Hacker News Daily — August 24, 2026
30 stories · August 24, 2026
In this issue
- 1
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
lectronz.com · 888 points · Discussion
Lectronz is a marketplace for open-source hardware makers and DIY electronics. Most of our sellers are not factories or well-funded start-ups. They are engineers, independent designers, and hardware…
- 2
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
twitter.com · 586 points · Discussion
https://xcancel.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926
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I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
twitter.com · 475 points · Discussion
https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/2091544343589060625
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Executable Is a SQLite Database
fzakaria.com · 436 points · Discussion
I have been probably obsessed with two things in the last few years: Nix as a tool to explore innovative ideas that require the capability to rebuild the world and replacing ELF with SQLite as an…
- 5
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
xusheng.dev · 418 points · Discussion
Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images. TL;DR Microsoft Paint supports both local and cloud image generation Paint…
- 6
Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
larsfaye.com · 340 points · Discussion
"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for" - Sam Altman of OpenAI In my previous…
- 7
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
ipshipyard.com · 271 points · Discussion
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Protocol Labs has informed us that it will not be renewing Shipyard’s funding. While we’re grateful for the support…
- 8
OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
developers.openai.com · 240 points · Discussion
Standard Your data guide for supported regions and processing details. OpenAI models in Amazon Bedrock are billed through AWS and may differ from direct OpenAI pricing. Priority processing was renamed…
- 9
The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
sf.thijs.gg · 213 points · Discussion
https://twitter.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139, https://xcancel.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139
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Oceans hit highest temperature on record
bbc.com · 194 points · Discussion
Getty Images The world's oceans are hotter than ever recorded, new data suggests, as they suffer from human-caused climate change and the growing El Niño weather phenomenon. The average surface…
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FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease
medicine.washu.edu · 167 points · Discussion
Visit the News Hub Biomarker test is based on technology developed at WashU Medicine Matt Miller/WashU Medicine The FDA has cleared a blood test developed from technology invented at WashU Medicine to…
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SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
proofcraft.systems · 152 points · Discussion
seL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64 After completing the proofs of functional correctness and integrity, Proofcraft has now established the proof that seL4 enforces confidentiality on…
- 13
Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders
ssx360.github.io · 129 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
- 14
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
gultsch.de · 109 points · Discussion
Infrastructure “We should own our infrastructure.” A lot of people would instinctively nod in agreement with that statement. Yet who “we” refers to shifts depending on the type of infrastructure.…
- 15
Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are
glassbox.codecanary.org · 70 points · Discussion
Fingerprint bench · client-side only Every measurement a website can take from your browser, run live and shown back to you. This is the same class of signals the tracking and anti-fraud scripts…
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Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage
picomq.com · 59 points · Discussion
PicoMQ is a Rust server for Durable Streams, built on Object Store. Cheap, URL-addressable, granular streams (create/append/read/long-poll/SSE), with Pico Protocol or Durable Streams Protocol as the…
- 17
Where did all the public bathrooms go?
daily.jstor.org · 58 points · Discussion
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Here’s a pop quiz for you: What purpose did this little kiosk serve? via Wikimedia Commons It’s quite a pretty little building—note the…
- 18
Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study
journals.plos.org · 54 points · Discussion
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Benjamin Sant, XuanYi Du, Gareth Shadwell, Stephanie Dillon, Bobbie Butters, Lindsay Bottoms Effects of peppermint ( Mentha x piperita L.)…
- 19
Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam
chipsandcheese.com · 54 points · Discussion
CUDA is a giant for GPU compute, which includes machine learning applications. So far, CUDA supports x86-64 and aarch64 CPUs. Now, Nvidia is looking at extending CUDA support to RISC-V. This move…
- 20
Anger, Anxiety and Agency
lucumr.pocoo.org · 51 points · Discussion
written on August 24, 2026 Sean Goedecke wrote a post arguing that you should never be angry at work — a post with which I strongly agree. Anger can be a useful signal, but being angry at work rarely…
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LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
boydkane.com · 42 points · Discussion
| Read on LessWrong | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are computed on a…
- 22
Codefloe Is a Professionally Hosted Public Git Forge
codefloe.com · 38 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels? (2018)
solar.lowtechmagazine.com · 36 points · Discussion
1699 scale model of a scratcher rigged with sails. Image: Maritiem Digitaal View original image View dithered image The dredging industry has been the backbone of the Dutch economy for centuries. If…
- 24
A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights
github.com · 35 points · Discussion
A personal collection of Claude Code skills, published as a single plugin under the l3a0 namespace. This repo is both the plugin and its own marketplace. I write about how these tools get built — and…
- 25
The "File" menu isn't about files
adam.farkas.pro · 31 points · Discussion
What is up with calling the first app menu item "File" even though the items do nothing related to actual files? 💡 tl;dr – Please consider opting for something better than calling your first menu…
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Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon
github.com · 29 points · Discussion
kern: A fast, rootless sandbox and virtual resource runtime for any workload, including untrusted and AI-generated code. A real, kernel-enforced container in ~3.5 ms, out of one 1.52 MB binary with no…
- 27
What Is a Syslog Server?
blog.greencloudvps.com · 28 points · Discussion
What Is a Syslog Server? A syslog server is software or a dedicated appliance that receives syslog messages from various devices over a network. These messages typically include: System startup and…
- 28
Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
textlog.cc · 26 points · Discussion
Nice. Profile pages are much cleaner now. That actually sounds like a very good reasoned choice. Love it replied to: fold or unfold replies The rationale is clear. However, I have found it useful in…
- 29
Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
smithsonianmag.com · 17 points · Discussion
Scientists discovered a strange feature in certain octopuses’ ribosomal RNA, molecules that create a 3D scaffold for cellular protein factories. It was found only in shallow-water creatures that have…
- 30
Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff
app.dover.com · Discussion
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