{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"8.9.26 | Code not the hard part, for-sale DNS records, Fastmail EU data region","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/9d347f63\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":786,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 9, 2026.\nFeel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights\n“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers\nhttps://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189\n_for-sale DNS records\nhttps://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668\nFastmail offers EU data region\nhttps://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082\nLost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength\nhttps://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215786\nMy server is a phone now\nhttps://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636\nImproving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding\nhttps://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.html\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079995\nTriton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU\nhttps://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221711\nShopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled\nhttps://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226536\nDithered QR Codes\nhttps://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226742\nOpen-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse\nhttps://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-projection%2Cosm&lat=43.4623&lon=-3.8099&opacity=besselian%3A0.2%2Cumbra-live%3A0.2&zoom=6&palier=minute\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225139","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}