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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 9, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:22) - “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (01:35) - _for-sale DNS records (02:57) - Fastmail offers EU data region (04:16) - Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (05:18) - My server is a phone now (06:29) - Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding (07:46) - Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (09:07) - Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled (10:41) - Dithered QR Codes (11:51) - Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse (13:00) - Outro “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmershttps://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189_for-sale DNS recordshttps://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668Fastmail offers EU data regionhttps://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strengthhttps://twitter.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215786My server is a phone nowhttps://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfindinghttps://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/heuristics/differential.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079995Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMUhttps://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221711Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaledhttps://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservationshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226536Dithered QR Codeshttps://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226742Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipsehttps://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=minutehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225139 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.