Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-09
- “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers blog.senko.net - 414 comments 691 points
- Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments mezha.net - 251 comments 558 points
- DeepMind’s WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones deepmind.google - 123 comments 410 points
- Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face simonwillison.net - 371 comments 384 points
- _for-sale DNS records specification.website - 141 comments 381 points
- Fastmail offers EU data region www.fastmail.com - 189 comments 373 points
- Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs github.com - 100 comments 357 points
- US Military’s cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide www.bloomberg.com - 429 comments 281 points
- My server is a phone now seg6.space - 90 comments 250 points
- New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. www.nytimes.com - 294 comments 221 points
- Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country newrepublic.com - 144 comments 220 points
- Don’t use your phone while you poop nate.spot - 204 comments 189 points
- Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? hackaday.com - 143 comments 186 points
- Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did www.theverge.com - 177 comments 183 points
- LinkedIn Feed Blocker github.com - 99 comments 172 points
- Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU blog.getutm.app - 31 comments 163 points
- Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload social.treehouse.systems - 106 comments 159 points
- Europe’s free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires arstechnica.com - 13 comments 156 points
- Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled shopify.engineering - 81 comments 151 points
- Dithered QR Codes www.andrewt.net - 15 comments 135 points
- Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse eclipsefan.org - 27 comments 127 points
- Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 os8088.com - 51 comments 125 points
- Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection daringfireball.net - 8 comments 119 points
- Gateway 2000’s hilariously bad ads in the 90s - Part II buttondown.com - 93 comments 110 points
- Message your other Claude Code sessions code.claude.com - 44 comments 105 points
- Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack news.maryland.gov - 63 comments 104 points
- The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years - 2011 longbets.org - 17 comments 101 points
- Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator zaneham.github.io - 13 comments 81 points
- Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults academic.oup.com - 21 comments 71 points
- Incentives are for losers www.experimental-history.com - 31 comments 66 points
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