Hacker News on Saturday, 22 August 2026

Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar(pm.gc.ca)

625 points by backlit4034 2 months ago | 568 comments

Official statement from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on the status and objectives of Canada-U.S. trade negotiations and tariffs.

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down(bbc.com)

601 points by tartoran 2 months ago | 1390 comments

BBC News article reporting that Canada will match US tariffs dollar for dollar after trade negotiations with the US broke down.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)

592 points by Jach 2 months ago | 442 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that LLM coding agents make specialized performance optimization cheap, illustrated with optimizing a regex engine for specific workloads.

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs(quantumi.sh)

438 points by jemoka 2 months ago | 132 comments

A personal page mapping numbers 0–99 to companies named "[number]labs", highlighting which are AI-related, inspired by ElevenLabs and TwelveLabs.

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is(forum.level1techs.com)

417 points by felineflock 2 months ago | 171 comments

A Level1Techs forum post presenting technical experiments on how quantization and implementation differences make locally run LLMs perform worse than reference versions.

Scrap (2006)(twitter.com)

386 points by tosh 2 months ago | 212 comments

A post on X by Moxie Marlinspike sharing a circa-2006 journal entry about moving into a derelict Pittsburgh house in winter and rebuilding it from scrap.

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones(munderdiffl.in)

294 points by simonpure 2 months ago | 131 comments

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video](youtube.com)

293 points by zoenolan 2 months ago | 90 comments

A Friendly Introduction to Racket(geometridae.bearblog.dev)

252 points by signa11 2 months ago | 135 comments

Thinking in Python(thinkinginpython.com)

251 points by pjacotg 2 months ago | 50 comments

New MCP Roadmap(blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)

241 points by pentagrama 2 months ago | 142 comments

A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber(decodingvibes.com)

205 points by altmanaltman 2 months ago | 86 comments

Nostr is an inclusive communication commons(nostr.org)

181 points by Bluestein 2 months ago | 118 comments

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate(lapcatsoftware.com)

179 points by zdw 2 months ago | 71 comments

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week(theguardian.com)

176 points by sbulaev 2 months ago | 140 comments

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code(twitter.com)

148 points by matthieu_bl 2 months ago | 138 comments

Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)(computer.org)

147 points by asdefghyk 2 months ago | 74 comments

NetBSD and my life (2005)(mail-index.netbsd.org)

139 points by gnyeki 2 months ago | 32 comments

The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)(nappertime.com)

136 points by cocacola1 2 months ago | 68 comments

NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier(primeintellect.ai)

127 points by stared 2 months ago | 31 comments

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device(grapheneos.social)

121 points by Cider9986 2 months ago | 44 comments

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers(marcua.net)

118 points by speckx 2 months ago | 17 comments

Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage(cnn.com)

88 points by MilnerRoute 2 months ago | 68 comments

Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf](olli.unt.edu)

68 points by tiahura 2 months ago | 39 comments

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)(rwwgreene.substack.com)

64 points by rznicolet 2 months ago | 39 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction(developers.openai.com)

62 points by izakfr 2 months ago | 42 comments

English ↔ Claudish Translator(programasweights.com)

46 points by leumon 2 months ago | 25 comments

Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens(soverybright.com)

46 points by telecuda 2 months ago | 55 comments

Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record(theguardian.com)

45 points by bookofjoe 2 months ago | 43 comments

US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired(bbc.com)

41 points by tartoran 2 months ago | 16 comments

Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs(theguardian.com)

35 points by theanonymousone 2 months ago | 35 comments

4 in 10 travellers visit tourist sites to capture social media content(tuigroup.com)

32 points by Markoff 2 months ago | 31 comments

A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been(zaksa.zip)

29 points by zaksa 2 months ago | 40 comments

Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world(readingmaps.com)

28 points by hakkikonu 2 months ago | 3 comments

Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say(cnbc.com)

28 points by newsomix9xl 2 months ago | 33 comments

Embedded AI(nostarch.com)

28 points by 0x54MUR41 2 months ago | 9 comments

Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods(history.com)

24 points by gmays 2 months ago | 34 comments

Things I want in a modern relational query language(sporks.space)

19 points by zdw 2 months ago | 7 comments

Fast and Hard Code(lucumr.pocoo.org)

17 points by lumpa 2 months ago | 10 comments

Knowing When to Stop: The Art of Making a Loop Converge(a16z.com)

17 points by gmays 2 months ago | 6 comments

Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System"(playtechnique.io)

15 points by gwynforthewyn 2 months ago | 3 comments

US Debt-to-GDP Ratio(us-debt-clock.com)

10 points by NordStreamYacht 2 months ago | 1 comments