top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-09-04

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

https://collusion.wiki/

1 month ago

1 change
2298 upvotes – 1603 comments

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046

1 month ago

805 upvotes – 511 comments

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-theorem

1 month ago

1 change
772 upvotes – 512 comments

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-government-corruption-widespread.aspx

1 month ago

588 upvotes – 555 comments

Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year

http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

1 month ago

1 change
561 upvotes – 251 comments

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

https://www.statichost.eu/

1 month ago

1 change
505 upvotes – 245 comments

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead

1 month ago

1 change
483 upvotes – 264 comments

Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive

https://torrentfreak.com/adult-film-producer-unmasks-prolific-john-doe-torrent-pirate-as-meta-executive/

1 month ago

438 upvotes – 246 comments

Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge

https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html

1 month ago

1 change
438 upvotes – 99 comments

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/

1 month ago

422 upvotes – 241 comments

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

https://opentrailpaper.com

1 month ago

421 upvotes – 133 comments

Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

https://productrise.app/blog/google-ai-mode-prefers-more-expensive-products

1 month ago

403 upvotes – 76 comments

IBM Bob

https://bob.ibm.com/

1 month ago

337 upvotes – 339 comments

Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/technology/open-source-ai-anthropic-openai.html

1 month ago

2 changes
333 upvotes – 310 comments

GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra

1 month ago

320 upvotes – 234 comments

This Month in Ladybird – August 2026

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-08-31/

1 month ago

288 upvotes – 84 comments

Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/portal-by-spotify-cut-my-claude-code-token-usage-by-90

1 month ago

277 upvotes – 177 comments

Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-08-28-scientists-observe-einsteins-gravity-in-the-quantum-world

1 month ago

1 change
263 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs

https://github.com/gioblu/NPC-Forge/blob/main/docs/development.md

1 month ago

★ 228 Python AGPL-3.0
225 upvotes – 45 comments

Nobody is saying why OpenAI and Anthropic had outages

https://www.wired.com/story/nobody-is-saying-why-openai-and-anthropic-had-outages-today/

1 month ago

2 changes
207 upvotes – 4 comments
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