top 50% 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

Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555592

1 month ago

2 changes
256 upvotes – 135 comments

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3

https://arcprize.org/blog/astra

1 month ago

240 upvotes – 168 comments

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/

1 month ago

233 upvotes – 282 comments

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

https://www.sciencealert.com/gps-glitched-across-the-us-by-as-much-as-33-feet-scientists-have-never-seen-this-before

1 month ago

1 change
221 upvotes – 142 comments

Claude outage – Resolved

https://status.claude.com/incidents/461yvfrzpwtt

1 month ago

1 change
205 upvotes – 151 comments

Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548600

1 month ago

198 upvotes – 200 comments

120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom

https://tuta.com/blog/android-side-load-apps-google

1 month ago

183 upvotes – 74 comments

VC isn't VC anymore

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

1 month ago

1 change
183 upvotes – 2 comments

Sony makes bold claim about game ownership

https://aginggamer.net/game-industry/sony-makes-bold-claim-about-game-ownership/

1 month ago

179 upvotes – 271 comments

Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

https://babylonian-collection.yale.edu/about/babylonian-cooking

1 month ago

169 upvotes – 139 comments

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/16-old-girls-win-google-science-fair-simple-194434703.html

1 month ago

2 changes
166 upvotes – 64 comments

Grok outage

https://status.x.ai/

1 month ago

1 change
160 upvotes – 158 comments

Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-trees-muscle-posture-newly-role.html

1 month ago

1 change
154 upvotes – 42 comments

How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PLisnSFir8y5AHkmP/how-concerned-should-we-be-about-astra-s-recurrent

1 month ago

151 upvotes – 129 comments

Gloria Steinem has died

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/03/gloria-steinem-groundbreaking-feminist-campaigner-dies-aged-92

1 month ago

2 changes
151 upvotes – 64 comments

RSA-260 Factorized

https://twitter.com/penlume/status/2095372672356212876

1 month ago

1 change
146 upvotes – 78 comments

GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB

https://gizmodo.com/ozempic-and-other-glp-1s-are-being-linked-to-fewer-serious-infections-including-tb-2000806796

1 month ago

2 changes
145 upvotes – 84 comments

Please don't rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/28/never-tidy-paramedics-shoes-japan-custom-etiquette

1 month ago

142 upvotes – 182 comments

I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer

https://claytonwramsey.com/blog/seeing-eye/

1 month ago

117 upvotes – 97 comments

Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor

https://github.com/iczelia/balrogg

1 month ago

★ 82 C GPL-3.0
108 upvotes – 20 comments

Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere

https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-spot-an-uncannily-geometric-10-sided-structure-in-saturns-atmosphere

1 month ago

108 upvotes – 39 comments

Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546432

1 month ago

107 upvotes – 149 comments

How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-swiss-table-map/index.html

1 month ago

103 upvotes – 18 comments

Codex outage

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28756

1 month ago

★ 123k Rust Apache-2.02 changes
102 upvotes – 1 comments

ChatGPT and Codex Is Down

https://chatgpt.com/codex/

1 month ago

96 upvotes – 1 comments

I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32

https://didac.dev/blog/i-made-my-withings-scale-sync-to-home-assistant-without-the-cloud

1 month ago

94 upvotes – 29 comments

Every novel is boring until it isn't

https://www.publicbooks.org/every-novel-is-boring-until-it-isnt/

1 month ago

1 change
92 upvotes – 77 comments

How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform

https://werwolv.net/posts/linux_bringup/

1 month ago

91 upvotes – 8 comments

IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/nighthawk-r2

1 month ago

88 upvotes – 39 comments

Japan halves speed limit to 30km/h on all narrow city streets

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/japan-new-speed-limit-30kmh-narrow-city-streets

1 month ago

87 upvotes – 97 comments

ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click

https://www.military.com/ice-has-a-2-million-contract-for-spyware-that-can-hack-phones-without-a-click

1 month ago

86 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: Reactor Atlas

https://reactoratlas.com

1 month ago

79 upvotes – 26 comments
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