 How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshotshttps://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338459 AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jirahttps://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bughttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331423 GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever releasedhttps://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329575 GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-solhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337602 Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbotshttps://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392 How to disable or avoid intrusive AIhttps://www.librarian.net/notoai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331220

  6. 5d ago

    8.17.26 | Firefox for iOS adblocker, Claude system prompts, third world engineer on RISC-V

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 17, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:15) - Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker (01:21) - Claude: System Prompts (03:05) - A third world engineer responds to ”RISC-V: They should have known better“ (04:39) - Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers (05:56) - Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ (07:26) - Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things (09:11) - The AI Credit Resale Economy (10:28) - The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding (11:53) - St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core (13:07) - Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee (14:12) - Outro Firefox for iOS now has a native adblockerhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ioshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319633Claude: System Promptshttps://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-promptshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319556 A third world engineer responds to ”RISC-V: They should have known better“https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321717 Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322107 Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-for-7b/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323381 Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking thingshttps://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324985 The AI Credit Resale Economyhttps://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320611 The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research fundinghttps://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325159 St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into corehttps://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-unit-1-manually-shut-down-after-3-control-rods-drop-into-reactor-corehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320856 Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guaranteehttps://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-reports-2026-08-14/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323686

  7. 6d ago

    8.16.26 | AI's larger working memory, Semaglutide's potential to lower dementia risk, RISC-V's oversight issues

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain (01:42) - Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk (02:53) - RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (04:08) - Asus Bike Booster (05:12) - At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis (06:22) - Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI (07:22) - A spectre is haunting Unicode (08:42) - Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter (09:57) - Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023) (11:13) - AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward (12:24) - Outro AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brainhttps://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicianshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312845Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia riskhttps://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311651 RISC-V: They Should Have Known Betterhttps://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RVhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298035 Asus Bike Boosterhttps://www.asus.com/accessories/bike-booster/asus-oxiis/oxiis-intelligent-bike-booster/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268580 At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosishttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve-lyme-disease-diagnosis-180989235/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310682 Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMIhttps://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-better-than-bmihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314403 A spectre is haunting Unicodehttps://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310926 Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winterhttps://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-fall-winter-2026-2027-forecast-impact-united-states-canada-europe-fa/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313428 Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235 AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forwardhttps://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-reallyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313367

  8. Aug 15

    8.15.26 | Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities, Qwen 3.8 27B, Opus 5 usability issues

    This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 15, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights (00:00) - Intro (00:19) - GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities (01:48) - Qwen 3.8 27B (02:59) - Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? (04:31) - Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin (05:50) - Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption (07:12) - Seven books I keep close because I love them (08:36) - Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking (10:08) - AI by Hand (11:05) - RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland (12:18) - Introducing Toast 1 (13:23) - Outro GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilitieshttps://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294997Qwen 3.8 27Bhttps://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299605 Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?https://mun-logadan.github.io/why-does-opus-5-feel-worse/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296740 Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Originhttps://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports-ublock-origin.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303202 Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryptionhttps://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300314 Seven books I keep close because I love themhttps://blog.plover.com/2026/08/02/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299675 Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hackinghttps://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304447 AI by Handhttps://www.byhand.ai/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300568 RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Waylandhttps://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300759 Introducing Toast 1https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299746

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