Hacker News on Saturday, 12 September 2026

We must pace the frontier(darioamodei.com)

697 points by apsec112 1 month ago | 958 comments

Essay by Dario Amodei arguing that frontier AI development must be paced, weighing AI's potential benefits like curing diseases against its risks.

Everyone should slow down AI development except for me(xeiaso.net)

667 points by xena 1 month ago | 390 comments

A short blog note by Xe Iaso, titled "Everyone should slow down AI development except for me," commenting on calls to pause AI development.

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update(autom.dev)

631 points by 1e1a 1 month ago | 488 comments

Autom blog post explaining that Google Search now rewrites organic result links to google.com/goto redirect URLs, affecting scrapers.

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap(high5apps.github.io)

596 points by juliantigler 1 month ago | 139 comments

A quick tutorial guiding newcomers to make a first OpenStreetMap edit by adding an official website tag to a nearby shop or amenity.

Nvidia is the central bank of AI(economist.com)

545 points by tolugenius 1 month ago | 385 comments

An Economist briefing arguing that Nvidia acts like a central bank for the AI industry by financing its customers, and asking whether those loans will prove sound.

Fuck it, make it anyway(joelotter.com)

504 points by JayOtter 1 month ago | 495 comments

A personal blog essay by indie game developer Joel Auterson encouraging people to make their creative projects anyway despite doubts.

An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem(threebodyorbits.com)

350 points by danielmorozoff 1 month ago | 79 comments

An interactive web atlas of periodic three-body orbits with animated visualizations, orbit families, a battle mode, and a leaderboard.

Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard(hachyderm.io)

341 points by encyclopedism 1 month ago | 112 comments

Mastodon post by Simon Tatham reporting that an update to the Linux Zoom client makes it proactively read everything written to the X11 clipboard.

Navier-Stokes Announcement(claymath.org)

317 points by rvz 1 month ago | 253 comments

Clay Mathematics Institute news page titled "Navier-Stokes Announcement," dated 11 September 2026, concerning the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem.

Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases(withspecific.com)

246 points by theanonymousone 1 month ago | 136 comments

Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries(untranslatedjp.substack.com)

231 points by herbertl 1 month ago | 107 comments

Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master(twitter.com)

227 points by dsubburam 1 month ago | 324 comments

LG Says We're Fake News [video](youtube.com)

227 points by HelloUsername 1 month ago | 106 comments

Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine(eiln.github.io)

224 points by zdw 1 month ago | 31 comments

Reversing Factorio's RNG(gegell.github.io)

223 points by jheitmann 1 month ago | 41 comments

4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls(arkeonews.net)

191 points by arunbahl 1 month ago | 58 comments

Compressing a flag to 11 bits(read.vantezzen.io)

174 points by bennett_dev 1 month ago | 66 comments

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights(jacob.gold)

167 points by routelastresort 1 month ago | 52 comments

Show HN: Redis City – Explore how Redis works in an interactive 3D model(poltora.dev)

148 points by poltora 1 month ago | 23 comments

I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times(lalitm.com)

147 points by lalitmaganti 1 month ago | 29 comments

Pandas Should Go Extinct(eddie.codes)

142 points by __eddie__ 1 month ago | 75 comments

P(doom)(lucumr.pocoo.org)

132 points by lumpa 1 month ago | 90 comments

Will there be a 7G?(arxiv.org)

117 points by Betelbuddy 1 month ago | 167 comments

Usenet rewind archive search engine(usenet-rewind.com)

114 points by cstadler1869 1 month ago | 34 comments

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction(righto.com)

114 points by pwg 1 month ago | 37 comments

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"(latimes.com)

105 points by mmayberry 1 month ago | 158 comments

The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle(tedium.co)

103 points by ColinWright 1 month ago | 49 comments

We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out(bbc.co.uk)

98 points by mellosouls 1 month ago | 27 comments

Giving up on smart rings(notesbylex.com)

95 points by lexandstuff 1 month ago | 143 comments

A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)(transformer-circuits.pub)

95 points by Bluestein 1 month ago | 17 comments

LG responds to TV spying allegations(theverge.com)

89 points by OuterVale 1 month ago | 71 comments

Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)(minitap.ai)

85 points by MysteryPancake 1 month ago | 15 comments

AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research(agentsdock.net)

72 points by ZihuiGeorgia 1 month ago | 29 comments

A few good ideas in programming languages(prydt.xyz)

71 points by airhangerf15 1 month ago | 50 comments

Optimizing a Spin-Lock(david.alvarezrosa.com)

68 points by signa11 1 month ago | 33 comments

How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats(blog.trailofbits.com)

66 points by dgroshev 1 month ago | 38 comments

TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio(github.com)

66 points by zdw 1 month ago | 13 comments

Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For(oilprice.com)

64 points by u1hcw9nx 1 month ago | 30 comments

I refuse to let SPICE die(github.com)

63 points by Nefarius 1 month ago | 57 comments

OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026(techcrunch.com)

57 points by humanlion87 1 month ago | 47 comments

Financial Times' 404 Page not Found(ft.com)

52 points by sans_souse 1 month ago | 5 comments

How Poor People Buy Cars(abio.substack.com)

48 points by barry-cotter 1 month ago | 38 comments

No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record(accuweather.com)

46 points by RickJWagner 1 month ago | 39 comments

LLMs are real, AI is fake(pluralistic.net)

45 points by danaris 1 month ago | 15 comments

StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter(theverge.com)

39 points by sbulaev 1 month ago | 35 comments

Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance?(npr.org)

38 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 26 comments

Killing with a car costs $1.6M, California requires drivers to carry $30K(maxmautner.com)

37 points by mslate 1 month ago | 31 comments

Resistance Training Prescription for Muscle Function, Hypertrophy in Health(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

37 points by ultral 1 month ago | 24 comments

Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work(modelrift.com)

32 points by jetter 1 month ago | 39 comments

Align AI and Mathematics–To Something Else(liorpachter.wordpress.com)

30 points by nitrogenpuddle 1 month ago | 19 comments

Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

30 points by stikit 1 month ago | 63 comments

Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down(bbc.com)

30 points by champagnepapi 1 month ago | 27 comments

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"(zenodo.org)

30 points by akkartik 1 month ago | 9 comments

André Weil and the Hodge Conjecture(jiahao116.github.io)

29 points by caojiahao 1 month ago | 11 comments

Crypto farm in Mexican mountains puts spotlight on cartel funding(reuters.com)

28 points by JumpCrisscross 1 month ago | 5 comments

Naomi Klein: Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. Turns you into a supremacist(theguardian.com)

28 points by beardyw 1 month ago | 5 comments

Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances(bloomberg.com)

28 points by sbulaev 1 month ago | 23 comments

WeWorm: Zero-Click WeChat Worm(calif.io)

28 points by BlackEarth 1 month ago | 1 comments

Compiler Can Undo Your Security Checks(davidbombal.com)

24 points by birdculture 1 month ago | 29 comments

Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development(reuters.com)

20 points by signa11 1 month ago | 39 comments