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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-20

  1. A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare sprocketfox.io - 129 comments 838 points
  2. OpenRouter is joining Stripe openrouter.ai - 397 comments 788 points
  3. Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 grapheneos.social - 375 comments 593 points
  4. Go 1.27 go.dev - 144 comments 575 points
  5. Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees www.colorado.edu - 281 comments 554 points
  6. Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma twitter.com - 257 comments 548 points
  7. Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming yassa9.github.io - 77 comments 454 points
  8. Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code grapheneos.social - 177 comments 431 points
  9. Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state - 2013 shkspr.mobi - 307 comments 426 points
  10. PostgreSQL for Everything www.raphaelbauer.com - 211 comments 343 points
  11. Casio F-B100W-1A www.casio.com - 277 comments 333 points
  12. Air Theremin – A browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam theremin.bizibah.com - 90 comments 268 points
  13. Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs unsloth.ai - 90 comments 230 points
  14. The Mojo language - by Modular, now Qualcomm is now open-source www.modular.com - 101 comments 216 points
  15. Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md github.com - 115 comments 204 points
  16. Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement ornith.ai - 61 comments 188 points
  17. Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker sprocketfox.io - 45 comments 186 points
  18. Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times www.wsbtv.com - 65 comments 179 points
  19. Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere github.com - 160 comments 178 points
  20. Mathematics in the age of AI arxiv.org - 182 comments 152 points
  21. Extensible Software in the age of LLMs jeremymorrell.dev - 55 comments 140 points
  22. Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good? tipiirai.com - 88 comments 136 points
  23. Turns are Better than Radians - 2022 www.computerenhance.com - 58 comments 135 points
  24. How Kubernetes Probes Work ngrok.com - 22 comments 125 points
  25. Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny www.kmbc.com - 59 comments 120 points
  26. Where Human Sleep Went Wrong nautil.us - 110 comments 111 points
  27. “Sabotage”: Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research arstechnica.com - 21 comments 107 points
  28. Rules of good social skills - 2025 liamrosen.com - 50 comments 102 points
  29. Manabu Kosaka’s Handmade Paper Sculptures coca11272000.wixsite.com - 12 comments 102 points
  30. λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics dl.acm.org - 17 comments 87 points