top 50% 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

How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/nearly-impossible-how-fairphone-built-the-ethical-repairable-fairphone-gen-6/

1 month ago

1 change
203 upvotes – 258 comments

US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/military-disables-phone-ad-trackers

1 month ago

200 upvotes – 104 comments

Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

1 month ago

1 change
193 upvotes – 135 comments

The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite

https://blog.master.dev/react-now-rusted-all-the-way-out/

1 month ago

179 upvotes – 56 comments

deSEC – Free Secure DNS

https://desec.io/

1 month ago

165 upvotes – 66 comments

“Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs

https://gmcgoldr.github.io/2026/09/04/llm-next-token-predictors.html

1 month ago

2 changes
163 upvotes – 319 comments

Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Minerals Deal

https://prospect.org/2026/08/21/pentagon-minerals-deal-department-defense-cerberus-capital-alan-waldenberg-stephen-feinberg/

1 month ago

160 upvotes – 81 comments

Decoding the NEC V20 Microcode

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/09/decoding-nec-v20-microcode.html

1 month ago

150 upvotes – 10 comments

Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4

https://github.com/anthropics/fermats-last-theorem

1 month ago

★ 1k Lean Apache-2.0
146 upvotes – 31 comments

Can guitar frets perform multiplication?

https://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2026/09/Can-Guitar-Frets-Perform-Multiplication.html

1 month ago

140 upvotes – 38 comments

John Margolies' photographs of roadside America

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-margolies-photographs-of-roadside-america/

1 month ago

1 change
135 upvotes – 44 comments

An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy

https://quad9.net/

1 month ago

135 upvotes – 39 comments

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight (2025)

https://gwern.net/xanadu

1 month ago

1 change
126 upvotes – 43 comments

Ok, but does it scale?

https://spacetimedb.com/blog/how-does-spacetime-scale

1 month ago

1 change
126 upvotes – 73 comments

Show HN: Jigsaw Haiku

https://jigsawhaiku.com/

1 month ago

2 changes
118 upvotes – 34 comments

Government Rails Site Hit Hours After CVE Patch

https://rietta.com/blog/ruby-on-rails-cve-exploited-hours-after-patch/

1 month ago

117 upvotes – 38 comments

Show HN: Interactive Tree of Life

https://ptree.org/

1 month ago

2 changes
115 upvotes – 26 comments

'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres

http://www.ft.com/content/8252d574-ae2a-4403-9cf9-031295ba67f5

1 month ago

107 upvotes – 199 comments

The NX bit is not just about security

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/guest/the-nx-bit-is-not-just-about-security/

1 month ago

106 upvotes – 49 comments

Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1118373109

1 month ago

103 upvotes – 55 comments

O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

1 month ago

101 upvotes – 111 comments

Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools

https://www.agentconnect.md/blog/grep-beat-lsp-harness/

1 month ago

97 upvotes – 69 comments

A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ckdu-kidney-disease-immigration/

1 month ago

1 change
96 upvotes – 91 comments

OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-german-website-previously-undisclosed-ai-breakout-this-2026-09-04/

1 month ago

95 upvotes – 2 comments

Whistle Synth Mac App

https://www.jefftk.com/p/whistle-synth-mac-app

1 month ago

1 change
90 upvotes – 20 comments

US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average

https://apnews.com/article/gas-diesel-prices-us-iran-war-ebd01b9773365ee40550dcfd7d3ebf87

1 month ago

89 upvotes – 79 comments

Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids

https://carbonawarepricing.com/

1 month ago

88 upvotes – 87 comments

Searching for the best silicone USB cable

https://www.frankchiarulli.com/blog/best-silicone-usb-cable/

1 month ago

1 change
87 upvotes – 58 comments

Finding a bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra

https://kallus.org/blog/dummit_and_foote.html

1 month ago

83 upvotes – 37 comments

Amazon Achieves Enshitification Inception

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/cheating-at-fraud/#absentee-rentier

1 month ago

79 upvotes – 14 comments

Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/project-hydrafusion-frontier-quality-via-multi-model-orchestration/

1 month ago

79 upvotes – 35 comments

End-to-end infrastructure for training and inferencing open weight models

https://docs.appliedcompute.com

1 month ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

What is nueralese and why is it bad

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RCYF2rW8wgusidZk7/what-is-neuralese-and-why-is-it-bad

1 month ago

1 change
77 upvotes – 59 comments

Georgi Gerganov on llama.cpp/ggml future after Nvidia acquisition of HuggingFace

https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/2095897173376618881

1 month ago

76 upvotes – 28 comments

1Password Replied to My Disappointment

https://nicolalosito.it/2026/09/03/1password-replied-to-my-disappointment/

1 month ago

72 upvotes – 128 comments
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