{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"8.21.26 | Aaron Swartz prosecution, AliExpress WebAudio fingerprinting, HTML capabilities","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/2a4c05d1\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":844,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 21, 2026.\nFeel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights\nAaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence\nhttps://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379550\nAliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint\nhttps://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372583\nHTML Can Do That\nhttps://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362689\nI like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers\nhttps://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347543\nMalicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload\nhttps://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374269\nThe August 17 outage\nhttps://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378957\nCIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s\nhttps://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368886\nMojo is now open source\nhttps://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348079\nGit at any scale\nhttps://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348141\nShow HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI\nhttps://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378768","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nmCVUJ5pUFbIsTy4mvxtFFdN3d3RgMGSU08kiDg2ac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NWYy/MGY3NDk0MDRhZjdh/MzljNmM4MTE4YzU0/MDNlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}