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5–11 September 2026

Saturday, 2026-09-05

  1. Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board — 2,253 points, 1,573 comments
  2. GPT-6 Astra — 2,196 points, 2,013 comments
  3. Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions — 779 points, 473 comments
  4. Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem — 742 points, 479 comments
  5. Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns — 687 points, 359 comments
  6. Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil — 666 points, 361 comments
  7. Statichost.eu – European static site hosting — 486 points, 228 comments
  8. Can AI design circuit boards yet? — 408 points, 218 comments
  9. Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread — 465 points, 361 comments
  10. Shutting down our public encrypted DNS — 430 points, 213 comments

Sunday, 2026-09-06

  1. Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice — 858 points, 367 comments
  2. Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025) — 656 points, 408 comments
  3. Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone — 597 points, 294 comments
  4. Asahi Linux on M3 — 513 points, 313 comments
  5. The revolt of the reader — 556 points, 269 comments
  6. A/I shuts down — 552 points, 437 comments
  7. An Alien Mind — 425 points, 388 comments
  8. Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight — 563 points, 180 comments
  9. GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard — 368 points, 232 comments
  10. QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes — 1,103 points, 221 comments

Monday, 2026-09-07

  1. LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices — 865 points, 428 comments
  2. Keep Our Servers Running — 780 points, 198 comments
  3. Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? — 249 points, 231 comments
  4. Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes — 290 points, 101 comments
  5. Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? — 235 points, 137 comments
  6. Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers — 254 points, 208 comments
  7. 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes — 261 points, 183 comments
  8. De-Brainrot Vacations — 354 points, 141 comments
  9. Programming is Art — 166 points, 169 comments
  10. Is mathematics about to enter the conservatory? — 103 points, 120 comments

Tuesday, 2026-09-08

  1. Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] — 1,942 points, 796 comments
  2. On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem — 1,287 points, 1,037 comments
  3. Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent — 638 points, 703 comments
  4. I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer — 503 points, 349 comments
  5. We built our house for LAN parties (2024) — 542 points, 344 comments
  6. Mistral raises €3B — 756 points, 538 comments
  7. AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA — 586 points, 126 comments
  8. DaVinci Resolve 21.1 — 427 points, 193 comments
  9. ChatGPT Images 2.5 — 344 points, 420 comments
  10. There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis — 500 points, 207 comments

Wednesday, 2026-09-09

  1. iPhone Duo — 1,445 points, 2,482 comments
  2. Shopify acquires Tailwind — 1,099 points, 427 comments
  3. Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue — 1,075 points, 415 comments
  4. What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks — 626 points, 378 comments
  5. Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives — 421 points, 742 comments
  6. AirPods 5 — 494 points, 426 comments
  7. No Man's Sky Cosmos — 429 points, 432 comments
  8. iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max — 390 points, 435 comments
  9. How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads — 417 points, 252 comments
  10. GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning — 492 points, 158 comments

Thursday, 2026-09-10

  1. Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin — 1,202 points, 897 comments
  2. More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math — 845 points, 787 comments
  3. DeepSeek v4.1 Flash — 910 points, 502 comments
  4. Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft — 698 points, 453 comments
  5. Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables — 727 points, 436 comments
  6. Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? — 543 points, 233 comments
  7. Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra — 426 points, 176 comments
  8. Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls — 307 points, 260 comments
  9. Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence — 377 points, 248 comments
  10. OpenAI Agents API — 333 points, 169 comments

Friday, 2026-09-11

  1. Claude is only available to people over 18 years — 514 points, 555 comments
  2. So you want to use OpenRouter? — 651 points, 178 comments
  3. The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac — 254 points, 169 comments
  4. Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds — 363 points, 112 comments
  5. Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants — 268 points, 270 comments
  6. Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route — 309 points, 487 comments
  7. A misalignment of AI in mathematics — 372 points, 436 comments
  8. Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again? — 337 points, 243 comments
  9. NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami — 121 points, 215 comments
  10. Measuring the sloppiness of code — 212 points, 215 comments