Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1015 points by dondraper36 | 364 comments
Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should understand the current system deeply and then do the simplest thing that could possibly work.
711 points by porridgeraisin | 486 comments
Anthropic announcement of updated consumer terms and privacy policy letting it train models on Claude chats unless users opt out by September 28.
506 points by OlympicMarmoto | 591 comments
An X post by John Carmack responding to Jonathan Blow's question about writing new operating systems, explaining why he argued against a custom XR OS at Meta.
489 points by clcaev | 278 comments
Washington Post article reporting that Tesla claimed it lacked key data from a fatal Autopilot crash until a hacker recovered it, affecting a wrongful-death case.
487 points by Terretta | 463 comments
xAI announcement of grok-code-fast-1, a fast and economical reasoning model designed for agentic coding.
467 points by mdhb | 222 comments
ZDNET article explaining that Facebook settings may let Meta analyze and retain photos from users' phone camera rolls, and how to check and disable them.
450 points by tosh | 304 comments
Short blog post by Simon Willison proposing the analogy that an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia, and advising users to supply correct examples rather than rely on recall.
415 points by positiveblue | 409 comments
Substack opinion post arguing that Cloudflare's "signed agents" program is a vendor-run allowlist that makes Cloudflare a gatekeeper of the open web rather than an open standard.
399 points by amacbride | 321 comments
LowEndBox blog post arguing Synology has turned against its users, discussing its NAS business direction and alternatives like Ugreen.
![Screenshot of cse.buffalo.edu: Essential Coding Theory [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/8/29/234dc011-71ad-4f38-8874-30d2ceb5edf2.jpg)
355 points by ibobev | 59 comments
PDF of the textbook "Essential Coding Theory" by Venkatesan Guruswami, Atri Rudra, and Madhu Sudan, dated August 26, 2025.
337 points by diggan | 158 comments
A Reddit r/LocalLLaMA post saying Anthropic will train on Claude personal account data going forward; the capture shows Reddit's network-policy block page.
329 points by surprisetalk | 304 comments
A personal blog post by Taylor recounting applying for Anthropic's Developer Relations role and failing the interview process a second time.
234 points by gidellav | 56 comments
187 points by signa11 | 84 comments
121 points by austinallegro | 40 comments
108 points by Onavo | 64 comments
101 points by Bogdanp | 150 comments
93 points by ingve | 9 comments
93 points by aebtebeten | 14 comments
90 points by pj4533 | 18 comments
79 points by doener | 23 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Growing the Java Language [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/9/2/df4fe2cd-9385-4461-814b-615d4b56d6b1.jpg)
68 points by JackFr | 39 comments
