top 50% hacker news stories for today

Show HN: LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe

https://liveworld.info/

1 hour ago

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

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

16 hours ago

I don't like passkeys

https://hawksley.dev/blog/i-dont-like-passkeys

13 hours ago

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

https://try.cloudflare.com/

11 hours ago

OpenJev

https://openjev.com/

16 hours ago

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576

6 hours ago

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog

4 hours ago

A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos

https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai

23 hours ago

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US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

8 hours ago

Jemalloc 5.4.0

https://github.com/jemalloc/jemalloc/releases/tag/5.4.0

21 hours ago

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Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap

https://blog.liampwll.com/posts/bend_vibe_coding/

13 hours ago

Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/business/warren-buffett-berkshire-chairman.html

14 hours ago

The scourge of x86 emulation

https://fex-emu.com/Scourge-of-emulation/

21 hours ago

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Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/korea-raises-data-breach-fines-to-10-of-revenue/12869899

5 hours ago

ZCode, the GLM coding agent, silently uploads your Git history

https://tokenstead.ai/guides/zcode-silent-git-history-upload

15 hours ago

Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/

19 hours ago

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Saving another 100TB of RAM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/

6 hours ago

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I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture

https://overreacted.io/how-i-vibed-a-proof-of-conways-conjecture/

11 hours ago

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An empirical study of harness design for coding agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20804

12 hours ago

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Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-government-was-entitled-trumps-border-agents-can-now-search-cellphones-without-a-warrant-probable-cause-or-reasonable-suspicion-2nd-circuit-rules/

7 hours ago

Minimal Phone 2

https://minimalcompany.com/

23 hours ago

North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes

https://www.science.org/content/article/north-korean-nuclear-test-sets-years-earthquakes

11 hours ago

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There's no point at which turning your brain off will work

https://danluu.com/brain-off/

8 hours ago

Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek

https://linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/pre-greek/

22 hours ago

Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash

https://cactuscompute.com/needle

1 day ago

US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-troop-deaths-iran-war-exceed-pentagon-count-by-least-four-washington-post-2026-09-18/

3 hours ago

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/

8 hours ago

US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments

https://wolfstreet.com/2026/09/17/treasuries-have-become-badly-unappetizing-for-foreign-central-banks-governments/

10 hours ago

Waymo in Singapore

https://waymo.com/waymo-in-singapore/

22 hours ago

AI is an elite crime spree

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/ai-is-an-elite-crime-spree

10 hours ago

Second Circuit allows government to search electronic devices at the border

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/second-circuit-allows-government-to-search-electronic-devices-at-the-border-without-any-suspicion

11 hours ago

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Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-27_1-release-notes

7 hours ago

1 change

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy (2021)

https://archive.org/details/b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157

22 hours ago

2 changes

Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2589739-our-brain-evolved-from-two-primitive-nervous-systems-that-merged/

10 hours ago

5 changes

Shapelearn Qwen 3.8 27B (13.1 GB VRAM)

https://byteshape.com/blogs/Qwen3.8-27B/

23 hours ago

Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

https://www.netnod.se/blog/telstra-outage-night-network-decided-year-was-2006

1 day ago

AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-chatbots-are-becoming-experts-changing-people-s-minds-what-s-their-secret

12 hours ago

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Pentagon weighs pulling nearly a third of U.S. forces from Europe

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-weighs-pulling-nearly-third-us-forces-europe-rcna597722

23 hours ago

Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph Sandwich

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-build-long-awaited-graph-sandwich-20260918/

11 hours ago

1 change

Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03215

6 hours ago

1 change

Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country

https://sf.gazetteer.co/y-combinators-pac-is-throwing-money-at-a-bunch-of-republicans-across-the-country

4 hours ago

New wild cat species discovered – with only one known living member

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6x2zgv9rr4ro

18 hours ago

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