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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-22

  1. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results kagi.com - 356 comments 1080 points
  2. AI companies destroy physical books – let’s scan rare books before it’s too late annas-archive.pk - 2 comments 703 points
  3. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border www.nytimes.com - 840 comments 694 points
  4. Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera san.com - 369 comments 654 points
  5. Felony Bench www.felonybench.com - 256 comments 616 points
  6. I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases lina.sh - 55 comments 495 points
  7. Kobo can run apps now bandarlabs.github.io - 168 comments 488 points
  8. DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp api-docs.deepseek.com - 149 comments 475 points
  9. I’m becoming AI-blind cymerys.com - 337 comments 330 points
  10. There’s no reason for software to be slow anymore danluu.com - 210 comments 296 points
  11. The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier’s Pirates remapradio.com - 141 comments 257 points
  12. Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article github.com - 171 comments 241 points
  13. New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson precastreinforced.co.uk - 163 comments 229 points
  14. Small, native web tricks worth remembering htmlcat.net - 54 comments 216 points
  15. Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe newscenter.lbl.gov - 54 comments 179 points
  16. Omacom Foundation launches with $8M omarchy.org - 157 comments 165 points
  17. AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study canews24.online - 9 comments 165 points
  18. We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon encore.dev - 81 comments 143 points
  19. How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms nari-labs.com - 32 comments 131 points
  20. I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip pointinthecloud.com - 38 comments 128 points
  21. TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering ixuvo.com - 41 comments 125 points
  22. What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x catalystneuro.com - 128 comments 122 points
  23. Three important steps in my maturation process thomasdullien.github.io - 38 comments 112 points
  24. Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM rust-glancer.github.io - 31 comments 111 points
  25. c100 caligra.com - 89 comments 106 points
  26. WPD won’t replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust www.winonapost.com - 85 comments 105 points
  27. I Just Want to Search www.0xsid.com - 49 comments 105 points
  28. What happens when a GPU reads memory blog.doubleword.ai - 18 comments 105 points
  29. Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle arxiv.org - 33 comments 103 points
  30. Building an - almost fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory blog.jakesaunders.dev - 53 comments 96 points