top 50% hacker news stories for today

OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/technology/openai-astra-safety.html

1 hour ago

28 upvotes – 26 comments

1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops

https://lolchat.rip/

1 hour ago

11 upvotes – 5 comments

I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong

https://c3-lang.org/blog/i_thought_i_was_building_a_c_replacement/

1 hour ago

11 upvotes – 0 comments

Its not just the f*cking sandbox

https://twitter.com/joedaroo/status/2104335929293127851

1 hour ago

9 upvotes – 1 comments

Prenatal exposure to the plasticizer DEHP increases autism and ADHD

https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2666634026002941

1 hour ago

7 upvotes – 2 comments

OpenAI scraps release of Astra 6.1 model over safety issues

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/28/chatgpt-maker-openai-scraps-release-astra-61-model-over-safety/

1 hour ago

6 upvotes – 0 comments

AMD Acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-09-28/amd-acquires-fei-fei-li-s-world-labs-for-8-2-billion-video

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock

https://colo.to/nvidia-stock-narrative.html

23 hours ago

1057 upvotes – 447 comments

Sonnet 5.5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5

7 hours ago

1 change
572 upvotes – 396 comments

Windows 11½

https://definitelynotwindows.com/

7 hours ago

1 change
428 upvotes – 132 comments

AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

https://thecivilian.co.nz/2026/09/27/ai-companies-in-fierce-arms-race-to-demonstrate-their-model-is-the-most-existentially-threatening-to-humanity/

17 hours ago

426 upvotes – 384 comments

Pirating the Pirates

https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pirating-the-pirates

9 hours ago

411 upvotes – 216 comments

Coding is not solved

https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved

11 hours ago

2 changes
405 upvotes – 427 comments

The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/the-problem-is-not-the-ai-code-but-nobody-knows-anything-anymore/

9 hours ago

1 change
347 upvotes – 224 comments

MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta

https://www.reuters.com/technology/mongodb-ceo-desai-steps-down-lead-metas-enterprise-platform-2026-09-28/

10 hours ago

1 change
326 upvotes – 270 comments

Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley

15 hours ago

300 upvotes – 167 comments

SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-starship-megarocket-launching-to-orbit-for-1st-time-ever-on-sept-28-watch-it-live

16 hours ago

292 upvotes – 327 comments

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/

5 hours ago

279 upvotes – 104 comments

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/897/transcript

10 hours ago

278 upvotes – 175 comments

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

https://github.com/firelex/jeff

5 hours ago

★ 305 Python MIT
257 upvotes – 105 comments

So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes

https://lecaro.me/20260921-google-less.html

7 hours ago

210 upvotes – 84 comments

Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/2103890594137309425

10 hours ago

198 upvotes – 109 comments

Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/prompting-claude-opus-5-5

18 hours ago

195 upvotes – 218 comments

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream

https://yashgarg.dev/posts/hijacking-ps5-rtmp-stream/

10 hours ago

1 change
193 upvotes – 66 comments

Musk, the Movie

https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/musk

23 hours ago

188 upvotes – 144 comments

World Labs Is Joining AMD

https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/amd-announcement

5 hours ago

179 upvotes – 70 comments

Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834

22 hours ago

2 changes
170 upvotes – 75 comments

Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/how-many-flock-devices-in-united-states-300000/

4 hours ago

167 upvotes – 74 comments

37,500 border drawings: a map of the world as people remember it

https://www.habibicode.org/thedrawnworld

17 hours ago

164 upvotes – 31 comments

Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain

https://www.nissan-global.com/EN/INNOVATION/TECHNOLOGY/ARCHIVE/E_POWER_GEN3/

23 hours ago

155 upvotes – 382 comments

As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business/dealbook/ai-law-discount-billable-hour.html

1 day ago

1 change
146 upvotes – 157 comments

Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

https://theeducatorsroom.com/has-violence-against-teachers-become-accepted-by-society/

11 hours ago

137 upvotes – 305 comments

What would a serious AI product look like?

