Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-08
- US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects www.bbc.com - 828 comments 866 points
- DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 arcprize.org - 338 comments 562 points
- What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers www.noemamag.com - 632 comments 544 points
- Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK app.dealroom.co - 307 comments 442 points
- A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website patronview.com - 369 comments 411 points
- U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal www.nbcnews.com - 342 comments 343 points
- 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out www.ign.com - 291 comments 316 points
- App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours daringfireball.net - 181 comments 310 points
- Assembly Hall of Shame github.com - 73 comments 307 points
- Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD malisper.me - 132 comments 270 points
- The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded discourse.nixos.org - 114 comments 257 points
- Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale www.databricks.com - 194 comments 213 points
- Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland - July 25, 2026 - video www.youtube.com - 53 comments 204 points
- U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative genesisopenmodels.anl.gov - 66 comments 196 points
- Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language github.com - 105 comments 189 points
- USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data www.niemanlab.org - 75 comments 188 points
- Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it ancientlibrary.net - 58 comments 187 points
- Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates blog.cloudflare.com - 48 comments 185 points
- NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year www.space.com - 30 comments 180 points
- Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich - 2023 www.lse.ac.uk - 191 comments 179 points
- Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities openai.com - 173 comments 177 points
- Water system controllers don’t belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief www.theregister.com - 114 comments 171 points
- AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot www.fastcompany.com - 104 comments 168 points
- Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS textlog.cc - 65 comments 159 points
- An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes www.sdss.org - 37 comments 159 points
- DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says www.politico.com - 66 comments 146 points
- ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests’ apnews.com - 76 comments 144 points
- The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate www.currentaffairs.org - 168 comments 143 points
- Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice www.sciencealert.com - 94 comments 130 points
- Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029 eco3min.fr - 152 comments 87 points
August 8, 2026 ∙