Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-05
- In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years writings.stephenwolfram.com - 74 comments 1306 points
- AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog nelson.cloud - 439 comments 756 points
- Xbox goes down. You can’t play games you own on disc birchtree.me - 669 comments 639 points
- Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones toneyalexander.github.io - 90 comments 516 points
- Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” is set today - 2026-08-04 short-stories.co - 6 comments 497 points
- FFmpeg 9.0 github.com - 94 comments 439 points
- Mistral’s Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation mistral.ai - 97 comments 395 points
- DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X github.com - 93 comments 370 points
- All of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolen www.valleynewslive.com - 222 comments 369 points
- U.S. used ‘virtually all’ of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war www.cnbc.com - 661 comments 366 points
- Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI techcrunch.com - 261 comments 363 points
- Pi’s Minimalism Is Its Advantage earendil.com - 125 comments 324 points
- Waymo in Dallas waymo.com - 499 comments 288 points
- Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished - 2024 www.troyhunt.com - 73 comments 284 points
- I am retiring from fulltime writing - & pseudonymity to launch Guardian Angel twitter.com - 176 comments 272 points
- libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months blog.hartwork.org - 44 comments 260 points
- Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack www.aikido.dev - 129 comments 242 points
- Oxide Computer raises $445M - SEC Form D www.sec.gov - 135 comments 241 points
- Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed this.weekinsecurity.com - 83 comments 228 points
- AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol www.africanews.com - 169 comments 221 points
- Web Security is Too Hard textslashplain.com - 111 comments 210 points
- Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI queue.acm.org - 160 comments 197 points
- Why some people mow a lawn better than others pudding.cool - 161 comments 179 points
- NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data www.publictechnology.net - 35 comments 153 points
- Everything I Know - 1975 www.bfi.org - 33 comments 139 points
- Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 solarquarter.com - 189 comments 136 points
- You don’t need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript pedroth.github.io - 110 comments 134 points
- “Clean” Code, Horrible Performance - 2023 www.computerenhance.com - 142 comments 132 points
- How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock www.404media.co - 5 comments 130 points
- Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU github.com - 26 comments 127 points
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