top 50% hacker news stories for today

I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/im-sorry-youre-not-going-to-die-from

24 minutes ago

13 upvotes – 3 comments

Anthropic discloses fourth AI hacking incident missed in earlier review

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-reports-fourth-cybersecurity-incident-with-early-version-claude-2026-09-09/

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 1 comments

Navier–Stokes, AI and the future of research in mathematics [pdf]

https://bms.ulb.ac.be/data/uploads/untitled.pdf

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue

https://opusfived.dev/

15 hours ago

1 change
1006 upvotes – 394 comments

Shopify acquires Tailwind

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify

11 hours ago

1 change
884 upvotes – 350 comments

iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/

7 hours ago

868 upvotes – 1667 comments

I resigned from Anthropic today

https://twitter.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843#m

1 day ago

3 changes
678 upvotes – 964 comments

Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/flock-wants-a-closely-surveilled-world-with-no-exit

14 hours ago

548 upvotes – 525 comments

DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624603

14 hours ago

392 upvotes – 203 comments

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

https://desertant.com/blog/introducing-desert-ant-labs/

13 hours ago

389 upvotes – 92 comments

AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-active-noise-cancellation/

7 hours ago

1 change
369 upvotes – 303 comments

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/

13 hours ago

1 change
357 upvotes – 218 comments

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and

10 hours ago

1 change
345 upvotes – 121 comments

iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-unveils-iphone-duo/

7 hours ago

1 change
322 upvotes – 6 comments

Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117231186011306184

18 hours ago

300 upvotes – 296 comments

No Man's Sky Cosmos

https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/

9 hours ago

293 upvotes – 312 comments

Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

https://prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists/

9 hours ago

274 upvotes – 152 comments

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-debuts-iphone-18-pro-and-iphone-18-pro-max/

7 hours ago

1 change
271 upvotes – 284 comments

The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/8/on-navier-stokes/

19 hours ago

225 upvotes – 232 comments

“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/09/tweet-and-the-bird-logo-apparently-enter-the-public-domain-but-x-maintains-its-grip-on-the-twitter-mark-for-now-x-v-project-bluebird.htm

19 hours ago

1 change
217 upvotes – 124 comments

How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-ai-math-breakthrough-ignited-controversy

15 hours ago

213 upvotes – 227 comments

Apple Watch Series 12

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-12-with-the-all-new-health-sensing-system/

7 hours ago

209 upvotes – 244 comments

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe

8 hours ago

1 change
205 upvotes – 387 comments

Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence'

https://www.404media.co/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-put-on-leave-of-absence/

3 hours ago

1 change
173 upvotes – 93 comments

What will our economic future look like?

https://www.anthropic.com/institute/econ-scenarios

11 hours ago

173 upvotes – 330 comments

GNU Radio in the browser

https://gnuradioworld.com/

9 hours ago

1 change
168 upvotes – 23 comments

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

https://gist.github.com/wsxiaoys/e0286dc6bb624ff5fdf49e7f4c528ba3

8 hours ago

168 upvotes – 69 comments

Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent

https://www.engadget.com/2254419/muse-the-band-lost-its-social-media-handles-to-muse-meta-s-new-ai-agent/

1 hour ago

166 upvotes – 4 comments

Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs

https://about.readthedocs.com/blog/2026/09/2026-ddos-attack/

9 hours ago

1 change
155 upvotes – 52 comments

Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch

https://buttondown.com/blog/lotus-notes-email

15 hours ago

155 upvotes – 114 comments

How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments

https://openai.com/index/codex-quantum-computing-experiments/

18 hours ago

144 upvotes – 105 comments

Planet Labs' open satellite feed

https://tech.marksblogg.com/planet-labs-open-satellite-feed.html

9 hours ago

1 change
143 upvotes – 26 comments

Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance

https://current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/harvard-study-predicts-most-suicide-attempts-week-advance

23 hours ago

122 upvotes – 78 comments

Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/lawsuit-amazon-refused-to-give-pregnant-workers-bathroom-breaks-and-chairs/

4 hours ago

120 upvotes – 48 comments

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

https://gpu-lexer.vercel.app/

1 day ago

117 upvotes – 33 comments

South Park creators rename show 'South America'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9340rg7k8o

3 hours ago

112 upvotes – 25 comments

On Really Trying (2009)

https://gwern.net/on-really-trying

18 hours ago

1 change
99 upvotes – 60 comments

A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)

https://note.com/masakazu_urabe/n/n7815f5b64fab?hl=en

20 hours ago

97 upvotes – 20 comments

Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35514

10 hours ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 138 comments

AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic

https://twitter.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843

23 hours ago

88 upvotes – 22 comments

Apple Watch Ultra 4

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-unveils-apple-watch-ultra-4/

7 hours ago

1 change
82 upvotes – 121 comments

Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety

https://www.politico.eu/article/anthropic-openai-researcher-jacob-coxon-warns-ai-could-kill-humans/

16 hours ago

81 upvotes – 100 comments

Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-workers-win-historic-union-contract-that-could-set-a-new-standard-for-game-developers

3 hours ago

78 upvotes – 6 comments

Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch

https://mbugert.de/posts/2026-09-09-bedroom-lamp-build/

15 hours ago

78 upvotes – 32 comments

We accidentally built a synthetic cell factory

https://bnext.bio/post/we-accidentally-built-a-synthetic-cell-factory

9 hours ago

1 change
75 upvotes – 6 comments

US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-ban-canadian-dairy-alcohol-motor-vehicle-imports-september-29-2026-09-08/

1 day ago

70 upvotes – 45 comments

AI Has a Discovery Problem

https://mhacevedo.com/posts/the-discovery-problem

20 hours ago

68 upvotes – 34 comments

One woman's Tesla was remotely controlled by an abusive ex-partner

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/09/how-one-womans-tesla-was-remotely-controlled-and-harass-by-her-abusive-ex-partner-ntwnfb

12 hours ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

I haven't lost a customer service fight in seven months

https://www.sudomoin.com/p/consumer-claims

9 hours ago

1 change
65 upvotes – 51 comments

YC created Flock 10 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627080

11 hours ago

62 upvotes – 15 comments

Microsoft/TracerAI withdraws copyright takedown against Luanti

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/09/08/dmca-rescinded/

10 hours ago

62 upvotes – 10 comments

Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626431

11 hours ago

61 upvotes – 87 comments

Is OpenAI Taking Everyone for Fools?

https://read.misalignedmag.com/is-openai-taking-everyone-for-fools-2481fa851544

8 hours ago

61 upvotes – 40 comments

Apple Watch Ultra 4

https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-ultra-4/

7 hours ago

60 upvotes – 4 comments

Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis"

https://jeffs.blog/p/defining-ai-psychosis-part-2-prolific

9 hours ago

60 upvotes – 43 comments

Playing whack-a-mole is losing

https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/whack-a-mole-is-losing/

11 hours ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

I'm going back to coding by hand

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622554

18 hours ago

56 upvotes – 42 comments
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