Hacker News Daily — August 7, 2026
29 stories · August 7, 2026
In this issue
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
theguardian.com · 693 points · Discussion
https://www.reuters.com/world/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-p... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexic... https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nm-court-orders-meta-to-pay-5...…
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A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
patronview.com · 331 points · Discussion
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São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest
saopaulosecreto.com · 307 points · Discussion
https://thursd.com/articles/helio-da-silva-sao-paulo-tiquati...
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Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
app.dealroom.co · 276 points · Discussion
Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety, security, and intellectual property risks. The open-source Java project steward said developers can use LLMs privately…
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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
arcprize.org · 265 points · Discussion
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Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
malisper.me · 206 points · Discussion
Last week we released version 0.2 of pgrust. This release was all about performance. It’s 10x faster than the previous version of pgrust. On OLTP benchmarks, pgrust is 30% faster than Postgres, and on…
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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
noemamag.com · 199 points · Discussion
Credits Aaron Horwath is the director of AI operations at a creative technology company where he is focused on implementing AI in a way that supports both humans and business. On a recent morning…
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Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language
github.com · 155 points · Discussion
So i've been working on this project since a few days (or months i should say), it's called wyzer (meaning wiser) it's a statically typed, compiled, resource-oriented programming language with…
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2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
ign.com · 140 points · Discussion
RAMageddon Continues Another Year as 2027 Memory Capacity Is Reportedly Sold Out 2028 isn't looking that much better, either. It feels like no matter where I look recently, there's more evidence that…
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App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
daringfireball.net · 136 points · Discussion
Terry Godier, “ Browsers Have Standards, the App Store Has Judgment ”: A while ago I tried to submit an iOS app for Dark Hours, my astronomy website for normal people. It was rejected on the grounds…
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Assembly Hall of Shame
github.com · 133 points · Discussion
Assembly Hall of Shame Overview Instruction latency analysis usually focuses on performance optimization —making code run as fast as possible. The Assembly Hall of Shame takes the opposite approach:…
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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
blog.cloudflare.com · 125 points · Discussion
Should we build our own browser? This is one of those questions that has come up every few months internally at Cloudflare for years. Unsurprisingly, it’s the kind that triggers long threads with…
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Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
openai.com · 114 points · Discussion
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Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
textlog.cc · 112 points · Discussion
about A quieter place for your thoughts. textlog is a simple social text log: write short notes, follow people and hashtags, and join conversations without turning every thought into a performance.…
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An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
sdss.org · 107 points · Discussion
The Black Hole Mapper reaches a milestone with its first southern hemisphere optical observations, coordinated eROSITA X-ray identification, and multi-epoch tracking of accreting black holes across…
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Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%
databricks.com · 104 points · Discussion
AI coding tools deliver immense value: at Databricks, agentic coding has measurably improved every velocity metric we track and, in some teams, driven an order-of-magnitude gains in output. But nearly…
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Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
sciencealert.com · 59 points · Discussion
The fact that you, or I, or any living creature, is here at all is a series of astonishing strokes of luck stretching back more than 4 billion years.  One of the biggest hurdles was the very…
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Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
ancientlibrary.net · 55 points · Discussion
A complete parsing reader for the classical canon. Click any word in any text for its lemma, morphology, and full dictionary entry — Lewis & Short for Latin, Liddell-Scott-Jones for Greek. 1060 works…
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Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)
ykiko.me · 53 points · Discussion
This article was translated by AI using Gemini 2.5 Pro from the original Chinese version. Minor inaccuracies may remain. Application Binary Interface, or ABI as we commonly call it, is a concept that…
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Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer
blog.stackdump.com · 53 points · Discussion
← Home Go to beats.bitwrap.io. Pick a genre — techno, jazz, ambient, drum & bass, 19 in total. Hit Generate. You'll hear a full track: drums, bass, melody, arpeggios. Change the seed, get a different…
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TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface
typestax.com · 48 points · Discussion
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Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?
londonist.com · 46 points · Discussion
We understand how you might've missed Oxford Street's four resident semi-aquatic rodents... There's plenty to catch your eye on Oxford Street; even more if you raise your gaze above shop level. If you…
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Möbius-Strip Crosswords
quuxplusone.github.io · 40 points · Discussion
Randall Rothenberg in the New York Times (1988-08-10) writes that although “Puzzle Makers Exchange Cross Words” about the fall of ERNE and ESNE and the rise of XEROX and PEACE PLAN, one Robert…
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Carl's Required Reading
carlkolon.com · 40 points · Discussion
Carl’s Required Reading As an engineering leader, I often send articles to my team, which I jokingly call “required reading”. My goal is to help us digest some of the wisdom of other programmers who…
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The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5
theclaudyssey.com · 34 points · Discussion
ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον Tell me the man, Muse — the man of many turnings ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙΑ from the Greek of Homer  ·  translated by Claude (Fable 5)  ·  edited & produced by…
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Building community out of strangers (2023)
tracydurnell.com · 27 points · Discussion
Last week, I updated my blogroll to include everyone in my RSS feed reader. While I read a lot of topical blogs and newsletters, I also follow a goodly number of interesting people I don’t know as…
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Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering
github.com · 19 points · Discussion
: Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych // domas // @xoreaxeaxeax Overview The REpsych toolset is a proof-of-concept illustrating the generation of images…
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Guarded Methods in OCaml
xvw.lol · 14 points · Discussion
Guarded methods make it possible to attach constraints to the receiver ( self ) only for certain methods, meaning these methods can only be called if the receiver satisfies those constraints (these…
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How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website
littlelanguagemodels.com · 13 points · Discussion
Company A has acquired Company B, C, and D. How do we organize their sites, for multiple products with different audiences, while making it easy to find relevant product information and quickly…