top 50% 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

25 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

Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases

https://withspecific.com/benchmarks/real-swe

5 hours ago

111 upvotes – 60 comments

The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle

https://tedium.co/2026/09/11/ilands-agents-email-spam-kaixin-tang/

14 hours ago

2 changes
104 upvotes – 49 comments

LG responds to TV spying allegations

https://www.theverge.com/tech/994333/lg-responds-to-tv-spying-allegations

9 hours ago

1 change
102 upvotes – 1 comments

Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Europes-Less-Is-Doing-More-Than-Anyone-Gives-It-Credit-For.html

11 hours ago

96 upvotes – 46 comments

I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times

https://lalitm.com/post/buildprof/

10 hours ago

92 upvotes – 17 comments

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-microcode-reverse-engineering-fscale.html

9 hours ago

89 upvotes – 25 comments

Will There Be a 7G?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01877

8 hours ago

84 upvotes – 139 comments

A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framework/index.html

11 hours ago

83 upvotes – 17 comments

A few good ideas in programming languages

https://prydt.xyz/blog/a-few-good-ideas-in-pl/

12 hours ago

1 change
81 upvotes – 53 comments

I refuse to let SPICE die

https://github.com/nefarius/vd_agent/

11 hours ago

★ 17 C++ GPL-2.0
77 upvotes – 63 comments

OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/openais-sam-altman-says-it-would-be-ill-advised-to-go-public-in-2026/

5 hours ago

73 upvotes – 56 comments

LLMs are real, AI is fake

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/

11 hours ago

69 upvotes – 33 comments

Bernie's AI bill proposes to sentence AI developers to 20 years in prison

https://twitter.com/venturetwins/status/2098456905526211026

1 day ago

64 upvotes – 69 comments

Naomi Klein: Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. Turns you into a supremacist

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/sep/12/naomi-klein-extreme-wealth-has-a-deranging-effect-it-turns-you-into-a-supremacist

14 hours ago

57 upvotes – 13 comments

Resistance Training Prescription for Muscle Function, Hypertrophy in Health

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12965823/

16 hours ago

56 upvotes – 32 comments

Financial Times' 404 Page not Found

https://www.ft.com/article/404

4 hours ago

55 upvotes – 7 comments

Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance?

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/08/nx-s1-5955618/is-it-time-for-a-luddite-renaissance

10 hours ago

54 upvotes – 40 comments

How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/11/how-trail-of-bits-helps-verify-the-integrity-of-your-signal-chats/

14 hours ago

53 upvotes – 31 comments

My last six months at Evernote

https://alexkras.com/my-last-six-months-at-evernote-after-bending-spoons-took-over/

11 hours ago

51 upvotes – 30 comments

Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672966

10 hours ago

51 upvotes – 91 comments

Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14dpgm0rg4o

8 hours ago

50 upvotes – 105 comments
show: top 10top 20top 50%
go to date: prev
sort by: datescorecomments