Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-10
- How I use LLMs to learn complex topics laurentiugabriel.github.io - 344 comments 596 points
- Mea Culpa – Dark Hours blog.terrygodier.com - 267 comments 579 points
- Windows 11’s built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM www.notebookcheck.net - 406 comments 490 points
- Everything you do is being recorded www.theatlantic.com - 222 comments 278 points
- Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s theconversation.com - 187 comments 271 points
- Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy techcrunch.com - 209 comments 260 points
- Tom Stanton’s supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone www.techeblog.com - 83 comments 246 points
- Ask HN: What are you working on? - August 2026 news.ycombinator.com - 804 comments 232 points
- Cool URIs Don’t Change - 1998 www.w3.org - 54 comments 226 points
- Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud pubsonline.informs.org - 92 comments 192 points
- There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order gukov.dev - 31 comments 188 points
- What Happened to HackerOne? blog.teknogeek.io - 68 comments 176 points
- Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code claude.com - 144 comments 164 points
- Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 oskrim.github.io - 95 comments 142 points
- John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man - 1978 kibotronics.net - 106 comments 141 points
- OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment openchamber.dev - 73 comments 134 points
- Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse www.wtoc.com - 113 comments 120 points
- Saying No rozumem.xyz - 99 comments 119 points
- I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared - video mynoise.net - 88 comments 117 points
- FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US www.tomshardware.com - 102 comments 113 points
- Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 github.com - 18 comments 113 points
- The main way I’ve seen people turn ideologically crazy - 2025 blog.andymasley.com - 90 comments 111 points
- The tragedy of the commons, AI edition www.economist.com - 66 comments 111 points
- The Hacker’s Renaissance - 2025 phrack.org - 79 comments 110 points
- New Zealand lost its music media, and what we’re building to replace it propelmusic.co.nz - 66 comments 109 points
- Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium www.euronews.com - 143 comments 107 points
- SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI’s soaring cost www.404media.co - 69 comments 97 points
- CSS: The bomb inside your inbox portswigger.net - 36 comments 96 points
- The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT’s Greatest RISC - 1998 halfhill.com - 76 comments 94 points
- Is it all just vapourware? kirahowe.com - 179 comments 92 points
August 10, 2026 ∙