top 50% 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

3 changes
1159 upvotes – 667 comments

A note on subscription prices from LWN

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

1 month ago

1 change
732 upvotes – 151 comments

Muse Spark 1.3

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

1 month ago

1 change
690 upvotes – 454 comments

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

1 change
517 upvotes – 251 comments

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

1 change
497 upvotes – 245 comments

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

2 changes
473 upvotes – 361 comments

Music Theory for Programmers

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

1 month ago

401 upvotes – 247 comments

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

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

1 month ago

359 upvotes – 182 comments

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

1 change
352 upvotes – 154 comments

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

346 upvotes – 149 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

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

1 month ago

★ 470 JavaScript MIT
327 upvotes – 106 comments

VC isn't VC anymore

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

1 month ago

1 change
314 upvotes – 249 comments

True Rate of Unemployment

https://www.lisep.org/tru

1 month ago

310 upvotes – 358 comments

Exit the Cave

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

1 month ago

299 upvotes – 112 comments

The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530

1 month ago

297 upvotes – 110 comments

I wanna live an NPC life

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

1 month ago

296 upvotes – 277 comments

Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?

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

1 month ago

1 change
274 upvotes – 164 comments

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

1 change
265 upvotes – 260 comments

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

242 upvotes – 249 comments

Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools

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

1 month ago

1 change
220 upvotes – 182 comments

Unusual Suspects

https://neal.fun/unusual-suspects/

1 month ago

213 upvotes – 30 comments

M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

1 month ago

206 upvotes – 103 comments

Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

https://forums.paint.net/topic/134562-paintnet-52-alpha-build-9739/

1 month ago

206 upvotes – 179 comments

GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117194007157499435

1 month ago

199 upvotes – 149 comments

Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model

https://multiversecomputing.com/resources/introducing-quasar-438b-europe-s-leading-ai-model

1 month ago

196 upvotes – 128 comments

Poisson Disk Sampling

https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/

1 month ago

193 upvotes – 22 comments

Check if a file was made with Claude

https://claude.com/check-content

1 month ago

187 upvotes – 132 comments

Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero

https://aisle.com/blog/aisle-discovered-six-curl-cves-after-openai-and-anthropic-found-zero

1 month ago

183 upvotes – 66 comments

Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62dc98e7

1 month ago

3 changes
179 upvotes – 118 comments

WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm

1 month ago

★ 19k TypeScript Apache-2.0
145 upvotes – 25 comments

Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86xpv8l9y9o

1 month ago

139 upvotes – 117 comments

Static Allocation, Constant Work

https://matklad.github.io/2026/09/02/static-allocation-constant-work.html

1 month ago

135 upvotes – 30 comments

SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods

https://www.nexusmods.com/news/15597

1 month ago

130 upvotes – 94 comments

New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/dice-mystery-board-game-9.7328614

1 month ago

2 changes
130 upvotes – 110 comments

Uber is laying off 10% of staff

https://www.uber.com/us/en/newsroom/simplerfasteruber/

1 month ago

129 upvotes – 84 comments

Reasons robotics is hard

https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard

1 month ago

1 change
129 upvotes – 77 comments

Delidded Intel I9-14900KS CT Scan

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/09/02/delidded-intel-i9-14900ks

1 month ago

124 upvotes – 14 comments

A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for

https://hausresearch.com/reports/perplexity-citation-audit/

1 month ago

124 upvotes – 48 comments

METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident

https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#core-takeaways-about-this-incident

1 month ago

123 upvotes – 106 comments

The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-two-abstractions-of-system-design.html

1 month ago

119 upvotes – 15 comments

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543530

1 month ago

2 changes
118 upvotes – 82 comments

Async Rust vs RTOS showdown (2022)

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/65/async-rust-vs-rtos-showdown/

1 month ago

1 change
113 upvotes – 57 comments

Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage

https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/saving-on-google-photos-with-immich-your-own-personal-photo-storage/

1 month ago

113 upvotes – 135 comments

WebFPGA (2019)

https://webfpga.io/

1 month ago

1 change
112 upvotes – 36 comments

Unified Arabic

https://worksthatwork.com/6/unified-arabic

1 month ago

109 upvotes – 51 comments

Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/earths-organisms-developed-via-evolution-some-theorists-wonder-what-if-the-entire-cosmos-did-too-180989338/

