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22–28 August 2026

Saturday, 2026-08-22

  1. Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border — 1,011 points, 1,228 comments
  2. Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results — 1,217 points, 380 comments
  3. Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down — 603 points, 1,392 comments
  4. Felony Bench — 812 points, 325 comments
  5. There's no reason for software to be slow anymore — 593 points, 446 comments
  6. I'm becoming AI-blind — 462 points, 468 comments
  7. Kobo can run apps now — 635 points, 201 comments
  8. Stop Making TUIs — 404 points, 513 comments
  9. Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar — 631 points, 575 comments
  10. AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study — 363 points, 360 comments

Sunday, 2026-08-23

  1. Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive — 721 points, 641 comments
  2. What Is a Harness? — 526 points, 168 comments
  3. How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer — 527 points, 151 comments
  4. To become a better writer, read as much as you can — 412 points, 245 comments
  5. I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day — 590 points, 262 comments
  6. My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality — 373 points, 153 comments
  7. Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025) — 369 points, 141 comments
  8. Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed — 293 points, 232 comments
  9. Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware — 255 points, 136 comments
  10. A website for debloated open source alternatives — 356 points, 110 comments

Monday, 2026-08-24

  1. How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs — 1,559 points, 969 comments
  2. Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded — 967 points, 702 comments
  3. Everything I own, owned — 1,279 points, 328 comments
  4. MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID — 829 points, 411 comments
  5. I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch — 573 points, 645 comments
  6. Oceans hit highest temperature on record — 616 points, 481 comments
  7. Where did all the public bathrooms go? — 319 points, 725 comments
  8. Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance — 492 points, 481 comments
  9. The entire city of San Francisco as a video game — 568 points, 163 comments
  10. Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future — 548 points, 277 comments

Tuesday, 2026-08-25

  1. Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra — 1,261 points, 1,203 comments
  2. Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices — 1,071 points, 907 comments
  3. New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra — 805 points, 535 comments
  4. Dolly Parton has died — 1,468 points, 222 comments
  5. New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro — 527 points, 326 comments
  6. OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell — 553 points, 349 comments
  7. iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com — 582 points, 186 comments
  8. Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown — 400 points, 249 comments
  9. FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels — 468 points, 217 comments
  10. My Friend Aaron — 562 points, 152 comments

Wednesday, 2026-08-26

  1. GLM-5.3-Flash — 1,085 points, 541 comments
  2. U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications — 733 points, 1,084 comments
  3. AWS Acquires DuckLabs — 1,060 points, 307 comments
  4. Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account — 523 points, 319 comments
  5. Tim Curry has died — 690 points, 220 comments
  6. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next — 649 points, 210 comments
  7. An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation — 463 points, 204 comments
  8. The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead — 316 points, 407 comments
  9. Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane — 637 points, 114 comments
  10. Nebula Sans — 449 points, 184 comments

Thursday, 2026-08-27

  1. Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B — 1,921 points, 889 comments
  2. CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO — 852 points, 585 comments
  3. Small Models Have Arrived — 736 points, 320 comments
  4. Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache — 853 points, 250 comments
  5. Microduck — 718 points, 230 comments
  6. Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude — 602 points, 289 comments
  7. The turbulent AI era is here — 331 points, 588 comments
  8. 507 Mechanical Movements — 643 points, 76 comments
  9. Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 — 493 points, 149 comments
  10. We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer — 277 points, 245 comments

Friday, 2026-08-28

  1. “It works better in the app” — 591 points, 397 comments
  2. Get your Windows license refund — 602 points, 243 comments
  3. Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal — 431 points, 324 comments
  4. U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective — 399 points, 351 comments
  5. Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal — 233 points, 276 comments
  6. GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven — 435 points, 229 comments
  7. GLM-5.3 is now open-weight — 479 points, 174 comments
  8. Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice — 378 points, 120 comments
  9. Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions — 355 points, 122 comments
  10. Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal — 171 points, 227 comments