top 50% hacker news stories for today

U.S. military admits it has weapons in orbit

https://www.twz.com/space/u-s-admits-it-has-weapons-in-orbit

56 minutes ago

13 upvotes – 3 comments

Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/14/ex-ftc-boss-khan-urges-uncle-sam-to-break-out-the-handcuffs-for-ai-ceos-citing-1934-precedent/5296325

44 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

AI, Redistribution, and the Size of the Pie

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/ai-redistribution-and-the-size-of-the-pie.html

58 minutes ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Doing Everyone Else's Job

https://yosefk.com/blog/doing-everyone-elses-job.html

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 2 comments

Show HN: Hazzel – a tiny coding agent, Bring your own keys

https://github.com/mukundzha/hazzel

1 hour ago

★ 8 Python AGPL-3.0
5 upvotes – 0 comments

Prosecutors say man used AI to 'scrape' court website, asked it for legal help

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/christopher-duff-to-stand-trial-over-nsw-ai-court-data-breach/107135032

51 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

US military reveals it has weapons in space

https://www.ft.com/content/09d62f21-8697-4518-bca0-3699b4dd866c

18 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Steam Frame starts at $1059

https://store.steampowered.com/hardware/steamframe

7 hours ago

487 upvotes – 361 comments

XCancel service is suspended until further notice

https://xcancel.com/#

15 hours ago

1 change
443 upvotes – 757 comments

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/

1 day ago

376 upvotes – 126 comments

OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability

https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/

12 hours ago

2 changes
368 upvotes – 315 comments

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/major-updates-for-apples-software-platforms-are-now-available/

7 hours ago

1 change
363 upvotes – 407 comments

How to write an effective software design document

https://refactoringenglish.com/excerpts/write-an-effective-design-doc/

12 hours ago

1 change
301 upvotes – 130 comments

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

https://fortune.com/2026/09/08/nike-stock-plummets-sp500-market-cap-index/

22 hours ago

1 change
295 upvotes – 406 comments

Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion

8 hours ago

279 upvotes – 298 comments

XCancel suspended "due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings"

https://xcancel.com/twitter

13 hours ago

271 upvotes – 1 comments

Dario, Please

https://pop.rdi.sh/dario-please/

10 hours ago

266 upvotes – 139 comments

The case against JPEG XL

https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/

1 day ago

257 upvotes – 343 comments

Distributed Systems Classics (2017)

https://nvartolomei.com/dist-sys-classics/

9 hours ago

1 change
231 upvotes – 52 comments

Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/14/siri-can-be-swapped-out-for-chatgpt-claude/

13 hours ago

219 upvotes – 155 comments

EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe

https://www.eurobirdportal.org/ebp/en/

16 hours ago

217 upvotes – 63 comments

A 386 PC for Your RP2350

https://github.com/rh1tech/frank-386

16 hours ago

★ 164 C
204 upvotes – 79 comments

Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/14/microsoft-patches-windows-and-excel-breaks-audio-remote-access-and-paste/5296085

9 hours ago

202 upvotes – 123 comments

Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/26-1444/26-1444-2026-08-04.html

4 hours ago

1 change
167 upvotes – 168 comments

A Beginning for Mathematics

https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/9/13/a-beginning-for-mathematics/

9 hours ago

166 upvotes – 96 comments

Principles for Fast Tokio Applications

https://dial9-rs.github.io/blog/principles-for-fast-tokio-applications/

9 hours ago

160 upvotes – 41 comments

New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore

https://spectrum.ieee.org/h-1b-visa-us-government

11 hours ago

1 change
157 upvotes – 337 comments

Open-source AI and open models reading list

https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list

1 day ago

1 change
152 upvotes – 29 comments

Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/texas-judge-rules-tiktok-misled-users-child-safety-feature-2026-09-11/

12 hours ago

151 upvotes – 85 comments

Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts

https://www.techtimes.co.uk/oracle-new-layoffs-restructuring-costs-2-8-billion-1808676

6 hours ago

1 change
149 upvotes – 140 comments

How my e-reader lost its stripes

https://www.serpentine.com/posts/2026/x3-stripes/

9 hours ago

149 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme

https://www.neobrutalism.dev/

9 hours ago

1 change
139 upvotes – 65 comments

OpenArch – PyTorch implementations of modern LLM architectures

https://github.com/anuj0456/OpenArch

17 hours ago

★ 240 Python MIT
132 upvotes – 31 comments

For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype

https://erkansaka.net/2026/09/10/ai-doom-rhetoric-safety-hype/

9 hours ago

124 upvotes – 170 comments

Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/14/big-ai-sets-out-its-terms-for-regulatory-capture-and-calls-it-pace-the-frontier/5296067

14 hours ago

116 upvotes – 67 comments

Claude is a Contrarian

https://medium.com/@rdsubhas/claude-is-a-contrarian-dbce4de5cada

9 hours ago

1 change
114 upvotes – 139 comments

Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama

https://patrickmccanna.net/notes-on-migrating-large-prompts-away-from-anthropic-openai-to-self-hosted-llms/

11 hours ago

113 upvotes – 63 comments

Cops Search Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' and 'Asdfg'

https://www.404media.co/cops-search-thousands-of-flock-cameras-for-reasons-of-lmao-idk-hehe-and-asdfg/

