The Best Hacker News Posts of August 2026
We track 5,949 stories from August 2026, averaging 71 points each. github.com was the most linked source, with 528 stories. Together they drew 244,091 comments, 41 per story on average. The fastest riser we measured gained 118 points in a single hour.
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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
businessinsider.com · mfiguiere · 27 Aug 2026
2k pts
925 comments
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Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
pcworld.com · DemiGuru · 14 Aug 2026
1.8k pts
718 comments
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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
blog.curiousquail.com · speckx · 20 Aug 2026
1.7k pts
404 comments
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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
lectronz.com · l-one-lone · 24 Aug 2026
1.6k pts
1k comments
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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
writings.stephenwolfram.com · jdcampolargo · 4 Aug 2026
1.6k pts
95 comments
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Dolly Parton has died
theguardian.com · helsinkiandrew · 25 Aug 2026
1.6k pts
249 comments
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LLMs reward expertise
seangoedecke.com · MaxMussio · 3 Aug 2026
1.4k pts
573 comments
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Creepy Crawlies
people.kernel.org · zdw · 29 Aug 2026
118/h peak
1.4k pts
710 comments
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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
apple.com · interpol_p · 25 Aug 2026
1.3k pts
1.3k comments
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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
kagi.com · speckx · 21 Aug 2026
1.3k pts
394 comments
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“I just chose words carefully”
unsung.aresluna.org · zdw · 30 Aug 2026
93/h peak
1.3k pts
354 comments
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Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug
tailscale.com · ropbear · 12 Aug 2026
1.2k pts
239 comments
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Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
github.com · Banditoz · 25 Aug 2026
1.2k pts
1.4k comments
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Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
research.meta.ai · riordan · 10 Aug 2026
1.2k pts
638 comments
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Mario Meets Pareto
mayerowitz.io · theanonymousone · 6 Aug 2026
1.2k pts
169 comments
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GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities
z.ai · pella · 14 Aug 2026
1.2k pts
584 comments
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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
qwen.ai · ai2027 · 3 Aug 2026
1.1k pts
612 comments
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
rickmanelius.com · mooreds · 17 Aug 2026
1.1k pts
692 comments
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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
noemamag.com · RickJWagner · 7 Aug 2026
1.1k pts
1.3k comments
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Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
nytimes.com · floathub · 21 Aug 2026
1.1k pts
1.4k comments
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AWS Acquires DuckLabs
ducklabs.com · onderkalaci · 26 Aug 2026
1.1k pts
316 comments
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Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
responsiblestatecraft.org · DeepLogin · 17 Aug 2026
1.1k pts
883 comments
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France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
lemonde.fr · aziaziazi · 11 Aug 2026
1.1k pts
510 comments
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Don't paste the AI, please
dontpastetheai.com · pjerem · 20 Aug 2026
1.1k pts
580 comments
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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
blog.laserphile.com · emctech · 20 Aug 2026
1.1k pts
337 comments
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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
ckardaris.com · ckardaris · 28 Aug 2026
99/h peak
1.1k pts
528 comments
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CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
github.com · GrumpySciGuy · 27 Aug 2026
1k pts
716 comments
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A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
sprocketfox.io · kareiva · 19 Aug 2026
1k pts
171 comments
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AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
blog.florianherrengt.com · florianherrengt · 12 Aug 2026
1k pts
937 comments
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Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
twitter.com · tosh · 24 Aug 2026
1k pts
736 comments
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Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
mun-logadan.github.io · numeri · 14 Aug 2026
993 pts
873 comments
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Being ambitious and being a dad
nicholascharriere.com · nichochar · 16 Aug 2026
959 pts
768 comments
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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
theregister.com · itvision · 6 Aug 2026
949 pts
722 comments
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“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
blog.senko.net · senko · 8 Aug 2026
946 pts
590 comments
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As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
thewalrus.ca · awnird · 10 Aug 2026
938 pts
994 comments
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Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
blog.cloudflare.com · TangerineDream · 27 Aug 2026
103/h peak
925 pts
286 comments
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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
bbc.com · defrost · 7 Aug 2026
910 pts
887 comments
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Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
ysph.yale.edu · karakoram · 17 Aug 2026
902 pts
979 comments
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Every Fucking Website (2020)
lxe.github.io · doubletwoyou · 14 Aug 2026
873 pts
498 comments
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I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
experimental-history.com · Ariarule · 18 Aug 2026
873 pts
340 comments
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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
blog.google · colesantiago · 5 Aug 2026
867 pts
933 comments
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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
xusheng.dev · ComputerGuru · 24 Aug 2026
861 pts
435 comments
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Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
openai.com · meetpateltech · 29 Aug 2026
84/h peak
852 pts
545 comments
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U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
wsj.com · sss111 · 26 Aug 2026
840 pts
1.5k comments
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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
laurentiugabriel.github.io · laurentiurad · 9 Aug 2026
835 pts
548 comments
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Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
grapheneos.social · Animux · 19 Aug 2026
829 pts
337 comments
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Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
daringfireball.net · ropbear · 16 Aug 2026
825 pts
731 comments
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