top 50% hacker news stories for today

Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/elon-musk-alex-gibney-documentary-1236686790/

53 minutes ago

Congress Is Trying (Again) to Ban Boycotting Israel

https://reason.com/2026/09/03/congress-is-trying-again-to-ban-boycotting-israel/

35 minutes ago

Interactive Tree of Life

https://ptree.org/

57 minutes ago

Green Card wait for most Indian immigrants is now 179 years

https://nypost.com/2026/09/03/us-news/green-card-wait-for-most-indian-immigrants-is-now-179-years-after-trump-imposed-tough-limits/

1 hour ago

.name Termination

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

10 hours ago

GPT-6 Astra

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

6 hours ago

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Audacity 4.0

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

14 hours ago

★ 18k C++

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

https://anyhumanever.com/

10 hours ago

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

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

7 hours ago

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Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

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

18 hours ago

ChatGPT outage – Resolved

https://chatgpt.com/

10 hours ago

1 change

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

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

10 hours ago

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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

13 hours ago

4 changes

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

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

14 hours ago

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

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

10 hours ago

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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/

11 hours ago

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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

7 hours ago

5 changes

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/

11 hours ago

1 change

Claude outage – Resolved

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

12 hours ago

1 change

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/

11 hours ago

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

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

1 day ago

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VC isn't VC anymore

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

9 hours ago

1 change

Sony makes bold claim about game ownership

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

9 hours ago

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

https://arcprize.org/blog/astra

5 hours ago

Grok outage

https://status.x.ai/

10 hours ago

1 change

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

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

9 hours ago

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

18 hours ago

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Gloria Steinem has died

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

15 hours ago

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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 day ago

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Codex outage

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

10 hours ago

★ 121.2k Rust Apache-2.02 changes

Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?

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

19 hours ago

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

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

7 hours ago

ChatGPT and Codex Is Down

https://chatgpt.com/codex/

10 hours ago

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

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

4 hours ago

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

8 hours ago

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

11 hours ago

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

16 hours ago

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

12 hours ago

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

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

6 hours ago

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/03/chatgpt-claude-and-grok-are-down/

10 hours ago

Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold from US citing 'geopolitical unrest'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/netherlands-gold-dutch-central-bank-uk-us-and-canada-geopolitical-unrest

21 hours ago

It's Like Having 150 Extra Engineers (1951)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_150_Extra_Engineers_1951.jpg

1 day ago

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Your Racist Linux Distro Is Very Nice (Scott Jennings)

https://www.brokentoys.org/your-racist-linux-distro-is-very-nice/

16 hours ago

Kakistocracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy

23 hours ago

Claude for Commerce Agents

https://claude.com/blog/claude-for-commerce-agents

15 hours ago

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