Trending on 2026-08-22 — HN, Reddit, Google Trends & YouTube Archive

Snapshot of what trended on 2026-08-22, archived automatically by NoobClaw.

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Hacker News

20 items

1
Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
321 points · 200 comments
2
Embedded AI
15 points · 3 comments
3
AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
348 points · 350 comments
4
How Thailand Resisted Colonization
75 points · 24 comments
5
Three important steps in my maturation process
188 points · 86 comments
6
Kobo can run apps now
613 points · 194 comments
7
Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar
585 points · 516 comments
8
Felony Bench
784 points · 307 comments
9
Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
1190 points · 374 comments
10
There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
549 points · 395 comments
11
OTel isn’t going well
175 points · 74 comments
12
Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe
228 points · 62 comments
13
Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat
117 points · 66 comments
14
Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
933 points · 1140 comments
15
Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs
22 points · 20 comments
16
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
608 points · 80 comments
17
Stop Making TUIs
276 points · 355 comments
18
Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection
12 points · 2 comments
19
Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM
339 points · 68 comments
20
Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
122 points · 62 comments

20 items

1
Overconfident men get humbled.
r/justgalsbeingchicks
2
Bro cleaned the whole townr/Satisfyingasfuck
3
squirrel eating a 🦎
r/interestingasfuck
4
Tropes that are more well known than the media it came from
r/TopCharacterTropes
5
If you had asked me if this image was real a decade ago...r/gaming
6
In Jurassic World (2015) the movie peaks right here at the one-minute mark with the most clever shot in the entire franchise.
r/shittymoviedetails
7
Was I in the wrong? Two cars honked at me for not turning right next to a semi truckr/dashcams
8
ICYMI: "Stolen Valor" is such a fitting title
r/BlackPeopleofReddit
9
Being calm helps.r/GuysBeingDudes
10
Everyone deserves not to overwork in order to live.r/SipsTea
11
Lol yes.r/adhdmeme
12
He wants a traditional girlfriend
r/GirlDinnerDiaries
13
The kickbacks are realr/SipsTea
14
Massive street art in Melbourne
r/Damnthatsinteresting
15
I’m catsitting for a friend, why does one of her cats sit like this?r/cats
16
Having stupid friendsr/Whatcouldgowrong
17
What’s an inane piece of celebrity gossip you know but never have an excuse to share?r/AskReddit
18
Gymnastic coaches for the win.r/nextfuckinglevel
19
Kaise covered in rashes after living with Asmongold for a weekr/LivestreamFail
20
Welcome to the UK, where people debate whether it's right or wrong for a man sit right next to you on a completely empty bus
r/whoathatsinteresting

Google Trends

20 items

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