Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-21
- Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence blog.curiousquail.com - 296 comments 1362 points
- Don’t paste the AI, please dontpastetheai.com - 555 comments 1006 points
- AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint blog.laserphile.com - 297 comments 943 points
- Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device simedw.com - 113 comments 543 points
- Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload safedep.io - 394 comments 462 points
- The August 17 outage github.blog - 514 comments 448 points
- Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone - 2003 devblogs.microsoft.com - 133 comments 342 points
- Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study www.rathbiotaclan.com - 115 comments 325 points
- Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI www.danielvaughn.dev - 146 comments 280 points
- Consumer Rights Wiki consumerrights.wiki - 49 comments 264 points
- AI companies destroy physical books – let’s scan rare books before it’s too late annas-archive.gl - 180 comments 259 points
- I should have loved biology - 2020 jsomers.net - 95 comments 246 points
- Bun 1.4 bun.com - 140 comments 239 points
- Vomit: Clean up Claude 5’s token output with a separate LLM github.com - 233 comments 231 points
- Linux 7.2 www.igalia.com - 77 comments 231 points
- Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter stwipe.com - 26 comments 211 points
- Stop eating Lady Gaga’s Oreos www.experimental-history.com - 117 comments 183 points
- Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU mathstodon.xyz - 182 comments 167 points
- How to compromise your system with a job interview www.codedge.de - 131 comments 149 points
- DiffusionGemma Technical Report arxiv.org - 35 comments 146 points
- Why aren’t smart people happier? - 2022 www.experimental-history.com - 196 comments 144 points
- Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful blog.yaros.ae - 102 comments 144 points
- Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1 lists.x.org - 102 comments 121 points
- Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons www.bbc.com - 108 comments 110 points
- It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com - 79 comments 105 points
- Every Model Cheats dreadnode.io - 76 comments 94 points
- Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges github.com - 28 comments 94 points
- An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30 elliptic-rank.icarm.cloud - 28 comments 93 points
- Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn’t solved the plastic pollution crisis therevelator.org - 83 comments 92 points
- Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch www.mikekasberg.com - 48 comments 92 points
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