top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-09-06

QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

https://beige.party/@intransitivelie/117057396732763183

1 month ago

1355 upvotes – 293 comments

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/commit/1428b4c2b4246f92a7e5b2673438e5fb39fcc4a3

1 month ago

★ 14.4k Nim AGPL-3.04 changes
927 upvotes – 410 comments

Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/your-intellectual-fly-is-open/

1 month ago

3 changes
729 upvotes – 433 comments

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post

1 month ago

653 upvotes – 321 comments

A/I shuts down

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/

1 month ago

1 change
642 upvotes – 565 comments

Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

https://isaraerospace.com/press/history-for-european-spaceflight-isar-aerospace-reaches-orbit-and-deploys-payloads-on-second-flight

1 month ago

618 upvotes – 204 comments

Asahi Linux on M3

https://asahilinux.org/2026/09/m2-episode-1/

1 month ago

3 changes
563 upvotes – 378 comments

An Alien Mind

https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/

1 month ago

491 upvotes – 470 comments

Doomscrolling ourselves to death

https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/doomscrolling-ourselves-to-death

1 month ago

1 change
429 upvotes – 338 comments

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117225539756835649

1 month ago

415 upvotes – 264 comments

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2026/anubis-wasm/

1 month ago

362 upvotes – 200 comments

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

https://austinhenley.com/blog/python1024.html

1 month ago

323 upvotes – 112 comments

Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49589914

1 month ago

320 upvotes – 297 comments

Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

1 month ago

★ 14.4k Nim AGPL-3.0
271 upvotes – 1 comments

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/

1 month ago

242 upvotes – 190 comments

You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/drinking-water-mississippi-lawsuit/

1 month ago

237 upvotes – 179 comments

Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds

https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/icy-moons-are-ocean-worlds

1 month ago

221 upvotes – 49 comments

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai

1 month ago

212 upvotes – 195 comments

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk

1 month ago

211 upvotes – 97 comments

Coyote v. Acme (1990)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1990/02/26/coyote-v-acme

1 month ago

1 change
197 upvotes – 103 comments
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