8.21.26 | Aaron Swartz prosecution, AliExpress WebAudio fingerprinting, HTML capabilities

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 21, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:18) - Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence (01:41) - AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint (02:51) - HTML Can Do That (04:09) - I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers (05:43) - Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload (07:27) - The August 17 outage (08:47) - CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s (09:46) - Mojo is now open source (11:05) - Git at any scale (12:28) - Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI (13:59) - Outro Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequencehttps://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379550AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipointhttps://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372583HTML Can Do Thathttps://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362689I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachershttps://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thickhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347543Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payloadhttps://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374269The August 17 outagehttps://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378957CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80shttps://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalinkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368886Mojo is now open sourcehttps://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-sourcehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348079Git at any scalehttps://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scalehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348141Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AIhttps://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378768