top 50% hacker news stories for today

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

https://github.com/arnegiacomo/fugleramme

12 hours ago

★ 1.4k Python MIT2 changes
1283 upvotes – 179 comments

I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea

https://notnottalmud.substack.com/p/why-i-cant-stop-thinking-about-papua

18 hours ago

1017 upvotes – 426 comments

25 years of mass surveillance is enough

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/09/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough.html

13 hours ago

1 change
793 upvotes – 286 comments

Introducing System One Models and Jev

https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev

5 hours ago

1 change
722 upvotes – 243 comments

US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck790xg41ygro

21 hours ago

439 upvotes – 309 comments

Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ly49w9g1edo

14 hours ago

428 upvotes – 392 comments

An Update on Wayback Machine Access

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/an-update-on-wayback-machine-access/

7 hours ago

371 upvotes – 206 comments

Linux from Scratch

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

20 hours ago

355 upvotes – 109 comments

Java 27

https://mail.openjdk.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/ORGGLMN75HFEWP7YL3ZLGHLYHVIBJDYT/

11 hours ago

1 change
316 upvotes – 282 comments

Let's make quality the norm again

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/short-life/

15 hours ago

301 upvotes – 308 comments

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking/

7 hours ago

286 upvotes – 186 comments

Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

https://withcapsule.app/

11 hours ago

279 upvotes – 118 comments

America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america%27s-drivers-licence-breach-is-a-national-security-disaster

9 hours ago

261 upvotes – 157 comments

Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary

https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/israeli-minister-threatens-filmmakers-citizenship-over-gaza-documentary/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX09XQ1ZNQzQ0NjcxMC1WSURFTw

10 hours ago

255 upvotes – 66 comments

CSS-Tricks in Limbo

https://vale.rocks/micros/20260915-0135

17 hours ago

245 upvotes – 102 comments

Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

https://rmoff.net/2026/01/14/alternatives-to-minio-for-single-node-local-s3/

16 hours ago

237 upvotes – 96 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

1 day ago

220 upvotes – 134 comments

There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet

https://www.404media.co/theres-a-100-chance-ai-agents-are-already-ruining-the-internet/

8 hours ago

209 upvotes – 148 comments

We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes

https://www.strix.ai/blog/baseten-harbor-github-pat-takeover

7 hours ago

209 upvotes – 111 comments

Show HN: Hacking a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device

https://bkovac.github.io/modem-thing/

11 hours ago

173 upvotes – 31 comments

Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality

https://dallincrump.com/dystopian-surveillance-is-becoming-a-reality

7 hours ago

168 upvotes – 91 comments

Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bond-selloff-drives-us-benchmark-beyond-5-stocks-rattled-2026-09-15/

11 hours ago

154 upvotes – 160 comments

Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

https://codyho.dev/blog/gpu-driver/

5 hours ago

148 upvotes – 86 comments

25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough [Auth: Cindy Cohn; Bruce Schneier]

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/25-years-of-mass-surveillance-is-enough

13 hours ago

144 upvotes – 7 comments

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes

https://dank.systems/posts/2026-09-15-ai-bear.html

7 hours ago

1 change
134 upvotes – 98 comments

Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it

https://thenextweb.com/news/hugging-face-delangue-openai-100m-compute-traces-demand

7 hours ago

131 upvotes – 42 comments

How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?

https://tintotint.eu/whacky-corner/f-droid_slop/

15 hours ago

125 upvotes – 167 comments

German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

https://rheinmetall.github.io/onboardapi-documentation/9.10.0/index.html

4 hours ago

125 upvotes – 39 comments

The CSS Zen Garden dream, finally shipped

https://josprague.com/blog/the-css-zen-garden-dream-finally-shipped/

10 hours ago

1 change
125 upvotes – 67 comments

OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/14/openai-buys-smartphone-camera-maker-glass-imaging-for-300-million-report-says/

13 hours ago

123 upvotes – 95 comments

Swift 6.4 Released

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.4-released/

9 hours ago

121 upvotes – 54 comments

A Cop Searched 19,000 Flock Cameras Across 1,558 Cities. His Reason: 'LMAO'

https://www.techtimes.co.uk/police-flock-search-licence-plate-lmao-1808683

10 hours ago

117 upvotes – 72 comments

Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wgqken/australia_on_the_same_page_as_canada_as_it_seeks/

11 hours ago

115 upvotes – 97 comments

Chopping up books when they're physically too big

https://attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com/20260915/cut-up-your-books.html

6 hours ago

2 changes
115 upvotes – 113 comments

Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit

https://www.reddit.com/r/reinforcementlearning/comments/1wg1unx/google_copied_our_opensource_code_removed_our/

7 hours ago

108 upvotes – 11 comments

GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=178948744271633&w=2

8 hours ago

106 upvotes – 59 comments

The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026

https://spectrum.ieee.org/inference-hardware-revolution

10 hours ago

105 upvotes – 9 comments

WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages

https://github.com/GraafHenk/numberwang

5 hours ago

★ 35 Python
102 upvotes – 41 comments

The k-server conjecture is true

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15979

17 hours ago

99 upvotes – 35 comments

Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design

https://www.formas.ai/cartesian

9 hours ago

88 upvotes – 74 comments

How much oil-market buffer is left?

https://www.depletion.org

5 hours ago

87 upvotes – 143 comments

Jean-Pierre Serre is 100 years old today

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Serre/

4 hours ago

85 upvotes – 13 comments

AI is breaking our proxies for expertise

https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-is-breaking-our-proxies-for-expertise/

11 hours ago

83 upvotes – 73 comments

Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-executives-say-the-great-fuel-crisis-is-here-b6b32030

21 hours ago

69 upvotes – 109 comments

Israeli Effective Altruism Firm Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Cyberattacks

https://twitter.com/brianchau57/status/2099580981271318606

23 hours ago

63 upvotes – 13 comments

Our chance to take down the Epstein class

https://thomasmassie.org/members-of-congress-that-currently-support-epstein/

9 hours ago

61 upvotes – 5 comments

Over 12% of links posted to Hacker News are Show HN projects now

https://www.orangecrumbs.com/stories/show-hn

12 hours ago

61 upvotes – 13 comments
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