top 50% 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

Emacs Bedrock 2.0

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-09-06-bedrock-v2/

1 month ago

1 change
191 upvotes – 57 comments

TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings

https://cordcuttersnews.com/tivo-plans-to-end-free-automatic-commercial-skipping-in-november-tests-paid-premium-replacement-service/

1 month ago

180 upvotes – 112 comments

Show HN: Stuxnet – A reconstructed source code of the infamous cyber-weapon

https://github.com/Sadpainy/Stuxnet

1 month ago

★ 484 C AGPL-3.0
178 upvotes – 51 comments

A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on

https://electrek.co/2026/09/07/tesla-driver-assist-stop-sign-buena-vista/

1 month ago

169 upvotes – 123 comments

Inverse Kinematics and Foot Locking

https://theorangeduck.com/page/inverse-kinematics-foot-locking

1 month ago

144 upvotes – 16 comments

Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-08-23-speculative-decoding-amd-gpus

1 month ago

144 upvotes – 54 comments

No constitutional right to clean water, federal court finds

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/09/07/court-constitution-right-clean-water/91649488007/

1 month ago

135 upvotes – 171 comments

Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses

https://electrek.co/2026/09/01/tesla-solar-roof-exit-installers-losses/

1 month ago

135 upvotes – 131 comments

Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600233

1 month ago

129 upvotes – 148 comments

Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596976

1 month ago

115 upvotes – 61 comments

It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/mark-zuckerberg-resign-meta

1 month ago

109 upvotes – 148 comments

Bing Wallpaper showing Ad for Harry Potter and Fantastic beasts box set

https://www.thurrott.com/forums/microsoft/windows/thread/bing-wallpaper-showing-ad-for-harry-potter-and-fantastic-beasts-box-set

1 month ago

109 upvotes – 73 comments

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

https://gettogether.dev

1 month ago

107 upvotes – 59 comments

Recursion into madness

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/recursion-into-madness

1 month ago

1 change
105 upvotes – 31 comments

VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/09/vmware-migration-reduces-tottenham-hotspurs-licensing-fees-by-85-percent/

1 month ago

104 upvotes – 45 comments

AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200

https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/benchmarking-7-autonomous-businesses

1 month ago

101 upvotes – 119 comments

Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/09/04/the-jobs-apocalypse-is-postponed-an-ai-jobs-boom-is-here

1 month ago

2 changes
101 upvotes – 153 comments

Version control second coming

https://psantosl.github.io/posts/version-control-second-coming/

1 month ago

1 change
101 upvotes – 79 comments

If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one

https://electrek.co/2026/09/07/tesla-cybercab-fleet-profitable-wouldnt-sell/

1 month ago

99 upvotes – 82 comments

I refused to train the AI that could replace me

https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-training-jobs-expert-replacement/

1 month ago

98 upvotes – 114 comments

C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)

https://queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212477.3212479

1 month ago

96 upvotes – 99 comments

US refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran 'because it isn't a war'

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/06/pentagon-refused-payout-soldiers-died-in-iran-war/

1 month ago

95 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Engrim – A universal, local-first SQLite memory engine for AI CLIs

https://github.com/timgordontg/engrim

1 month ago

★ 248 Python MIT
93 upvotes – 65 comments

Impedance Matching (2017)

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27238

1 month ago

1 change
86 upvotes – 27 comments

Open-source 3D anatomy explorer: 2,234 selectable BodyParts3D meshes

https://github.com/ashemag/human-atlas

1 month ago

★ 3.3k TypeScript MIT
86 upvotes – 29 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 month ago

85 upvotes – 21 comments

Macbeth and His Problems

https://porticoquarterly.com/essay/macbeth-and-his-problems/

1 month ago

80 upvotes – 32 comments

AI Cold Showers

https://allan.reyes.sh/posts/ai-cold-showers/

1 month ago

77 upvotes – 12 comments

PostgreSQL 19 Interactive Tour

https://victoriametrics.com/blog/postgres-19/index.html

1 month ago

74 upvotes – 23 comments

Working on Economics with Fable 5

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/08/03/working-on-economics-with-fable-5/

1 month ago

74 upvotes – 90 comments
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