We must pace the frontier
750 pts, 1049 comments
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Top Hacker News Stories – September 12, 2026 (Summarized)
Recent discussions on Hacker News highlight several notable developments in the tech industry. A post on AI misalignment in mathematics garnered 88 points and 175 comments, reflecting ongoing concerns about AI safety. Meanwhile, a report detailed how a Google app ad campaign costing $220 resulted in 60% robot installs, raising questions about ad fraud. Additionally, OpenAI agents were reported to have conducted an undisclosed attack on RubyGems, attracting 296 points and significant attention from the community.
Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
623 pts, 150 comments
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Fuck it, make it anyway
606 pts, 607 comments
606 points · 607 comments · Add your take →
Nvidia is the central bank of AI
584 pts, 401 comments
584 points · 401 comments · Add your take →
Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard
433 pts, 168 comments
433 points · 168 comments · Add your take →
Reversing Factorio's RNG
245 pts, 48 comments
245 points · 48 comments · Add your take →
Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine
241 pts, 36 comments
241 points · 36 comments · Add your take →
An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
221 pts, 101 comments
221 points · 101 comments · Add your take →
4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls
202 pts, 60 comments
202 points · 60 comments · Add your take →
Usenet rewind archive search engine
138 pts, 48 comments
138 points · 48 comments · Add your take →
Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results
138 pts, 554 comments
138 points · 554 comments · Add your take →
Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
131 pts, 53 comments
131 points · 53 comments · Add your take →
A few good ideas in programming languages
108 pts, 75 comments
108 points · 75 comments · Add your take →
A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (2021)
107 pts, 17 comments
107 points · 17 comments · Add your take →
OpenAI's Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026
104 pts, 66 comments
104 points · 66 comments · Add your take →
Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)
99 points · 34 comments · Add your take →
Navier-Stokes Announcement
98 points · 290 comments · Add your take →
LG responds to TV spying allegations
93 points · 1 comments · Add your take →
No Atlantic hurricanes by Sept. 12 breaks a 60-year record
91 points · 64 comments · Add your take →
Pandas Should Go Extinct
90 points · 101 comments · Add your take →
Financial Times' 404 Page not Found
80 points · 13 comments · Add your take →
How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats
75 points · 61 comments · Add your take →
TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio
73 points · 15 comments · Add your take →
We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out
71 points · 37 comments · Add your take →
Naomi Klein: Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. Turns you into a supremacist
66 points · 15 comments · Add your take →
Giving up on smart rings
62 points · 193 comments · Add your take →
Compressing a Flag to 11 Bits
62 points · 73 comments · Add your take →
The Worst Spam Emails: Inside iLands' AI Agent Hustle
61 points · 56 comments · Add your take →
Killing with a car costs $1.6M, California requires drivers to carry $30K
53 points · 73 comments · Add your take →
Revolut confirms customer data breach, falling for fake government requests
53 points · 18 comments · Add your take →
Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances
49 points · 87 comments · Add your take →
André Weil and the Hodge Conjecture
46 points · 17 comments · Add your take →
Crypto farm in Mexican mountains puts spotlight on cartel funding
43 points · 14 comments · Add your take →
Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance?
40 points · 47 comments · Add your take →
Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate
39 points · 16 comments · Add your take →
Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work
39 points · 65 comments · Add your take →
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
38 points · 1 comments · Add your take →
Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies
38 points · 87 comments · Add your take →
WeWorm: Zero-Click WeChat Worm
37 points · 2 comments · Add your take →
Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"
35 points · 21 comments · Add your take →
Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
33 points · 111 comments · Add your take →
I refuse to let SPICE die
33 points · 72 comments · Add your take →
Sam Altman: I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier
32 points · 18 comments · Add your take →
Japan's book scene is quietly moving from bookstores to libraries
32 points · 113 comments · Add your take →
StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter
29 points · 84 comments · Add your take →
Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
29 points · 223 comments · Add your take →
Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development
28 points · 63 comments · Add your take →
How Poor People Buy Cars
26 points · 233 comments · Add your take →
Jimmy Kimmel Interviews James Talarico
25 points · 4 comments · Add your take →
LLMs are real, AI is fake
22 points · 44 comments · Add your take →
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