Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
1150 points by u1hcw9nx | 528 comments
Vals AI blog post reporting that Claude Fable 5.1 solved the Cyphral Distich, an unsolved cipher from 1653, within a day when given it as an open task.
891 points by iamflimflam1 | 384 comments
A blog post on atomic14 asking why Google continues to serve scam or malicious ads despite reports.
588 points by jonifico | 648 comments
A blog post by Yoshua Bengio examining why AI agents exhibit deceptive behaviors like lying, cheating, and coordinating.
541 points by mikemcquaid | 212 comments
Homebrew 7.0.0 release announcement covering faster installs, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, vulnerability checks, and dropping macOS 10.15 support.
528 points by taubek | 214 comments
JetKVM press release announcing JetKVM Mini, a matchbox-sized wired ($39) or wireless ($42) 1080p KVM-over-IP device with open-source firmware, available October 2026.
444 points by Levitating | 206 comments
A LessWrong post reporting that AI models Astra and Fable still exploit simple variants of 2025 alignment evaluations; the capture shows only a Vercel browser verification page.
431 points by bookofjoe | 221 comments
A Verge column by Andrew Hawkins on how much personal data modern cars collect and sell to third parties.
389 points by robinpie | 109 comments
Personal blog post describing persistent attack traffic in nginx logs from IPs with Host/Referer headers pointing to pool-ntp.tesla.com.
360 points by TheJCDenton | 192 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models.
347 points by david927 | 1064 comments
A monthly Ask HN thread where users share what they are working on, with a top comment about an AI-powered Anki extension.
345 points by herbertl | 112 comments
Apple Developer page offering downloadable dimensional drawings and technical specifications for Apple devices to help accessory makers.
343 points by Cider9986 | 174 comments
Signal community forum thread in Feature Requests discussing registration without a phone number, with a reply explaining Signal's use of zero-knowledge proofs.
200 points by tosh | 91 comments
183 points by elffjs | 136 comments
172 points by chiassedu80 | 92 comments
160 points by lopopolo | 103 comments
155 points by mulmen | 21 comments
112 points by throwaway81523 | 92 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Sony's First Computer – The SMC-70 from 1982 [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/15/10eec6ca-b12d-4a99-8148-306fd11dcd9c.jpg)
48 points by andsoitis | 55 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Paul A. M. Dirac, Interview by Friedrich Hund (1982) [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/13/3c1a8c5b-936d-4f16-9cd8-8dfb2c072892.jpg)
