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2026-08-31
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Stories from August 31, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
Playa Phone
(
playaphone.com
)
729 points
by
cutoff
1 day ago
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225 comments
2.
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
(
jasontucker.blog
)
607 points
by
speckx
1 day ago
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164 comments
3.
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
(
rockpapershotgun.com
)
496 points
by
Tomte
5 days ago
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242 comments
4.
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
(
youtube.com
)
386 points
by
keithcarolus
1 day ago
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59 comments
5.
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
(
macrumors.com
)
487 points
by
thm
1 day ago
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579 comments
6.
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
(
signalandsilence.substack.com
)
388 points
by
jcurbo
1 day ago
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232 comments
7.
RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source
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ravynos.com
)
227 points
by
Bluestein
1 day ago
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135 comments
8.
Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI
(
chosun.com
)
265 points
by
geox
2 days ago
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80 comments
9.
Show HN: Laser Graffiti
(
consti.de
)
246 points
by
con
3 days ago
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57 comments
10.
OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor
(
openshot.org
)
585 points
by
metrofun
1 day ago
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135 comments
11.
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference
(
chatgpt.site
)
235 points
by
ijidak
1 day ago
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58 comments
12.
Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones
(
wsj.com
)
209 points
by
vinnyglennon
2 days ago
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218 comments
13.
Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT
(
dreamstation.systems
)
224 points
by
robinpie
1 day ago
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168 comments
14.
Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
(
webiterate.dev
)
737 points
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twapi
22 hours ago
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575 comments
15.
Reverse engineering my ADHD test
(
nullpt.rs
)
305 points
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hazebooth
5 days ago
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209 comments
16.
Understanding ChatGPT Work
(
simonwillison.net
)
342 points
by
gmays
1 day ago
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194 comments
17.
Damn fine tiny cafe
(
sandyuraz.com
)
388 points
by
thecsw
4 days ago
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63 comments
18.
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
(
arstechnica.com
)
385 points
by
WithinReason
1 day ago
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88 comments
19.
How to build a diffusion language model
(
kuleshov-group.github.io
)
179 points
by
volodia
1 day ago
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20 comments
20.
Matrox: Graphics for Professionals
(
abortretry.fail
)
190 points
by
BirAdam
1 day ago
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77 comments
21.
P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names
(
ruurtjan.com
)
220 points
by
dbalatero
1 day ago
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86 comments
22.
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
(
embracethered.com
)
392 points
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Recursing
1 day ago
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118 comments
23.
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
(
vghaisas.com
)
237 points
by
vghaisas
4 days ago
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256 comments
24.
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
(
usealmanac.com
)
57 points
by
kushagrchitkar
1 day ago
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47 comments
25.
Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines
(
github.com/hebbian-robotics
)
45 points
by
kstonekuan
1 day ago
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12 comments
26.
'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online
(
phys.org
)
209 points
by
samizdis
4 days ago
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118 comments
27.
Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic
(
relm4.org
)
64 points
by
Bluestein
6 days ago
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38 comments
28.
uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache
(
github.com/astral-sh
)
229 points
by
tosh
1 day ago
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116 comments
29.
No country for mediocre mathematicians
(
garvvee.substack.com
)
238 points
by
reasonableklout
2 days ago
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129 comments
30.
Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable
(
maurycyz.com
)
186 points
by
jllyhill
1 day ago
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180 comments
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