8.9.26 | Code not the hard part, for-sale DNS records, Fastmail EU data region

Hacker News Highlights · Aug 9, 2026 · 13m

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 9, 2026.

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(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…