Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1201 points by fnthawar2 | 895 comments
Shopify Engineering blog post explaining why Shopify is moving its mobile apps from React Native back to native Swift and Kotlin, citing coding agents changing development costs.
919 points by Liwink | 505 comments
DeepSeek's X post announcing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a small model with native visual understanding, shown with benchmark comparisons against rival models.
845 points by pred_ | 787 comments
Mastodon thread by mathematician Andreas Thom questioning whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished mathematics shared via ChatGPT, citing the non-sofic group result.
727 points by Brajeshwar | 436 comments
A blog post by Jim Nielsen reacting to a Tyler Gaw Bluesky post about finally using old cables from his big box of cables, and deciding to act on it.
702 points by mmastrac | 461 comments
A Rust Foundation guest post on Rust becoming a tier-1 language at Microsoft; the page returned a Cloudflare 504 gateway timeout.
581 points by datakan | 450 comments
Tom's Hardware news article on LG denying claims from an online investigation that 216 million of its smart TVs track users, scan networks, and record audio.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/12/5e2459fb-ed3a-4ad2-8529-f7c22511520f.jpg)
562 points by kegenaar | 155 comments
YouTube video from IKEA Ireland promoting KALLAX Storageborn, a free creation (mod) for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
544 points by dmitrybrant | 236 comments
Interactive 3D browser simulation of a park where the speed of light is 5 km/h, showing length contraction, time dilation, Terrell rotation and Doppler effects.
431 points by seelos | 184 comments
Cognition blog post announcing SWE-2, a new software engineering AI model claimed to push the cost-performance Pareto frontier.
395 points by vinhnx | 91 comments
Blog post describing reverse engineering the hardware, component communication, and firmware of an Egret GT e-scooter and writing custom Rust firmware for its display.
365 points by lukaspetersson | 326 comments
BBC News article reporting that Google has picked Finland for its largest single investment in Europe, tied to buying nuclear power for data centres.
365 points by gumby | 62 comments
Article on how NASA's decorrelation stretch color-enhancement technique, developed for planetary imagery, is used to reveal faded ancient rock art.
364 points by haunter | 121 comments
Consumer Rights Wiki article on a California lawsuit alleging Sony's PlayStation Store misleads buyers into thinking they own digital games rather than licensing them.
362 points by rglover | 137 comments
A blog essay arguing that the conditions of software work—speed, money, complexity, abstraction, and freedom to change—make normal people lose their sense of proportion.
348 points by jacquesm | 134 comments
A Tell HN post reporting that OpenAI repeatedly re-enables the 'allow training' data setting after the user turns it off, with a few comments.
342 points by zdw | 67 comments
A browser-based vector arcade game called Spaceships, a reverse take on Asteroids where you are not the ship.
338 points by soheilpro | 165 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how Windows XP picked a new user's initial account picture from the default pictures directory.
333 points by aquir | 169 comments
OpenAI developer documentation page introducing the Agents API, which provides managed access to the Codex harness for building durable cloud agents.
323 points by honestlyranked | 282 comments
A guide comparing US prices of nine flagship streaming subscriptions in March 2021 versus today, showing a 61% rise totaling $702 more per year.
307 points by vesterde | 189 comments
260 points by simon_weber | 142 comments
255 points by eigenspace | 40 comments
200 points by weierstass | 77 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Sean Carroll explains the biggest ideas in the universe – Full Interview [video] (2025)](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/13/52ccf53a-2665-4a41-b416-2ac280cbf767.jpg)
70 points by zdw | 15 comments
58 points by smartmic | 32 comments
57 points by surprisetalk | 16 comments
