top 20 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/

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A note on subscription prices from LWN

https://lwn.net/Articles/1090585/

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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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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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

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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Music Theory for Programmers

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

1 month ago

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/

1 month ago

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/

1 month ago

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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

1 month ago

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds

1 month ago

★ 470 JavaScript MIT

VC isn't VC anymore

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

1 month ago

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True Rate of Unemployment

https://www.lisep.org/tru

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Exit the Cave

https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave

1 month ago

The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530

1 month ago

I wanna live an NPC life

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

1 month ago

Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533840

1 month ago

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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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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

Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/nyregion/ai-ban-schools-nyc.html

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