top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-09-26

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

https://gultsch.de/posts/breaking-up-with-google-play/

17 hours ago

651 upvotes – 260 comments

I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband

https://themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom-in-that-viral-giants-clip

11 hours ago

1 change
473 upvotes – 190 comments

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-liable-deceiving-users-cambridge-analytica/

1 day ago

396 upvotes – 102 comments

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/were-gonna-need-a-lot-more-mathematicians/

1 day ago

366 upvotes – 467 comments

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

https://lexontech.org/fifteen-years-later-the-apple-cards-origin-story

18 hours ago

362 upvotes – 92 comments

One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

https://www.jezebel.com/flock-cameras-data-innocent-woman-arrested-lindsey-isaacs-palm-beach-florida-lawsuit-vehicular-homicide

1 day ago

244 upvotes – 133 comments

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

https://github.com/reladraw/reladraw

10 hours ago

★ 345 TypeScript Apache-2.0
216 upvotes – 62 comments

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22978

9 hours ago

186 upvotes – 57 comments

Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/09/10/plunging-test-scores-are-a-slow-moving-catastrophe

12 hours ago

1 change
178 upvotes – 341 comments

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-programming-in-a-world-of-llms/14705

18 hours ago

176 upvotes – 230 comments

One Month Without AI

https://blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/one-month-without-ai.html

17 hours ago

170 upvotes – 217 comments

Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service

https://floci.io

19 hours ago

167 upvotes – 38 comments

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/9/25/japan-moves-to-tighten-rules-for-foreigners-throwing-futures-into-doubt

10 hours ago

1 change
142 upvotes – 424 comments

A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models

http://allanrbo.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-jev-like-wrapper-for-llms-including.html

23 hours ago

134 upvotes – 42 comments

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/25/automattic-has-a-new-board-after-failed-attempt-to-put-ceo-on-leave/

12 hours ago

126 upvotes – 166 comments

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

https://tangled.org/yanndegat.tngl.sh/drawgent

12 hours ago

1 change
122 upvotes – 34 comments

Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?

https://safenotsafe.dev/

20 hours ago

121 upvotes – 43 comments

Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/25/apple-pay-antitrust-lawsuit-advances/

12 hours ago

109 upvotes – 111 comments

OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo

14 hours ago

109 upvotes – 167 comments

The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/the-copilot-pc-brand-is-dead-microsoft-and-pc-makers-quietly-pull-back-on-tarnished-windows-11-ai-pc-branding

18 hours ago

102 upvotes – 65 comments
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