Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
875 points by fjfaase | 518 comments
Homepage of DAWO, an open community of government, industry and society building a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government.
694 points by specked-citrus | 438 comments
Investigative report from Swarm Traces describing how a swarm of 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face, detailing agent behaviors and exploits, with evidence and dataset.
580 points by Ardakilic | 139 comments
Landing page for Ollaya, an open-source beta tool for running decision models locally to get calibrated typed answers about text or JSON.
537 points by jmvldz | 468 comments
Blog post by Ayman Nadeem arguing that plan mode in AI coding tools is obsolete, reflecting on building the Nuanced desktop coding app around planning.
487 points by Qision | 270 comments
GitHub repository for PipePipe, an open-source GPL-3.0 Android app forked from NewPipe for browsing YouTube and other services with SponsorBlock.
470 points by silveraxe93 | 389 comments
Guest post by Lars Doucet on Astral Codex Ten reflecting on his 'Does Georgism Work?' series five years later, including recent land value tax policy developments.
446 points by cramer4next | 773 comments
CNBC news article reporting that a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk.
382 points by yurivish | 138 comments
Go Blog post describing experimental SIMD APIs in Go 1.26 and 1.27 for amd64, arm64 NEON, and wasm, and work toward platform-independent SIMD.
377 points by MC995 | 811 comments
Tom's Hardware news article reporting ASML saying it sold nothing in Europe in 2026 and urging the EU to help create chip demand rather than subsidize fabs.
322 points by alentred | 107 comments
GitHub repository for git-bug, a distributed, offline-first bug tracker that stores issues inside a Git repository.
308 points by ibobev | 98 comments
Factorio Friday Facts #447 blog post from Wube Software about a physical, touchable version of Factorio items.
290 points by fratellobigio | 437 comments
Blog post on sockpuppet.org musing on how AI is reshaping what an operating system is, and announcing the author is leaving Fly.io to work with Kurt on a new project.
287 points by jrochkind1 | 186 comments
A blog post by Jared Norman on jardo.dev titled "What About Rails?", discussing the Ruby on Rails framework.
270 points by sunils34 | 117 comments
A personal blog essay by Sunil Sadasivan on first principles thinking, illustrated with a sketch diagram about questioning assumptions and iterating.
267 points by ibobev | 203 comments
Quanta Magazine Qualia column on the holographic nature of gravity and what physicists' discovery that gravity can collapse spatial dimensions implies for reality.
263 points by hugh4life | 114 comments
A blog review of running cycle-accurate retro PC emulation in 86Box on an M6 Mac Mini, reaching an emulated 600MHz Pentium II with Voodoo 3.
258 points by pancomplex | 109 comments
Landing page for Jev Plays Pokémon Red, a live YouTube stream of the Jev AI decision model playing Pokémon Red, with links to open-source code.
233 points by mlaux | 240 comments
Ask HN post asking who still runs DOS machines, ISA-card instruments, or dongle-protected software for business, for research on keeping them running on modern hardware.
230 points by iFreilicht | 25 comments
Homepage of Ink & Switch, an independent research lab, displaying a stylized black-and-white animated logo with wireframe graphics and circuit motifs.
228 points by luispa | 156 comments
Microsoft Tech Community blog post announcing that Excel can store multiple values in one cell using lists and arrays.
204 points by cdrnsf | 116 comments
MIT Faculty Newsletter article by several MIT faculty about the installation of surveillance cameras on campus over the summer.
201 points by HotGarbage | 91 comments
Jezebel/Splinter article about Lindsey Isaacs, who was jailed for 13 days in Palm Beach, Florida after police relied on Flock camera data despite mismatched vehicle evidence.
200 points by verdagon | 51 comments
Blog post by Sergey Davidoff surveying the state of SIMD libraries in Rust in 2026, including Fearless SIMD, std::simd, wide, pulp and macerator.
171 points by runeks | 212 comments
An Economist article arguing that Italy's Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of the country; the page shown is an access-restricted block.
171 points by surprisetalk | 207 comments
Jeff Kaufman blog post arguing the FAA should allow babywearing carriers during takeoff and landing, citing its lap-infant rule as thoughtful rulemaking.
165 points by Murmuring9087 | 175 comments
Personal blog post by Robert O'Callahan titled "Goodbye Google", apparently announcing his departure from Google.
164 points by ibobev | 127 comments
Adam Sawicki's article, originally published in Programista magazine in 2013, on practices for writing efficient, high-performance C++ code.
151 points by rdmuser | 79 comments
Washington Sun news article reporting that classified estimates show the NSA is spending billions of dollars to test AI models, more than previously known.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/25/0001845e-5fb9-460a-ae07-41d25f64f264.jpg)
132 points by behoove | 24 comments
YouTube clip of Alan Kay at Kristen Nygaard's centenary symposium, caught in a delayed Zoom audio feedback loop while remarking on Shannon and noisy channels.
131 points by msephton | 39 comments
A blog essay explaining how Amiga screens work, covering the OCS graphics hardware, differing resolutions per screen, and draggable screens in Workbench.
130 points by latexr | 55 comments
A blog post titled "The Test" on tante's Smashing Frames blog, headed by a photo of a gloved hand holding a lab sample tube.
