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Hacker News (20 Aug 2026)

  1. Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

    1255 points • 281 comments • aug 20, 2026

  2. Don't paste the AI, please

    993 points • 545 comments • aug 20, 2026

  3. AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

    933 points • 295 comments • aug 20, 2026

  4. Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

    537 points • 113 comments • aug 20, 2026

  5. Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

    435 points • 382 comments • aug 20, 2026

  6. The August 17 outage

    418 points • 461 comments • aug 20, 2026

  7. CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

    379 points • 227 comments • aug 20, 2026

  8. Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

    342 points • 133 comments • aug 20, 2026

  9. Turns are Better than Radians (2022)

    337 points • 200 comments • aug 20, 2026

  10. Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study

    317 points • 114 comments • aug 20, 2026