top 20 hacker news stories for today

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/

8 hours ago

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Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-of-the-american-host

14 hours ago

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DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising

9 hours ago

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500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positive

13 hours ago

Dots: Always-on agents

https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/

8 hours ago

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How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent

https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss

12 hours ago

2 changes

macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

https://www.squareorbits.com/blog/2026/09/macos-golden-gate-is-a-buggy-mess/

10 hours ago

A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]

https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-tracker-(clean).pdf

16 hours ago

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US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software-ecosystem-after-u-s-sanctions-on-icc-took-microsoft-off-the-table-trial-programs-running-now-first-release-expected-at-end-of-2027

13 hours ago

America.gov

https://america.gov/

11 hours ago

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Tcl/Tk 9.1

https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html

8 hours ago

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1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7361622

12 hours ago

PS5 Relapse Exploit

https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit

9 hours ago

★ 988 JavaScript MIT1 change

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves

14 hours ago

★ 276 Python MIT

Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?

https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf

2 hours ago

★ 246 Python

GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

https://www.anthropic.com/research/glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of-advanced-cyber-capabilities

8 hours ago

AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom

https://www.thenationalnews.com/future/technology/2026/09/29/ai-industry-needs-to-earn-6-trillion-by-2031-to-justify-data-centres/

6 hours ago

ChatGPT Pro 500

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pro-tiers

8 hours ago

Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/29/google-ending-chromeos-support-two-years-early/5299674

11 hours ago

Tank Body Problem

http://www.jimsitu.com

1 day ago

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