127 points by Betelbuddy | 107 comments
Financial Times article on Oracle being obligated to pay data centre investors even if a site lacks electricity; the capture shows a Cloudflare security check with a 403 error.
125 points by sbulaev | 117 comments
Bloomberg article reporting that Microsoft is rebooting Copilot and stepping back from the consumer personal AI chatbot race.
123 points by pjm331 | 79 comments
A Dashbit blog post by José Valim reflecting on how programming languages, ecosystems, and tooling may evolve as AI agents write most code.
113 points by Aeroi | 46 comments
Blog post on mouse.dev investigating whether Meta's Muse uses an OpenAI model, after spotting a model labeled azure/muse-special while building a website.
112 points by pseudolus | 49 comments
Quanta Magazine article arguing that while biology may not rely on quantum effects, the mathematics describing biological systems resembles quantum math.
107 points by safateam | 27 comments
Technical write-up detailing full exploitation of an Avast Antivirus double-fetch kernel bug on Windows 11, from paged pool overflow to SYSTEM privilege escalation.
106 points by fidotron | 38 comments
Blog post from Ambionix about the CZP-1 web-based Casio CZ-101 synth emulation and a YouTube video recreating Boards of Canada sounds on the CZ-101.
101 points by gregsadetsky | 35 comments
Jazzwise news item on Impulse! Records releasing the Tiberi Tapes, previously unheard Coltrane recordings by Frank Tiberi; the page loaded only a Cloudflare check.
97 points by sagacity | 93 comments
A personal blog essay by Mat Duggan about growing weary of smartphones and the always-online, constantly connected life.
92 points by sagacity | 73 comments
Tokio blog post giving an update on Topcoat, a batteries-included full-stack Rust web framework with views, components, mailers, and the Toasty ORM.
91 points by leephillips | 14 comments
LWN.net article reviewing Typst 0.15, the Rust-based open-source typesetting system, covering variable fonts, MathML, multiple bibliographies and more.
86 points by bookofjoe | 31 comments
Science News article reporting that researchers created a true blue rose using a helper-molecule (copigment) strategy, solving a longstanding plant science goal.
80 points by z-mach9 | 16 comments
A web tool and demo that compiles a font plus an LLM tokenizer into a token-space font where every token renders at equal width.
80 points by rfonseca | 71 comments
Website introducing "TAI-DR" (Too AI; Didn't Read), an acronym for replying to walls of AI-generated text the sender didn't read themselves.
77 points by epestr | 19 comments
A blog post describing how the author wrote a ray tracer in Brainfuck, inspired by a CMake tutorial remark about ray tracers written in CMake.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Deterministic Concurrency [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/28/607a0870-ca8f-4862-8ddd-2bc42810e740.jpg)
76 points by surprisetalk | 5 comments
YouTube video from ACM SIGPLAN of an ICFP 2026 talk titled "Deterministic Concurrency" filmed in Indianapolis.
75 points by ibobev | 117 comments
Pikuma blog post by Gustavo Pezzi arguing C's flexible integer sizes enabled portability across 12, 18, 36, and 60-bit machines rather than being a design mistake.
68 points by andrearitossa | 22 comments
HN Atlas, a site that groups Hacker News stories into browsable topics with post counts and trends over time since 2024.
68 points by dabinat | 54 comments
BBC news article reporting Zelensky's claim that Russia has expanded its strikes to target Ukrainian data centres.
66 points by tzury | 11 comments
Anthropic guest post by physicist Matt von Hippel describing how Claude tackled his challenge on a nine-loop problem from his former subfield of theoretical physics.
66 points by 2Ucoder | 39 comments
A GitHub issue on the microsoft/vscode repository reporting that border radius styling has spread across the editor UI in version 1.139.0, closed as duplicate.
63 points by vinhnx | 38 comments
A 2016 OpenAI company blog post describing special research projects and problems it considers important to work on.
![Screenshot of Hacker News post: Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/9/25/926a272d-6600-43c4-8e97-ce3bb9be54ff.jpg)
63 points by minimaxir | 66 comments
Hacker News discussion reporting an OpenAI Codex outage showing incorrect API key errors, later acknowledged on OpenAI's status page.
62 points by eigenBasis | 73 comments
Blog post on passo.uno arguing that tech writers should study humanities and languages rather than coding or AI to stay valuable in the AI era.
61 points by matt_d | 0 comments
Francis Bach blog post on the exploding variance of Monte Carlo estimates of log-sum-exp functions and using least-squares methods to address it.
61 points by Geekette | 34 comments
Guardian article about Roland Garros airport on Réunion island, whose terminal ceiling design channels tropical breezes to cool it without air conditioning.
58 points by marc__1 | 20 comments
IEEE Spectrum news article on a smart contact lens with an onboard lab that measures serotonin in tears to track stress.
58 points by msephton | 39 comments
Blog post describing an experiment where successive frontier AI models port Jordan Mechner's Apple II Prince of Persia 6502 assembly source to C# using only prompts.
56 points by adam | 33 comments
A Cultivate Labs blog post applying CIA-style analysis and forecasting to college football; the page returned a Heroku application error.