top 20 hacker news stories for today

OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/technology/openai-model-safety-guardrails.html

43 minutes ago

24 upvotes – 8 comments

Paramount 'Leaks' Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/16/paramount-funds-leaks-dodgy-study-saying-california-will-suffer-if-its-merger-is-blocked/

1 hour ago

12 upvotes – 2 comments

OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/openai-testing-safety-incidents-disclosure

1 hour ago

11 upvotes – 1 comments

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind

https://gcaptain.com/the-return-of-sail-power-cargo-ships-are-turning-back-to-the-wind/

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 0 comments

What's Scarier Than Agents Taking over Internet? CEO Cartel Trying Take over AI

https://fractalsofchange.substack.com/p/q-whats-scarier-than-a-swarm-of-ai

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

Michael Burry slams OpenAI, Anthropic for 'self-serving' calls to slow AI

https://nypost.com/2026/09/14/business/big-short-trader-michael-burry-slams-openai-anthropic-for-self-serving-calls-to-slow-ai/

14 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Unplug America

https://engageq.notion.site/unplug-full

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwyzrr9d3dko

15 hours ago

647 upvotes – 828 comments

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-mozilla/

17 hours ago

537 upvotes – 186 comments

Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography

https://security.apple.com/blog/apple-reference-image/

23 hours ago

499 upvotes – 331 comments

Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/

12 hours ago

2 changes
467 upvotes – 217 comments

Small programming tricks

https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/

9 hours ago

1 change
399 upvotes – 181 comments

Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl

6 hours ago

397 upvotes – 84 comments

The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

https://gultsch.social/@daniel/117280438824908947

14 hours ago

341 upvotes – 330 comments

PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

https://frvr.com/blog/news/ps5-linux-lead-quits-as-open-source-projects-have-become-a-bunch-of-noobs-using-llms-that-they-dont-even-understand/

11 hours ago

304 upvotes – 211 comments

Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/introducing-cuda-rust-two-tracks-for-writing-gpu-kernels/

14 hours ago

272 upvotes – 106 comments

Salesforce Global Outage

https://status.salesforce.com/products/all

15 hours ago

264 upvotes – 167 comments

Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/26-year-old-sony-ps2-security-chip-broken-wide-open-after-four-years-of-effort-reverse-engineering-enthusiast-successfully-unlocks-cxp102064-mechacon-chip

13 hours ago

262 upvotes – 76 comments

Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/rl/

5 hours ago

2 changes
254 upvotes – 64 comments

Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2026/09/16/on-learning-programming-in-an-age-of-llms/

16 hours ago

232 upvotes – 175 comments
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