top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-09-02

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/

1 month ago

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Muse Spark 1.3

https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/

1 month ago

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Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html

1 month ago

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True Rate of Unemployment

https://www.lisep.org/tru

1 month ago

I wanna live an NPC life

https://signalundefied.bearblog.dev/i-wanna-live-an-npc-life/

1 month ago

I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't

https://ploum.net/2026-09-02-i_dont_have_a_smartphone.html

1 month ago

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Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/

1 month ago

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Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/02/dutch-central-bank-moves-share-gold-us-canada-london-cites-instability

1 month ago

VC isn't VC anymore

https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/

1 month ago

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Music Theory for Programmers

https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers

1 month ago