Can we please limit the AI news flood?
690 pts, 401 comments
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Top Hacker News Stories – September 11, 2026 (Summarized)
Recent top stories on Hacker News include Shopify's decision to revert from React Native back to native development, garnering 556 points and 386 comments, highlighting ongoing debates about cross-platform frameworks. OpenAI's research transparency remains under scrutiny, with discussions questioning whether researchers can fully trust the organization with unpublished mathematical work, attracting 346 points. Additionally, the launch of Cognition's new SWE-2 model, which rivals Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra, has generated significant interest with 139 points and 69 comments, reflecting rapid advancements in AI capabilities.
Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
310 pts, 708 comments
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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
296 pts, 607 comments
296 points · 607 comments · Add your take →
HuggingFace: Security.txt
176 pts, 70 comments
176 points · 70 comments · Add your take →
I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
173 pts, 433 comments
173 points · 433 comments · Add your take →
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
158 pts, 340 comments
158 points · 340 comments · Add your take →
Measuring the sloppiness of code
154 pts, 236 comments
154 points · 236 comments · Add your take →
Feeling Sad about AI
146 pts, 308 comments
146 points · 308 comments · Add your take →
Hacker News, without AI
116 pts, 89 comments
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Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster
114 pts, 146 comments
114 points · 146 comments · Add your take →
Global Glacier Extinction Explorer
112 pts, 64 comments
112 points · 64 comments · Add your take →
Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant
112 pts, 360 comments
112 points · 360 comments · Add your take →
Claude is no longer available for minors
107 pts, 130 comments
107 points · 130 comments · Add your take →
Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
93 pts, 183 comments
93 points · 183 comments · Add your take →
A misalignment of AI in mathematics
88 pts, 1213 comments
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Top mathematicians are outraged by OpenAI's methods
86 points · 20 comments · Add your take →
New York thoracic surgeon: "For many patients 9/11 is not over"
81 points · 49 comments · Add your take →
Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health
77 points · 74 comments · Add your take →
Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content
71 points · 57 comments · Add your take →
Remember Hong Kong
65 points · 108 comments · Add your take →
Hacker News, Without AI
64 points · 82 comments · Add your take →
Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light
62 points · 44 comments · Add your take →
Omarchy Is a Power Grab
62 points · 77 comments · Add your take →
Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
61 points · 136 comments · Add your take →
The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
61 points · 299 comments · Add your take →
Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)
55 points · 50 comments · Add your take →
ElevenLabs Music v2.5
54 points · 64 comments · Add your take →
YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning
54 points · 101 comments · Add your take →
Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)
49 points · 25 comments · Add your take →
Resist "AI"
49 points · 181 comments · Add your take →
The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie
49 points · 140 comments · Add your take →
118M Queries per Second on Neki
47 points · 50 comments · Add your take →
OpenAI considers slowing advanced AI development, Sam Altman tells employees
43 points · 105 comments · Add your take →
The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
42 points · 109 comments · Add your take →
US diesel hits record $6 a gallon on Iran supply shock
41 points · 66 comments · Add your take →
Neijuan
39 points · 49 comments · Add your take →
DeCloudflare
37 points · 55 comments · Add your take →
I Fixed a Tractor Using John Deere's Self-Repair Service. Farmers Aren't Sold
37 points · 159 comments · Add your take →
Rune is now open source
34 points · 6 comments · Add your take →
Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace
33 points · 8 comments · Add your take →
Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X
33 points · 67 comments · Add your take →
Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row
32 points · 43 comments · Add your take →
Re-Engineering YouTube for the Living Room: Bringing "Chrobalt" to RDK
29 points · 12 comments · Add your take →
How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs
29 points · 10 comments · Add your take →
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
29 points · 8 comments · Add your take →
Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study
27 points · 108 comments · Add your take →
Forgotten Woodlands
27 points · 27 comments · Add your take →
Why Bullshit Jobs Are (Finally) Dying [video]
27 points · 26 comments · Add your take →
RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
26 points · 8 comments · Add your take →
The EPA Is Planning to Scrap Public Review Rules for Data Center Pollution
26 points · 5 comments · Add your take →
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