top 50% hacker news stories for today

Brazil Bans Online Betting

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazils-lula-bans-online-betting-operations-reelection-race-tightens-2026-09-25/

2 hours ago

53 upvotes – 28 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 hour ago

46 upvotes – 17 comments

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

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

1 hour ago

46 upvotes – 5 comments

Show HN: A game about fake news and memes

https://unspin.app/

2 hours ago

8 upvotes – 3 comments

We All Hated Busy Work. Now That It's Disappearing, It Turns Out We Miss It

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/we-all-hated-busy-work-now-that-its-disappearing-it-turns-out-we-miss-it-d56bb48b

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 2 comments

Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/tesla-workers-balk-at-training-optimus-humanoid-robots-as-replacements/

2 hours ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

Why AI is booming, but productivity isn't

https://research.socialcapital.com/p/ai-roi

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

https://www.dawo.community/en/

18 hours ago

934 upvotes – 544 comments

U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/25/pentagon-anthropic-ai-risk-appeals-court.html

11 hours ago

400 upvotes – 710 comments

Platform-independent SIMD in Go

https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment

14 hours ago

1 change
364 upvotes – 135 comments

Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models

https://ollaya.dev/

8 hours ago

349 upvotes – 101 comments

Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug

15 hours ago

★ 10.4k Go GPL-3.0
317 upvotes – 101 comments

Factorio that you can touch

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-447

12 hours ago

316 upvotes – 106 comments

What About Rails?

https://jardo.dev/what-about-rails

23 hours ago

307 upvotes – 206 comments

Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini

https://nyaa.sh/reviews/mac-mini-m6-emulation

19 hours ago

265 upvotes – 117 comments

Goodbye Google

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2026/09/goodbye-google.html

21 hours ago

248 upvotes – 307 comments

Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face

https://swarmtraces.org/

5 hours ago

236 upvotes – 149 comments

Ink and Switch interactive homepage

https://www.inkandswitch.com/

16 hours ago

1 change
230 upvotes – 25 comments

First Principles Thinking

https://sunilsadasivan.com/writing/first-principles-thinking/

12 hours ago

225 upvotes – 98 comments

The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

https://economist.com/europe/2026/09/24/the-mafia-may-be-keeping-fentanyl-out-of-italy

16 hours ago

194 upvotes – 254 comments

Allow babywearing carriers on planes

https://www.jefftk.com/p/allow-carriers-on-planes

12 hours ago

1 change
193 upvotes – 257 comments

Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models

https://www.washingtonsun.com/technology/classified-estimates-nsa-paying-billions-to-test-ai-models

11 hours ago

1 change
170 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

https://jev-pokemon.vercel.app/

12 hours ago

160 upvotes – 71 comments

The Test

https://tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test/

14 hours ago

159 upvotes – 86 comments

Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity

https://www.ft.com/content/a96bf05a-a299-4d6a-a753-b298dd0f4016

16 hours ago

151 upvotes – 142 comments

I'm tired of being on the network

https://matduggan.com/im-tired-of-being-on-the-network/

14 hours ago

1 change
139 upvotes – 155 comments

Amiga Screens: A Primer

https://www.datagubbe.se/amscr/

19 hours ago

132 upvotes – 39 comments

Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjntrqhn8pk

8 hours ago

4 changes
127 upvotes – 24 comments

How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance

https://fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-campus-surveillance/

6 hours ago

1 change
125 upvotes – 78 comments

Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/gravity-seems-holographic-what-does-that-mean-for-reality-20260925/

11 hours ago

1 change
123 upvotes – 132 comments

Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special

https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-special/

8 hours ago

116 upvotes – 46 comments

Boards of Casio

https://www.ambionix.com/blog/boards-of-casio/

17 hours ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust

https://tokio.rs/blog/2026-09-24-topcoat-server-applications

16 hours ago

111 upvotes – 97 comments

Plan mode is dead

https://www.aymannadeem.com/artificial/intelligence,/developer/tools/2026/09/24/plan-mode-is-dead.html

22 hours ago

1 change
110 upvotes – 126 comments

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365insiderblog/put-multiple-values-in-one-cell-with-lists-and-arrays-in-excel/4559395

5 hours ago

2 changes
109 upvotes – 82 comments

Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2

https://www.safateam.com/intelligence-hub/research/technical-articles/cve-2025-13032-entering-and-breaking-the-avast-antivirus-sandbox-part-2

19 hours ago

1 change
108 upvotes – 30 comments

Too AI; Didn't Read

https://www.tai-dr.com/

6 hours ago

106 upvotes – 102 comments

Typst makes big strides

https://lwn.net/Articles/1092993/

10 hours ago

1 change
105 upvotes – 19 comments

Yes, Claude can do nine loops

https://www.anthropic.com/research/yes-claude-can-do-nine-loops

8 hours ago

1 change
102 upvotes – 56 comments

Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c84gkwgk7d06o

7 hours ago

93 upvotes – 114 comments

What even is an OS now?

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/

5 hours ago

1 change
89 upvotes – 151 comments

Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848955

7 hours ago

88 upvotes – 75 comments

Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated

https://nypost.com/2026/09/24/tech/silicon-valley-sex-assault-list-with-over-100-names-circulated-warning-female-tech-workers-of-predators-to-avoid/

14 hours ago

86 upvotes – 111 comments

Tech Needs Humanists More

https://passo.uno/tech-needs-humanists-more-than-ever/

17 hours ago

85 upvotes – 140 comments

Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-25/microsoft-abandons-personal-ai-chatbot-race-with-copilot-reboot

12 hours ago

2 changes
85 upvotes – 80 comments

Bug: Border radius has infected VSCode editor

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/338035

7 hours ago

★ 192.9k TypeScript MIT
72 upvotes – 48 comments

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/asml-says-its-sells-absolutely-nothing-in-europe-calls-on-eu-to-help-create-demand

12 hours ago

70 upvotes – 122 comments

Special Projects (2016)

https://openai.com/index/special-projects/

17 hours ago

69 upvotes – 42 comments

Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

https://cyberscoop.com/supreme-court-save-database-voter-citizenship/

7 hours ago

67 upvotes – 82 comments

Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851032

3 hours ago

3 changes
64 upvotes – 68 comments

Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/9/24/letterboxd-is-up-for-sale-and-a24-sony-and-the-new-york-times-bidding

7 hours ago

63 upvotes – 30 comments

Jevmem – automatic project memory for Claude Code, built on Jev

https://github.com/Avinash-jetwani/jevmem

10 hours ago

★ 72 TypeScript MIT
61 upvotes – 40 comments

Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview

https://www.doom-or-bloom.com

9 hours ago

1 change
55 upvotes – 43 comments

Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'

https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/09/25/astronomer-watches-starlink-satellites-sinking-to-build-a-planetary-barometer/5299036

8 hours ago

55 upvotes – 16 comments
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