9 hours ago

110 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band

https://github.com/callbacked/kinesis

13 hours ago

★ 53 Swift 2 changes
108 upvotes – 34 comments

How Much Has Trump Made from Crypto? ($1.4B from 2025 Federal Disclosure)

https://www.thepricer.org/how-much-has-trump-made-from-crypto/

14 hours ago

107 upvotes – 81 comments

Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives

https://gally.net/temp/20260914pelican-alternatives/index.html

12 hours ago

1 change
107 upvotes – 41 comments

GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?

https://entelligence.ai/blogs/gpt-5.6-luna-vs-gpt-6-astra-is-a-1.20-model-good-enough-for-code-review

5 hours ago

104 upvotes – 109 comments

Why don't machine learning research agents overfit?

https://www.amazon.science/blog/why-dont-machine-learning-research-agents-overfit

8 hours ago

103 upvotes – 57 comments

OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others

https://calif.io/research/oempocalypse

22 hours ago

102 upvotes – 56 comments

Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rockstar-had-a-mole-in-the-union-worker-discord-server-for-over-two-and-a-half-years-gta-6-company-reveals-during-legal-battle

13 hours ago

96 upvotes – 43 comments

Adversarial Fashion Makes a Statement on AI Panopticon

https://spectrum.ieee.org/adversarial-fashion

11 hours ago

94 upvotes – 45 comments

People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination

https://dailyneuron.com/aphantasia-mental-imagery-brain-network/

12 hours ago

1 change
92 upvotes – 159 comments

A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals

https://www.effort.news/irregular

4 hours ago

1 change
90 upvotes – 33 comments

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07228

1 day ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?

https://gultsch.de/posts/how-do-we-gain-traction/

10 hours ago

85 upvotes – 125 comments

Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7%

https://blog.cloudflare.com/automatic-key-exchange-for-origins/

8 hours ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping

https://securityaffairs.com/197174/breaking-news/chess-com-leak-exposes-7-3-million-users-evidence-points-to-scraping.html

21 hours ago

84 upvotes – 23 comments

Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions

https://digiato.global/report/iran-banks-ssl-certificates-domain-changes/

7 hours ago

84 upvotes – 153 comments

Charts built for Chat

https://dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-built-for-chat/

4 hours ago

1 change
84 upvotes – 28 comments

Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-rust-coreutils-complete

11 hours ago

80 upvotes – 88 comments

Writing a better reality: The case for optimistic sci-fi (2022)

https://honisoit.com/2022/03/writing-a-better-reality-the-case-for-optimistic-sci-fi/

1 day ago

1 change
80 upvotes – 62 comments

Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation

https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-raises-usd550m-series-e-at-usd12-55b-valuation-ai

12 hours ago

74 upvotes – 56 comments

I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information

https://explorator.dev/addiction/

1 hour ago

72 upvotes – 48 comments

Who Aligns the Aligners?

https://prestonbyrne.com/2026/09/13/aligners/

14 hours ago

67 upvotes – 98 comments

Proposed Rule: Eliminating the Discretionary 60-Day Grace Period

https://www.regulations.gov/document/USCIS-2026-0364-0001/comment

4 hours ago

1 change
65 upvotes – 60 comments

Show HN: Nari Qwen3-TTS and Qwen3-ASR – High accuracy, low latency and cost

https://narilabs.com/blog/nari-labs-leads-coval-voice-ai-benchmarks/

9 hours ago

64 upvotes – 19 comments

'Offensively cheap': solar power is looking up

https://www.ft.com/content/8b704ae0-1fa2-4303-925f-170fa5d935b3

13 hours ago

64 upvotes – 60 comments

Things That Annoy Me About Cars

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/cars_suck.html

10 hours ago

64 upvotes – 89 comments

The AI job market in 2026

https://www.ilinmaks.com/blog/en/ai-jobs-market-2026

11 hours ago

63 upvotes – 68 comments

Show HN: Is It Greg?

https://github.com/antoineleclair/is-it-greg

23 hours ago

★ 6 JavaScript MIT
63 upvotes – 18 comments

US 10-Year Breaches 5% as Inflation, Supply Worries Mount

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-14/us-10-year-yield-breaches-5-as-inflation-supply-worries-mount

8 hours ago

57 upvotes – 38 comments

SDR–; open source SDR with a patchable signal graph, Rust DSP, web UI

https://github.com/Newspicel/sdrminusminus

12 hours ago

★ 61 Rust GPL-3.0
54 upvotes – 11 comments

China's Regulators Take Aim at "AI Boyfriends"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-ai-chatbot-regulation

9 hours ago

54 upvotes – 50 comments

Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter

https://hypebeast.com/2026/9/blizzard-open-world-starcraft-sci-fi-shooter-2030-release-info-teaser-revealed

8 hours ago

50 upvotes – 107 comments

When LLM judges agree, should we believe them?

https://www.amazon.science/blog/when-llm-judges-agree-should-we-believe-them

8 hours ago

50 upvotes – 38 comments

Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/anthropic-tells-investors-it-will-be-profitable-second-straight-quarter-ft-2026-09-13/

9 hours ago

49 upvotes – 92 comments

Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge

https://www.motor1.com/news/808114/vw-mission-efficiency-concept-specs-photos/

12 hours ago

48 upvotes – 115 comments

San Jose officer used Flock to help relative track domestic violence victim

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/san-jose-officer-flock-safety-cameras-22428239.php

6 hours ago

48 upvotes – 6 comments

Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704226

4 hours ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/14/largest-roman-mosaic-opens-to-the-public

12 hours ago

46 upvotes – 8 comments

Who gets to define the rules for AI?

https://cohere.com/blog/who-gets-to-define-the-rules-for-ai

20 hours ago

1 change
46 upvotes – 36 comments
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