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Hacker News (07 Aug 2026)

  1. US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

    832 points • 788 comments • aug 07, 2026

  2. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

    691 points • 372 comments • aug 07, 2026

  3. A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

    328 points • 312 comments • aug 07, 2026

  4. U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

    324 points • 316 comments • aug 07, 2026

  5. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

    269 points • 192 comments • aug 07, 2026

  6. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

    257 points • 157 comments • aug 07, 2026

  7. Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

    202 points • 89 comments • aug 07, 2026

  8. What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

    189 points • 307 comments • aug 07, 2026

  9. Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

    186 points • 47 comments • aug 07, 2026

  10. USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

    173 points • 68 comments • aug 07, 2026