There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
621 pts, 480 comments
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Top Hacker News Stories – August 22, 2026 (Summarized)
Recent top stories on Hacker News include the deprecation of the macOS utility 'hdiutil' in macOS 27 Golden Gate, which garnered 93 points and 28 comments, indicating widespread developer interest. Another notable post, "Scrap," received 135 points and 52 comments, reflecting ongoing discussions around software or project updates. Additionally, the article "ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs" attracted 251 points and 83 comments, highlighting significant engagement with AI and voice synthesis topics. Other stories such as "Knowing When to Stop" and "A Friendly Introduction to Racket" also drew considerable attention, emphasizing diverse interests across programming, AI, and system utilities.
Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
523 pts, 1697 comments
523 points · 1697 comments · Add your take →
ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
497 pts, 149 comments
497 points · 149 comments · Add your take →
Thinking in Python
305 pts, 60 comments
305 points · 60 comments · Add your take →
Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar
286 pts, 161 comments
286 points · 161 comments · Add your take →
Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
255 pts, 115 comments
255 points · 115 comments · Add your take →
A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
237 pts, 105 comments
237 points · 105 comments · Add your take →
Nostr is an inclusive communication commons
210 pts, 191 comments
210 points · 191 comments · Add your take →
Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
205 pts, 197 comments
205 points · 197 comments · Add your take →
hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate
189 pts, 90 comments
189 points · 90 comments · Add your take →
NetBSD and my life (2005)
153 pts, 51 comments
153 points · 51 comments · Add your take →
Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device
149 pts, 61 comments
149 points · 61 comments · Add your take →
New MCP Roadmap
137 pts, 161 comments
137 points · 161 comments · Add your take →
Scrap
135 pts, 230 comments
135 points · 230 comments · Add your take →
Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers
132 pts, 22 comments
132 points · 22 comments · Add your take →
Things I want in a modern relational query language
116 points · 120 comments · Add your take →
Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
104 points · 191 comments · Add your take →
GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction
87 points · 77 comments · Add your take →
A Friendly Introduction to Racket
84 points · 184 comments · Add your take →
Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage
78 points · 100 comments · Add your take →
Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
63 points · 102 comments · Add your take →
Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
54 points · 56 comments · Add your take →
Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs
46 points · 70 comments · Add your take →
4 in 10 travellers visit tourist sites to capture social media content
45 points · 82 comments · Add your take →
Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say
37 points · 86 comments · Add your take →
OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20%
36 points · 3 comments · Add your take →
Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods
36 points · 60 comments · Add your take →
Embedded AI
35 points · 9 comments · Add your take →
Hacker News RSS
35 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
S&P 500 CEO median pay hits $17.3M, widening CEO-worker ratio to 312-to-1
33 points · 3 comments · Add your take →
Never Be Angry at Work
33 points · 14 comments · Add your take →
Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
31 points · 207 comments · Add your take →
Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens
30 points · 88 comments · Add your take →
Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Kids
30 points · 4 comments · Add your take →
A journalist was banned from a Flock Safety convention, so they hacked it
29 points · 11 comments · Add your take →
Z80–The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive
28 points · 75 comments · Add your take →
Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record
28 points · 119 comments · Add your take →
AI has failed to win people's trust. Its makers? less trusted
22 points · 3 comments · Add your take →
A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been
22 points · 30 comments · Add your take →
NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
21 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram: Monster Raving Egomania
21 points · 5 comments · Add your take →
Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System"
21 points · 9 comments · Add your take →
The war on data centres is a bit fake
21 points · 18 comments · Add your take →
Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for letting AI deactivate driver accounts
20 points · 4 comments · Add your take →
$40T Debt, 6.7% Mortgages and $5 Diesel
19 points · 9 comments · Add your take →
Wildfires across Europe detonate forgotten World War bombs
17 points · 1 comments · Add your take →
I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)
16 points · 13 comments · Add your take →
Canada vows to match Trump's 50% tariffs after trade deal talks fail
14 points · 5 comments · Add your take →
New U.S. tariffs to take effect after midnight, Canada plans to match levies
12 points · 2 comments · Add your take →
'Darth Vader' makes the case for Flock cameras at city council meeting [video]
12 points · 0 comments · Add your take →
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