DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-08-20

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

1. 01

   AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (laserphile.com)

   1059 points · HN #49372583

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2. 02

   I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (experimental-history.com)

   873 points · HN #49347543

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3. 03

   Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (curiousquail.com)

   1704 points · HN #49379550

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4. 04

   HTML Can Do That (chrisburnell.com)

   1023 points · HN #49362689

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5. 05

   Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (safedep.io)

   554 points · HN #49374269

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6. 06

   CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (wsj.com)

   450 points · HN #49368886

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7. 07

   The August 17 outage (github.blog)

   643 points · HN #49378957

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8. 08

   I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)

   342 points · HN #49377853

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9. 09

   Linux 7.2 (igalia.com)

   301 points · HN #49376265

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10. 10

    Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM (github.com/zachahn)

    305 points · HN #49375996

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11. 11

    Don't paste the AI, please (dontpastetheai.com)

    1061 points · HN #49371857

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12. 12

    Mojo is now open source (modular.com)

    414 points · HN #49348079

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13. 13

    Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device (simedw.com)

    598 points · HN #49373456

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14. 14

    Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (yaros.ae)

    212 points · HN #49375719

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15. 15

    Git at any scale (cursor.com)

    371 points · HN #49348141

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16. 16

    Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (danielvaughn.dev)

    384 points · HN #49378768

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17. 17

    Turns are Better than Radians (2022) (computerenhance.com)

    352 points · HN #49369408

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18. 18

    Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

    359 points · HN #49371006

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19. 19

    Consumer Rights Wiki (consumerrights.wiki)

    296 points · HN #49378243

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20. 20

    Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025) (arxiv.org)

    316 points · HN #49360140

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21. 21

    How to compromise your system with a job interview (codedge.de)

    190 points · HN #49376332

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22. 22

    DiffusionGemma Technical Report (arxiv.org)

    165 points · HN #49374287

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23. 23

    Manabu Kosaka's Handmade Paper Sculptures (wixsite.com)

    194 points · HN #49362001

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24. 24

    Every Model Cheats (dreadnode.io)

    117 points · HN #49374635

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25. 25

    A faster way to calculate the day of the week (benjoffe.com)

    269 points · HN #49323795

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26. 26

    Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product (github.com/runvendo)

    64 points · HN #49376038

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27. 27

    SpacetimeDB: a short technical review (strn.cat)

    114 points · HN #49378933

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28. 28

    Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study (rathbiotaclan.com)

    358 points · HN #49378630

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29. 29

    Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch (mikekasberg.com)

    110 points · HN #49374772

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30. 30

    Project Cybersyn (2022) (bactra.org)

    68 points · HN #49377739

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