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12–18 September 2026

Saturday, 2026-09-12

  1. A misalignment of AI in mathematics — 1,171 points, 1,117 comments
  2. We must pace the frontier — 692 points, 953 comments
  3. OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems — 881 points, 518 comments
  4. google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update — 631 points, 488 comments
  5. I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots — 703 points, 377 comments
  6. LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' — 584 points, 450 comments
  7. Nvidia is the central bank of AI — 538 points, 383 comments
  8. Claude is only available to people over 18 years — 644 points, 628 comments
  9. Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap — 595 points, 139 comments
  10. Fuck it, make it anyway — 504 points, 495 comments

Sunday, 2026-09-13

  1. Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? — 897 points, 384 comments
  2. Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) — 345 points, 1,062 comments
  3. Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? — 580 points, 646 comments
  4. Everyone should slow down AI development except for me — 668 points, 392 comments
  5. JetKVM Mini — 528 points, 214 comments
  6. Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025 — 444 points, 207 comments
  7. Data collected by cars and sold to third parties — 431 points, 221 comments
  8. Homebrew 7.0.0 — 536 points, 211 comments
  9. Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master — 225 points, 312 comments
  10. Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too — 360 points, 195 comments

Monday, 2026-09-14

  1. XCancel service is suspended until further notice — 717 points, 973 comments
  2. Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher — 1,148 points, 527 comments
  3. iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 — 684 points, 780 comments
  4. Steam Frame starts at $1059 — 675 points, 513 comments
  5. Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously — 465 points, 561 comments
  6. OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability — 492 points, 396 comments
  7. Dario, Please — 527 points, 255 comments
  8. Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster — 243 points, 325 comments
  9. Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs — 345 points, 175 comments
  10. The case against JPEG XL — 239 points, 307 comments

Tuesday, 2026-09-15

  1. Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations — 2,248 points, 251 comments
  2. Introducing System One Models and Jev — 1,766 points, 470 comments
  3. I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea — 995 points, 413 comments
  4. An update on Wayback Machine access — 658 points, 342 comments
  5. Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption — 502 points, 446 comments
  6. Let's make quality the norm again — 437 points, 443 comments
  7. Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking — 479 points, 316 comments
  8. 25 years of mass surveillance is enough — 806 points, 288 comments
  9. US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons — 438 points, 306 comments
  10. A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals — 602 points, 205 comments

Wednesday, 2026-09-16

  1. Small programming tricks — 601 points, 265 comments
  2. AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran — 493 points, 412 comments
  3. Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes — 420 points, 549 comments
  4. Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography — 471 points, 309 comments
  5. Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres — 647 points, 130 comments
  6. Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard — 526 points, 149 comments
  7. Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera — 517 points, 236 comments
  8. Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing — 533 points, 186 comments
  9. Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger — 410 points, 199 comments
  10. EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member' — 533 points, 583 comments

Thursday, 2026-09-17

  1. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust — 896 points, 354 comments
  2. Astra for Law — 549 points, 647 comments
  3. Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA — 617 points, 242 comments
  4. Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU — 560 points, 283 comments
  5. Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep — 673 points, 178 comments
  6. Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter — 267 points, 376 comments
  7. How GLM built its own inference infrastructure — 374 points, 262 comments
  8. Backups Aren't Simple — 320 points, 190 comments
  9. Wax motor — 480 points, 89 comments
  10. The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities — 224 points, 381 comments

Friday, 2026-09-18

  1. Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history' — 753 points, 649 comments
  2. I don't like passkeys — 656 points, 641 comments
  3. Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint — 547 points, 176 comments
  4. OpenJev — 497 points, 234 comments
  5. A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos — 457 points, 193 comments
  6. How to Write with an LLM — 324 points, 219 comments
  7. Cloudflare Quick Tunnels — 464 points, 203 comments
  8. Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash — 313 points, 118 comments
  9. Jemalloc 5.4.0 — 317 points, 85 comments
  10. Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him — 258 points, 171 comments