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Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-24

  1. I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes www.xda-developers.com - 80 comments 159 points
  2. Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn’t chasing speed www.xda-developers.com - 115 comments 155 points
  3. JIT Compiling Code in 5μs malisper.me - 78 comments 123 points
  4. Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical erikengdahl.se - 101 comments 90 points
  5. Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium www.bbc.com - 59 comments 90 points
  6. Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware securelist.com - 40 comments 87 points
  7. The Sloppification of Peptides henryaj.substack.com - 59 comments 74 points
  8. Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days www.telegraph.co.uk - 34 comments 56 points
  9. My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes bookdna.com - 13 comments 48 points
  10. Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive skylens.yantraai.app - 17 comments 36 points
  11. ‘AI refuser’ quit her dream job, and hopes others follow www.smh.com.au - 39 comments 34 points
  12. Steve French - SMB3/CIFSFS Linux kernel maintainer has died www.phoronix.com - 0 comments 34 points
  13. What Is a Harness? earendil.com - 15 comments 27 points
  14. Canada now ‘at war’ with United States over trade, Prime Minister says www.theglobeandmail.com - 11 comments 25 points
  15. Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products doi.org - 6 comments 24 points
  16. Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras risky.biz - 2 comments 21 points
  17. Death to px, long live ch shkspr.mobi - 10 comments 20 points
  18. Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after stories.tamu.edu - 19 comments 18 points
  19. This Silicon Valley campus was a paradise. Bulldoze it sfstandard.com - 8 comments 15 points
  20. Andrew Ng: “AI Engineering Skills Map: Building and Deploying AI Applications” twitter.com - 0 comments 15 points
  21. Contextual News Search APIs: A Deep Comparison for AI, RAG, and Research github.com - 0 comments 10 points
  22. Ask HN: What websites do you visit daily to stay informed? news.ycombinator.com - 6 comments 8 points
  23. Why aren’t my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent? thejpster.org.uk - 4 comments 8 points
  24. Trump administration’s 75-country visa ban was illegal, judge rules www.npr.org - 0 comments 8 points
  25. Airbus bows to remote working demands after series of strikes www.theguardian.com - 3 comments 7 points
  26. News API Comparison 2026 bitbucket.org - 1 comments 7 points
  27. Rust 1.98 got a P-critical miscompilation github.com - 1 comments 7 points
  28. The lost airports of SimCity 3000 - 2002 web.archive.org - 0 comments 7 points
  29. Nobody Explained the Schrödinger Equation Like This - video www.youtube.com - 0 comments 7 points
  30. US corporate AI debt surge tests investor limits as fatigue emerges www.reuters.com - 1 comments 6 points