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26 September 2026 – 2 October 2026

Saturday, 2026-09-26

  1. Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face — 695 points, 438 comments
  2. Plan mode is dead — 537 points, 468 comments
  3. U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk — 445 points, 767 comments
  4. PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock — 485 points, 270 comments
  5. Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free — 647 points, 256 comments
  6. We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians — 358 points, 461 comments
  7. Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models — 580 points, 139 comments
  8. What even is an OS now? — 290 points, 437 comments
  9. Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story — 426 points, 110 comments
  10. How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs — 291 points, 307 comments

Sunday, 2026-09-27

  1. When did Google get so weird? — 1,900 points, 1,065 comments
  2. ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 — 374 points, 809 comments
  3. Ember-1 — 570 points, 244 comments
  4. Does Georgism work? Five years later — 467 points, 388 comments
  5. Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI — 567 points, 527 comments
  6. Go Concurrency Distilled — 367 points, 166 comments
  7. Don't couple your Go code to GitHub — 301 points, 156 comments
  8. On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted — 342 points, 303 comments
  9. In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life — 281 points, 108 comments
  10. Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi — 291 points, 118 comments

Monday, 2026-09-28

  1. Sonnet 5.5 — 833 points, 562 comments
  2. Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock — 1,023 points, 430 comments
  3. Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah — 768 points, 635 comments
  4. Pirating the Pirates — 680 points, 352 comments
  5. California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops — 362 points, 878 comments
  6. Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat — 440 points, 236 comments
  7. Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms — 536 points, 203 comments
  8. It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs — 525 points, 215 comments
  9. Coding is not solved — 452 points, 453 comments
  10. Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests — 249 points, 311 comments

Tuesday, 2026-09-29

  1. GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — 1,031 points, 904 comments
  2. Dots: Always-on agents — 733 points, 619 comments
  3. America.gov — 725 points, 657 comments
  4. Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over — 764 points, 684 comments
  5. How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent — 567 points, 310 comments
  6. Ask HN: What are you reading? — 383 points, 741 comments
  7. PS5 Relapse Exploit — 329 points, 205 comments
  8. 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive — 437 points, 256 comments
  9. DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers — 481 points, 333 comments
  10. A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] — 408 points, 130 comments

Wednesday, 2026-09-30

  1. Gemini 4 Argon — 1,672 points, 1,157 comments
  2. Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? — 850 points, 364 comments
  3. You said no MCP — 641 points, 351 comments
  4. The last time my family was replaced by technology — 298 points, 580 comments
  5. Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries — 365 points, 269 comments
  6. NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart — 302 points, 351 comments
  7. A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal — 361 points, 153 comments
  8. September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy — 444 points, 323 comments
  9. LinkedIn Larpmaxxing — 259 points, 221 comments
  10. I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records — 287 points, 120 comments

Thursday, 2026-10-01

  1. Pi 1.0 — 1,618 points, 552 comments
  2. Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake — 532 points, 494 comments
  3. Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform — 607 points, 213 comments
  4. StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta — 611 points, 168 comments
  5. Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm — 411 points, 381 comments
  6. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed — 379 points, 265 comments
  7. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026) — 254 points, 251 comments
  8. How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 — 267 points, 158 comments
  9. RIP, vector database — 369 points, 102 comments
  10. Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026 — 306 points, 357 comments

Friday, 2026-10-02

  1. Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel — 527 points, 379 comments
  2. SvelteKit 3 — 380 points, 162 comments
  3. Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines — 516 points, 117 comments
  4. DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows — 372 points, 197 comments
  5. How Singapore's government-run dating service works — 221 points, 225 comments
  6. Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility — 386 points, 167 comments
  7. Shimano Bicycle Museum Review — 273 points, 68 comments
  8. Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo — 206 points, 64 comments
  9. The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf] — 220 points, 125 comments
  10. CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development — 147 points, 45 comments