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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-23

  1. Canada will match US tariffs ‘dollar for dollar’ as trade talks break down www.bbc.com - 1378 comments 595 points
  2. ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs quantumi.sh - 113 comments 365 points
  3. Scrap - 2006 twitter.com - 193 comments 364 points
  4. Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is forum.level1techs.com - 91 comments 279 points
  5. Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones munderdiffl.in - 118 comments 274 points
  6. A Friendly Introduction to Racket geometridae.bearblog.dev - 115 comments 218 points
  7. A Kantian Critique of “Sorry” by Justin Bieber decodingvibes.com - 89 comments 211 points
  8. Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week www.theguardian.com - 172 comments 209 points
  9. New MCP Roadmap blog.modelcontextprotocol.io - 129 comments 193 points
  10. Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code twitter.com - 164 comments 181 points
  11. hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate lapcatsoftware.com - 72 comments 179 points
  12. Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive - 2021 www.computer.org - 63 comments 133 points
  13. Thinking in Python thinkinginpython.com - 23 comments 126 points
  14. NetBSD and my life - 2005 mail-index.netbsd.org - 28 comments 111 points
  15. Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage www.cnn.com - 82 comments 104 points
  16. Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers marcua.net - 12 comments 85 points
  17. NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier www.primeintellect.ai - 24 comments 84 points
  18. MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust martypc.net - 13 comments 71 points
  19. Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt’s world record www.theguardian.com - 88 comments 61 points
  20. US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired www.bbc.com - 25 comments 58 points
  21. Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens www.soverybright.com - 66 comments 57 points
  22. Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs www.theguardian.com - 67 comments 54 points
  23. The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner - 2015 nappertime.com - 13 comments 52 points
  24. English ↔ Claudish Translator programasweights.com - 28 comments 51 points
  25. The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer nappertime.com - 23 comments 48 points
  26. I Dream of Quieter Computing henry.codes - 14 comments 46 points
  27. Nostr is an inclusive communication commons nostr.org - 2 comments 41 points
  28. A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been zaksa.zip - 67 comments 38 points
  29. Song - server of Nostr-powered Git is a simple personal Git server gitworkshop.dev - 0 comments 38 points
  30. Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say www.cnbc.com - 77 comments 36 points