top 50% hacker news stories for today

US gov sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/u-s-government-sides-with-openai-on-issue-of-training-llms-on-copyrighted-material/

40 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

SF dishwasher job posting offers $50 an hour

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/pho-nguyen-dishwasher-sf-22411841.php

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 2 comments

It's a Great Time to Be Rich in New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/nyregion/new-york-income-inequality.html

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

Climate change past the point of no return worst impacts are now unavoidable

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/unep-climate-paris-global-warming-9.7329305

34 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 1 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/

10 hours ago

3 changes
821 upvotes – 481 comments

A note on subscription prices from LWN

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

12 hours ago

1 change
676 upvotes – 133 comments

Muse Spark 1.3

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

5 hours ago

1 change
385 upvotes – 254 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

13 hours ago

1 change
369 upvotes – 163 comments

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

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

16 hours ago

331 upvotes – 173 comments

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

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

11 hours ago

1 change
304 upvotes – 142 comments

True Rate of Unemployment

https://www.lisep.org/tru

23 hours ago

300 upvotes – 337 comments

The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530

21 hours ago

272 upvotes – 101 comments

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

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

10 hours ago

2 changes
262 upvotes – 173 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

11 hours ago

246 upvotes – 82 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

12 hours ago

221 upvotes – 218 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/

12 hours ago

1 change
211 upvotes – 92 comments

Exit the Cave

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

11 hours ago

210 upvotes – 74 comments

I Don't Have a Smartphone

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

7 hours ago

203 upvotes – 194 comments

I wanna live an NPC life

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

5 hours ago

181 upvotes – 175 comments

Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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

8 hours ago

174 upvotes – 135 comments

GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all

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

11 hours ago

172 upvotes – 139 comments

Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model

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

15 hours ago

160 upvotes – 102 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

11 hours ago

152 upvotes – 54 comments

Check if a file was made with Claude

https://claude.com/check-content

13 hours ago

149 upvotes – 111 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

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

5 hours ago

★ 106 TypeScript MIT
140 upvotes – 49 comments

Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools

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

4 hours ago

139 upvotes – 116 comments

Poisson Disk Sampling

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

11 hours ago

128 upvotes – 19 comments

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

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

11 hours ago

124 upvotes – 44 comments

Uber is laying off 10% of staff

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

13 hours ago

111 upvotes – 54 comments

WebFPGA (2019)

https://webfpga.io/

21 hours ago

1 change
107 upvotes – 36 comments

SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods

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

10 hours ago

100 upvotes – 67 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/

9 hours ago

97 upvotes – 110 comments

'Idiocracy' Predicted All of This

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

23 hours ago

95 upvotes – 73 comments

Just Bury Your Trash

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

12 hours ago

95 upvotes – 159 comments

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

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

15 hours ago

91 upvotes – 59 comments

Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect

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

3 hours ago

91 upvotes – 51 comments

WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

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

11 hours ago

★ 18.8k TypeScript Apache-2.0
88 upvotes – 17 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

2 hours ago

83 upvotes – 68 comments

Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)

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

6 hours ago

3 changes
80 upvotes – 46 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/

9 hours ago

1 change
76 upvotes – 0 comments

I Don't Think I Can Stay in Tech

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

7 hours ago

75 upvotes – 66 comments

Ending my elixir exploratory writing

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

13 hours ago

71 upvotes – 46 comments

It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025)

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

14 hours ago

71 upvotes – 47 comments

The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified

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

6 hours ago

71 upvotes – 110 comments

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

https://github.com/ZSvirt/zsvirt

11 hours ago

★ 1.5k Java GPL-3.0
71 upvotes – 9 comments

The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great

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

5 hours ago

70 upvotes – 78 comments

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

https://frontierharness.org

9 hours ago

70 upvotes – 50 comments

LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost

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

12 hours ago

68 upvotes – 38 comments

Retirement Is Dead

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

9 hours ago

68 upvotes – 34 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/

7 hours ago

2 changes
65 upvotes – 51 comments

Introducing Muse Spark 1.3

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

6 hours ago

1 change
63 upvotes – 0 comments

Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican

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

1 day ago

62 upvotes – 19 comments

9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes

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

12 hours ago

60 upvotes – 57 comments

Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS

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

7 hours ago

54 upvotes – 24 comments

The Cables That Connect the World

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

12 hours ago

54 upvotes – 11 comments

Sweden pauses Denmark power cable over EU grid rules

https://www.nordiskpost.com/2026/05/08/sweden-power-cable-dispute-freezes-link-to-denmark/

16 hours ago

54 upvotes – 56 comments

Using jq to format JSON on the clipboard

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

12 hours ago

52 upvotes – 18 comments

Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong?

https://quesma.com/blog/mushroom-llm-vision/

8 hours ago

50 upvotes – 71 comments

AI Policy

https://dbushell.com/ai/

9 hours ago

47 upvotes – 79 comments

Mayor says 'large chunks' of Wellington council Deloitte report written by AI

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions/1229348/mayor-says-large-chunks-of-wellington-council-deloitte-report-written-by-ai

17 hours ago

46 upvotes – 19 comments

Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533073

17 hours ago

45 upvotes – 68 comments
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