top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-09-05

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-andoya-spaceport-spectrum-rocket

1 month ago

750 upvotes – 436 comments

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances

1 month ago

★ 72 Nim
732 upvotes – 403 comments

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html

1 month ago

620 upvotes – 118 comments

The revolt of the reader

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/

1 month ago

609 upvotes – 299 comments

We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

https://lanparty.house/

1 month ago

1 change
589 upvotes – 366 comments

The Real Luxuries In Life

https://feld.com/archives/2026/09/the-real-luxuries-in-life/

1 month ago

1 change
527 upvotes – 244 comments

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems

1 month ago

418 upvotes – 349 comments

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344

1 month ago

394 upvotes – 256 comments

Netherlands pulls gold out of the US

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-04/why-the-netherlands-moved-its-gold-from-us-and-canada/107111990

1 month ago

1 change
381 upvotes – 270 comments

Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop

https://reason.com/2026/09/02/wisconsin-cops-used-flock-over-100-times-to-track-a-navy-veteran-after-he-lawfully-recorded-a-traffic-stop/

1 month ago

380 upvotes – 209 comments

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/

1 month ago

379 upvotes – 114 comments

Git hosting that never leaves Europe

https://pushin.eu

1 month ago

375 upvotes – 172 comments

Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/global-warming-will-exceed-1-5-degree-limit-un-says-in-report-that-maps-path-back-below-danger-zone

1 month ago

340 upvotes – 393 comments

How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

https://www.propublica.org/podcast/forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-3m-secret-kris-hansen

1 month ago

1 change
328 upvotes – 104 comments

Learn Programming with OCaml

https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/lpo/

1 month ago

317 upvotes – 139 comments

Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-09-04-us-wikimedia-foundation-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-form-union-with-cwa/

1 month ago

300 upvotes – 174 comments

Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577129

1 month ago

299 upvotes – 166 comments

Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24888

1 month ago

1 change
241 upvotes – 59 comments

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/

1 month ago

214 upvotes – 52 comments

Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgyn8q8gqxo

1 month ago

196 upvotes – 327 comments
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