https://blog.glyph.im/2026/09/serious-ai-product.html

14 hours ago

1 change
131 upvotes – 52 comments

Show HN: PaperMono, e-ink fridge magnet shopping list with mobile web page

https://github.com/seamusc/papermono-shopping-list

15 hours ago

★ 141 C++ GPL-3.0
130 upvotes – 54 comments

Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts

https://hn.watch/

10 hours ago

125 upvotes – 81 comments

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/microllmlab/

6 hours ago

124 upvotes – 59 comments

Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr)

https://soapbox.pub/armada

22 hours ago

124 upvotes – 15 comments

Cf: The Agentic CLI for the Cloudflare API

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-cf-cli-launch/

10 hours ago

117 upvotes – 46 comments

Israel Keeps Expanding into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/09/28/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-cease-fire-palestinian-territory.html

11 hours ago

111 upvotes – 36 comments

Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

https://www.petervijeh.com/projects/reddit-astroturf

12 hours ago

109 upvotes – 135 comments

I switched to Brave

https://kevquirk.com/i-switched-to-brave-browser

10 hours ago

1 change
107 upvotes – 193 comments

Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants

https://scissor.studio/

16 hours ago

106 upvotes – 44 comments

Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman

https://destroy.spritefusion.com/

9 hours ago

105 upvotes – 27 comments

Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden

https://www.arctictoday.com/palantir-founder-purchases-large-swath-of-forest-in-sweden/

4 hours ago

104 upvotes – 82 comments

Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News

https://github.com/ahmd-sh/hntui

13 hours ago

★ 112 TypeScript MIT
104 upvotes – 64 comments

OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/openai-still-doesnt-seem-to-have-a-handle-on-all-of-its-rogue-ai-activity/

8 hours ago

103 upvotes – 102 comments

Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html

9 hours ago

1 change
99 upvotes – 141 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

1 day ago

93 upvotes – 26 comments

13 Months Sober (2025)

https://www.bobbytables.io/p/13-months-sober

9 hours ago

85 upvotes – 72 comments

GrapheneOS – When an app is slow

https://blog.wirelessmoves.com/2026/09/grapheneos-when-an-app-is-slow.html

7 hours ago

1 change
78 upvotes – 41 comments

Was silent reading unusual during Augustine's time?

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4341

1 day ago

1 change
76 upvotes – 60 comments

Driver Ticketed for No Insurance Just Because Flock (YC 2017) Said She Didn't

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/driver-ticketed-for-no-insurance-despite-having-insurance-just-because-flock-said-she-didnt/

8 hours ago

75 upvotes – 34 comments

Pacing the Frontier is not the actual goal for AI labs

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Nm4ewbYovtjq69dvH/pacing-the-frontier-is-not-the-actual-goal-for-ai-labs

4 hours ago

73 upvotes – 77 comments

Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidias-jensen-huang-ai-distillation-china.html

10 hours ago

72 upvotes – 78 comments

Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots

https://markmanson.substack.com/p/intellectuals-are-fcking-idiots

15 hours ago

72 upvotes – 94 comments

Made by Mechanical Means

https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/

18 hours ago

71 upvotes – 25 comments

Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-teen-portraits-that-captivated-sofia-coppola

7 hours ago

1 change
70 upvotes – 45 comments

Neal Stephenson responds with wit and humor (2004)

https://slashdot.org/story/04/10/20/1518217/neal-stephenson-responds-with-wit-and-humor

6 hours ago

1 change
68 upvotes – 29 comments

Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthropics-ipo-prospectus-shows-sweeping-ai-vision-surging-costs-2026-09-28/

1 hour ago

66 upvotes – 61 comments

What heraldry and Japanese mon can teach about visual-identity generators

https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/09/japanese-vs-western-heraldry/

10 hours ago

1 change
66 upvotes – 21 comments

Self-parking car using genetic algorithm (2021)

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

1 day ago

64 upvotes – 5 comments

Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs-are-now-nine-times-cheaper-than-petrol-or-diesel-to-drive-in-the-uk

16 hours ago

64 upvotes – 97 comments
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