Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-27
- Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B www.businessinsider.com - 789 comments 1698 points
- CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO github.com - 600 comments 882 points
- U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications www.wsj.com - 1170 comments 758 points
- Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane github.com - 120 comments 641 points
- Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 www.mturk.com - 149 comments 501 points
- An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation lwn.net - 206 comments 467 points
- Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS news.ycombinator.com - 225 comments 396 points
- Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2 asahilinux.org - 203 comments 379 points
- CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela hotosm.org - 80 comments 324 points
- The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead openai.com - 415 comments 322 points
- Microduck pollen-robotics.com - 122 comments 304 points
- Zohran and the Short Link iamwillwang.com - 171 comments 271 points
- Trade - and Tariffs xkcd.com - 95 comments 270 points
- Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022 nhess.copernicus.org - 186 comments 267 points
- Kusama Yayoi has died www.nytimes.com - 21 comments 249 points
- GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? isgithubcooked.com - 167 comments 245 points
- Stripe acquires Clerky www.clerky.com - 56 comments 244 points
- 507 Mechanical Movements 507movements.com - 35 comments 242 points
- The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada thetariffcost.com - 271 comments 215 points
- The Harness Is the Thing scott-fryxell.github.io - 112 comments 196 points
- Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker arxiv.org - 29 comments 177 points
- Study reveals UnitedHealth’s profit margins four times what it claimed - pdf insurancewatchdogcoalition.com - 80 comments 176 points
- Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium - HALEU www.actinideinc.com - 87 comments 173 points
- Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers acceptmarkdown.com - 101 comments 170 points
- IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE newsroom.ibm.com - 116 comments 167 points
- US Government designates host of noblogs.org a “global terrorist” crimethinc.com - 85 comments 166 points
- Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down news.ycombinator.com - 3 comments 153 points
- Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude louisabraham.github.io - 59 comments 127 points
- YouTube Format IDs gist.github.com - 81 comments 126 points
- Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity humanprogress.org - 250 comments 111 points
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