Hacker News Top Stories Today
A live, ranked snapshot of the Hacker News front page for Saturday, August 29, 2026. Pulled from news.ycombinator.com, deduplicated, and refreshed hourly — every story links straight to the article and its HN comment thread.
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Top 30 Hacker News stories — Saturday, August 29, 2026
- 01Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU (www.bbc.com)2026-08-29
- 02You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It (matduggan.com)2026-08-29
- 03Autistici/inventati: Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002) (www.inventati.org)2026-08-29
- 04Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM) (chipsandcheese.com)2026-08-29
- 05TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store (github.com)2026-08-29
- 06Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX (openai.com)2026-08-29
- 07Monzo Stand-In (monzo.com)2026-08-29
- 08StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator (github.com)2026-08-29
- 09Experiments with Plotter Art (sometimes.digital)2026-08-29
- 10I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis (pwning.systems)2026-08-29
- 119th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight (azmirror.com)2026-08-29
- 12Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events? (www.vectorian.be)2026-08-29
- 13Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework (github.com)2026-08-29
- 14Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection” (www.thehealthy.com)2026-08-29
- 15GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven (ckardaris.com)2026-08-29
- 16Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days (anil.recoil.org)2026-08-29
- 17Htmx 4.0 (four.htmx.org)2026-08-29
- 18GLM-5.3 is now open-weight (huggingface.co)2026-08-29
- 19The Twelve-Factor App (2025) (12factor.net)2026-08-29
- 20Get your Windows license refund (en.refund4freedom.org)2026-08-29
- 21Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions (www.orbify.eu)2026-08-29
- 22“It works better in the app” (shkspr.mobi)2026-08-29
- 23U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective (www.inventati.org)2026-08-29
- 24EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws (www.epa.gov)2026-08-29
- 25Migrating to HTTPX2 (github.com)2026-08-29
- 26Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge rules (www.reuters.com)2026-08-29
- 27Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice (blog.luanti.org)2026-08-29
- 28Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018) (alyssarosenzweig.ca)2026-08-29
- 29Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak (modal.cx)2026-08-29
- 30Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV (neilalexander.dev)2026-08-29
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Hacker News top stories — FAQ
- What are the top stories on Hacker News today?
- As of Saturday, August 29, 2026, the #1 story on the Hacker News front page is “Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU (www.bbc.com).” The full ranked list of today's top 30 HN stories is above, each linking to the original article and its HN comment thread.
- How often is this Hacker News list updated?
- Hourly. OrangeBot.AI re-fetches the Hacker News front page from news.ycombinator.com and re-ranks the top stories every hour, so this page always reflects today's HN.
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