top 50% hacker news stories for today

Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021)

https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/self-parking-car-evolution/

36 minutes ago

13 upvotes – 2 comments

Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10k If a Data Center Gets Built

https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/every-household-in-this-rural-town-receives-10-000-if-a-data-center-gets-built-86554cb7

57 minutes ago

10 upvotes – 4 comments

The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/12/physics-life-reductionism-complexity/685257/

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 5 comments

Thorsten Ball – What I believe about the future of software development

https://thorstenball.com/blog/2026/09/19/what-i-believe-about-the-future-of-software-development/

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/breast-cancer-us-pesticide-products

30 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

When did Google get so weird?

https://sancho.bearblog.dev/google-weird/

5 hours ago

1 change
785 upvotes – 420 comments

Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-openai-top-execs-knew-mass-book-piracy-was-illegal/

19 hours ago

1 change
601 upvotes – 584 comments

Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1wr3id3/meta_blocks_president_lulas_facebook_page_and/

17 hours ago

420 upvotes – 285 comments

Ember-1

https://fireworks.ai/blog/ember-1

8 hours ago

357 upvotes – 182 comments

On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

https://unsung.aresluna.org/they-had-no-concept-of-a-duty-of-care-to-their-users/

11 hours ago

3 changes
347 upvotes – 311 comments

Tells of a Slop UI

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/10-tells-of-slop

11 hours ago

1 change
337 upvotes – 224 comments

There are no "rogue" AI agents

https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents

9 hours ago

336 upvotes – 246 comments

The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures

https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html

10 hours ago

247 upvotes – 103 comments

What is the size of Yemen? (2024)

https://theborys.substack.com/p/what-is-the-size-of-yemen

23 hours ago

243 upvotes – 79 comments

In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-discovery.html

11 hours ago

1 change
210 upvotes – 81 comments

If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?

https://blog.codinghorror.com/if-we-do-not-stop-to-help-each-other-what-do-we-become/

22 hours ago

204 upvotes – 83 comments

SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls

8 hours ago

176 upvotes – 89 comments

Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

https://loficities.com/

7 hours ago

171 upvotes – 77 comments

PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura

https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/

10 hours ago

1 change
161 upvotes – 44 comments

Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

https://iain.rocks/blog/dont-couple-your-go-code-to-github

9 hours ago

147 upvotes – 77 comments

Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/09/27/replacing-the-old-battery-on-rechargeable-bike-lights/

12 hours ago

138 upvotes – 73 comments

Ten lines of code that changed my world

https://pixelambacht.nl/2026/ten-lines-of-code/

12 hours ago

1 change
123 upvotes – 38 comments

The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?

https://reasonable.io/blog/tla-tutorial/

20 hours ago

117 upvotes – 61 comments

"As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.25021

15 hours ago

101 upvotes – 101 comments

Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out

https://tinyaiarena.com/

10 hours ago

99 upvotes – 40 comments

OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields

https://swarmcha.se/posts/openai-unctad

1 day ago

84 upvotes – 83 comments

Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rusty-thoughts-on-parse-dont-validate/

16 hours ago

76 upvotes – 39 comments

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-ENIAC-have-a-BIOS/answer/Alan-Kay-11

6 hours ago

1 change
71 upvotes – 28 comments

What I did at Recurse Center

https://thill.me/2026/09/11/what-i-did-at-rc.html

6 hours ago

71 upvotes – 18 comments

Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview

https://mgrebler.substack.com/p/real-time-feedback-my-closing-move

1 day ago

1 change
67 upvotes – 50 comments

I Posed as a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP

https://www.propublica.org/article/draftkings-sports-gambling-problem-vip-fanduel

16 hours ago

65 upvotes – 19 comments

Show HN: Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web

https://www.markdown.beauty/

12 hours ago

1 change
62 upvotes – 48 comments

Fragment of oldest known peace treaty found in Turkey

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/we-have-found-traces-of-peace-thousands-of-years-old-fragment-of-worlds-oldest-known-peace-treaty-found-in-turkey

11 hours ago

60 upvotes – 8 comments

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/

5 hours ago

58 upvotes – 22 comments

Allegations of US interference in Quebec election

https://globalnews.ca/news/12073854/quebec-election-u-s-interference/

5 hours ago

57 upvotes – 21 comments
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