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Stories from August 9, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
My server is a phone now (seg6.space)
487 points by seg6 1 day ago | 234 comments
2.
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 (os8088.com)
243 points by jggonz 1 day ago | 160 comments
3.
Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (redblobgames.com)
334 points by bobbiechen 12 days ago | 37 comments
4.
We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled (shopify.engineering)
328 points by adletbalzhanov 1 day ago | 245 comments
5.
Dithered QR Codes (andrewt.net)
358 points by jmusall 1 day ago | 41 comments
6.
Mea Culpa – Dark Hours (terrygodier.com)
549 points by satvikpendem 11 hours ago | 249 comments
7.
Making difficulty curves in games (davetech.co.uk)
162 points by hakkikonu 4 days ago | 82 comments
8.
There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order (gukov.dev)
182 points by gukoff 17 hours ago | 31 comments
9.
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port (github.com/jmarshall23)
162 points by BruceEel 19 hours ago | 67 comments
10.
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM (notebookcheck.net)
345 points by akyuu 9 hours ago | 291 comments
11.
The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) (longbets.org)
198 points by doubletwoyou 20 hours ago | 96 comments
12.
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025) (nature.com)
79 points by davidbarker 7 days ago | 28 comments
13.
TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics (theoremdb.org)
89 points by frozenseven 23 hours ago | 15 comments
14.
Should you stop cracking your knuckles? (bbc.com)
110 points by tchalla 1 day ago | 120 comments
15.
The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground (practical.engineering)
123 points by michaefe 4 days ago | 37 comments
16.
Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5 (github.com/rochus-keller)
104 points by Rochus 12 hours ago | 16 comments
17.
Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023) (oup.com)
173 points by bohaska 1 day ago | 199 comments
18.
How I use LLMs to learn complex topics (laurentiugabriel.github.io)
380 points by laurentiurad 5 hours ago | 208 comments
19.
Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (w3.org)
177 points by Klaster_1 10 hours ago | 38 comments
20.
The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998) (halfhill.com)
82 points by Lammy 14 hours ago | 67 comments
21.
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
290 points by ilamont 2 days ago | 212 comments
22.
John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978) (kibotronics.net)
123 points by Kiboneu 11 hours ago | 81 comments
23.
Message your other Claude Code sessions (claude.com)
152 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 67 comments
24.
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection (daringfireball.net)
322 points by minimaxir 21 hours ago | 63 comments
25.
Datalog Disassembly (github.com/grammatech)
65 points by aboardRat4 6 days ago | 6 comments
26.
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's (theconversation.com)
171 points by jader201 9 hours ago | 126 comments
27.
Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2 (oskrim.github.io)
117 points by tremguy 13 hours ago | 86 comments
28.
Everything you do is being recorded (theatlantic.com)
195 points by ike_usawa 13 hours ago | 157 comments
29.
Stylized GGX Shading (alexandrelamure.github.io)
57 points by ibobev 5 days ago | discuss
30.
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
160 points by david927 7 hours ago | 608 comments

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