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29 August 2026 – 4 September 2026

Saturday, 2026-08-29

  1. GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven — 976 points, 478 comments
  2. U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective — 682 points, 701 comments
  3. Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX — 723 points, 442 comments
  4. Htmx 4.0 — 791 points, 202 comments
  5. GLM-5.3 is now open-weight — 735 points, 245 comments
  6. Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions — 591 points, 186 comments
  7. Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux — 514 points, 206 comments
  8. Hy4 preview — 378 points, 238 comments
  9. EVE Online moves to Python 3 — 381 points, 206 comments
  10. Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal — 551 points, 409 comments

Sunday, 2026-08-30

  1. Creepy Crawlies — 1,287 points, 636 comments
  2. California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — 658 points, 329 comments
  3. Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root — 471 points, 450 comments
  4. Hacking IKEA Furniture — 330 points, 244 comments
  5. Bug Blindness — 374 points, 238 comments
  6. Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras — 366 points, 245 comments
  7. Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat — 269 points, 315 comments
  8. European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy — 370 points, 157 comments
  9. Haiku R1/beta6 has been released — 341 points, 95 comments
  10. Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video] — 301 points, 174 comments

Monday, 2026-08-31

  1. “I just chose words carefully” — 1,129 points, 323 comments
  2. Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio — 476 points, 556 comments
  3. Playa Phone — 726 points, 224 comments
  4. I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system — 599 points, 162 comments
  5. Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates — 493 points, 236 comments
  6. Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO — 600 points, 455 comments
  7. I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked — 381 points, 213 comments
  8. Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video] — 581 points, 77 comments
  9. OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor — 520 points, 120 comments
  10. Reverse engineering my ADHD test — 281 points, 190 comments

Tuesday, 2026-09-01

  1. Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 — 1,333 points, 1,271 comments
  2. How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? — 804 points, 907 comments
  3. Fastpotify — 789 points, 522 comments
  4. AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link — 872 points, 257 comments
  5. Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS — 548 points, 173 comments
  6. Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users — 514 points, 212 comments
  7. The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice — 441 points, 206 comments
  8. I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs — 576 points, 149 comments
  9. GPU World — 365 points, 236 comments
  10. Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination — 311 points, 215 comments

Wednesday, 2026-09-02

  1. Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber — 1,132 points, 640 comments
  2. Muse Spark 1.3 — 670 points, 435 comments
  3. Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business — 463 points, 329 comments
  4. Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them — 494 points, 243 comments
  5. Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? — 480 points, 232 comments
  6. Hang on to Your Firefox — 703 points, 370 comments
  7. Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them — 324 points, 130 comments
  8. A note on subscription prices from LWN — 674 points, 133 comments
  9. Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle — 326 points, 119 comments
  10. Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 — 329 points, 173 comments

Thursday, 2026-09-03

  1. GPT-6 Astra — 2,134 points, 1,941 comments
  2. .name Termination — 2,115 points, 520 comments
  3. Audacity 4.0 — 1,068 points, 236 comments
  4. Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s — 675 points, 222 comments
  5. Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived — 608 points, 285 comments
  6. The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] — 456 points, 338 comments
  7. Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap — 449 points, 172 comments
  8. Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? — 348 points, 530 comments
  9. Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60% — 366 points, 120 comments
  10. Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly — 357 points, 123 comments

Friday, 2026-09-04

  1. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board — 1,325 points, 1,073 comments
  2. Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year — 476 points, 197 comments
  3. Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge — 357 points, 81 comments
  4. How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language — 199 points, 101 comments
  5. Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? — 147 points, 162 comments
  6. IBM Bob — 193 points, 231 comments
  7. Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search — 350 points, 70 comments
  8. Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI — 227 points, 212 comments
  9. How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+ — 177 points, 146 comments
  10. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem — 295 points, 176 comments