Hacker News Daily — August 22, 2026
30 stories · August 22, 2026
In this issue
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Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
rust-glancer.github.io · 384 points · Discussion
https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/21/rust-glancer.html
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Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
bbc.com · 298 points · Discussion
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement...
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ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
quantumi.sh · 251 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
munderdiffl.in · 229 points · Discussion
Free, open source and performant multi-agent harness, works with your existing subscriptions (uses hourly limits). Munder Difflin uses CLI agents running on your computer to do anything you can do…
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New MCP Roadmap
blog.modelcontextprotocol.io · 153 points · Discussion
Today we’re excited to publish an updated roadmap for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), covering the next specification release and beyond. It sets the direction for protocol work over the coming…
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Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
hister.org · 142 points · Discussion
Self hosted Run it on your own machine or server Privacy focused No telemetry, no external requests Preserve Knowledge. Find It Again. Hister stores extracted document content with the search index…
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Scrap
twitter.com · 132 points · Discussion
I found some old journal entries. This one is probably circa ~2006, just titled "Scrap:" I moved to Pittsburgh at the right time in my life, but at the wrong time of year. Coming from the west coast,…
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A Friendly Introduction to Racket
geometridae.bearblog.dev · 114 points · Discussion
11 Aug, 2026 "Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it." — Eric S. Raymond Welcome. Today you'll learn a language from one of…
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Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
twitter.com · 103 points · Discussion
update: it's server-side, not the app anthropic enrols fable 5 sessions on claude code 2.1.236+ into an experiment that shrinks the effort scale, older versions and opus 5 are left alone probably an…
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Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)
computer.org · 103 points · Discussion
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hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate
lapcatsoftware.com · 89 points · Discussion
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RF Cafe
rfcafe.com · 85 points · Discussion
Hugo Gernsback - A Concise Biography Being a big fan of Hugo Gernsback's technical work through his many electronics-related publications ( The Electrical Experimenter, Radio Amateur News, Radio News,…
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Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage
cnn.com · 78 points · Discussion
A Belgian car salesman has become a prince at the age of 26 after being acknowledged as the son of the king’s brother, Prince Laurent. Clément Vandenkerckhove’s mother, a Belgian singer who had a…
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Ameliorate
ameliorate.app · 75 points · Discussion
Break things down Lay out causes and effects, showing exactly how situations can be improved. This creates a concrete visual in which discussion can be grounded. See ontology for an interactive visual…
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ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
atproto.com · 60 points · Discussion
The biggest update to atproto since it first launched is available as an alpha that you can develop on, starting right now! This project has been a long time coming, as evidenced by the many names…
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How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt
reuters.com · 56 points · Discussion
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NetBSD and My Life (2005)
mail-index.netbsd.org · 49 points · Discussion
Subject: NetBSD and my life... To: None <netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org> From: gary rolland <rollandgary@gmail.com> List: netbsd-advocacy Date: 09/10/2005 16:40:17 Hello NetBSD Team, I have been using…
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Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal
terminal-code.com · 37 points · Discussion
tode opens the current folder tode <folder> opens that folder tode <file> opens that file tode --goto <f:l:c> opens a file at a line and column tode --diff <a> <b> compares two files tode --split…
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Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree
nautil.us · 35 points · Discussion
Humanity’s family tree is long and tangled. Scientists sort our ancient relatives into three familiar groups:  Homo,  Australopithecus, and  Paranthropus. Each of these is a…
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Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture
mythic.ai · 34 points · Discussion
Changing the world, not the planet 100X ENERGY EFFICIENT COMPUTE FOR AI. Mythic's analog compute-in-memory architecture delivers 100x greater efficiency. The APU (Analog Processing Unit) is…
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One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu · 32 points · Discussion
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Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
forum.level1techs.com · 31 points · Discussion
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MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS
github.com · 30 points · Discussion
Create a stripped-down "dumbphone" version of LineageOS for your Google Pixel without giving up the camera quality and touchscreen of a smartphone. dumbphone (noun): A phone that is actually just a…
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What's in a PowerPoint File?
editide.com · 30 points · Discussion
A PowerPoint presentation is a collection of slides. Each slide is a canvas with text boxes, shapes, pictures, tables, and charts. There are fancy things like animations, SmartArt, and video, but you…
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Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
soverybright.com · 28 points · Discussion
Certain logos started standing out to me on LinkedIn as brighter/whiter than everything else around them. I dug in and found out this is accomplished by adding a gain-map to an existing JPEG, visible…
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The Creation of Abulafia
blog.veitheller.de · 23 points · Discussion
In 1988, Umberto Eco published Foucault’s Pendulum. In it, three editors at a Milan publishing house (Belbo, Diotallevi, and Casaubon) spend their working days on manuscripts by people they privately…
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ProgramBench Vetted: Reverse Engineering from a Runnable Binary
vetto.ai · 18 points · Discussion
Part of the Computer Anthology benchmark family. ProgramBench Vetted Can an agent rebuild a program from a runnable binary? That is the fundamental question behind ProgramBench. We are releasing…
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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…
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life
lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 12 points · Discussion
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