top 50% hacker news stories for today

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

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

1 hour ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

DHH: Programming, AI, Vibe Coding and Linux (Lex Fridman Podcast)

https://lexfridman.com/dhh-2-transcript/

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

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

1 day ago

★ 53 Nim
622 upvotes – 300 comments

The Real Luxuries In Life

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

7 hours ago

1 change
439 upvotes – 209 comments

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

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

17 hours ago

365 upvotes – 319 comments

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

4 hours ago

356 upvotes – 185 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

15 hours ago

1 change
347 upvotes – 253 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/

8 hours ago

342 upvotes – 179 comments

Git hosting that never leaves Europe

https://pushin.eu

18 hours ago

319 upvotes – 152 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

12 hours ago

303 upvotes – 349 comments

How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

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

10 hours ago

1 change
284 upvotes – 91 comments

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

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

11 hours ago

277 upvotes – 85 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/

9 hours ago

262 upvotes – 125 comments

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

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

19 hours ago

191 upvotes – 297 comments

Learn Programming with OCaml

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

8 hours ago

172 upvotes – 73 comments

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344

5 hours ago

168 upvotes – 151 comments

.gitignore Everything by Default

https://packagemain.tech/p/gitignore-everything-by-default

12 hours ago

156 upvotes – 155 comments

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v4-2

1 day ago

147 upvotes – 62 comments

How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/how-tobacco-industry-drove-rise-ultra-processed-foods

9 hours ago

1 change
131 upvotes – 102 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/

11 hours ago

131 upvotes – 18 comments

Terpstra Keyboard

http://terpstrakeyboard.com/

14 hours ago

113 upvotes – 54 comments

Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/pentagon-releases-then-quickly-removes-testosterone-screening-policy/

12 hours ago

109 upvotes – 98 comments

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

https://zachkehs.com/blog/theres_no_limit_to_how_bad_code_can_get/

11 hours ago

98 upvotes – 78 comments

Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/meet-the-2026-ig-nobel-prize-winners/

11 hours ago

1 change
97 upvotes – 31 comments

Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss1DUqLjecc

5 hours ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

The revolt of the reader

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

3 hours ago

84 upvotes – 21 comments

South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones

https://www.wsj.com/business/diamond-mines-are-closing-and-south-africans-have-few-alternatives-fa3b8cbf

4 hours ago

79 upvotes – 61 comments

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/spartan-and-the-mime/

13 hours ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost

https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/gpt-6-astra-code-review-evaluation

21 hours ago

70 upvotes – 68 comments

Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/claudes-new-system-prompt/

14 hours ago

67 upvotes – 88 comments

Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/finite-time-blowup-for-an-averaged-three-dimensional-navier-stokes-equation/

5 hours ago

1 change
56 upvotes – 21 comments

Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade of parody games

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/tetris-issues-legal-warning-after-white-house-releases-arcade-full-of-parody-games-3405931/

22 hours ago

52 upvotes – 7 comments

America's two largest school districts impose AI moratoriums

https://www.techpolicy.press/americas-two-largest-school-districts-impose-ai-moratoriums/

3 hours ago

1 change
52 upvotes – 55 comments

The moral panic over data centres is foolish

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/03/the-moral-panic-over-data-centres-is-foolish

6 hours ago

51 upvotes – 162 comments

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/lanfalsehoods.html

3 hours ago

51 upvotes – 50 comments
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