Hacker News 500 points

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results: https://kagi.com/changelog#11296

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence: https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379550

I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day: https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409073

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvyy4x2mvo

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49397074

Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar: https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398304

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore: https://danluu.com/perf-opt/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395628

Kobo can run apps now: https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390427

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases: https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387570

Felony Bench: https://www.felonybench.com/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389430

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386895

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late: https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383026

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera: https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387497

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late: https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385994

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload: https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374269

The August 17 outage: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378957

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device: https://simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373456

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347543

HTML Can Do That: https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362689

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint: https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372583

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming: https://yassa9.github.io/osint/gralhix-004/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360545