top 50% 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

39 minutes ago

21 upvotes – 7 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 – 1 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

7 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

56 minutes ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

Unplug America

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

59 minutes 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 – 827 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

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

https://rohanbansal.com/qorl

6 hours ago

394 upvotes – 84 comments

Small programming tricks

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

9 hours ago

1 change
393 upvotes – 181 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

267 upvotes – 101 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
250 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

Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

https://claude.com/blog/cowork-is-now-claude

9 hours ago

203 upvotes – 206 comments

A warning about 'model welfare'

https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-about-model-welfare

11 hours ago

198 upvotes – 532 comments

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858

11 hours ago

1 change
180 upvotes – 49 comments

Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/06/Vectorized%20and%20performance%20portable%20Quicksort.html

7 hours ago

2 changes
162 upvotes – 27 comments

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model

https://enclave.ai/blog/deepseek-v41-flash-is-now-our-best-hacking-model

13 hours ago

158 upvotes – 66 comments

Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields

https://www.reuters.com/live/live-fed-rate-hike-expected-inflation-worries-push-up-bond-yields-2026-09-16/

6 hours ago

153 upvotes – 182 comments

OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents

https://openai.com/index/reimagining-advertising-with-ai/

11 hours ago

1 change
151 upvotes – 169 comments

ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market

https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/emergency-room-visits-gambling-disorders-nearly-doubled-after-expanded-online-gambling-market

8 hours ago

151 upvotes – 135 comments

Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16338

4 hours ago

143 upvotes – 16 comments

The DeepMind Institute

https://institute.deepmind.com/

11 hours ago

140 upvotes – 43 comments

Can we stop with the uptime percentages?

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/stop-with-the-uptime-percentage/

10 hours ago

1 change
131 upvotes – 100 comments

Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/canda-eu-membership-australia-us-trade-b3050227.html

2 hours ago

129 upvotes – 79 comments

Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New

https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/11/negativland-culture-jamming-and-the-art-of-making-something-new/

22 hours ago

116 upvotes – 39 comments

macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-the-ars-technica-review/

5 hours ago

1 change
101 upvotes – 117 comments

Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training

https://blog.cloudflare.com/accountable-mixed-use-ai-crawlers/

23 hours ago

1 change
84 upvotes – 51 comments

Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy

https://techwontsave.us/episode/342_tech_fascism_has_come_for_american_democracy_w_gil_duran

15 hours ago

82 upvotes – 40 comments

EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-16/eu-proposes-canada-become-the-bloc-s-first-associate-member

17 hours ago

81 upvotes – 170 comments

How good are frontier models at physics?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13009

6 hours ago

80 upvotes – 40 comments

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model

https://github.com/vinnylarouge/jevlike

6 hours ago

★ 232 Python MIT
76 upvotes – 10 comments

Backups Aren't Simple

https://filipovski.net/2026/09/16/backups-arent-simple.html

5 hours ago

75 upvotes – 33 comments

This Code Is CRAP (2011)

https://testing.googleblog.com/2011/02/this-code-is-crap.html

9 hours ago

2 changes
74 upvotes – 53 comments

Anatomy of a Texture

https://agentlien.github.io/texture/

11 hours ago

1 change
73 upvotes – 14 comments

GitHub is having trouble counting things

https://chuckgreenman.com/2026/09/16/counting-at-github

8 hours ago

1 change
73 upvotes – 51 comments

I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior."

https://dayzlegame.com/blog/google-ads-normal-user-behavior/

9 hours ago

73 upvotes – 12 comments

Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models

https://stale.jock.pl/

12 hours ago

70 upvotes – 44 comments

A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX

https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-software-thing-i-built-gps-on-a-25mhz-486-sx.1258966/

19 hours ago

69 upvotes – 23 comments

Scaling Golang CI by Replacing actions/setup-go

https://www.cloudx.ai/posts/setup-go

12 hours ago

68 upvotes – 22 comments

A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs

https://www.businessinsider.com/coffee-shop-owner-ai-menu-backlash-2026-9

6 hours ago

64 upvotes – 242 comments

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework

https://openspec.dev/

2 hours ago

61 upvotes – 17 comments

Accurate Models of AMD Matrix Cores

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14845

6 hours ago

60 upvotes – 7 comments

Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ads

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/devastated-father-says-his-9-year-old-son-spent-usd118-000-on-youtube-ad-campaigns-for-his-minecraft-channel-using-a-company-credit-card-bill-racked-up-in-just-three-weeks-was-supposed-to-be-one-usd20-promotion

14 hours ago

57 upvotes – 72 comments

Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world

https://github.com/rapiddweller/datamimic

20 hours ago

★ 108 Python MIT
56 upvotes – 8 comments
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