top 50% hacker news stories for today

California Legalizes Balcony Solar

https://www.kqed.org/science/2002120/california-officially-legalizes-balcony-solar-opening-the-market-to-the-new-technology

54 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Gemini 4 Argon

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/

5 hours ago

1 change
972 upvotes – 662 comments

You said no MCP

https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/

15 hours ago

2 changes
616 upvotes – 344 comments

September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy

https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/

18 hours ago

487 upvotes – 363 comments

The AI Race Just Got Awkward

https://insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-just-got-awkward/

9 hours ago

373 upvotes – 410 comments

Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?

https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/artificial-intelligence-agents-openai-microsoft-sam-altman-greg-brockman-ah-nice/

18 hours ago

246 upvotes – 219 comments

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal

11 hours ago

1 change
225 upvotes – 91 comments

Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm

https://twitter.com/tuakdotsol/status/2105105417760391258

16 hours ago

2 changes
206 upvotes – 143 comments

Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use

https://nltimes.nl/2026/09/30/data-centers-refusing-say-much-water-electricity-use

14 hours ago

203 upvotes – 189 comments

The last time my family was replaced by technology

https://manuel.darcemont.fr/posts/the-last-time-my-family-was-replaced-by-technology/

12 hours ago

181 upvotes – 416 comments

Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability

https://electrek.co/2026/09/29/tesla-takes-on-30-billion-in-credit-as-it-approaches-unprofitability/

21 hours ago

149 upvotes – 204 comments

EDG C++ front-end goes public

https://edgcpp.org/#transition

6 hours ago

1 change
149 upvotes – 73 comments

What TLA+ can and can't check

https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/what-tla-can-and-cant-check/

11 hours ago

141 upvotes – 31 comments

LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/linkedin-larpmaxxing/

21 hours ago

137 upvotes – 150 comments

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

https://alphapixeldev.com/sdf-vs-msdf-vs-slug-vs-rive-gpu-text-rendering/

11 hours ago

132 upvotes – 51 comments

The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4951/1

3 hours ago

127 upvotes – 45 comments

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

https://github.com/magnitudedev/magnitude

8 hours ago

★ 5.7k Rust Apache-2.02 changes
125 upvotes – 57 comments

RSS Feeds for Last.fm

https://lfm.xiffy.nl/

22 hours ago

122 upvotes – 41 comments

Surprisingly complex waves reveal the brain's inner workings

https://www.quantamagazine.org/surprisingly-complex-waves-reveal-the-brains-inner-workings-20260930/

6 hours ago

1 change
118 upvotes – 40 comments

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-microvms/

7 hours ago

118 upvotes – 46 comments

America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"

https://america.gov/chat

6 hours ago

109 upvotes – 44 comments

Commit description as a thinking tool

https://yedhu.me/posts/commit-description-as-a-thinking-tool/

8 hours ago

1 change
106 upvotes – 61 comments

CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective

https://turkeyland.net/thoughts/ai.php

5 hours ago

92 upvotes – 68 comments

Ballmer Peak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballmer_Peak

23 hours ago

85 upvotes – 30 comments

PSSA: A non-transformer language model written from scratch in Rust

https://github.com/Sparticle62ops/pssa

22 hours ago

★ 80 Rust GPL-3.0
85 upvotes – 37 comments

Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-4-argon

4 hours ago

1 change
81 upvotes – 44 comments

Dear Software Makers

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dear-software-makers/

5 hours ago

80 upvotes – 55 comments

GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/gpt-6-1-sol-replaces-gpt-6-sol-after-just-7-days-with-near-astra-intelligence

15 hours ago

79 upvotes – 97 comments

Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics

https://agmai.org/general-sep29/

23 hours ago

78 upvotes – 98 comments

SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987

https://sdf.org/

11 hours ago

76 upvotes – 15 comments

Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available

https://ubuntu.com/blog/upgrade-your-desktop-ubuntu-26-04-lts

12 hours ago

75 upvotes – 99 comments

Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/halfspace/

5 hours ago

70 upvotes – 7 comments

Claude Says

https://ohhfishal.net/Posts/claude

8 hours ago

67 upvotes – 30 comments

Gitea 28.0

https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-28.0.0/

5 hours ago

1 change
63 upvotes – 31 comments

Let's Ditch Google (Verb)

https://adam.farkas.pro/lets-ditch-google-verb/

8 hours ago

56 upvotes – 70 comments

Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.71603

9 hours ago

56 upvotes – 33 comments

Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)

https://mightygodking.com/2008/04/21/fun-from-yesterday/

23 hours ago

54 upvotes – 31 comments

Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization

https://www.wired.com/story/a-pentagon-influencer-called-liberal-women-a-pestilence-who-will-end-western-civilization/

17 hours ago

50 upvotes – 69 comments

Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/30/reuters-anthropic-ipo-prospectus

4 hours ago

49 upvotes – 22 comments

56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience

https://56k.rip/

3 hours ago

48 upvotes – 25 comments

Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

https://unsung.aresluna.org/before-pixels-modular-industrial-dashboards/

6 hours ago

48 upvotes – 9 comments

Denying Insulin and Meds: Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Report

https://prospect.org/2026/09/30/ice-neglect-immigration-deportation-mortality-reviews/

5 hours ago

47 upvotes – 3 comments

Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/doing-a-machine-learning-phd-while-working-in-japan

18 hours ago

47 upvotes – 15 comments

Reddit is putting more limits on old.reddit.com

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/reddit-will-block-old-reddit-com-from-people-who-havent-used-it-in-6-months/

5 hours ago

1 change
46 upvotes – 22 comments
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