Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
672 points by bookmtn | 362 comments
Space.com news article reporting that Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reached orbit on its second launch from Norway's Andøya Spaceport, a first for European soil.
597 points by zplizzi | 294 comments
Launch blog post introducing Cloud in a Bottle, an open-source personal cloud with containerized apps, unified auth, and an app catalog for easy self-hosting.
554 points by chmaynard | 269 comments
Bryan Cantrill blog post arguing, as a reader, against people publishing LLM-authored writing under their own names.
542 points by fittingopposite | 343 comments
A personal site describing a house built for LAN parties, featuring a basement game room with 12 PCs built into the walls.
508 points by ExMachina73 | 89 comments
Jeff Johnson's blog post reporting that Chrome 152 again exempts Google-owned sites from the user setting to delete site data, six years after a similar bug.
409 points by tosh | 190 comments
Brad Feld blog post reflecting on Labor Day, turning 61, and a list from his wife Amy about the real luxuries in life.
362 points by networked | 106 comments
A blog post about using the AMD BC-250, a repurposed mining board, as a roughly $60 gaming PC; the page returned a resource limit error.
359 points by sylvainkalache | 309 comments
Blog post by a former LinkedIn SRE arguing that AI tools automating incident response risk making engineers lose understanding of their systems.
338 points by canjobear | 229 comments
arXiv paper modeling the spread of LLM use as a viral contagion, showing tipping points toward persistent cognitive dependence and conditions for cognitive immunization.
295 points by elvis70 | 128 comments
136 points by cl3misch | 63 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/5/c13a5f9f-56e9-4aaf-adca-54290eb1f39b.jpg)
86 points by mkl | 23 comments
71 points by saikatsg | 34 comments
47 points by luu | 10 comments
27 points by aray07 | 13 comments
22 points by Tomte | 34 comments
14 points by amirmasoudabdol | 3 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: LG TVs aren't the only ones spying on you [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/5/cb25f9f4-9d73-461b-ba56-fdd66ca3d34f.jpg)