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1. Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

   578 points • 260 comments • aug 09, 2026

2. How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

   556 points • 312 comments • aug 09, 2026

3. Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

   453 points • 379 comments • aug 09, 2026

4. Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

   330 points • 64 comments • aug 09, 2026

5. Everything you do is being recorded

   257 points • 203 comments • aug 09, 2026

6. Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

   254 points • 206 comments • aug 09, 2026

7. Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

   243 points • 79 comments • aug 09, 2026

8. Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

   241 points • 177 comments • aug 09, 2026

9. Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

   218 points • 759 comments • aug 09, 2026

10. Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

    216 points • 53 comments • aug 09, 2026