top 20 hacker news stories for today

Sergey Brin pours more than $100M into fighting California's billionaire tax

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-08-12/googles-sergey-brin-spent-102-million-fighting-california-wealth-tax

1 hour ago

19 upvotes – 10 comments

Apple wants to train AI on your private personal data

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-third-generation-of-apple-foundation-models

24 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 6 comments

Iran's Internet Blackout Is Almost Impossible to Escape

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-iran-internet/

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 1 comments

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links

22 hours ago

1 change
632 upvotes – 489 comments

Fuck it, make it anyway

https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/09/make-it-anyway/

13 hours ago

544 upvotes – 543 comments

We must pace the frontier

https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier

11 hours ago

1 change
540 upvotes – 760 comments

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nvidia-is-the-central-bank-of-ai

10 hours ago

1 change
391 upvotes – 266 comments

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/

9 hours ago

1 change
325 upvotes – 75 comments

Navier-Stokes Announcement

https://www.claymath.org/news/navier-stokes-announcement/

21 hours ago

1 change
317 upvotes – 256 comments

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights

https://jacob.gold/posts/open-letter-to-dario-amodei-about-open-weights/

6 hours ago

271 upvotes – 91 comments

Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

https://eiln.github.io/posts/ane.html

17 hours ago

223 upvotes – 31 comments

Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard

https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/117201594980991062

6 hours ago

187 upvotes – 60 comments

Pandas Should Go Extinct

https://eddie.codes/posts/pandas-should-go-extinct/

22 hours ago

186 upvotes – 95 comments

LG Says We're Fake News [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToP9xfLDSME

5 hours ago

157 upvotes – 68 comments

Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies

https://www.gadgetreview.com/starlinks-signal-leakage-is-threatening-radio-astronomys-most-critical-frequencies

1 day ago

139 upvotes – 83 comments

How to buy a good car for $1000

https://abio.substack.com/p/how-poor-people-buy-cars

23 hours ago

1 change
135 upvotes – 194 comments

Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)

https://www.minitap.ai/blog/i-expected-better-from-google

22 hours ago

135 upvotes – 26 comments

Usenet rewind archive search engine

https://www.usenet-rewind.com/

21 hours ago

124 upvotes – 37 comments

We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm932el3yjo

14 hours ago

122 upvotes – 34 comments

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-12/juveniles-riding-in-waymo-arrested-after-police-find-ghost-gun

11 hours ago

116 upvotes – 187 comments
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