Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-12
- France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls www.lemonde.fr - 481 comments 1012 points
- Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs stolen-thoughts.com - 269 comments 596 points
- England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C www.bbc.com - 375 comments 524 points
- Compression is prediction ngrok.com - 197 comments 464 points
- OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining www.ft.com - 396 comments 394 points
- Mojo 1.0 www.modular.com - 170 comments 368 points
- Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering developers.googleblog.com - 402 comments 341 points
- Nvidia’s Risky Business stratechery.com - 163 comments 328 points
- London Underground begins scanning passengers’ faces www.btp.police.uk - 320 comments 299 points
- Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp github.com - 43 comments 289 points
- More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts www.bbc.com - 288 comments 255 points
- Grok Bot x.ai - 203 comments 254 points
- Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide guessingheadlights.com - 230 comments 252 points
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard blogs.nvidia.com - 111 comments 217 points
- WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale tencent-hunyuan.github.io - 58 comments 198 points
- What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy www.lighthousenewsletter.com - 24 comments 177 points
- New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner newbedfordlight.org - 80 comments 174 points
- Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is 100% AI www.404media.co - 36 comments 169 points
- Manus will return to operating as an independent company manus.im - 75 comments 153 points
- Making holograms with a pen plotter blog.jordan.matelsky.com - 15 comments 151 points
- Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet github.com - 96 comments 150 points
- CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York www.cftc.gov - 129 comments 140 points
- How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story ironicsans.ghost.io - 105 comments 136 points
- llama.cpp llama.app - 60 comments 129 points
- Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning huggingface.co - 29 comments 119 points
- The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses www.theguardian.com - 186 comments 114 points
- OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1 www.openssh.org - 34 comments 111 points
- US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers www.cbsnews.com - 95 comments 108 points
- CSS properties you should know for better text designs master.dev - 16 comments 108 points
- The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment economist.com - 153 comments 104 points
August 12, 2026 ∙