1 month ago

2 changes
105 upvotes – 69 comments

Just Bury Your Trash

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/just-bury-your-trash

1 month ago

100 upvotes – 170 comments

Banca Etica Suspends A/I's Account While Condemning the Sanctions Behind It

https://sabot.media/post/banca-etica-statement-english

1 month ago

97 upvotes – 77 comments

'Idiocracy' Predicted All of This

https://www.texasmonthly.com/culture/mike-judge-idiocracy-turns-20/

1 month ago

97 upvotes – 84 comments

LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost

https://openteams.com/intelligence-vs-cost/

1 month ago

95 upvotes – 42 comments

I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/stay-in-tech/

1 month ago

94 upvotes – 84 comments

The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions

https://yalereview.org/article/emily-ogden-edgar-allan-poe

1 month ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 55 comments

OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices

http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/smd.html

1 month ago

92 upvotes – 21 comments

Is There I/O After Death? What Happens to Io_uring When a Process Dies

https://blog.ydb.tech/is-there-i-o-after-death-what-happens-to-io-uring-when-a-process-dies-92c65354873f?postPublishedType=repub

1 month ago

86 upvotes – 36 comments

Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x

https://frontierharness.org

1 month ago

82 upvotes – 56 comments

LLMs and self-referentiality

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=10046

1 month ago

1 change
81 upvotes – 91 comments

Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils

https://uutils.org/blog/2026-08-error-diagnostics/

1 month ago

81 upvotes – 11 comments

Black Hole of Los Alamos: Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/black-hole-of-los-alamos

1 month ago

2 changes
78 upvotes – 15 comments

A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/falcons-migration-angola-falcopolis

1 month ago

78 upvotes – 34 comments

It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025)

https://code.mendhak.com/hardcode-feature-flags/

1 month ago

77 upvotes – 48 comments

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

1 change
76 upvotes – 0 comments

Retirement Is Dead

https://macleans.ca/longforms/retirement-is-dead/

1 month ago

75 upvotes – 40 comments

Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]

https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea11482e/Original-Microsoft-Source-Code.pdf

1 month ago

75 upvotes – 46 comments

Ending my elixir exploratory writing

https://lucassifoni.info/blog/the-end-of-this-elixir-log/

1 month ago

74 upvotes – 46 comments

The Silo · interactive 3D cutaway

https://3dscenes.qualityf2p.workers.dev/silo

1 month ago

74 upvotes – 16 comments

The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

https://www.jordangoodman.xyz/the-post-ai-internet-doesnt-look-great/

1 month ago

74 upvotes – 85 comments

The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified

https://www.marginallycompelling.com/p/the-american-worker-vs-the-most-qualified

1 month ago

74 upvotes – 114 comments

Show HN: ZSvirt – A lightweight, scalable open source virtualization platform

https://github.com/ZSvirt/zsvirt

1 month ago

★ 1.6k Java GPL-3.0
72 upvotes – 14 comments

Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations

https://www.vidact.dev/

1 month ago

70 upvotes – 33 comments

9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes

https://ma.ttias.be/9000-rpm/

1 month ago

69 upvotes – 61 comments

My practical approach to surfing the web safely

https://molily.de/safe-websurfing/

1 month ago

68 upvotes – 45 comments

The Highest Point in the Netherlands

https://ipv6.hanazo.no/posts/anniversary-personal/

1 month ago

67 upvotes – 52 comments

Introducing Muse Spark 1.3

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-spark-1-3

1 month ago

1 change
66 upvotes – 0 comments

Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12M Given to DHH

https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/

1 month ago

65 upvotes – 24 comments

Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/claude-fable-5-1/

1 month ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard

https://chris48s.github.io/blogmarks/posts/2021/jsontidy/

1 month ago

61 upvotes – 20 comments

Singapore subway (mrt) information display types

https://www.sgtrains.com/technology-infosys.html

1 month ago

59 upvotes – 20 comments

The Cables That Connect the World

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-cables-that-connect-the-world/

1 month ago

59 upvotes – 11 comments

Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2026/08/20/researchers-develop-electronic-skin-for-prosthetics-to-sense-temperature-and-pressure/

1 month ago

58 upvotes – 6 comments
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