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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-02

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died
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• Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
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• How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
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• The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
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• Hang on to Your Firefox
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• Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
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• Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
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• A note on subscription prices from LWN
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• Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
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• Muse Spark 1.3
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-01

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
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• Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]
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• I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
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• Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
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• A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
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• Fastpotify
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• I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs
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• AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
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• Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
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• Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-31

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Damn fine tiny cafe
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• Hacking IKEA Furniture
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• Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
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• “I just chose words carefully”
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• A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history
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• Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
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• OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor
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• Playa Phone
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• I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
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• Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-30

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Glacier Mice
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• Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
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• Creepy Crawlies
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• DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions
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• Hy4 preview
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• Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
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• Bug Blindness
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• California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
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• European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
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• Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-08-29

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on August 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux
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• EVE Online moves to Python 3
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• The Twelve-Factor App (2025)
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• Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions
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• Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
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• Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
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• Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
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• Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
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• Debian votes to allow \"responsible use of generative AI\"
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• The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
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