top 50% hacker news stories for today

Githack: A Persistent Object Store for Lisp Based on Git

http://funcall.blogspot.com/2026/09/githack-persistent-object-store-for.html

48 minutes ago

28 upvotes – 1 comments

September 2026 Emacs meetup recap [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RatVp4YLwiM

47 minutes ago

18 upvotes – 1 comments

Anthropic AI 'formalizes' proof of Fermat's last theorem in just 11 days

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02822-9

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

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

18 hours ago

1 change
1100 upvotes – 3 comments

Keep Our Servers Running

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

21 hours ago

1 change
951 upvotes – 245 comments

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

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

1 day ago

1 change
493 upvotes – 718 comments

De-Brainrot Vacations

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

12 hours ago

463 upvotes – 188 comments

bzip3

https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3

11 hours ago

★ 1.4k C LGPL-3.0
378 upvotes – 106 comments

Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)

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

10 hours ago

1 change
346 upvotes – 234 comments

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

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

19 hours ago

336 upvotes – 262 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/

15 hours ago

301 upvotes – 255 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

13 hours ago

270 upvotes – 168 comments

Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics

https://mathathonchallenge.com/index.html

16 hours ago

226 upvotes – 81 comments

Splash-free urinals (2025)

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

12 hours ago

1 change
218 upvotes – 119 comments

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

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

6 hours ago

213 upvotes – 98 comments

Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader

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

14 hours ago

1 change
193 upvotes – 195 comments

Live map of public transport in Belgium

https://openbaarvervoerbelgie.be/

16 hours ago

186 upvotes – 77 comments

Programming is Art

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

17 hours ago

183 upvotes – 185 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/

20 hours ago

168 upvotes – 97 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/

5 hours ago

136 upvotes – 82 comments

Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs

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

16 hours ago

130 upvotes – 46 comments

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

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

8 hours ago

120 upvotes – 133 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/

7 hours ago

119 upvotes – 153 comments

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

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

6 hours ago

113 upvotes – 117 comments

Apparently CodePen 2.0 sends data to their servers as you type

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

14 hours ago

108 upvotes – 56 comments

It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta

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

17 hours ago

103 upvotes – 130 comments

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

https://gettogether.dev

23 hours ago

102 upvotes – 54 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

9 hours ago

100 upvotes – 68 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/

14 hours ago

98 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

7 hours ago

97 upvotes – 114 comments

I refused to train the AI that could replace me

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

20 hours ago

93 upvotes – 107 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/

10 hours ago

91 upvotes – 78 comments

C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)

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

9 hours ago

89 upvotes – 88 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/

4 hours ago

1 change
85 upvotes – 39 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/

14 hours ago

85 upvotes – 41 comments

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

https://github.com/timgordontg/engrim

20 hours ago

★ 180 Python MIT
81 upvotes – 50 comments

Impedance Matching (2017)

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

15 hours ago

1 change
77 upvotes – 22 comments

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

https://github.com/Sadpainy/Stuxnet

3 hours ago

★ 25 C AGPL-3.0
75 upvotes – 19 comments

AI Cold Showers

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

6 hours ago

72 upvotes – 11 comments

PostgreSQL 19 Interactive Tour

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

8 hours ago

70 upvotes – 20 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

14 hours ago

2 changes
67 upvotes – 104 comments

TALA Is Open-Source

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

1 hour ago

60 upvotes – 6 comments
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