Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-19
- The Amazon tax seths.blog - 610 comments 1106 points
- Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit www.theregister.com - 395 comments 574 points
- Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM pixelcluster.dev - 287 comments 520 points
- Beware Management Consultants about.iceland.co.uk - 126 comments 511 points
- Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner philo.gay - 69 comments 423 points
- Fixing a bricked Framework laptop quantum5.ca - 266 comments 397 points
- Fairphone is now officially available in the United States www.fairphone.com - 179 comments 367 points
- Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation bfi.uchicago.edu - 195 comments 346 points
- How does IKEA come up with names for its products? www.ikea.com - 179 comments 303 points
- Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers asmedigitalcollection.asme.org - 447 comments 296 points
- OpenLogi openlogi.org - 58 comments 291 points
- Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk theconversation.com - 56 comments 271 points
- Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion support.claude.com - 244 comments 268 points
- And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway shkspr.mobi - 167 comments 268 points
- Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People www.privacyguides.org - 166 comments 249 points
- Rethinking Database Programming acadia.engineering - 133 comments 236 points
- A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome github.com - 78 comments 236 points
- Norway should buy OpenAI www.onethousandmeans.com - 246 comments 231 points
- Turbovec – Google’s TurboQuant for vector search in Rust github.com - 31 comments 230 points
- Cerebras CS-4 www.cerebras.ai - 139 comments 202 points
- Meta’s blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco www.economist.com - 131 comments 188 points
- Finger: the 1971 social network that never died en.andros.dev - 54 comments 176 points
- Python Polars Cheatsheet - based on our O’Reilly book opensource.posit.co - 39 comments 171 points
- Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows twitter.com - 142 comments 170 points
- Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union www.apple.com - 205 comments 150 points
- Degraded performance for multiple models status.claude.com - 129 comments 147 points
- US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures www.bbc.com - 67 comments 145 points
- Scientists stunned by children’s lung recovery in ultra low emission zone www.bbc.com - 85 comments 144 points
- Mojo is now open source! www.modular.com - 34 comments 139 points
- Claude Code teaching macOS to natively print to the HP Laser 1008a cdn.kuber.studio - 3 comments 126 points
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