top 50% hacker news stories for today

ZCode: silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

https://news.routley.io/posts/inside-zcode-silently-uploading-your-git-history-to-the-cloud.html

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Jev, Prolog, Pi, and the dream of probabilistic logic programming

https://deepclause.substack.com/p/jev-prolog-pi-and-the-dream-of-probabilistic

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-now-knows-what-you-do-on-other-websites-via-ad-collector/

10 hours ago

607 upvotes – 320 comments

Qwen Image 2.1

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-2.1

12 hours ago

1 change
502 upvotes – 152 comments

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

https://pirateface.co/

10 hours ago

451 upvotes – 134 comments

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say

8 hours ago

353 upvotes – 226 comments

Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

https://truthout.org/articles/warren-introduces-bill-to-ban-private-equity-from-owning-medical-practices/

3 hours ago

259 upvotes – 164 comments

Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors

https://reclaimthenet.org/spain-blocks-archive-today-and-mirrors

19 hours ago

255 upvotes – 218 comments

AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

https://www.chesterwisniewski.com/post/2026-09-13-ai-is-destroying-the-creative-commons/

15 hours ago

223 upvotes – 268 comments

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

https://text.hrw.org/news/2026/09/17/us-revokes-limits-on-power-plants-climate-pollution

8 hours ago

213 upvotes – 226 comments

RSA-896

https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html

23 hours ago

211 upvotes – 86 comments

Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator

https://agentexecutor.io

3 hours ago

201 upvotes – 87 comments

Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

https://www.gadgetreview.com/singapore-is-paying-people-to-put-down-their-phones-and-read-books

10 hours ago

1 change
181 upvotes – 77 comments

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

https://toolguyd.com/sherline-tools-shutting-down-usa-production/

10 hours ago

180 upvotes – 120 comments

What happened to the Snowden archive

https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archive

3 hours ago

1 change
166 upvotes – 73 comments

The LLMentalist Effect (2023)

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

13 hours ago

1 change
161 upvotes – 248 comments

Why Hacker News Protects Google: The Anatomy of Big Tech Fanboyismdead

https://scored.co/c/Technology/p/1ATVMDyZXy/why-hacker-news-protects-google-/c

10 hours ago

1 change
149 upvotes – 2 comments

Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/

4 hours ago

148 upvotes – 119 comments

Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington

https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/frontier-labs-are-selling-garbage

6 hours ago

146 upvotes – 66 comments

Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/why-do-we-need-human-mathematicians-anymore/

15 hours ago

1 change
136 upvotes – 91 comments

The senior engineer death spiral

https://sunilpai.dev/posts/the-senior-engineer-death-spiral/

11 hours ago

135 upvotes – 92 comments

The Millennium Problems for Biology

https://millenniumproblems.bio/

13 hours ago

132 upvotes – 104 comments

Laya on Mac M4 CoreML Offline

https://gist.github.com/fordnox/e592d0f68b543fd044be8e6d040863a0

10 hours ago

1 change
131 upvotes – 26 comments

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

https://www.stepfun.com/step-5-preview

21 hours ago

130 upvotes – 33 comments

Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program

https://www.neowin.net/news/people-hate-flock-so-much-that-its-employees-are-now-demoralized-and-thinking-of-quitting/

8 hours ago

1 change
129 upvotes – 96 comments

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

https://utf-8000.jb2170.com

20 hours ago

127 upvotes – 106 comments

I am often wrong

https://borischerny.com/management,/product/2026/09/19/I-am-often-wrong.html

9 hours ago

1 change
113 upvotes – 95 comments

Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test

https://www.dxomark.com/apple-iphone-18-pro-camera-test/

1 day ago

112 upvotes – 111 comments

Prompts aren’t Real

https://evaluation.club

10 hours ago

1 change
106 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

https://radius.to/

9 hours ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

One-Electron Universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

10 hours ago

102 upvotes – 87 comments

The Hierarchy of Money

https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2026/09/20/hierarchy-of-money/

6 hours ago

97 upvotes – 41 comments

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/

8 hours ago

96 upvotes – 54 comments

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

https://github.com/kyle-pena-nlp/jevchat/

8 hours ago

★ 24 Python
95 upvotes – 32 comments

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

https://github.com/adonis-singh/re4

8 hours ago

★ 202 C++ CC0-1.0
88 upvotes – 54 comments

Telling a Computer to Do Things

https://will-keleher.com/posts/telling-your-computer-to-do-things/

20 hours ago

83 upvotes – 35 comments

Don't Be Nice

https://roe.dev/blog/dont-be-nice

16 hours ago

83 upvotes – 71 comments

Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong

https://theconversation.com/do-birds-have-accents-the-fascinating-regional-differences-in-birdsong-278108

12 hours ago

70 upvotes – 16 comments

Trying the software factory pattern

https://lethain.com/software-factory-experiment/

8 hours ago

1 change
70 upvotes – 36 comments

If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right

https://www.i-kh.net/p/if-ai-coding-is-lowering-your-code

14 hours ago

69 upvotes – 112 comments

Software sandboxing: The basics (2025)

https://blog.emilua.org/2025/01/12/software-sandboxing-basics/

7 hours ago

2 changes
69 upvotes – 8 comments

Custom home server built from spare parts

https://asmat.ca/blog/i-went-bananas/

10 hours ago

66 upvotes – 26 comments

Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service

https://www.dropbox.com/terms2026

19 hours ago

61 upvotes – 107 comments

BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQrnGK5FZXI

21 hours ago

59 upvotes – 99 comments

I stopped drinking the AI Kool-Aid

https://joshtronic.com/2026/09/20/i-stopped-drinking-the-ai-kool-aid/

4 hours ago

57 upvotes – 39 comments

Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it

https://medium.com/@istokovicsgyorgy79/google-ai-studio-fakes-data-deletion-vrp-auto-banned-me-in-60s-for-reporting-it-ea68e06f9bc2

21 hours ago

56 upvotes – 42 comments

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 day ago

54 upvotes – 43 comments
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