top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-09-07

LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-smart-TVs-caught-logging-audio-with-screen-off-and-snooping-on-local-devices.1391214.0.html

1 month ago

1 change
1201 upvotes – 4 comments

Keep Our Servers Running

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/01/keep-our-servers-running-your-recurring-donation-goes-3x-this-september/

1 month ago

1 change
1056 upvotes – 283 comments

216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

1 month ago

1 change
939 upvotes – 1015 comments

De-Brainrot Vacations

https://devz.cl/posts/i-spent-my-vacations-de-brainrotting/

1 month ago

517 upvotes – 210 comments

Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)

https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-movie-maker

1 month ago

1 change
436 upvotes – 295 comments

bzip3

https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3

1 month ago

★ 1.5k C LGPL-3.0
430 upvotes – 124 comments

Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

https://itsfoss.com/news/switzerland-replace-microssoft-pilot/

1 month ago

371 upvotes – 290 comments

Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

https://lax-skyline.parcelscope.net/

1 month ago

342 upvotes – 183 comments

'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes

https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/nathan-fielder-surprise-film-telluride-elizabeth-holmes-1236853513/

1 month ago

322 upvotes – 298 comments

TALA Is Open-Source

https://d2lang.com/blog/tala-is-open-source/

1 month ago

316 upvotes – 24 comments

Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/07/smartphone-makers-dont-bother-to-comply-with-eu-repairability-requirements/5294532

1 month ago

310 upvotes – 203 comments

Stockfish 19

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/stockfish-19/

1 month ago

277 upvotes – 167 comments

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

https://mathathonchallenge.com/index.html

1 month ago

270 upvotes – 105 comments

Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/09/leaving-vmware-just-got-harder-after-broadcom-pulled-vddk-downloads/

1 month ago

1 change
269 upvotes – 158 comments

I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years

https://www.tinybird.co/blog/what-i-learned-operating-clickhouse

1 month ago

244 upvotes – 89 comments

Splash-free urinals (2025)

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/4/pgaf087/8098745?login=false

1 month ago

1 change
229 upvotes – 132 comments

Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/xteink-e-reader-best-technology-years/688539/

1 month ago

1 change
219 upvotes – 217 comments

The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades

https://hackaday.com/2026/09/07/the-helicopter-with-radioactive-blades/

1 month ago

203 upvotes – 62 comments

Live map of public transport in Belgium

https://openbaarvervoerbelgie.be/

1 month ago

198 upvotes – 79 comments

Programming is Art

https://orchidfiles.com/programming-is-art/

1 month ago

192 upvotes – 206 comments
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