top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-09-08

Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf

1 month ago

1 change
2050 upvotes – 829 comments

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

1 month ago

2 changes
1341 upvotes – 1137 comments

Mistral raises €3B

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/

1 month ago

1 change
850 upvotes – 603 comments

LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/

1 month ago

721 upvotes – 237 comments

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html

1 month ago

681 upvotes – 402 comments

Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

https://ai.meta.com/muse/

1 month ago

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658 upvotes – 739 comments

Jellyfin 12.0

https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-12.0/

1 month ago

623 upvotes – 355 comments

AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/alphagenome-atlas/

1 month ago

2 changes
605 upvotes – 133 comments

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

https://www.theverge.com/tech/991190/lg-tv-spying-standby-recording-wi-fi-scanning-gamers-nexus

1 month ago

588 upvotes – 359 comments

There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis

https://weirdgloop.org/blog/google-jail

1 month ago

574 upvotes – 237 comments

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd

1 month ago

★ 46k Python MIT1 change
540 upvotes – 372 comments

I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s

https://mcpherrin.ca/2026/09/07/rsa.html

1 month ago

512 upvotes – 129 comments

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117237320796901560

1 month ago

491 upvotes – 420 comments

How to build a printer

https://nishantjosh.dev/blogs/how-to-build-a-fking-printer/

1 month ago

1 change
456 upvotes – 107 comments

DaVinci Resolve 21.1

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20260908-03

1 month ago

438 upvotes – 215 comments

We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why-we-must-return-to-the-office-to-use-ai-in-person

1 month ago

400 upvotes – 68 comments

Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/08/paramount-caught-using-astroturf-group-to-drum-up-fake-support-for-merger/

1 month ago

387 upvotes – 128 comments

Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare

https://ciphercue.com/blog/european-cdn-concentration-cloudflare-nine-in-ten

1 month ago

387 upvotes – 386 comments

ChatGPT Images 2.5

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-5/

1 month ago

383 upvotes – 449 comments

DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits

https://www.404media.co/a-secretive-dhs-predictive-policing-unit-is-analyzing-americans-financial-habits-and-pulling-them-over/

1 month ago

366 upvotes – 334 comments

We have a year to fix security everywhere

https://jyn.dev/a-year-to-fix-security/

1 month ago

309 upvotes – 367 comments

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen38-27b-quantizations-benchmarked/

1 month ago

285 upvotes – 140 comments

Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs

https://github.com/argonautlabsai/deltafin

1 month ago

★ 92 Rust
277 upvotes – 155 comments

Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America

https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/2097364141237539116

1 month ago

263 upvotes – 178 comments

Getting your hands dirty is good for you

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260904-how-getting-your-hands-dirty-boosts-your-health-within-weeks

1 month ago

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255 upvotes – 214 comments

Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards

https://copperhead.sh/

1 month ago

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250 upvotes – 115 comments

The two Christian saints who are the Buddha

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/30/the-two-christian-saints-who-are-secretly-the-buddha/

1 month ago

250 upvotes – 206 comments

Mercury 2.5

https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2-5

1 month ago

247 upvotes – 54 comments

Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts

https://vale.rocks/posts/html-relics

1 month ago

245 upvotes – 89 comments

Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration

https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3Dpc7fqaOcAH

1 month ago

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200 upvotes – 116 comments

How well do agents use test/verification techniques?

https://danluu.com/agentic-testing/

1 month ago

191 upvotes – 72 comments

My Feed, My Way

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/my-feed-my-way

1 month ago

185 upvotes – 161 comments

Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization

https://ishamf.dev/p/llm-attention-visualizer/

1 month ago

176 upvotes – 32 comments

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/

1 month ago

166 upvotes – 60 comments

iPod Classic 6G in QEMU

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/s/VL4Au2HGxq

1 month ago

161 upvotes – 47 comments

Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead

https://gist.github.com/joshenders/c4960cec9c63a7b7d68ffa9543356c43

1 month ago

1 change
151 upvotes – 246 comments

A Topological Picture Book, Rendered

https://e-infinity.space/picture-book/

1 month ago

146 upvotes – 16 comments

FreeBSD 14.5-Release

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.5R/announce/

1 month ago

145 upvotes – 32 comments

Working with Git Worktrees in Magit

https://emacsredux.com/blog/2026/09/02/working-with-git-worktrees-in-magit/

1 month ago

145 upvotes – 53 comments

How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread

https://edconway.substack.com/p/the-little-holes-in-your-bread-are

1 month ago

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134 upvotes – 133 comments

PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD

https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2026/09/pisa-2025-students-reading-and-mathematics-performance-declined-sharply-across-the-oecd.html

1 month ago

131 upvotes – 165 comments

Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6x2z0yy32ejt

1 month ago

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126 upvotes – 127 comments

I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task

https://alvins82.github.io/hangar-harness-model-tests/

1 month ago

126 upvotes – 74 comments

Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

https://github.com/TauricResearch/TradingAgents

1 month ago

★ 106.5k Python Apache-2.0
120 upvotes – 81 comments

Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models

https://magic.dev/blog/pretraining#

1 month ago

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118 upvotes – 62 comments

To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree

https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/

1 month ago

115 upvotes – 34 comments

US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/08/us-law-enforcement-meta-smart-glasses

1 month ago

112 upvotes – 83 comments

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/09/03/python-sets-and-dictionaries-can-have-quadratic-time-performance/

1 month ago

112 upvotes – 64 comments

Disconnect your LG television from the internet, now

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/07/disconnect-your-lg-television-from-the-internet-now

1 month ago

112 upvotes – 2 comments

ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/09/05/zx-spectrum-experimenting-with-1-bit-sound/

1 month ago

108 upvotes – 37 comments

An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol

https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-spanning-tree

1 month ago

108 upvotes – 9 comments

GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea

https://leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:yhgc5rlqhoezrx6fbawajxlh/3muwrqenzfk2n

1 month ago

107 upvotes – 133 comments

Rivian's gambit for full autonomy

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rivian-self-driving

1 month ago

1 change
97 upvotes – 137 comments

Connecting the machines

https://herdr.dev/blog/connecting-the-machines/

1 month ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 35 comments
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