top 50% hacker news stories for today

Trump says US will henceforth call AI 'super intelligence'

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-says-us-will-henceforth-call-ai-super-intelligence-2026-09-22/

1 hour ago

12 upvotes – 3 comments

Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/cities-across-us-oppose-trump-fcc-plan-to-preempt-local-broadband-rules/

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 0 comments

Claude Opus 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5

9 hours ago

1200 upvotes – 809 comments

GPT-6 Sol and Luna

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-sol-and-luna/

7 hours ago

1177 upvotes – 603 comments

I said no and Apple said yes

https://dbushell.com/2026/09/22/apple-intelligence/

17 hours ago

793 upvotes – 645 comments

Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/i-wish-apple-would-just-stop-that-crap-apple-has-added-persistent-ads-to-ios-and-its-driving-users-crazy

11 hours ago

614 upvotes – 459 comments

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

https://www.cryptocellar.org/bgac/the-mvueh-break.html

11 hours ago

557 upvotes – 360 comments

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/

6 hours ago

4 changes
412 upvotes – 215 comments

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/

8 hours ago

2 changes
391 upvotes – 278 comments

Can gzip be a language model?

https://nathan.rs/posts/gzip-lm/

19 hours ago

371 upvotes – 146 comments

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

https://alexn.org/blog/2026/09/22/ai-has-no-wisdom-and-neither-will-you/

13 hours ago

366 upvotes – 516 comments

I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB

https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-runtime-export/

10 hours ago

1 change
291 upvotes – 145 comments

Claude Opus 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5

9 hours ago

1 change
273 upvotes – 2 comments

There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117299954135808210

8 hours ago

261 upvotes – 113 comments

OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev

https://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2026/09/21/will-openai-eat-jevs-lunch/

11 hours ago

1 change
260 upvotes – 193 comments

AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?

https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=24261

17 hours ago

247 upvotes – 194 comments

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-5-5

8 hours ago

1 change
233 upvotes – 70 comments

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

https://foxscript.org/

4 hours ago

1 change
178 upvotes – 125 comments

9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/september/world-cup-viewers.html

15 hours ago

172 upvotes – 212 comments

SAML: A fractal of bad design

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/09/21/saml-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

6 hours ago

1 change
158 upvotes – 90 comments

Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support

https://droprun.sh/

11 hours ago

1 change
153 upvotes – 53 comments

MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mimo-v2-6-pro

21 hours ago

152 upvotes – 62 comments

WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/security/advisories/GHSA-7hp8-65ch-5whp

9 hours ago

★ 3.4k PHP GPL-2.02 changes
152 upvotes – 82 comments

Elevated errors for multiple models – Resolved

https://status.claude.com/incidents/7g1qpkyz5gxh

1 day ago

1 change
138 upvotes – 110 comments

LLM Ass Bench

https://www.assbench.com/

5 hours ago

138 upvotes – 39 comments

Unreal Agent

https://unreallabs.ai/blog/unreal-agent/

7 hours ago

132 upvotes – 79 comments

Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/muse-metas-extraordinarily-privileged-ai-assistant-has-a-serious-0-day/

11 hours ago

1 change
114 upvotes – 48 comments

What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

https://www.kqed.org/science/2002033/heres-what-california-is-learning-from-solar-panels-built-over-irrigation-canals

22 hours ago

1 change
112 upvotes – 148 comments

16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)

https://allpoetry.com/16-bit-Intel-8088-chip

9 hours ago

2 changes
108 upvotes – 14 comments

People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-18/to-quit-vaping-some-are-starting-to-smoke

1 day ago

3 changes
105 upvotes – 101 comments

An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord

https://discord.com/blog/safer-for-teens-same-discord-for-adults

7 hours ago

102 upvotes – 72 comments

Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/robin-williams-daughter-ai-videos-1236871568/

1 day ago

96 upvotes – 61 comments

Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster

https://minimaxir.com/2026/09/agentic-iteration/

10 hours ago

94 upvotes – 48 comments

Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-openai-solve-the-wrong-navier-stokes-problem/

1 day ago

92 upvotes – 49 comments

Jev – A curation of Jev demos on X, tools, skills, and integrations

https://github.com/Amal-David/awesome-jev

11 hours ago

★ 142 Python 1 change
88 upvotes – 34 comments

Vacate a drone restriction that criminalized recording immigration agents

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/dc-circuit-must-vacate-drone-flight-restriction-criminalized-recording-immigration

10 hours ago

1 change
87 upvotes – 18 comments

Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B

https://verda.com/blog/what-189m-in-funding-unlocks-for-verda-customers

16 hours ago

86 upvotes – 49 comments

Stanford R&DE Uses AI to Race Swap Students for Advertising

https://stanfordreview.org/stanford-r-de-uses-ai-to-race-swap-students-for-advertising/

11 hours ago

81 upvotes – 60 comments

Native apps written in TypeScript and CSS

https://github.com/geastack/examples

6 hours ago

★ 57 TypeScript MIT
80 upvotes – 24 comments

Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity

https://obscura.com/#faq-technical

6 hours ago

1 change
79 upvotes – 73 comments

People Training OpenAI's AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

https://www.404media.co/people-training-openais-ai-fired-for-using-ai-to-train-the-ai/

12 hours ago

73 upvotes – 53 comments

Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)

https://wondermark.com/socrates-vs-writing/

1 day ago

69 upvotes – 54 comments

Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c607l2j2rj8ro

20 hours ago

66 upvotes – 95 comments

JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2026/09/22/introducing-jetbrains-air/

14 hours ago

66 upvotes – 104 comments

Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/article/texas-police-department-ordered-close-state-22434473.php

12 hours ago

65 upvotes – 33 comments

Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences

https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/09/young-users-ditch-google-for-ai-with-unknown-consequences/

16 hours ago

65 upvotes – 117 comments
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