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Hacker News Down

6•areofyl•58m ago

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Humphrey•57m ago
Ok, who prompted their AI agent to hack Hacker News?
isobutane101•51m ago
my bad i forgot to say "don't hack into hacker news"
runarberg•54m ago
dang 10 hours ago:

> LLMs have helped us keep HN up and still (relatively) fast amid a huge onslaught of new traffic over the last year or so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438594

chrism238•54m ago
Yes, it was, but how did you expect us to read your comment?
isobutane101•51m ago
just go to the website and read it from there
1vuio0pswjnm7•54m ago
FYI When this happens, HN is also reachable via Cloudflare

104.21.41.72

This has worked for me for several HN outages over a number of years

isobutane101•52m ago
good comms
talltofu•50m ago
This is the most meta news ever. Hacker news down announced on hacker news :)

Turn Any Image into JPEG XL. Free and Private

https://anyjxl.com/
1•johnnyApplePRNG•2m ago•0 comments

GitHub denies Copilot Autofix wrote the bug Wiz's AI agent found

https://ai-news.ghost.io/github-denies-copilot-autofix-wrote-the-bug-wizs-ai-agent-found/
1•Striation•3m ago•0 comments

LLMs prefer machine-written prose over Austen and Shakespeare ~90% of the time

https://shivanshuag.com/blog/the-machine-never-raises-its-voice/
1•shivanshuag•6m ago•0 comments

More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/more-half-adults-us-say-they-lack-basic-statistical-under...
1•giuliomagnifico•7m ago•0 comments

Run several Linux kernels at the same time on bare metal, without a hypervisor

https://lwn.net/ml/all/ao34RJ7aZ2BLd67S@pop-os.localdomain/
1•NewJazz•8m ago•0 comments

Why Political Moderates Are Losing

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-political-moderates-are-losing
1•connor11528•13m ago•0 comments

I think printable objects are an underrated way to test physical products

https://deskidols.vercel.app/
1•Shmungus•14m ago•0 comments

First Findings of Mirror-Like Activity in Individual Human Neurons

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/first-findings-of-mirror-like-activity-in-individual-human-neu...
1•XzetaU8•20m ago•0 comments

DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0
2•wizardforhire•24m ago•0 comments

Iran war supercharged EV sales everywhere except the U.S.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/trumps-iran-war-supercharged-ev-sales-everywhere-excep...
1•toomuchtodo•27m ago•0 comments

We run Postgres on local NVMe

https://pgrun.dev/blog/why-we-run-postgres-on-local-nvme
1•handfuloflight•28m ago•0 comments

Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/lab-supply-companies-have-been-selling-antibodies-using-m...
1•OutOfHere•30m ago•0 comments

Fetch – control your Claude Code agents from the Mac notch

https://tryfetch.dev/
1•laithistaken•30m ago•0 comments

Recursive Self-Improvement (not yet). Also, we need a new definition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQanDOFJwvo
1•bradwmorris•31m ago•1 comments

Goodbye File Browser

https://hacdias.com/2026/07/28/filebrowser/
1•Ginop•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why are Claude models so verbose?

1•JacobWolf•42m ago•3 comments

Xiaomi's Xring Series suggests more OEM's switching to in-house SoCs

1•StizzurpXDD•42m ago•0 comments

Perplexity's Portable Computer tackling local AI services market

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/26/now-perplexity-is-trying-to-get-into-the-local-a...
1•Gaishan•42m ago•0 comments

Running out of money': Kraft, McDonald's, Whirlpool CEOs flag consumer concern

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/running-money-kraft-mcdonald-whirlpool-114500035.html
6•MrJagil•42m ago•0 comments

BanglaTools – Bengali Unicode and Bijoy text conversion tools

https://banglatools.com/
1•btref26hn•43m ago•0 comments

Front end skill pack for AI agents, with machine-enforced quality gates

https://krishna-modi12.github.io/frontend-design-pro/
1•KrishnaModi12•44m ago•1 comments

Show HN: LLM-powered webapp to build LLM-powered webapps

https://codeplusequalsai.com/dashboard
1•cryptoz•47m ago•2 comments

Secret Cold War IBM Supercomputer Was Built for One Job

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm
1•jnord•47m ago•0 comments

Portable Computer: Local-First AI

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/products/portable-computer
1•Garbage•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Propose and Dual-Control for DNS Changes

https://www.loom.com/share/16dff02ee5604b7daf3ebc7c9c93d8a4
1•xinbenlv•50m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: HN Was Down

3•dhruv3006•52m ago•1 comments

$234B in Enterprise Application Software Spend at Risk from Agentic AI

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-07-01-gartner-says-us-dollars-234-billion...
2•theshrike79•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Openspender gives your agents wallets

https://openspender.com/
2•KrishnaMadala•53m ago•0 comments

Handwritten Blog

https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/
4•eric_khun•53m ago•2 comments

'Moronic' video deal buys Google legal woes? (2006)

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2006/10/10/moronic-video-deal-buys-google-legal-woes/1043392
3•dotcoma•54m ago•0 comments