top 50% hacker news stories for today

OpenAI attacked Australia's health system and doubled down. Time to act

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/25/open-ai-attacked-australias-health-system-and-then-doubled-down-on-its-negligence-the-time-for-wait-and-see-is-over

1 hour ago

8 upvotes – 1 comments

F-Droid 2.0

https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html

10 hours ago

1 change
950 upvotes – 264 comments

Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1wotwrk/meta_takes_down_a_critical_video_about_meta_ai/

17 hours ago

599 upvotes – 359 comments

Two-tier encryption in the UK

https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/

15 hours ago

1 change
383 upvotes – 375 comments

Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095425/2d9f411252325784/

23 hours ago

379 upvotes – 490 comments

Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

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

1 day ago

374 upvotes – 411 comments

Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/

13 hours ago

269 upvotes – 276 comments

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/liver

9 hours ago

1 change
264 upvotes – 158 comments

OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgl73pxgndwt

23 hours ago

251 upvotes – 193 comments

Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

https://transluce.org/agent-activity

20 hours ago

245 upvotes – 241 comments

GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks

https://successfulsoftware.net/2026/09/24/github-has-not-removed-malicious-imitation-software-after-3-weeks/

10 hours ago

237 upvotes – 103 comments

The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi

https://www.xda-developers.com/newest-esp32-run-linux-close-to-raspberry-pi/

14 hours ago

213 upvotes – 101 comments

Nokia Design Archive (2025)

https://repo.aalto.fi/index.php?name=SO_b66a9391-dcf8-4399-8e87-611f84c3fc4c

16 hours ago

2 changes
209 upvotes – 117 comments

Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard

8 hours ago

★ 482 TypeScript MIT3 changes
199 upvotes – 82 comments

Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack

https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/24/starlink-ground-station-in-poland-hit-by-fire-in-suspected-arson-attack/

16 hours ago

165 upvotes – 170 comments

Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

https://bestmodelforyourbudget.terrydjony.com/

11 hours ago

165 upvotes – 105 comments

Contrastive Language Models

https://contrastive-lm.notion.site/

21 hours ago

155 upvotes – 50 comments

Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest

https://github.com/nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu

1 day ago

★ 212 Rust Apache-2.0
149 upvotes – 65 comments

Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/disney-and-hulu-raise-prices-by-up-to-13-percent-after-doubling-profits/

10 hours ago

148 upvotes – 175 comments

Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(26)00811-4

7 hours ago

143 upvotes – 171 comments

California is chasing wealth that has feet

https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/california-is-chasing-wealth-that

5 hours ago

143 upvotes – 402 comments

Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/oracle-cites-force-majeure-to-shield-itself-on-controversial-data-center

12 hours ago

2 changes
135 upvotes – 128 comments

Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

https://launchvideo.io

5 hours ago

134 upvotes – 92 comments

Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers

https://medium.com/@arielsimon/dark-sourcery-how-hackers-manipulate-ai-to-scam-you-88df434d2073

14 hours ago

132 upvotes – 49 comments

Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance

https://koi.rest

4 hours ago

131 upvotes – 29 comments

'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/24/thats-so-ai-what-gen-alphas-biggest-insult-tells-us

13 hours ago

121 upvotes – 164 comments

Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/australia-openai-agent-breach-government-portal-6406411

1 day ago

121 upvotes – 3 comments

Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/google-project-suncatcher-facts/

12 hours ago

113 upvotes – 212 comments

Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering

https://blog.madhukaraphatak.in/non-destructive-refusal-supression-using-engram

11 hours ago

105 upvotes – 39 comments

AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley

https://www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-is-mostly-a-sex-cult-in

11 hours ago

1 change
93 upvotes – 22 comments

Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error

https://www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/09/22/voter-registration-applications-unprocessed-dps-error/

11 hours ago

92 upvotes – 163 comments

Federal judge orders Texas to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/texas-prison-air-conditioning-lawsuit-ruling/

9 hours ago

91 upvotes – 150 comments

Microsoft tried to ban "Microslop", and six months later it has given up

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/09/24/microsoft-tried-to-ban-microslop-and-six-months-later-it-has-given-up/

18 hours ago

82 upvotes – 15 comments

Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/24/back-and-shoulder-surgery-is-often-worse-than-useless

3 hours ago

1 change
81 upvotes – 78 comments

Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/tutoring-company-tell-parents-to-save-their-money-and-use-ai-instead-20260923-p60z0r

10 hours ago

81 upvotes – 141 comments

Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/japanese-used-bookstores-see-5x-sales-surge-as-books-are-being-bought-by-the-ton-one-50-ton-order-sent-to-the-us-for-ai-scanning-and-destruction-multitude-of-suspicious-bulk-buys-thought-to-end-up-in-foreign-ai-scan-and-shred-facilities

11 hours ago

76 upvotes – 118 comments

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

https://resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-labs-need-to-start-funding-historical

6 hours ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments

Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCMRgvyTm08

20 hours ago

68 upvotes – 62 comments

Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)

https://blog.arusekk.pl/posts/srht-account-takeover/

6 hours ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

What Is RLCD? The Secret Behind Jev

https://di-zhang-llm.github.io/blog/what-is-rlcd-the-secret-behind-jev/

13 hours ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/new-jersey-fines-data-center-1-1m-after-satellite-pics-expose-62-gas-generators/

7 hours ago

63 upvotes – 22 comments

Search – A small, fast WebKit browser for macOS

https://github.com/driceroland/Search

16 hours ago

★ 1.2k Swift MIT1 change
60 upvotes – 24 comments

The Year of Internal Tools

https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2026-09-23-the-year-of-internal-tools

18 hours ago

59 upvotes – 23 comments

The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds (2014)

https://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/

5 hours ago

53 upvotes – 23 comments

GitLab Outage

https://status.gitlab.com/

2 hours ago

52 upvotes – 24 comments

Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?

https://github.com/karmanyaahm/budget-tools/tree/main/fire

22 hours ago

★ 21 Python
51 upvotes – 70 comments

Is A.I. Above the Law?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/28/is-ai-above-the-law

12 hours ago

51 upvotes – 45 comments

Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/2131.pdf

11 hours ago

51 upvotes – 9 comments

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

https://carbon.ms/self-hosted

1 day ago

51 upvotes – 26 comments

LinkedIn wins court order blocking mass scraping of user data

https://therecord.media/linkedin-wins-court-order-blocking-mass-scraping

9 hours ago

49 upvotes – 30 comments
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