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Keep Our Servers Running
https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this-september/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593563
Asahi Linux on M3
https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586698
An Alien Mind
https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588080
GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590512
It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49590611
Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49591876
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587217
Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577129
LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-audio-with-screen-off-and-snooping-on-local-devices.1391214.0.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594878
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Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-andoya-spaceport-spectrum-rocket
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580369
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581870
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582000
The revolt of the reader
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580939
The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576386
LLMs as a Cognitive Virus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580164
Learn Programming with OCaml
https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/lpo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578280
GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582582
Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory
https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576343
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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506
Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570669
Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-government-corruption-widespread.aspx
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570772
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
https://opentrailpaper.com
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567437
Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
https://www.statichost.eu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569896
IBM Bob
https://bob.ibm.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563851
Can AI design circuit boards yet?
https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570545
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GPT-6 Astra
https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554643
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
https://anyhumanever.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550698
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554520
The browser's main thread is expensive
https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522137
The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526453
Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544762
K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551760
Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
https://babyloniantwins.com/blog/porting-a-1993-amiga-game-to-godot/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550375
Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552572
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Muse Spark 1.3
https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541256
Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-for-training
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535284
Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375
Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537131
Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-particle
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536079
Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535548
Exit the Cave
https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536606
Fable 5.1 World Modeling
https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541458
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508608
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How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
https://danluu.com/zitron/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526069
Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ad-blocker-on-ios/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521973
The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396
Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS
https://ambientcss.vercel.app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49523387
Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga
https://moviescenemap.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524320
The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
https://ersc.io/blog/martin-joins-ersc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525297
True Rate of Unemployment
https://www.lisep.org/tru
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530989
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621
Show HN: Running 104GB Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 48GB Mac with at ~12 tok/s
https://github.com/carloslfu/slotstream
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524447
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I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-system-with-birdnet-go/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511856
Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOMx2BHHWtE
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503521
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extending-to-the-fundamental-cosmological-makeup-of-the-universe
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467636
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508982
Fastpotify
https://fastpotify.rocks/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517448
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
https://signalandsilence.substack.com/p/i-think-someone-hacked-the-commissary
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508506
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512975
Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
https://datacolada.org/138
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516199
GPU World
https://www.gpuworld.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517584
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“I just chose words carefully”
https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503601
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499867
Hacking IKEA Furniture
https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497810
Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496918
Understanding ChatGPT Work
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504625
It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
https://blog.vghaisas.com/rube-goldberg-doorbell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480091
A 12TB Steam "teraleak" spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/a-12tb-steam-teraleak-spills-more-than-a-decade-of-lost-pc-gaming-history/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506182
Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU
https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478426
My hobby of building miniatures and taking pretty pictures
https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/tiny-cafe/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481141
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 30, 2026.
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EVE Online moves to Python 3
https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/the-move-to-python-3-begins
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433328
Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/28/texas-flock-cameras-auto-insurance-fee-mvcpa-grants/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494182
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495372
Hy4 preview
https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492632
Glacier Mice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_mice
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424320
Bug Blindness
https://danluu.com/bug-blind/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494520
SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
https://dgl.cx/2020/06/sqlite-json-support
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426995
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490870
RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython
https://blog.python.org/2026/08/riscv-now-officially-supported/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425252
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 29, 2026.
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GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479878
Htmx 4.0
https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478178
U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
https://www.inventati.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477854
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486172
Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
https://www.orbify.eu/demo/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477564
Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480466
Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485267
The Twelve-Factor App (2025)
https://12factor.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472216
Migrating to HTTPX2
https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/httpx2.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477212
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