top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-09-03

GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

1 month ago

3 changes
2275 upvotes – 2078 comments

.name Termination

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/

1 month ago

2227 upvotes – 546 comments

Audacity 4.0

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0

1 month ago

★ 18.3k C++
1163 upvotes – 264 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview

1 month ago

1 change
691 upvotes – 228 comments

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

https://anyhumanever.com/

1 month ago

661 upvotes – 311 comments

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007

1 month ago

1 change
467 upvotes – 187 comments

WeatherNext 3

https://deepmind.google/science/weathernext/

1 month ago

2 changes
406 upvotes – 107 comments

Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551096

1 month ago

4 changes
404 upvotes – 705 comments

Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

https://pola.rs/posts/announcing-polars-2/

1 month ago

403 upvotes – 137 comments

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/

1 month ago

2 changes
378 upvotes – 133 comments

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california

1 month ago

377 upvotes – 124 comments

ChatGPT outage – Resolved

https://chatgpt.com/

1 month ago

1 change
362 upvotes – 318 comments

Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2095453567955968398

1 month ago

337 upvotes – 220 comments

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/

1 month ago

1 change
335 upvotes – 131 comments

Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/nvidia-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-for-almost-13-billion-ai-expansion.html

1 month ago

4 changes
329 upvotes – 107 comments

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install

1 month ago

300 upvotes – 153 comments

Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond

https://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-suspended-jail-sentence-for-letting-5-year-old-walk-to-the-pond/

1 month ago

1 change
286 upvotes – 292 comments

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/open-ai-astra-gpt-6-cyber.html

1 month ago

5 changes
278 upvotes – 253 comments

New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

https://newsguild.org/new-york-times-and-the-athletic-workers-demand-company-scrap-kalshi-deal/

1 month ago

262 upvotes – 209 comments

Simple Is Not Small

https://jyn.dev/simple-is-not-the-same-as-small/

1 month ago

259 upvotes – 93 comments
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