top 50% hacker news stories for today

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

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

2 hours ago

34 upvotes – 10 comments

Ponytail: Lazy Senior Engineer Skill

https://ponytail.dev/

1 hour ago

30 upvotes – 19 comments

MathKernel: An evidence-aware multi-engine mathematics kernel and MCP server

https://github.com/Staatsgeheim/MathKernel

2 hours ago

★ 8 Python MIT
12 upvotes – 0 comments

Americans Without Degrees Are Having One of the Best Job Markets in Years

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/americans-without-college-degrees-are-having-one-of-the-best-job-markets-in-years-5f37d00e

1 hour ago

11 upvotes – 4 comments

ROCm 10.0: A Decade of Open Compute, Built for the Age of Agentic AI

https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/ecosystems-and-partners/rocm-x-blog/README.html

2 hours ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post

https://gettogether.dev

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

AI Is Already Making Us Less Human

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/open-ai-consciousness-morality/688535/

2 hours ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets

https://gizmodo.com/aardman-is-selling-its-original-movie-puppets-this-month-2000807968

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

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

14 hours ago

1212 upvotes – 263 comments

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

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

1 day ago

606 upvotes – 302 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

19 hours ago

563 upvotes – 180 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/

15 hours ago

3 changes
558 upvotes – 367 comments

A/I shuts down

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

12 hours ago

1 change
534 upvotes – 425 comments

Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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

9 hours ago

★ 14.2k Nim AGPL-3.04 changes
502 upvotes – 260 comments

Doomscrolling ourselves to death

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

15 hours ago

1 change
374 upvotes – 280 comments

Asahi Linux on M3

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

12 hours ago

3 changes
369 upvotes – 213 comments

An Alien Mind

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

10 hours ago

350 upvotes – 299 comments

Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

9 hours ago

★ 14.2k Nim AGPL-3.0
265 upvotes – 1 comments

GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

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

1 day ago

231 upvotes – 182 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/

17 hours ago

221 upvotes – 167 comments

GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard

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

6 hours ago

214 upvotes – 144 comments

It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis

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

6 hours ago

161 upvotes – 96 comments

How I feel about AI

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

12 hours ago

1 change
151 upvotes – 246 comments

I changed my license

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

16 hours ago

1 change
148 upvotes – 167 comments

AI, Tools and Transformation

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

1 day ago

147 upvotes – 65 comments

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

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

11 hours ago

125 upvotes – 79 comments

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

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

3 hours ago

117 upvotes – 47 comments

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

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

11 hours ago

114 upvotes – 10 comments

AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded

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

1 day ago

113 upvotes – 22 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

22 hours ago

112 upvotes – 53 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/

7 hours ago

99 upvotes – 110 comments

Site Is Closed on Sundays

https://v7.robweychert.com/

20 hours ago

99 upvotes – 123 comments

Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one

https://kepter.app/finder

7 hours ago

96 upvotes – 129 comments

'Old Person Smell'

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

15 hours ago

90 upvotes – 50 comments

Research carried out using NetBSD

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

10 hours ago

81 upvotes – 19 comments

2026 Hugo Awards

https://www.thehugoawards.org/

14 hours ago

77 upvotes – 41 comments

Play GTA Vice City in the Browser

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

19 hours ago

1 change
75 upvotes – 34 comments

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

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

4 hours ago

1 change
74 upvotes – 48 comments

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

https://github.com/marsbos/mador

6 hours ago

★ 63 JavaScript MIT
73 upvotes – 22 comments

Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Recreating-Minecraft-is-Not-a-Benchmark

12 hours ago

71 upvotes – 68 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

4 hours ago

70 upvotes – 31 comments

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

https://github.com/scastiel/kado

12 hours ago

★ 134 Swift MIT
69 upvotes – 32 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/

5 hours ago

65 upvotes – 45 comments

Don't Use a gmail.com Address

https://crookedtimber.org/2026/09/03/dont-use-a-gmail-com-address/

15 hours ago

65 upvotes – 46 comments

Alberta (Canada) slaps punitive tax on solar panels

https://albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/ucp-slaps-punitive-tax-on-solar-panels-opening-new-front-in-its-war-on-renewable-energy/

11 hours ago

63 upvotes – 72 comments

I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering

https://shukla.io/quantum-oracle-engineering/

14 hours ago

62 upvotes – 22 comments
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