Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-28
- Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache blog.cloudflare.com - 263 comments 867 points
- “It works better in the app” shkspr.mobi - 370 comments 562 points
- Get your Windows license refund en.refund4freedom.org - 173 comments 447 points
- Gemini-3.5-Transcribe blog.google - 121 comments 343 points
- Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal www.nytimes.com - 274 comments 326 points
- Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules www.reuters.com - 3 comments 318 points
- Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice blog.luanti.org - 92 comments 297 points
- We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer code.ffmpeg.org - 249 comments 284 points
- GLM-5.3 is now open-weight twitter.com - 107 comments 284 points
- U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective www.inventati.org - 238 comments 270 points
- Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions www.orbify.eu - 97 comments 270 points
- Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal www.newscientist.com - 310 comments 246 points
- Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak modal.cx - 133 comments 243 points
- EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws www.epa.gov - 210 comments 220 points
- Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance github.com - 53 comments 211 points
- Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem - 2018 alyssarosenzweig.ca - 51 comments 206 points
- Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model github.com - 43 comments 203 points
- Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV neilalexander.dev - 136 comments 201 points
- Htmx 4.0.0 four.htmx.org - 48 comments 201 points
- Two German airport workers die of malaria after ‘mosquito arrives on plane’ www.bbc.com - 105 comments 186 points
- Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal www.bloomberg.com - 249 comments 182 points
- M5Stack Launches PaperMono shop.m5stack.com - 55 comments 159 points
- Migrating to HTTPX2 github.com - 69 comments 158 points
- Show HN: Voronoi Go voronoigo.com - 25 comments 153 points
- GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven ckardaris.com - 93 comments 142 points
- I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn’t do it again joshkaramuth.com - 110 comments 141 points
- Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform www.techdirt.com - 30 comments 136 points
- Autistici/Inventati’s main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation mastodon.bida.im - 83 comments 133 points
- Previewing the Model Hardware Standard www.anthropic.com - 59 comments 131 points
- $900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor www.independent.co.uk - 34 comments 129 points
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