top 50% hacker news stories for today

We used an AI agent to fix an open-source bug. Someone asked to ban us

https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/pull/3229

38 minutes ago

★ 9.2k Python GPL-3.0
13 upvotes – 13 comments

FLAWED's Flaws and What This Means for Industry Research

https://suhacker.ai/p/flaweds-flaws-and-what-this-means-for-industry-research/

36 minutes ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

Show HN: An open-source manufacturing ERP/MES/QMS

https://carbon.ms/self-hosted

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 1 comments

Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think-ai-critics-are-foreign

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Jev in 25 Lines of Python

https://www.nobodywho.ai/posts/jev-in-25-lines/

18 hours ago

631 upvotes – 197 comments

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

https://apnews.com/article/italy-nuclear-chernobyl-4891b6b7c7791ae84db6b0bf0f7cf567

8 hours ago

590 upvotes – 383 comments

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system

7 hours ago

496 upvotes – 531 comments

Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]

https://blog.szypowi.cz/p/claude-code-reads-agents.md-only-when-telemetry-is-on/

13 hours ago

1 change
452 upvotes – 257 comments

Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-04-11-211700.html

10 hours ago

380 upvotes – 88 comments

Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1wjdpgx/psa_grammarly_will_send_unhinged_messages_to_all/

21 hours ago

357 upvotes – 99 comments

I don't want the details

https://michaelheap.com/i-dont-want-the-details/

12 hours ago

1 change
356 upvotes – 197 comments

Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries

https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/seattle-city-council-votes-to-ban-surveillance-pricing-in-sale-of-groceries/

11 hours ago

314 upvotes – 199 comments

DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/23/doordash-delivery-nyc-mamdani-wage-theft-settlement/

5 hours ago

292 upvotes – 140 comments

GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car

https://drivingbench.com/

10 hours ago

274 upvotes – 221 comments

The darker side of being a doctor

https://drericlevi.pages.dev/the-darker-side-of-being-a-doctor/

14 hours ago

264 upvotes – 300 comments

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-text-to-speech/

10 hours ago

1 change
253 upvotes – 124 comments

Transit rewards

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/09/transit-rewards/

23 hours ago

1 change
249 upvotes – 327 comments

Why is Hacker News like that?

https://drewdevault.com/blog/Why-is-HN-like-that/

10 hours ago

240 upvotes – 127 comments

Tokens too cheap to meter

https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/

16 hours ago

1 change
239 upvotes – 179 comments

I am done with this shit

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wm5c21/i_am_done_with_this_shit/

17 hours ago

236 upvotes – 185 comments

28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

https://unlisted.careers/ghost-jobs/report/2026-09

9 hours ago

235 upvotes – 299 comments

Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-accidentally-freezes-its-smart-fridges-with-a-software-update-3714472/

12 hours ago

228 upvotes – 254 comments

Meta VR Glasses

https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/

2 hours ago

209 upvotes – 168 comments

OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'

https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-open-ai-influencer-marketing-strategy-chatgpt-ads-sponsorships-instagram-2026-9

13 hours ago

207 upvotes – 204 comments

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

https://www.404media.co/woman-arrested-after-city-council-denies-residents-right-to-speak-on-flock-cameras/

10 hours ago

196 upvotes – 240 comments

Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform

https://stripe.dev/blog/meet-stripes-knowledge-ai-platform

12 hours ago

1 change
174 upvotes – 108 comments

Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

https://claude.dev/blog/how-we-made-claude-ai-faster/

6 hours ago

1 change
173 upvotes – 108 comments

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)

https://michaelheap.com/github-wiki-is-an-antipattern/

12 hours ago

1 change
165 upvotes – 103 comments

Z80 REPL (2018)

https://abagames.github.io/z80-repl/index.html

14 hours ago

1 change
148 upvotes – 18 comments

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/09/snapdragon-summit-agentic-ai-pcs-linux

3 hours ago

142 upvotes – 66 comments

OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/openai-breaches-medicare-albanese-reveals-20260924-p6100u.html

4 hours ago

1 change
142 upvotes – 101 comments

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c32l8y8kygdvo

8 hours ago

141 upvotes – 190 comments

Netherlands bracing for potentially devastating US sanctions against the ICC

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-eu-israel-netherlands-2c1cc314732f920c2de59396d3b556f6

16 hours ago

138 upvotes – 125 comments

Strands Harness

https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-harness/

10 hours ago

130 upvotes – 92 comments

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

https://fly.io/blog/vscode-ssh-wtf/

4 hours ago

1 change
127 upvotes – 86 comments

Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol

https://radicle.dev/2026/09/23/disclosure-of-vulnerability-in-network-protocol

10 hours ago

125 upvotes – 48 comments

US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj3dgy8x3vro

23 hours ago

110 upvotes – 143 comments

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260922-00/?p=112719/

7 hours ago

110 upvotes – 51 comments

Claude's Load-Bearing Seams

https://madradavid.com/claudes-load-bearing-seams/

4 hours ago

103 upvotes – 44 comments

Data-only attacks are easier than you think (2024)

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/data-only-attacks-are-easier-you-think

22 hours ago

1 change
97 upvotes – 42 comments

Two Git ignore files nobody told me about

https://mihai.dinculescu.dev/posts/two-git-ignore-files-nobody-told-me-about/

14 hours ago

87 upvotes – 62 comments

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/there-is-no-epidemic-of-loneliness

19 hours ago

81 upvotes – 69 comments

Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-city-council-police-9.7352920

11 hours ago

79 upvotes – 84 comments

The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/the-price-of-intelligence-is-falling.html

12 hours ago

78 upvotes – 83 comments

Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake

https://blog.melashri.net/posts/scientific-linux-mistake/

17 hours ago

75 upvotes – 56 comments

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary

https://blog.cloudflare.com/vary-support/

3 hours ago

1 change
75 upvotes – 11 comments

Making Tailscale Faster

https://tailscale.com/blog/making-tailscale-faster

8 hours ago

74 upvotes – 32 comments

Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time

https://news.gallup.com/poll/714653/socialism-positive-rating-tops-first-time.aspx

12 hours ago

63 upvotes – 94 comments
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