Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-26
- Dolly Parton has died www.theguardian.com - 211 comments 1391 points
- Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra www.apple.com - 1018 comments 1073 points
- Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices github.com - 676 comments 801 points
- New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra www.apple.com - 488 comments 746 points
- My Friend Aaron rorz.io - 141 comments 520 points
- New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro www.apple.com - 293 comments 475 points
- OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell newsletter.semianalysis.com - 279 comments 424 points
- FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels www.fda.gov - 172 comments 351 points
- Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms groups.google.com - 89 comments 343 points
- Don’t Wordle dontwordle.com - 118 comments 338 points
- Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown www.imkylelambert.com - 209 comments 316 points
- Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow - 125B a6B modelscope.cn - 146 comments 314 points
- Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia’s coral reefs e360.yale.edu - 154 comments 300 points
- Starbase, LA www.spacex.com - 475 comments 261 points
- How much of HN is AI? blog.coredump.cx - 311 comments 259 points
- XCancel also down, at least for time being news.ycombinator.com - 15 comments 226 points
- Black hole singularity is a surface not a point arxiv.org - 165 comments 222 points
- Why some US restaurants are banning tips www.bbc.com - 389 comments 190 points
- Python’s pre-declared constants are kinda weird sebsite.pw - 168 comments 167 points
- Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it blog.master.dev - 39 comments 153 points
- Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer www.library.hbs.edu - 293 comments 149 points
- Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month nil.wallyjones.com - 68 comments 148 points
- AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds arstechnica.com - 163 comments 138 points
- Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases github.com - 36 comments 134 points
- Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI github.com - 34 comments 127 points
- C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk - 75 comments 126 points
- Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike www.businessinsider.com - 126 comments 121 points
- Windows 95 released August 24, 1995 dfarq.homeip.net - 90 comments 121 points
- France’s tax agency got hacked - in French www.cybernetica.fr - 53 comments 116 points
- OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users 9to5mac.com - 120 comments 112 points
August 26, 2026 ∙