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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-22

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
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• NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
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• Transformers Explained Visually
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• I don't want to read what you didn't write
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• Spymarks, not Watermarks
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• I said no and Apple said yes
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• OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
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• Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy
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• Claude Opus 5.5
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• GPT-6 Sol and Luna
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-21

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
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• Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
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• AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
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• What happened to the Snowden archive
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• Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
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• ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room
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• What Sun got wrong
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• Attention is all you have
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• Grok 4.7
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• Xiaomi MiMo v2.6
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-20

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The Secret Life of Circuits
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• If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
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• Brood War Bench
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• I think you should almost never use AI to write
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• English: A vs. An
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• Exfiltrate Your Weights
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• Qwen Image 2.1
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• Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
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• ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
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• Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-19

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
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• How to Write with an LLM
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• US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
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• Saving another 100TB of RAM
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• Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
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• San Francisco Onion Futures Company
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• Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
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• GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
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• AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
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• I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-18

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Wax motor
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• Astra for Law
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• Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
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• Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
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• A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
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• OpenJev
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• Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
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• I don't like passkeys
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• Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
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• Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-17

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Performance Improvements in .NET 11
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• Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
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• AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
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• Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
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• Small programming tricks
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• Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
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• Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard
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• One year of sponsored Servo development
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• How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
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• Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-16

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
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• Let's make quality the norm again
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• Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
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• Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
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• An update on Wayback Machine access
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• Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
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• Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
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• Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
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• EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
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• Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-15

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Dario, Please
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• Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
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• iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
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• A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
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• US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
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• I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
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• Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
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• 25 years of mass surveillance is enough
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• Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
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• Introducing System One Models and Jev
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-14

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
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• An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem
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• Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
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• Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
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• Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
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• Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
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• Apple's Dimensional Drawings
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• XCancel service is suspended until further notice
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• OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
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• Steam Frame starts at $1059
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-13

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
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• Nvidia is the central bank of AI
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• Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
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• Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
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• Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
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• JetKVM Mini
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• Homebrew 7.0.0
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• Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
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• Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
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• I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-12

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
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• IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
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• LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'
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• Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants
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• The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution
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• I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
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• OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
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• google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
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• Fuck it, make it anyway
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• We must pace the frontier
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-11

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• So you want to use OpenRouter?
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• List of references on Sony websites to players \"owning\" their digital games
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• Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
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• Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)
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• Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
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• Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
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• Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
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• Claude is only available to people over 18 years
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• Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
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• A misalignment of AI in mathematics
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-10

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

• What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
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• Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
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• GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning
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• No Man's Sky Cosmos
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• AirPods 5
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• Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
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• DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
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• More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
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• Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
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• Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-09

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
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• DaVinci Resolve 21.1
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• I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
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• Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
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• Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
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• I resigned from Anthropic today
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• Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
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• Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
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• Shopify acquires Tailwind
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• iPhone Duo
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-08

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• WeatherNext 3
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• I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s
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• Jellyfin 12.0
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• There's a new \"Google Jail\" for independent wikis
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• Mistral raises €3B
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• Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
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• LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
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• AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
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• LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
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• On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-07

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Doomscrolling ourselves to death
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• Asahi Linux on M3
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• An Alien Mind
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• GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
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• It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
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• 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
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• Keep Our Servers Running
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• LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
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• De-Brainrot Vacations
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• bzip3
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-06

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The \"$60 Gaming PC\" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
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• Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
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• The revolt of the reader
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• Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
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• Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
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• Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
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• Your intellectual fly is open (2025)
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• QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes
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• A/I shuts down – Stay human
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• Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-05

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
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• Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
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• Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
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• Can AI design circuit boards yet?
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• Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
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• Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
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• Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
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• Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
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• AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
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• The Real Luxuries In Life
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-04

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
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• Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
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• Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
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• Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
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• Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
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• Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year
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• Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge
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• Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
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• Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
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• Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
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Daily Hacker News for 2026-09-03

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News on September 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily are:

• The browser's main thread is expensive
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• Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
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• Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
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• Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
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• Audacity 4.0
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• ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
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• Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
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• .name Termination
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• Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
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• GPT-6 Astra
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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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