top 50% 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

The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/science/92-year-old-mathematician-apprentice.html

1 month ago

188 upvotes – 17 comments

Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please

https://blog.hofstede.it/bespoke-a-programming-language-for-people-who-say-please/

1 month ago

1 change
177 upvotes – 43 comments

How I feel about AI

https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/ai_feelings.html

1 month ago

1 change
165 upvotes – 266 comments

AI, Tools and Transformation

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/9/3/ai-tools-and-transformation

1 month ago

160 upvotes – 77 comments

I changed my license

https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/eupl/

1 month ago

1 change
153 upvotes – 199 comments

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and

1 month ago

151 upvotes – 16 comments

Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one

https://kepter.app/finder

1 month ago

137 upvotes – 221 comments

Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory?

https://mbmccoy.dev/posts/mathematical-conservatory/

1 month ago

134 upvotes – 141 comments

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/amd-based-freebsd-desktop-reloaded/

1 month ago

129 upvotes – 29 comments

Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet

https://twitter.com/Liquid_BTC/status/2096696272447218108

1 month ago

1 change
125 upvotes – 87 comments

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540

1 month ago

121 upvotes – 46 comments

ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol

https://geo-tp.github.io/ESP32-Bit-Pirate/

1 month ago

120 upvotes – 44 comments

2026 Hugo Awards

https://www.thehugoawards.org/

1 month ago

117 upvotes – 71 comments

Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/vancouver-strip-club-instagram-taken-down-sign-calls-out-trump-12725993

1 month ago

116 upvotes – 54 comments

The Dataflow Model Revisited

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/volumes/19/paper/The%20Dataflow%20Model%20Revisited

1 month ago

1 change
114 upvotes – 22 comments

The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/the-car-industry-a-b-tested-selling-the-same-car-with-and-without-carplay-and-the-results-are-not-shocking/

1 month ago

111 upvotes – 124 comments

Ask HN: Would you read a statistics textbook?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583440

1 month ago

1 change
109 upvotes – 67 comments

Research carried out using NetBSD

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/research.html

1 month ago

104 upvotes – 29 comments

'Old Person Smell'

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/sep/03/old-person-smell

1 month ago

103 upvotes – 55 comments

Schemy Lisp En DOS

https://sled.neocities.org/

1 month ago

103 upvotes – 21 comments

Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple

https://github.com/marsbos/mador

1 month ago

★ 119 JavaScript MIT
101 upvotes – 35 comments

Site Is Closed on Sundays

https://v7.robweychert.com/

1 month ago

101 upvotes – 130 comments

Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the US statistical system

https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/political-meddling-census-bureau-damages-entire-us-statistical-system

1 month ago

95 upvotes – 48 comments

Windows 11's "special" developer edition looks like another marketing misfire

https://www.neowin.net/opinions/windows-11s-special-developer-edition-sounds-like-yet-another-marketing-misfire/

1 month ago

83 upvotes – 70 comments

Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS

https://github.com/scastiel/kado

1 month ago

★ 165 Swift MIT
79 upvotes – 34 comments

The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025)

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6067/The-Microeconomics-of-Artificial-Intelligence

1 month ago

1 change
78 upvotes – 47 comments

Play GTA Vice City in the Browser

https://quenq.com/apps/vice-city-online/

1 month ago

1 change
77 upvotes – 34 comments
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