Hacker News Daily — August 28, 2026
30 stories · August 28, 2026
In this issue
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Get your Windows license refund
en.refund4freedom.org · 589 points · Discussion
Refund4Freedom / Demands / Refund / Supporting Material / Share! Get your Windows license refund now! We all know the joy of acquiring a new laptop and the excitement of exploring its features and…
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GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
huggingface.co · 468 points · Discussion
https://twitter.com/Zai_org/status/2093354097122455713 https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3
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Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal
nytimes.com · 417 points · Discussion
https://archive.ph/ni6I3 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.46...
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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
ckardaris.com · 396 points · Discussion
This post has made it to the Hacker News front page. See the discussion. Last week I came across a post on Hacker News that encouraged application developers to stop making terminal user interfaces 1…
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U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
inventati.org · 382 points · Discussion
Earlier: US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464391 - (131 comments) US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati -…
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Htmx 4.0
four.htmx.org · 376 points · Discussion
htmx 4.0.0 Release The htmx team is very happy to announce the release of htmx 4.0.0! This is the culmination of 8 months of work (plus a game ) and we are very happy with the results. The idea of…
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Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
blog.luanti.org · 364 points · Discussion
Luanti’s Android app is currently not available on the Google Play Store due to a baseless DMCA notice filed on behalf of Microsoft by Tracer.AI, alleging that Luanti infringes Minecraft’s copyright.…
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Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
orbify.eu · 345 points · Discussion
Orbify web demo Demo 2 - v72 Controls Move W A S D Pan Left drag Rotate Right drag Get in touch Pilot, collaboration or investment? We are open to pilot projects, technology collaborations, industry…
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Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)
alyssarosenzweig.ca · 233 points · Discussion
16 Feb 2018 (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence…
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The Twelve-Factor App
12factor.net · 183 points · Discussion
Introduction In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps…
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Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
anil.recoil.org · 164 points · Discussion
I released a security fix for OCaml's cohttp 6.3.0 today, fixing a path traversal issue. The patch itself was straightforward and in normal times, the security procedure would have been to fix it…
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State of the Map 2026
2026.stateofthemap.org · 117 points · Discussion
State of the Map 2026 State of the Map is the annual event for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users. In 2026 the State of the Map conference will be taking place in Paris and online. It will be a three…
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Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise
nature.com · 93 points · Discussion
Nuclear power plants have not exactly sprouted like daisies across the United States. The country’s first commercial nuclear reactor of the twenty-first century didn’t come online until 2016. That was…
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25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA
thehealthy.com · 93 points · Discussion
Skip to main content VeselovaElena/Getty Images VeselovaElena/Getty Images The reason echoes a recent issue the USDA has been following—one that's becoming peculiarly common. If you’re wondering what…
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Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need
geekyschmidt.com · 86 points · Discussion
The German language has a word for what your last software update did. It is called Verschlimmbesserung: an attempted improvement that only makes things worse. We have all lived through the SaaS…
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Barrier lake continues to pose flood risk, China warns
kathmandupost.com · 74 points · Discussion
Post Report Published at: August 28, 2026 Updated at: August 28, 2026 16:59 Kathmandu The Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu has said that the risk created by an ice-rock avalanche on the Nepal-China border…
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EasyEffects can massively improve laptop speaker sound quality
osnews.com · 61 points · Discussion
 Home  >  Multimedia, AV  >  EasyEffects should be part of every Linux distribution and desktop environment to massively improve laptop speaker sound quality Virtually all…
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Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations
smithsonianmag.com · 59 points · Discussion
Africa’s Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent. Here’s Why Some Conservationists Are Saving Them Anyway Meet the team that closely monitors the playful canines, which need help to…
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Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment
arxiv.org · 51 points · Discussion
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: We study autonomous mathematical discovery in the Station, an open-world multi-agent environment in which AI agents from different model families pursue a shared…
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Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)
wired.com · 44 points · Discussion
https://archive.ph/vyzt8
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Visual Analysis of Binary Files
binvis.io · 36 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe
acko.net · 35 points · Discussion
Improving on a timeless recipe The bezier curve is a staple of CAD and computer graphics. Like Bic pens, the design is decades old and they're everywhere. You'll often find them as the default or only…
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The Analytical AI Handbook
handbook.sutro.sh · 33 points · Discussion
What is Analytical AI? In late 2022, the “ChatGPT moment” happened. The masses began to understand the general power of foundation models, and developers immediately started incorporating them into a…
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Isitdoneyet.gg is a website I made to figure out if games are complete
isitdoneyet.gg · 23 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math
ben3d.ca · 16 points · Discussion
At Hot Chips 2026, Samsung presented a 16 GB LPDDR5X memory package that delivers 614 GB/s of internal bandwidth to its own compute units. For scale, 614 GB/s matches the memory bandwidth of a…
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Show HN: Conduct, open-source guardrails for LLM and MCP tool calls
github.com · 13 points · Discussion
Runtime governance for AI agents — one policy enforces across every LLM call, every shell tool, every teammate's AI session. Two product surfaces, one repo, one policy: Conduct Guard — the policy…
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Sloc Cloc and Code 4.0 (scc) – Finding the files that need the most attention
boyter.org · 12 points · Discussion
So today I release the v4.0.0 version of sloc cloc and code AKA scc. While I was considering going from 3.7.0 to 3.8.0 enough new functionality landed in it that I figured a move to a new major…
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Stopping the smart TV from being used against you
s-config.com · 11 points · Discussion
Smart TVs are everywhere! But who is the master? Amid the overall electronics boom thanks to A.I., one piece of electronics is almost unchanged financially. That is the digital display or flat-panel…
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Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager
usesesame.app · 7 points · Discussion
I have been working on Sesame, an open-source password manager that keeps your vault local by default. You don't need an account to create or use a vault, and the hosted service never receives the…
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Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research
ycombinator.com · Discussion
Building the Prime Radiant Member of Technical Staff | Engineering $125K - $225K • 0.10% - 1.00% • San Francisco, CA, US Experience Any (new grads ok) Connect directly with founders of the best…