top 50% hacker news stories for today

Goose: 1.16x faster than C++ and 1.12x than safe Rust, while memory safe

https://github.com/aardappel/goose/tree/master

49 minutes ago

★ 21 C++ Apache-2.0
14 upvotes – 4 comments

GrapheneOS accuses Google of gatekeeping Android 17 features and security fixes

https://www.androidauthority.com/grapheneos-android-17-qpr1-security-patches-comments-3712218/

1 hour ago

11 upvotes – 1 comments

Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-new-unredacted-filings-reveal/

1 hour ago

10 upvotes – 2 comments

Claude Code from Source

https://claude-code-from-source.com/

40 minutes ago

9 upvotes – 1 comments

Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep

https://github.com/asciimoo/hister

9 hours ago

★ 4.3k Go AGPL-3.01 change
461 upvotes – 135 comments

How GLM built its own inference infrastructure

https://z.ai/blog/glm-built-its-inference-infrastructure

17 hours ago

1 change
376 upvotes – 263 comments

One year of sponsored Servo development

https://servo.org/blog/2026/09/15/one-year-of-sponsorship/

17 hours ago

1 change
342 upvotes – 141 comments

CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

https://events.ccc.de/en/2026/09/12/40c3-model-citizens/

17 hours ago

337 upvotes – 179 comments

Astra for Law

https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law/

5 hours ago

314 upvotes – 343 comments

Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/17/iran-school-bombing-un-mission-us-military-behind-attack

14 hours ago

310 upvotes – 276 comments

Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738879

15 hours ago

300 upvotes – 241 comments

Everybody's Lost Their Minds

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/everybodys-lost-their-minds.html

6 hours ago

288 upvotes – 240 comments

Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU

https://bend-lang.com/

5 hours ago

2 changes
282 upvotes – 147 comments

Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

https://ryan.science/blog/keys-not-included

22 hours ago

279 upvotes – 146 comments

AI safety is mostly a sex cult

https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22q

17 hours ago

1 change
276 upvotes – 225 comments

Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwly7vkke4jxo

12 hours ago

269 upvotes – 334 comments

Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint

https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27b

4 hours ago

220 upvotes – 70 comments

Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/why-i-didnt-sign-the-fields-medallists-letter/

17 hours ago

1 change
207 upvotes – 306 comments

I Don't Like LLMs

https://martinfowler.com/articles/2026-dont-like-llms.html

11 hours ago

205 upvotes – 243 comments

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill

https://github.com/cloudflare/security-audit-skill

21 hours ago

★ 10.7k JavaScript MIT
193 upvotes – 36 comments

The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/21/the-american-religion-of-self-storage-facilities

12 hours ago

1 change
192 upvotes – 336 comments

Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others

https://mysetup.ai/

12 hours ago

185 upvotes – 97 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 day ago

178 upvotes – 125 comments

Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse

https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse/

4 hours ago

164 upvotes – 157 comments

Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/rate-limit-change-2026/

10 hours ago

152 upvotes – 106 comments

Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties (2001)

https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/09/17/1758231/stallman-thousands-dead-millions-deprived-of-liberties

8 hours ago

136 upvotes – 58 comments

CrowdSec Source Code Leak

https://www.crowdsec.net/blog/crowdsec-statement-source-code-exposure

10 hours ago

129 upvotes – 37 comments

DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression

https://zartbot.github.io/blog/model_arch/dsv41flash_arch/en.html

1 day ago

127 upvotes – 10 comments

I hate you Microsoft

https://henriquenunez.eu/posts/you_did_it_again_ms/

4 hours ago

1 change
124 upvotes – 61 comments

Whoisinspace.com/

https://whoisinspace.com

9 hours ago

124 upvotes – 74 comments

More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmzezj5e18xxo

5 hours ago

117 upvotes – 112 comments

Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/09/16/artificial-intelligence-now-beats-some-of-the-best-human-forecasters

10 hours ago

112 upvotes – 95 comments

Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.18842

8 hours ago

109 upvotes – 31 comments

Our framework for reporting model misalignment

https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework/

18 hours ago

1 change
102 upvotes – 92 comments

Towards Self-Driving Codebases

https://blog.detail.dev/posts/towards-self-driving-codebases/

8 hours ago

98 upvotes – 81 comments

OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints

https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/self-generated-prompt-injections-in-compaction-summaries/

20 hours ago

96 upvotes – 27 comments

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

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

1 day ago

96 upvotes – 92 comments

Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742976

9 hours ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 99 comments

Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app

https://flat.social

12 hours ago

93 upvotes – 52 comments

Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/05/monsanto200805

23 hours ago

90 upvotes – 34 comments

LLM Classification Is Feature Engineering

https://minimallysufficient.com/posts/llm-classification-is-feature-extraction/

10 hours ago

90 upvotes – 19 comments

Vinix – A modern operating system written in V

https://vinix-os.org/

10 hours ago

87 upvotes – 60 comments

I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9

https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-ner

12 hours ago

87 upvotes – 43 comments

Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space

https://github.com/browser-use/jev-ultrafast

22 hours ago

★ 2.2k Python MIT
86 upvotes – 12 comments

Better Vector Search for Long Documents: Chunking Inside Manticore Search

https://manticoresearch.com/blog/auto-chunking/

15 hours ago

74 upvotes – 11 comments

Don't Just Say Hello

https://nohello.net/en/

6 hours ago

67 upvotes – 47 comments

South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/09/14/south-africa-is-at-risk-of-becoming-a-mafia-state

21 hours ago

63 upvotes – 29 comments

The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning

https://www.madshrimps.be/news/the-painful-truth-the-ram-crisis-is-only-just-the-beginning/

21 hours ago

62 upvotes – 65 comments

Economic policy for AGI

https://institute.deepmind.com/essays/economic-policy-for-agi/

8 hours ago

1 change
59 upvotes – 66 comments

Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python

https://flet.dev/

5 hours ago

59 upvotes – 29 comments

How to Write with an LLM

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/

4 hours ago

58 upvotes – 54 comments

T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/science/trex-dinosaur-temperature-warm-blooded.html

8 hours ago

1 change
56 upvotes – 100 comments

Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c60m3k28j81mo

1 day ago

53 upvotes – 34 comments
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