France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
France plans to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls, a move announced annually for over a decade.
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Top Hacker News Stories – August 11, 2026 (Summarized)
Recent top stories on Hacker News include France's announcement to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls, aiming to protect consumer privacy, and the release of Antirez's MiniMax H3 inference engine optimized for Mac computers. Discussions also highlight concerns over the decline of Google Search and what might replace it, garnering 112 points and nearly 100 comments. Additionally, the open-source community is excited about Chicken Scheme 6.0 and the LFM2.5 model, which boasts 2.6 billion parameters and competes with larger models.
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
524 pts, 489 comments
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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
491 pts, 308 comments
491 points · 308 comments · Add your take →
England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
490 pts, 402 comments
490 points · 402 comments · Add your take →
Mojo 1.0
432 pts, 245 comments
432 points · 245 comments · Add your take →
London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
389 pts, 520 comments
389 points · 520 comments · Add your take →
Grok Bot
351 pts, 334 comments
351 points · 334 comments · Add your take →
Chicken Scheme 6.0
303 pts, 62 comments
303 points · 62 comments · Add your take →
Nvidia's Risky Business
295 pts, 178 comments
295 points · 178 comments · Add your take →
Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp
287 pts, 41 comments
287 points · 41 comments · Add your take →
Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
269 pts, 542 comments
269 points · 542 comments · Add your take →
Compression is prediction
257 pts, 301 comments
257 points · 301 comments · Add your take →
More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts
253 pts, 323 comments
253 points · 323 comments · Add your take →
Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide
251 pts, 241 comments
251 points · 241 comments · Add your take →
U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
194 pts, 551 comments
194 points · 551 comments · Add your take →
Making holograms with a pen plotter
184 points · 26 comments · Add your take →
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
182 points · 139 comments · Add your take →
What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy
161 points · 30 comments · Add your take →
Manus will return to operating as an independent company
137 points · 93 comments · Add your take →
Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
130 points · 101 comments · Add your take →
Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app
125 points · 245 comments · Add your take →
Recycle – Floppydisks
120 points · 51 comments · Add your take →
WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
120 points · 88 comments · Add your take →
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
117 points · 32 comments · Add your take →
OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1
117 points · 38 comments · Add your take →
The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
116 points · 179 comments · Add your take →
How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
111 points · 137 comments · Add your take →
The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses
108 points · 212 comments · Add your take →
Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month
98 points · 20 comments · Add your take →
The Color of White Light
98 points · 50 comments · Add your take →
$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf
96 points · 103 comments · Add your take →
Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter
96 points · 64 comments · Add your take →
Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers
82 points · 98 comments · Add your take →
Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data
81 points · 31 comments · Add your take →
Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
81 points · 78 comments · Add your take →
CSS properties you should know for better text designs
76 points · 22 comments · Add your take →
US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
74 points · 160 comments · Add your take →
Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client
71 points · 49 comments · Add your take →
Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't
66 points · 45 comments · Add your take →
US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat
60 points · 50 comments · Add your take →
Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo
59 points · 28 comments · Add your take →
Zuckerberg's superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat
59 points · 24 comments · Add your take →
Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases
56 points · 21 comments · Add your take →
Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control
56 points · 23 comments · Add your take →
Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle
55 points · 2 comments · Add your take →
The Ultimate Horse
54 points · 15 comments · Add your take →
Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App
51 points · 35 comments · Add your take →
Pizza Box Project Stack
48 points · 5 comments · Add your take →
The Water Footprint of AI
48 points · 75 comments · Add your take →
Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago
47 points · 119 comments · Add your take →
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