top 50% hacker news stories for today

Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r6y4me2g6o

39 minutes ago

36 upvotes – 29 comments

YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning

https://map-yue2.github.io/

48 minutes ago

13 upvotes – 1 comments

I turned off my algorithm for 24 hours. Is this how social media used to be?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/sep/11/i-turned-off-my-instagram-algorithm-opt-out-social-media-reforms-australia

53 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

AI Agent Builder gives memory across voice, SMS, email, web chat and social

https://boldagents.co

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2097930608790167907

19 hours ago

1 change
940 upvotes – 519 comments

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native

11 hours ago

1 change
764 upvotes – 512 comments

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

https://mathstodon.xyz/@andreasthom/117240535270608201

18 hours ago

3 changes
655 upvotes – 624 comments

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

https://rustfoundation.org/media/guest-post-rust-is-tier-1-language-at-microsoft/

11 hours ago

1 change
597 upvotes – 340 comments

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

https://rivendell.dmitrybrant.com/relativity/

23 hours ago

1 change
567 upvotes – 257 comments

Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643556

11 hours ago

427 upvotes – 175 comments

I have a theory that software drives people insane

https://graybeard.ing/software-drives-people-insane/

9 hours ago

1 change
407 upvotes – 167 comments

The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

https://honestlyranked.com/guides/streaming-price-increases/

15 hours ago

1 change
366 upvotes – 368 comments

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Sony_PlayStation_digital_game_ownership_lawsuit

13 hours ago

365 upvotes – 122 comments

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2

9 hours ago

1 change
350 upvotes – 142 comments

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683

16 hours ago

339 upvotes – 165 comments

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/hands-off-my-cables/

9 hours ago

1 change
313 upvotes – 245 comments

OpenAI might have stolen another major proof

https://twitter.com/ValerioCapraro/status/2097791836269977996

21 hours ago

290 upvotes – 10 comments

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Manipulating_Satellite_Photos_Now_Reveals_Ancient_Images

9 hours ago

5 changes
267 upvotes – 42 comments

Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ckaz32jwl6t2cno6fmuw2nhn/post/3mv4mt4ikss2d

12 hours ago

256 upvotes – 15 comments

All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117244102901892965

21 hours ago

1 change
254 upvotes – 212 comments

Neki – Sharded Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki

9 hours ago

1 change
198 upvotes – 107 comments

I think I hate the internet

https://strategictree.bearblog.dev/i-think-i-hate-the-internet/

19 hours ago

172 upvotes – 168 comments

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html

8 hours ago

157 upvotes – 77 comments

Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening

https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/smartwatches/thanks-to-siri-recaps-your-apple-watch-is-always-listening-as-you-go-about-your-day-but-apple-may-be-risking-a-meta-glasses-style-backlash

14 hours ago

155 upvotes – 135 comments

Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/how-big-tech-and-silicon-valley-are-transforming-military-industrial-complex

9 hours ago

2 changes
151 upvotes – 297 comments

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/release-notes-published/16.0.4.md

9 hours ago

★ 5.4k Go
150 upvotes – 55 comments

OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/09/09/formal-method-revolution/

3 hours ago

1 change
136 upvotes – 132 comments

Creativity is the new moat

https://www.inventbuild.studio/blog/genuine-creativity-is-your-new-moat

6 hours ago

2 changes
134 upvotes – 73 comments

OpenAI Agents API

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview

5 hours ago

124 upvotes – 78 comments

Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998

https://hugovergnes.github.io/little-lm-3-8b/

23 hours ago

1 change
110 upvotes – 18 comments

Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale

https://neki.dev/

9 hours ago

1 change
100 upvotes – 4 comments

OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out

https://mastodon.social/@tristanbuckmaster/117237555794407063

20 hours ago

96 upvotes – 45 comments

Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B

https://investors.bendingspoons.com/newsroom/bending-spoons-agrees-to-acquire-miro

11 hours ago

94 upvotes – 75 comments

A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2026/08/05/a-stupid-idea-for-ai-alignment-we-came-up-with-by-looking-at-the-list-of-specification-gaming-behaviours/

23 hours ago

92 upvotes – 62 comments

Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT

https://www.marketingdive.com/news/amazon-pilots-ad-services-in-chatgpt-what-marketers-need-to-know/829945/

11 hours ago

88 upvotes – 86 comments

PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in

https://twitter.com/hideo_kojima_en/status/2097877506401681753

14 hours ago

83 upvotes – 65 comments

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026

7 hours ago

1 change
83 upvotes – 148 comments

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

1 day ago

82 upvotes – 118 comments

The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

https://auberon.xyz/blog/posts/deathray/

5 hours ago

78 upvotes – 49 comments

Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn't use their work

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993263/where-does-openai-get-mathematics-training-data

14 hours ago

75 upvotes – 85 comments

JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation

https://openjdk.org/jeps/544

7 hours ago

74 upvotes – 24 comments

Who People Talk to When They're Struggling

https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/who-do-you-talk-to-when-youre-struggling

12 hours ago

67 upvotes – 77 comments

Anthropic says it blocked possible efforts to build biological weapons

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/us/politics/anthropic-ai-biological-weapons.html

8 hours ago

2 changes
65 upvotes – 1 comments

Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography

https://merybenavente.me/blog/proof-of-capture

5 hours ago

64 upvotes – 48 comments

Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-vpn-beta/

1 day ago

63 upvotes – 2 comments

AI Is Breaking This Thing We Call Trust

https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/09/10/ai-is-breaking-this-thing-we-call-trust/

11 hours ago

60 upvotes – 12 comments

Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1

https://tokenstead.ai/models/swe-2

8 hours ago

57 upvotes – 25 comments

AI 2027 (2025)

https://ai-2027.com

10 hours ago

1 change
54 upvotes – 63 comments

Bodily Oddities

https://vester.si/bodily-oddities/

4 hours ago

52 upvotes – 50 comments
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