top 50% 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

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macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

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

11 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

U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/US-Strategic-Petroleum-Reserve-Falls-to-Lowest-Level-Since-1982.html

23 hours ago

Claude partial outage

https://status.claude.com/incidents/4xvtc2gnq73l

11 hours ago

U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

https://postalemployeenetwork.com/news/2026/09/26/u-s-postal-inspectors-shut-down-website-selling-millions-of-counterfeit-postage-labels/

6 hours ago

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Using any C++ library in Godot

https://blog.conan.io/cpp/conan/gamedev/godot/cmake/2026/09/29/Using-Any-Cpp-Library-In-Godot.html

16 hours ago

Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions

https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/28/metas-new-ai-agent-blatantly-ignores-users-permissions

11 hours ago

Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/258/

6 hours ago

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Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)

https://www.withouthotair.com/

12 hours ago

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Firebase SDK is crashing all iOS apps since this morning

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2104825886922911981

17 hours ago

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Ask HN: What are you reading?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893157

11 hours ago

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

https://lolchat.rip/

1 day ago

Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites

https://space.bl2.net/

6 hours ago

Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market

https://gamersnexus.net/news-features/memory-companies-have-destroyed-consumer-market

6 hours ago

DevDay 2026 Recap

https://openai.com/index/devday-2026-recap/

8 hours ago

The new Firefox design is here

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/new-firefox-design-is-here/

12 hours ago

The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging

https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/oct-2026-battling-an-army-of-price-setters-owens-review/

7 hours ago

Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

https://frostyard.github.io/nsl/

10 hours ago

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260928-a-virtual-power-plant-hidden-in-vermont-homes-is-keeping-the-lights-on-during-storms

7 hours ago

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US Forces Exit Iraq

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-forces-exit-iraq-after-two-decades-leaving-opening-iran-2026-09-29/

18 hours ago

OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription

https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2104823812042940713

18 hours ago

Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q2-2026/

11 hours ago

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